NATIONAL PRAYER

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 40, 15 August 1941, Page 4

NATIONAL PRAYER

King's Wish For Sept. 7

(Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, August 14. His Excellency the GovernorGeneral has received the following message from the private secretary to his Majesty' the King:— The King desires that Sunday, September 7, being the Sunday following the second anniversary of the outbreak of war, should be observed as a National Day of Prayer.

A Press Association message from London says that the Church of England does not propose to

issue any new forms of prayer,

and the clergy are advised that they may use the forms issued in May, 1940, and last March.

would have to make arrangements to travel by bus or car as walking at funerals, a long-established custom on the West Coast, would be eliminated. Discussions have not yet been completed.

Chemists' Supplies.

A fee of threepence in addition to ordinary postage will be payable by the addressee for the delivery of each package containing pharmaceutical requirements transmitted by post by contractors under the Social Security (Pharmaceutical Supplies) Regulations, 1941, when prepayment of postage by the contractor is impossible or impracticable. This is provided for by the Postal Amending Regulations, gazetted last night, which also provide for the adequate wrapping of such packages. If this is not done the sender shall be liable to make good the damage to other articles in the mails caused by breakage or leakage from the receptacle.

Western Route Sections.

Dissatisfaction over the decision of the City Council to extend the first tramway section to Orangi Kaupapa Road only instead of to The Rigi, as asked by a recent deputation to the tramways committee, was expressed at the quarterly meeting of the Northland Progressive Association. The decision was described as niggardly and inequitable and as not in accord with what members of the deputation, which had represented both the Karori and Northland Associations, had been led to expect. An extension of the tram route to the present bus terminus was also advocated.

German Treachery.

The cunning treachery of the Germans was impressed on the mind of a Stratford man, a machine-gunner, who fought through Greece and Crete, and is now a patient in a hospital in Egypt. In a letter to his sister at Stratford he describes a typical instance of the means to which the enemy would stoop to attain his object. For many hours his section was troubled by a sniper whose place of concealment could not be detected, he says. The position was becoming serious until by the use of binoculars the sniper was at last detected. "There was a Hun dressed in a red outfit, and lying on the red cross on the top of a hospital," he writes. "He was the sniper. So we went out after him and shot him down off the roof. We found he had been lying stretched out in the shape of the cross. He was very hard to pick up—but when we found him he paid the price of his treachery. He must have been there all day, taking pot shots at 'us, and considering himself smart—and safe."

Pillaging of Cargo.

The number of cases of pillaging of goods reported in the last twelve months is less than in the previous twelve months. Asked by the Christchurch "Press" for his comment on recent reports of a serious increase in pillaging, the Minister in Charge of the Police Department (Mr. Webb) said the inquiries revealed this. Ho added that pillaging of goods in transit between the two islands had been oh a smaller scale than in previous years, and he was advised that in many instances the loss of goods was due to faulty packing, valuable articles being contained in brown paper parcels or cardboard cartons tied with twine or light wire. Such packages would not stand handling in transit, and were often found burst, open and their contents scattered or exposed, rendering it simple for a dishonest person to obtain possession of the goods. There was also evidence that pillaging took place either before goods were received at the wharves -or after their ..removal.