NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 59, 7 September 1945, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

WEATHER FORECAST

Forecast to 5 p.m. Saturday.—Moderate northerly winds tending northwesterly and gradually freshening tomorrow. Weather cloudy to overcast with some occasional light rain today, but fair tomorrow. .Temperatures moderate. Further outlook strong north-westerlies, cloudy with rain developing late on Sunday. A weak trough rs crossing New Zealand. Pressure is high to the east. New moon September 7. Temperature at 9.30 a.m., 53 degrees. Rainfall for 24 hours to 9.30 a.m., nil. Rainfall from August 7 to date, 3.63 in. High water today, 5.25 p.m.; tomorrow, 5.57 a.m., 6.21 p.m. Sun sets today, 6.2 p.m.; rises tomorrow 6.35 a.m., sets 6.3 p.m. Wages On Dairy Farms. The Agricultural Workers' Wage Fixation Order gazetted last night fixes the minimum rates of wages for agricultural workers employed on dairy farms. Weekly wages are.—Under seventeen years, 355; 17 to 18, 455; 18 to 19, 555; 19 to 20, 655; 20 to 21s, 755; over 21, 85s. If board and lodgings are not provided these rates are to be increased by 20s a week. Change Of Name? The annual report of the League of Nations Union states that the Dominion Council recently cabled to London asking for any information on a change of name for the union or the formation of a new society. The reply was that the union in Great Britain was setting up a United Nations Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland after the general council meeting early in September. A Second Chance. "This is our second chance," states the annual report of the League of Nations Union, referring to the new charter for world organisation thatj has been set up. To make the most of that second chance every man. woman, and child of the world's nations must get to know one another thoroughly, so thoroughly that they would not again allow a handful of criminals to goad them into mutual destruction. "It is a stern, long, and difficult task. The people have to be taught the price of peace; each adult citizen has to pay his share. As ,a union it is our most important task, with unceasing persistence, to hammer this,, lesson into the minds of our own people." ' Romance in War. There is a romantic side to war, of which many New Zealand men returning from overseas bring some evidence. Several wives and fiancees of soldiers were amongst those who arrived by the Strathaird yesterday. One of the new. arrivals was a Polish girl, who found her New Zealand husband when she was a slave worker under the Nazi heel and he was a prisoner of war. The girl had been forced to work on a farm in Austria, and she did much to help Allied prisoners of war located there. The attachment between the New Zealand soldier and the ■ Polish girl grew with the trials and tribulations that were faced to beat the hard hand of the Nazi. Both escaped and went through many further trying times, which only served to make more complete a romance which ended in marriage. Two Palestinian girls were also amongst the newarrivals, as were three South African girls (one each from the Air Force, the Medical Corps, and the Nursing Service). Some had their husbands with them; others await the arrival of the men who are to make homes for them in New Zealand. Early Wellington. Sixty-four years ago a youth of 17 landed in Wellington—then a small town of only 20,000 inhabitants—with a letter of introduction to a man in Foxton. In a letter recently received in New Zealand, this young boy—now over 80 years old, living in New South Wales —says that back in 1881 he can just remember that the sea washed a stone wall immediately in front of the Post Office. He had come from London and thought that Wellington was a very quiet town. When he arrived in Foxton, with about four pounds, he found that the people to whom he had been sent had left the district, and so he was thrown on his own resources. He spent many years in New Zealand, in Wellington and Napier. "I am glad I saw New Zealand in her pioneer days," he writes, "and I have seen her in the pride of modern nationhood. New Zealand is a lovely country. I can never forget the beauty of Lake Taupo on a winter morning, with the mountains reflected in the mirror-like water and Ruapehu golden-pink in the sunlight, or the beauty of the bush around Lake Waikaremoana, and the lovely line of the snow-clad Ruahines from Napier on a July day. It's God's own country,- and man has, -as usual, spoiled some of it. I saw the Forty Mile and the Seventy Mile Bush when not a tree had been felled. Now where is that glorious bush?"