NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 56, 4 September 1945, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

WEATHER FORECAST

Forecast to 5 p.m. Wednesday: Gradually freshening northerly winds. Weather fine at first but cloud increasing during tomorrow. Temperatures cool. Further outlook, strong northwesterlies, occasional rain. An anticyclone covers New Zealand. New moon, September 7. Temperature at 9.30 a.m.. 43 degrees. Rainfall fox- 24 hours to 9.30 a.m, ' Rainfall from August 4 to date, 6.19 in. High water today: 2.47 p.m.; tomorrow, 3.11 a.m., 3.36 p.m. I Sun sets today: 5.59 p.m.; rises tomorrow, 6.40 a.m., sets 6 p.m. The Wrong Certificate. "I have seen the most extraordinary things happen in this Court," said Mr. Justice Callan in the Auckland Supreme Court when impressing on counsel the need for strict care and accuracy. "I have seen counsel produce a paper from his pocket and wave it in front of the witness, saying, 'This is your marriage certificate.' The) witness says 'Yes.' The paper is stamped by the registrar and handed up to me and I find it is a death certificate of somebody having nothing to do with the case. Counsel had pulled the wrong paper out of his : pocket, so just be careful." I The Awakening. The outcome of a party whida he I attended when a recent draft of prisoners of war arrived in Wellington was a long and unanticipated journey | for a local serviceman in getting back !to his unit, according to evidence placed before a districjt court-martial at Trentham. After the party the i soldier awoke to find himself on board 'the large vessel which had brought the prisoners of war back to New Zealand, and there was no chance of his getting ashore as the vessel was then well at sea. His return to his unit meant Sydney and back, and, having been placed under arrest on reporting to a naval lieutenant, he eventually appeared before a court-martial at Trentham on a charge of being absent without leaye. -The penalty was 14 days' detention. Boy and Detonator. A young boy at Ellerslie, Auckland, who struck a detonator with a hammer on Sunday had a remarkable escape from serious injury. To warn trains, detonators were placed on the railway line by gangers engaged in repairing the permanent way at Ellerslie, and six were found to be missing. A boy who took one home struck it with a hammer but he was not injured in any way. The other five detonators have not been found. These detonators, which are painted red, are flat discs about one and a half inches in diameter, and branded "Kynoch, Birmingham." They are dangerous to handle, and serious in- J juries may result if they are dropped or damaged. Two Kinds of Divorce. The fact that the registrar of the Auckland Supreme Court during the past year has been receiving a surprising number of cablegrams and letters from abroad inquiring about divorces was mentioned by Mr. Justice Callan in Court on Friday. The inquiries came, he said, from spouses who had been divorced here, and, desiring to marry again, wanted to know if their divorce decree was effective in the country in which they now were. "It is the duty of.the registrar," he said, "to inform them whether their divorce is one of the world-wide variety or one of the local brand. This depends upon the legal domicile of the parties." Gift From King Christian. A pair of cuff links bearing the monogram of King Christian of Denmark has been received by Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Graham, Keith Street, from the Danish Freedom Movement, states the Wanganui "Herald." The gift is in recognition of the work of their son, Flying Officer L. A. Graham, R.N.Z.A.F., who took part in a raid on Gestapo headquarters in Denmark, resulting in the freeing of important members of the Danish Freedom Movement. Flying" Officer Graham has been missing on air operations for four months. Religion In Schools. Figures given in the annual report of the Otago Education Board for 1944, which has just been issued, show an increase of 736 pupils in the number receiving religious instruction under the Nelson system and an increase of 855 in those participating in both religious instruction and opening devotional1 exercises. The schools in which either religious instruction is given or opening devotional exercises are held total' 134, while 52 schools did not participate. The number of pupils receiving religious instruction under the Nelson system was 8578, and the number attending opening devotional exercises 9255. There were 317 teachers voluntarily taking part in 'opening devotional exercises, and 5150 pupils attending the religious instruction and devotional exercises., A total of 12,824 pupils took part in either religious instruction or opening devotional exercises, or both, and 3552 pupils neither received instruction nor attended the exercises. Future of Achilles. The suggestion that when the New Zealand cruiser Achilles; has finished her commission she should be retained in New Zealand waters and used as a training ship for the Dominion's Navy was made by Sir Ernest Davis at a meeting of the Auckland Savage Club. Among the many aistingiushed guests was Captain F. J. Butler, M.8.E., R.N., commanding officer of H.M.N.Z.S. Achilles, who v/as invested with the rangatira badge of the club, an honour only once previously given to other than a rangatira of the club. In congratulating Captain Butler and his ship s company on the part they had played in the victory, Sir Ernest said that Achilles was looked upon as an Auckland ship of war. She was so identified with Auckland that the people of Auckland felt that she belonged to them. "I hope that when this good ship has finished her commission she will be able to remain in these waters as a training ship for the coming generations," said Sir Ernest. The Achilles is a tradition to us, as Nelson's Victory is to England, and it would have an inspiring effect not only on young men entering the Navy, out would be an everlasting memorial to the citizens of our share in the Navy s proud part of the war, and of the protection she gave at a time of great crisis."