FOUND BY CHANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 18, 22 January 1944, Page 8

FOUND BY CHANCE

Five New Zealand airmen on a sightseeing tour of Southampton got into conversation with a Home Guard sergeant. One airman said: "Do you happen to know a man named Mortimer? A friend of mine in New Zealand told me to look him up if ever I was in Southampton." The* sergeant replied: "I suppose you come from Gisborne, and I suppose you know young Jack Heeney." "Well, I'm darned," said the airman. "He's the fellow who told me to look up Mr. Mortimer." "Well, you needn't look any further," said the sergeant. "I'm Bernard Mortimer, the man' you want." Bernard Mortimer "managed" Tom Heeney, the New Zealand boxer who fought Tunney for the heavyweight championship. Tom Heeney's brother Jack was the resident of Gisborne referred to. NATIONAL BANK DIVIDEND. The National Bank of New Zealand, Limited, announces payment on January 25 of an interim dividend of lVs per cent, (less United Kingdom income tax at the rate* of 7-Sd in the £) for the year ending March 31, 1944. The dividend will be payable in New Zealand at any branch of the National Bank at the rate of exchange for demand drafts on London current at date of dividend. This bank shows its capital and reserves as under: —Subscribed capital, £6,000,000; paidup capital, £2,000,000; reserve fund (invested in Government securities), £1,000,000; currency reserve (invested in Government securities), £500,000; reserve liability of shareholders, £6,000,000; and in addition there, are undivided profits carried forward of £117,887.

fully accepted by the two countries, which had agreed to collaborate generally in migration matters. The three problems of security, post-war development, and native welfare in the Pacific were regarded as proper matters for attention by all Governments having territorial interests in the South and South-west Pacific. A wider conference would therefore be called by the Australian Government at a later stage.

One of the main functions of the Australia-Nfcw Zealand secretariat to be established in each country would be to take the initiative in seeing that effect was given to all the provisions of the agreement. Thus, the general objectives and particular aims of the pact would be pursued not merely at conferences between the Governments but day by. day and every day.