NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 142, 12 March 1941, Page 9

NEWS IN BRIEF

Service Appeals

The No. 4 Armed Forces Appeal Board will sit in Wellington on Friday, when about 20 appeals will be considered. The board will also sit all next week.

Request to Bowlers. The Wellington Bowling Centre decided last night to ask all bowlers to observe Sunday, March 23 as a day of prayer in accordance with the wish of the King. Veteran Bowler. The Wellington Bowling Centre last night decided to send a message of congratulation to Mr. J. Keith, a member of the Victoria Bowling Club and a leading figure in bowls for many years, on the occasion of his 85th birthday, which occurred yesterday. Women’s War Service Auxiliary. The Women’s War Service Auxiliary now has its own badge, a small blue enamelled brooch bearing the initials “N.Z.W.W.S.A.” All members of the auxiliary, who now number between 20,000 and 30,000, are entitled to - wear the badge, which costs 1/-. Legal Men With Forces. Seventy-six legal practitioners in the district of the Wellington Law Society are serving with the armed forces, 20 being principals, 14 qualified clerks, and 36 clerks. At the annual meeting of the society recently a resolution was adopted expressing the good wishes of the society to those members serving their country in the armed forces. No Better Mayor. “The delegates, Mr. Mayor, come from all parts of New Zealand,” said the District 'Governor, Mr. D. A. Ewen, in introducing the mayor of Wellington, Mr. T. O. A. Hislop, to the New Zealand Rotary Conference yesterday morning. “It would probably be out of place for me to mention anything about our harbour, our scenery, or our weather; but I will say. this, that none of you can produce a better mayor than the one I am introducing to you this morning.” Parcels for Soldiers. Wellington province’s March quota of parcels for soldiers overseas is 7000. Of these, said the secretary of the Provincial Patriotic Council, Mr. Vincent Ward, yesterday, 5000 have been packed, and the remainder will be completed shortly. He 'expressed the hope that all senders of parcels would insert a card to lend the gift a personal touch. When money is sent in lieu of parcels cards are inserted in the packing depot advising from which district they are sent. Luminous Cloth. People in Britain, for their protection in blackouts, wear pieces of A.R.P. cloth, so treated that it glows in the dark if previously held in a bright light. A sample of the cloth has been received in Christchurch and a trial showed its effectiveness. On a linen base, there is a rubber surface which glows with a blue-green colour in the dark after having been exposed to a bright light for a minute or two. The cloth will glow for two hours. Glaring Headlights in City. The executive of the Automobile Association (Wellington) decided on Monday night to call the attention of the Wellington City Council to the number of motorists who are using the full beams of their headlamps in well lighted city streets, and to ask the traffic department to compel drivers to comply with the regulations. The regulation states that where street lighting is sufficient to render visible a substantial object 300 feet away sidelamps should be used or headlamps dimmed or dipped. It was suggested that drivers left their lamps full on either from carelessness or from a belief that, now that street lighting was being reduced, they required more light from their cars. In either case their action was Irksome to pedestrians and other

drivers, members said. It was pointed out that the lights that had been removed from streets were sodium lights that had been there only a few months and that the practice that had prevailed since before their installation should be continued by drivers.