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Evening Star, Issue 24334, 24 October 1942, Page 4

Lighting restrictions for the week commencing to-morrow apply from 7.38 p.m, to 5.7 a.m. Ormond Edward Burton, a former minister of religion, was found guilty to the Supreme Court, Wellington, of editing a document with a view to facilitating the publication of a subversive, statement. The University of New. Zealand announces that the following degrees have been conferred Master of Arts—University of Otago: Ethel Pearson (in history). Bachelor of Engineering (civil) —Canterbury University College: John Wallace Ridley (B.Sc.). The notifiable diseases reported for the week ended yesterday in the Otago and Southland district were as follows: Cerebro-spinal meningitis, Otago, 4 cases; diphtheria, Southland. 1 case; tuberculosis, Otago, 4 cases, Southland 1 case. Since the war, the traditional session'' of Parliament covering all the winter months has become a thing of the past. The practice has been for the House to meet at frequent intervals, the pr inf ary reason being to keep members in close touch with the latest developments in the war situation and the steps which have had to be taken in New Zealand to make the Dominion’s war effort more intensive. It will no doubt be surprising to many that the sitting just concluded is the ninth of the present session, which began last December. The House is to meet again on December 2, and it is understood that this, the tenth sitting, will complete the session. Although meeting only for a few days at a time, Parliament has dealt with a surprisingly largo legislative programme, something like 22 Government and eight local or private Bills having been handed, approximately half of them in the recent sitting, into which was also crowded a no-confidence debate and a secret meeting. Parliament has completely altered its habits in harmony with intensive war-time conditions generally, the result being that into a day is frequently compressed as much business as might have occupied a week in peace time.— Parliamentary Reporter.