NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 226, 19 June 1940, Page 11

NEWS IN BRIEF

Legal Aid For Soldiers The Wellington District Law Society has arranged for two solicitors to be in attendance at the central district mobilization camp reference library from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesday and Tliursdny of each week to give legal assistance to soldiers. No charge will be made for this service, which includes the preparation of wills and powers of attorney and the giving of advice on legal matters. Documents will, if required, be held in safe custody for a soldier, or will be forwarded to any person he nominates. Patriotic Knitters. Tlie town clerk of Wellington, Mr. E. I’. Norman, reported yesterday that a limited supply of khaki-coloured wool would be made available to women knitters working for the soldiers from the Women's Committee Room. Wakefield Street, from tomorrow. Paper Saving. Realizing the need for conserving paper supplies, a Christchurch office has adopted a plan which most effectively cuts consumption. Replies to correspondence, which were formerly carbou-eopied on to special quarto filing sheets, are now duplicated direct on to the back of the letter to which the reply is being m;ule. Thus both letter and reply can be filed as one, saving both paper and cabinet space. Veteran of 1867. Believed to.be the last of the Papal Zouaves who took part in the defence of the old Papal States of Pope Pius IX when they were captured by the Piedmontese in 1870, 96-year-uld M. Andre Leonce de La Vaissiere has died in Toulouse, states “Zealandia,” the Roman Catholic newspaper. He took part in the battle of Metaua in 1867, when the Papal Zouaves defeated the army of Garibaldi. Three of his sons are now officers in the French Army. New Craze in Golf. Picture score cards for golfers have taken on throughout the United States in no uncertain fashion. Nearly every club has these cards, which consist of an ordinary score card inside, but on the outside cover are five slow-motion photographs of a well-known professional playing the particular shot of which he is considered a master. Under each picture is some advice pointing out the features the average golfer should concentrate upon. Women and Business. Retailers should remember that about four-fifths of their money comes from- women, says the “New Zealand Draper.” Grocers and drapers receive a higher percentage than this, but 80 per cent, is the average. As housekeepers, women are members of the biggest industry in the world. They buy nearly everything, all the food, and most of the furniture and clothing. Retailers have no more necessary work than to please women. Their success largely depends ou what women think ami feel concerning their shops. Western Access Progress. Traffic over the upper section of the new western access road has been made easier by the paving in bitumen of the section of the road between the tramways tracks and the cemetery bank. This, with the double tracks, means that two-thirds the breadth of the road is now paved and available for wheeled traffic. The cross-over track has been laid opposite Bowen Street, and the rails for the northern track are in position half-way down Bowen 'Street. Progress is being made slowly with the erection of the concrete retaining wall on the cemetery boundary, and is to be continued on a battered slope past the danger point.

Industrial Disputes. Wages lost through industrial disputes during the first three months of this year totalled £13,900, compared with £28,095 iu the same period last year, according to the May issue of the Alwirnct of Statistics. The figures do not allow for the fact that work not performed during the disputes may have been done later. There were 11 disputes concerning shipping and cargo-working, six concerning meatfreezing, five coalmining, and one each in the flaxmilling and gold-mining industries. The total, 24, was dne less than for the same period last year. The Erlangen’s Escape. Further details of the escape of the German steamer Erlangen, which left Dunedin about a week before the declaration of war, and subsequently berthed at a Chilean port ou November 12, are contained in a description of the voyage which appeared in the “Hamburger Tageblatt.” When war broke out the Erlangen, which was proceeding to an Australian port . to bunker, put about and steamed without lights to an uninhabited island with a good anchorage, where stores for shipwrecked mariners were found ashore. As the bunkers were almost empty, the crew felled trees, and in a month filled every available space of the vessel with 400 tons of firewood. Using this, all the wooden fittings of tlie vessel, including flooring and hatch covers, and assisted at times by improvised sails, the vessel travelled a long and roundabout course which included 3319 miles under Steam and 1507 miles under sail, ending five weeks later in a neutral harbour.