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Evening Star, Issue 23728, 8 November 1940, Page 4

An amendment to the Public Safety Emergency Regulations published with last night’s ‘ Gazette ' gives the police power to arrest persons found distributing, or in possession of, subversive literature or documents pending the approval of the Attorney-General to further proceedings in such cases. Hitherto, the police were able to arrest such offenders only after the AttorneyGeneral's sanction had been received, but they are now authorised to make immediate arrests in such cases. The plight in which New Zealand artists now find themselves because of the import restrictions is reflected in the following resolution, which was passed at a recent meeting of the New Zealand Society of Artists;—“ That this meeting of artists desires to draw the attention of the Prime Minister to the grave shortage of artists’ materials and that certain essential requisites, such as colours, mediums, brushes, chalks and crayons, specially-prepared inks, papers, and artists’ prepared canvas, all of which cannot be manufactured in New and which are required for use both in the fine arts and in commercial art, ■ are at present unobtainable or in very short supply; that in the opinion of this meeting it is essential in the interests of art and culture generally, and the livelihood of artists particularly, that the present restrictions on the importation of artists’ materials be immediately removed.” Citizens are reminded that the collection of non-ferrous metals in Dunedin and St. Kilda, as well as in Green Island and Balclutha, will be carried out to-morrow, necessary arrangements having been completed by the Otago Council for the Reclamation of Waste Materials. The city and St, Kilda have been divided into 16 areas, each under the control of a supervisor, and about 1,400 schoolboys will assist. Every house in each area will bo visited. By arrangement with the Automobile Association, over 100 cars and trucks will also assist in the work. No payment is to be made for the metals collected, the whole proceeds from the sale of which will he devoted to the local patriotic fund. In the meantime, only non-ferrous metals will hfe collected, that is, aluminium, brass, bronze, gunmetal, copper, copper wire, collapsible tubes, foil, lead, zinc. Householders can assist by having their material ready for the boys when they call after 9 to-morrow morning. No bottles arc required. The National Council is also making arrangements for the disposal of scran cast iron, paper, and rags, but these will not be collected on this occasion. In the list of names comprising the ballot for Territorial service just issued are a number of men who have volunteered in the past and been rejected as permanently unfit. The Army Department goes through the list when issued and checks it with its records, and such names are deleted. _ These men, therefore, will not receive any communication, nor need the publication of the names cause them any uneasiness. In one or two instances names of men already serving in the Territorials or the special force have also crept into the list as published. The Army authorities will be grateful to receive any notification to this effect from parents or relatives of men so listed but already serving. Mr and Mrs .1. Clark, of Port Chalmers, hold a rather unique record in regard to the war. Of their six sons quo is already overseas, one is on final leave, one is in Burnham, another is in the merchant navy, another passed fit and is waiting to go into camp, while the sixth sou of the familv, at present under age for active service, is in the Sea Scouts. >

Fifty yards of line and a belt used for life saving have been removed from the Oreti Surf Club’s equipment, which has been kept at the look-out on Oreti Peach, Southland, The reel, -which has been left in an exposed position sotbat it may be used when no patrol is on duty, was discovered to have been damaged during last week-end. The belt, which is essential in an emergency, would be of no use to anyone except for its intended purpose. This failure to respect public property for the saving of life, is one of the difficulties which the club has had to face.

According to a notice published in the ‘ Gazette ' last night over the signature of the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, citizens and traffic control authorities throughout Now Zealand are requested to observe the practice adopted in the Dominion on former similar occasions of two minutes’ silence from 11 a.m. and the suspension of all vehicular traffic during that period on November 11. Armistice Day. The notice adds that where a service is held it. is suggested it should he at the local Cenotaph or war memorial as the case may be.

