NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 147, 19 December 1944, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

WEATHER FORECAST A weak ridge of high pressure still covers the Dominion. Light to moderate and variable winds, westerly direction predominating. Forecast to 5 p.m. Wednesday: / ;w scattered showers developing ir he afternoon, but weather mainly fai --d milder. Further outlook probably fair. Temperature at 9 a.m., 61 degree Full moon, December 30. High Water.—Today, 8.15 p.m.: jmorrow, 8.36 a.m., 9.6 p.m. Sun sets today 7.53 p.m.: rise >- morrow 4.43 a.m., sets 7.53 p.m. Art Union Draw. v The drawing of the "Christmas Stocking" art union will take place in the board room, second floor, Welliington Commercial Travellers' Association Building, Customhouse Quay, Wellington, tomorrow, commencing at 9.30 a.m. ! Town Hall Bookings. It is just a year since the Town Hall was recommissioned after the 1942 earthquakes, and a busy year of booking it has been, so much so that one wonders how Wellington got along socially while the repairs. were being made. The last public use- of. the hall and Concert Chamber before the buildiing was closed was for boxing on (August 3, 1&42 The main hall was pressed into use for political meetings in September last year, but was offi- ; daily reopened for the Plunket ball, [on December 16, repairs to the Concert Chamber taking considerably longer That Wellington nad fallen out of big ; gatherings and social functions is j shown by the small bookings for i several months during which they were ' well below those of the same months lof pre-shake years, but since May ithey have been very steady, and in | some months the hall and Concert ! Chamber have been used almost every I night in one way and another.

A Hand to the Fatherless. Appreciation of the help given by various societies in connection with Christmas festivities for the children was expressed by the president of the Wellington branch of Heritage, Dr. O. C. Mazengarb, at the annual meeting yesterday afternoon. The A.N.A. Club had invited all Heritage children to attend their children's Christmas party, the Junior Chamber of Commerce asked them all to a nicture entertainment and party they were giving for the children of their own members, and once again the Boys' Institute had generously invited the executive to make arrangements for any of the Heritage boys to attend the boys' Christmas camp at Pahautanui. In all these activities the Heritage boys and girls went, not as a group of Heritage children, but as members of the community, taking the same part in the entertainments that they would have taken had their fathers been living. One of the,principal objects of Heritage was to see that the boys and girls whose fathers had made the supreme sacrifice were given as nearly as possible the same opportunities they would have had if their fathers had been there to help them, and by inviting the children to share in these festivities, the various societies had given great assistance to the movement.

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"HERITAGE" AT AUCKLAND P.A. AUCKLAND, This Day. ! A cheque for 1000 dollars has been forwarded by the Officers' Club of the United States Army Forces in New Zealand to the Auckland branch of the Heritage Movement. This week 250 children of servicemen who have /given their lives in this war will receive Christmas gifts from the branch.