NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1942, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Examination Season. The season for the metapho»ic swathing of heads in iced bandages has now commenced —the annual purgatory of students. Degree examinations started yesterday morning and will continue until November 13. Later on the younger students will have their turn, their annual wrestling with matriculation papers starting on December 2. All these tribulations, however, will quickly be forgotten with the advent of the Christmas holidays, but early next year, when the results are published, there may be some more wailing and gnashing of teeth. £700 Sewn in Clothing. A curious instance of the prejudice that exists in some quarters against entrusting money to banks was disclosed during the hearing of a case m the Auckland Supreme Court. The plaintiff was an eldei'ly woman who brought with hen from England some years ago £700 in British bank notes. She said that for five years she carried these round with her sewn into her clothing. From time to time she exchanged some of them for an equivalent number of New Zealand notes without receiving any extra payment. "I had not paid any exchange on them," she said, "and I did not see why other people should." Women's War Effort. "I feel inclined to give the women pride of place in the war effort, because so much of' the work is being done by women with family responsibilities and by women who are carrying a very heavy mental load." said Mr. C. V. Smith, president of the New Zealand Manufacturers' Federation, in his address to the annual conference at Christchurch' today. "Women today are literally doing men's jobs in the Services, the factories, in farm production, in offices, transport, Red Cross work, and in many other directions. Many of them have been left behind' with families of young children to look after, and they are doing it. That is a war effort of a very high order, because it is so unspectacular but so essential." Imperial Forces. "We are apt to forget that Imperial troops have been fighting with dis-: tinction, not only in those sectors where Dominion troops have been engaged, but in every part of the globe Where we are at war, and I have still to meet a returned soldier who hasn't paid these Tommies a glowing tribute." said Mr. C. V. Smith, president of the New Zealand Manufacturers' Federation, at the annual conference at Christchurch today. "We have been led to think that Dominion troops have been bearing the brunt of, the war. I wonder if we realise that Britain has sent over 1.000,000 men to the East and Middle East and all the equipment such a force requires. And we are apt to forget what we in New Zealand particularly owe to the British Navy and the Mercantile Marine." Gramophones and Records. A request from a camp in . tne Wellington district for some secondhand gramophone records has been received by the National Patriotic Fund Board. The board would like to meet this request, but at present it has no records available. Two years ago, when the board made an appeal to the public for gramophones- and records, so generous was public reaction that the response was- somewhat embarrassing. However, by now a. place has been found for all the records and gramophones given on that Occasion. Now the board could do with more records—up to 500 of them if they can be got and 'their vintage is not too old—and also some more gramophones, because.- in addition to meeting the request for records from*the camp: in the Wellington district, records and gramophones are also required for men serving "at a number of isolated stations. It will be greatly appreciated if those who can make either gramophones or records available will communicate with the board's office h# Wellington. *