NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1941, Page 8

NEWS OF THE DAY

Voluntary Levy. A means of further augmenting patriotic funds was adopted by a number of City Corporation officers, who agreed to contribute one penny per £1 of gross salary over a period of six months. The amount contributed totalled £292 7s, made up as follows: From the general staff, £174 19s 3d; from the staffs of the trading departments, electricity department £45 16s sd, tramways department £41 5s 2d, milk department £30 6s 2d. The contribution has been gratefully received by the Wellington Provincial Patriotic Council. Radio For Aircraft. Orders for aircraft radio equipment worth nearly £50,000 have been placed with Australian manufacturers. All the equipment, except about £5000 worth of transmitters and receivers ordered for the New Zealand Government, will be used in Australian training and service aircraft. These orders are the largest ever placed in Australia for aircraft radio transmitters and receivers. New Zealand's War Effort. Surprise at the extent of New Zealand's, war effort was expressed today by Mr. Herbert Vogt, a visitor from the U.S.A., who is studying New Zealand's Labour Legislation. "Everywhere I see men in uniform," he said, "and if all Britain's possessions send as many men proportionately as New Zealand has done it will go > a long way towards winning the war.'' Libraries for Troops. The work done by the War Library Service in the Wellington Province alone is summarised as follows in the latest circular sent out to zone secretaries from the Wellington Provincial Patriotic Council headquarters, the figures given being up to December 31:—Fully equipped military camp libraries: Trentham, 2675 books and 1150 periodicals; Waiouru, 6000 books and 1300 periodicals. Air Force stations: Levin Ground Training Station, 540 books; Ohakea Station, 1000 books and 1350 periodicals. Territorial Camps: Foxton, 850 books and 1100 periodicals. Tauherenikau, Waverley, Wanganui, and Palmerston North: 2600 books and 2300 periodicals. Coast watching stations, vital point guardposts, and minesweepers: 1900 books and 1100 periodicals. Fort Dorset, Palmer Head, and the local anti-aircraft battery: 2100 books and 1550 periodicals. Total, 17,665 books and 9850 periodicals. Gift of Mobile Canteen. A mobile canteen for the use of New Zealand troops overseas has been presented to the National Patriotic Fund Board by the Supreme Council 33 Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Rite for England, Wales, the Dominiums and Dependencies of the British i Crown, after consultation with Viscount i Galway, a prominent member of the ! Supreme Council and chairman of the National Patriotic Fund Board. Mr. G. A. Hayden, secretary of the National Patriotic Fund Board, expressed appreciation of this splendid gift, which, he said was bound to prove a very valuable adjunct to the work being carried out by the board overseas in the interests of the welfare of the New Zealand soldiers. Mr. Hayden also said he understood that the staff of a wellknown New Zealand firm was considering the question of presenting two other mobile canteens for the New Zealand troops overseas. It is intended to use these canteens in the Middle East and to have the bodies built m New Zealand. ________