From Mr A. C. M'Gcorgo wo have received £5 for the Spitfire Fund and £;5 I’or the Loudon Distress Relief Fund, Just before Major d. Abel, honorary Dominion organiser of the £1,000,000 ail purposes patriotic appeal, left Dunedin yesterday for Christchurch he received a telegram containing a challenge from the Palmerston North-Kai-ranga zone of the Wellington district to the rest of New Zealand. The telegram, sent by Mr John Young, chairman of the zone, undertook that the zone would be the first to raise half of its allocation. Failing that, it would pay lOgs to the first zone in New Zealand to do so. The youngest traveller yet to make the journey across the Tasman hy air, Douglas Patterson Haughey. aged four weeks and a day, -arrived at Auckland from Sydney by the flying-boat Aotearoa this week. He was accompanied by his mother, Mrs T. F. Haughey, whose husband is in Sydney, and her father. Dr W. H. Pettit. The Law Practitioners Emergency Regulations, 1940, were gazetted last night. They authorise the remission of practising fees in respect of law practitioners who become members of any of His Majesty’s armed forces. A Press Association telegram states that the regulations also empower the remission of Abe annual contributions to the Solicitors’ Fidelity Guarantee Fund in similar cases. “ I do not know why it is. but chemists are not coming forward,” said Mr H. T. King, a member of the Now Zealand Pharmacy Hoard, when commenting upon the dearth of qualified chemists in evidence before the Auckland Area Manpower Committee. “ The position is causing the Pharmacy Hoard a lot of trouble, and we are wondering how to keep the School of Pharmacy going.” As it is impracticable at the present time for them to talcc their usual vacations in Britain and on the Continent, an increasing number of British and Dutch residents from Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies arc coming to New Zealand and Australia to spend their fnrlough (says the Auckland ‘Herald ’). • Over 50, including a nmiK her of children, are at present in Auckland. Some propose to spend nine months in the two countries, and others six months. The comparative unconcern with which people in rural England view the German air raids'is illustrated in a letter to a Christchurch resident. “ It is lovely weather and so peaceful and pleasant here,” writes the correspondent, “ except for various dog-lights with Hun aeroplanes, which we sec from time to time, and the buzzing of Hun aeroplanes overhead at night. It is quite extraordinary to be picking blackberries with half a dozen small children and suddenly hear the buzz of distant aeroplanes and the crackle of machine guns. Sarah (a little girl) summed up the situation as follows: Virginia: ‘ Ooh, wat’s that noise?’ Sarah: ‘Don’t he frightened, Ginia. it isn’t thunder, it’s only the Germans.’ ” Every mail from. Britain brings abundant evidence that the people at Homo are facing up to their trials with indomitable resolution and _ unflagging courage. Typical of this attitude is tjie following extract from a letter received by a Wellington firm of manufacturers’ representatives: “ Over here the spirit of the people is high,' and the morale excellent. Somehow we feel that wo have leisurely peeled off the kid gloves and are just beginning to roll the sleeves up and wade in. A little later we may even go so far as to take our coats off and give the enemv the larruping he has been asking for. We are beginning to get a hit annoyed! And when a Britisher reallv gets annoyed, well, you as a Britisher know the answer.”

The Postmaster-General (the Hon. P. C. Webb) announces that as a further war emergency precaution Government has found it necessary to assume control over certain wireless transmitting apparatus in private ownership, and also diathermy equipment as used by doctors, hospitals, universities, etc. Regulations entitled “ The Radio Emergency Regulations, 1940,” which give Government the necessary power, and which will be administered by the Post Office, were gazetted yesterday. As these regulations provide for the licensing of the apparatus referred to within a period of three weeks, owners of equipment covered by the regulations should not delay in ascertaining from their local Post Office their obligations in the matter. The regulations also make' it illegal to purchase or to acquire wireless transmitting apparatus except on the authority of a permit issued by the Post Office. Included in the wireless apparatus which will be subject to registration are items sucli as electronic valves capable of anode dissipation exceeding If) watts, which include valves used in speech amplifiers, public address systems, picture plants, etc. New developments at the Museum and acquisitions to the collections housed therein were the subject of considerable interest to the large number of guests at the conversazione held there last night. Dr Basil Howard, president of the Royal Society, welcomed the visitors on behalf of that body, together with the Association of Friends of the Museum. Dr li. D. Skinner, director of the Museum, also spoke. A feature of the evening was the showing of Mr L. E. Richdalc’s film of bird life on the Otago Peninsula. The new diorama, which is to be seen fit its best in a darkened room, being lighted from the interior,- also attracted a good deal of interest.