NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 32, 8 February 1943, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

The "Evening Post." Today is the seventy-eighth anniversary of the establishment of the "Evening Post." A Case for Recognition. Warm praise for the nursing sisters and V.A.D.s on service in the Middle East is given by a New Zealand soldier in a letter to a friend in Wellington. "Sure had a pretty fair time in hospital," he writes. "The sisters and V.A.D.s seemed to be unable to do enough for- us. 'I dips me lid' to them. They are mostly working long hours doing monotonous menial work, and doing it with a cheery grin. I don't know if anyone is intending to do anything for them when they return to New Zealand, but, believe me, [ they certainly deserve to have someone to see that they get a real break then. I don't know hbw you feel i about it. but the womenfolk have cer- ! tainly tackled their share of this war, and I reckon that that will count a lot in the final victory over Schikelgruber and Co." i Air Force Band. On a recent tour of the band of the R.N.Z.A.F. to Wairoa, local motorists ! took the band to the hospital, where an excellent programme was provided for the inmates. The men were taken ito Morere for the afternoon, and there another programme was provided for those who came from far and wide. Owing to the excessive heat, the men were allowed to wear "picnic" attire during this unofficial visit, and they appeared in such a variety of nether garments that Flight Lieutenant Glad- | stoiie Hill remarked: "Never have I seen so little over so much." The band | left today for Nelson. West Coast, and [ Christchurch, and will be away from Wellington until the end of the month. Maori Reception to Americans. A reception to officials of the American Consulate, officers of the United States Army, and a member of the American Red Cross was given on Sati urday at Ngaruawahia Pa by King Kproki, and Princess Te Puea, reports a Press Association message from : Auckland. It was the third series of 1 receptions which the Waikato tribes have offered the Americans since they came to New Zealand. All the colour of. the traditional Maori welcome greeted the Americans. At 7 p.m. an extraordinarily varied dinner was served, all the joints and vegetables t having been cooked, Maori fashion, in hangis. This was followed by an eni tertainment comprising hakas, action songs,, and dances. At supper Princess Te Puea addressed to the Americans a short speech of remembrance and presented a carved collecting box for use by the American Red Cross.