NEWS OF THE DAY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 166, 16 July 1941, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

1 City Clocks at Night 'p|; The effect of restricted lighting on ■f|! public clocks in the city has been fp taken up by the Auckland Chamber 111 Commerce, and arrangements UM have been made whereby partial jpji lighting has been restored. The ffii P 1 ? 11 of increased lighting is also jM being applied to clocks over the premises of a number of city firms. ||| "Fine Gesture" I® Appreciation of the action of the

!;|| National party in not contesting the i f]j Waitemata seat in the coming by!§j|j election was expressed by the official j'lll Labour candidate, Mrs. M. M. ill Dreaver, in the course of an address ! IS" at the Picturedrome, Milford, last. | if night. Mrs. Dreaver described the |-|J action as "a fine gesture of respect ;£| to the late Captain W. J. Lyon, M.P., 11| former member for the district." ||| Canteen Coupon System I The possibility of a modified can|]J teen coupon system being introduced || was mentioned by the Mayor, Mr. J. ||| A. C. Allum, at a meeting of the I'll Auckland Metropolitan Patriotic ;|| Committee last evening. A member said that the scheme was adopted ,|j for the Australian Forces, and under ■ m it a relative could purchase coupons jf at home and send them to soldiers !| overseas, where they could be used 11 in the purchase of articles at can- \;| teens. |j "Most Secret Paper" jig An employee temporarily apj|| pointed to a position in charge of J|| secret papers in a Department of the I! British Government had apparently ||; been telling tales out of school. || Recently, states the English maga§f! zine "Answers," he received a large envelope inscribed "Most Secret." i§: Inside this was another envelope ff ; similarly marked. Inside this was i|; another envelope, also marked "Most j| Secret." This contained a letter, j[f which read: "Most secret paper No. .§! 123456—XYZ/ABC may now be con-' ijH sidered no longer secret." 11|| Names in Bottle fjj Containing a sheet of notepaper ■ : Jljj with the names and regimental num- j bers of eight soldiers, a bottle | jj thrown overboard from a large I troopship was picked up by Mr. ,j Stuart K. McEachern, of Mount ijj Gambier, South Australia, at a point | about one mile on the western side I <jf Cape Banks lighthouse, on June I 28. The names written on the sheet

IS are as follow:—Corporal W. H. 11 Kenny, Lance-Corporal R. J. R. Fj M°yle, Privates C. T. Cronin, S. A. i Wright, J. Bogun, J. H. Erskine, H. ; Freeman and S. J. T. Bramble. It is indicated that the men occupied I -j 0,1 "B" deck. On the oppoJ sl^e side of the sheet is written the II S l e " d to 'Auckland jl Star, New Zealand, with which tho finder complied. The soldiers appaiI ently came from New Zealand.

Maori Hostel at Frankton The Maori hostel in Colombo Street, Frankton, which has been erected by funds voluntarily subscribed, with the assistance of a Government grant, will be opened next month. At the moment the interior of the building is being furnished and the grounds are being laid out with the voluntary assistance of Maori workmen. Clothing for Soldiers The Auckland Metropolitan Patriotic Committee, decided last night to urge upon the Government that the grant of £7 10/ to discharged soldiers for the purchase of clothing should be increased to £15. A sub-committee report stated that in many cases it had supplemented the grant, but felt it should not be called upon to assume the initial outlay.

Success in His Hobby Characteristic of the general high standard of work done by members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force in the training schools in Canada is the success of Stephen Bryan Goord, aged 27, of Waitara, an air gunner, who won a silver identification bracelet awarded the trainee securing highest marks in each entry at the wireless school, Calgary. Sergeant Goord, son of Mrs. M. Jarvis, of Waitara, joined up as an aircraft hand, and later applied for remuster as an air gunner. He made a hobbv of radio construction and mechanics. Rickshaw Man The brightest of recent stories (apochryphal) about conscientious objectors comes, strangely enough, from Dunedin. The yarn goes that the "conchy" was asked by the Appeal Board what he would do if an invading force, say, for instance, Japanese, landed at Dunedin. "I would go to Christchurch." responded the c.o. "Why Christ-j church? What good would that do you?" asked the chairman. "Well, it would be a whole lot easier," responded the c.0., "to pull a rickshaw round Christchurch than up I and down these bloomin' Dunedin! hills." j

Junior Labour Supply Approximately 1000 employers in the city of Christchurch have come to use the Youth Centre as a bureau for the supply of junior employees. The centre has been in operation approximately three years, and during that time has found employment for nearly 5000 boys and girls. By maintaining direct contact with the schools and the employers, the centre is able to direct the flow of boys and girls into suitable work. In some cases the individual is placed in two or three different jobs before the worker finds permanent employment, and in this way as many as ,000 placements have "been made during the past three years. '