NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 104, 30 October 1939, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

"Wharfles" Claim Record. What is claimed to be a record in the handling of cheese on the wharves at Moturoa (New Plymouth) was put up by a gang of waterside workers las f t Tuesday, when the tally for 10 hours was 6132 crates of cheese. In the gang were 27 men—l 6in the hold of the overseas steamer, four on the wharf, three on the deck, four on the trucks, and one tally clerk. "League of Nations" Ship. A leading South : Taranaki business man, who recently returned from a tour /abroad, records that at Bombay four passengers* . foreigners, were arrested for having forged passports. He recalled that there were so many refugees on board that the vessel was called the "League of Nations" ship. Another ' Eclipse Eclipsed. Saturday evening's lunar eclipse suffered the same fate as the eclipse of the sun a fortnight ago—the phenomenon was eclipsed by clouds. Thick clouds were in the east when the moon, nearly totally eclipsed, rose just be-fore-7-o'clock, and the moon did not get clear of the clouds until well over an hour later, when the eclipse was practically over: ' ! ' Position of Rjejectedl; Volunteers, i Men who abandoned their jobs to enlist and who >haye -either, been rejected as unfit- for 'service or who have not yet been-Galled upon to go to camp now find. themselves in an unfortunate position, according -to Mr. E. L. Cullen, M.P., who said in Hastings last week that quite a number of such men had approached him to obtain work. "I have had some young men come to me lpoking for work who have come long distances into town and are now without money or jobs and are almost destitute," said Mr. Cullen.. While they were to be : congratulated upon .their zeal and patriotism, he warned other young men that on no account must they throw up their jobs until they had been given final instructions by the military authorities to enter camp. Mr. Cullen mentioned that some young, men1 who were now stranded had failed to pass the medical examination and consequently there was no prospect at all of their going into camp for the present forces. "The great pity of it is that several of them had really good jobs," he added.