LOCAL AND GENERAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 September 1940, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Otago Education Board decided to support the Hawke’s Bay Board’s protest against broadcasting unsuitable items such as “Crime Thrillers.”—Press Assn.

While riding work at the Omoto racecourse, this morning, Ray Leach, 15, of Preston Road, was thrown from a horse, Rockery, owned by Mr F. Escott, and had his right ankle broken. He was removed to the Grey Hospital, and was, this afternoon, reported to be in a satisfactory condition.

The whereabouts of the Russell Cup has caused the West Coast Rugby Union concern for some - time. However, an advertisement in the “Star” last evening, quickly bore fruit. The trophy was discovered on a side verandah at the residence of the secretary of the Union, this morning. The cup had apparently been delivered during the night.

“Maoris will be in the Home Guard on a 50-50 basis,” said the Minister of National Service, Mr. R. Semple, at a meeting held in Hamilton to discuss the formation of a Home Guard. “They have their kumera patches to defend, and they will fight alongside the pakeha brother,” he continued. Mr. Semple was replying to a question as to whether Maoris could join the movement.

A fire occurred in a washhouse at the rear of the residence of Mr and Mrs C. Sadler, Elizabeth Street, about 4 p.m. yesterday. The Fire Brigade was called and extinguished the blaze without much damage being done. Heat from the chimney of a gas copper set fire to a shelf in the washhouse, the flames spreading to the walls and roof.

In a personal letter to Mr. P. J. McLean (President of the Greymouth Chamber of Commerce) Mr. E. Casey, General Manager of Railways, states that the new Vulcan rail-car, to accommodate 60 passengers, will be made available for the Christchurch-Greymouth-Hokitika line, but that it will be some little time before the car can be placed in commission. Mr. Casey added that if his official duties permitted he would be pleased to travel to the West Coast on the first trip of the new rail-car.

Representatives of the Auckland Metropolitan Fire Brigade were surprised to find that the words “Kia ora” could not be accepted as the conclusion of a fraternal message to the London Fire Brigade.' In reply to an inquiry at the Chief Post Office, it was stated that the Imperial censorship recognised only five languages for use in cablegrams, namely, English, French, Spanish, Afrikaans and Portuguese. However, an arrangement had been made some months ago for the acceptance of messages in Maori to or from members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force abroad. This exception did not apply to other messages.

Though in the opinion of the chairman, the motion had the effect of making the Board usurp the function of Parliament, the Wellington Education Board, this morning, by 11 votes to three, resolved that in future all the schools in the Board’s district should be opened each morning with the Lord’s Prayer, subject to the approval of the School Committees and the head teachers concerned. The Board deferred to the next meeting consideration of representations by various bodies on its decision to refuse the Navy League permission to enter the schools during school hours. A deputation from the R.S.A. urged that the motion be rescinded. —Press Assn.

Members of the New Zealand Army team which defeated the Combined Services team in the final of the Services’ Rugby tournament in Egypt last Easter Monday each received a silver medal in commemoration of the event. Corporal T. K. Thompson, a Rugby player of Waiuku, was in the New Zealand team in this match, and has forwarded his medal to his father, Mr. John Thompson, of Maioro, for safe keeping. The medal is almost two inches in diameter, and has a broad flanged edge. On one side the word “Egypt” with the date beneath is ringed by a laurel wreath, and on the other the names of the competing teams are inscribed. The match was played in a temperature of nearly 80 degrees and was watched by one of the largest crowds ever seen at a Rugby match in Egypt.

One of the big reasons why Frigidaire has maintained its leadership in the refrigeration industry- is because it has never sacrificed quality foi’ the sake of price. In the past ten or fifteen years nearly 150 different makes .of refrigerators have become orphans because the manufacturers have gone out of business. Enquiries to Westland Refrigeration Ltd., Upper Mack*” Street. ’Phone 436.—Advt.

J A remarkable news film • is being shown in Wellington. It is’ called “London’s Reply, to the German Claims.” It is a. pictorial record made by a neutral observer on a tour of London on August 23. It was received by Sir Harry Batterbee, the United Kingdom High Commissioner, to-day. Posted in London on September 5 it travelled by air mail across the Atlantic and the Pacific, making the journey at more than 1000 miles a day.—Press Assn.

“Now there’s been a lot of talk, especially just after the war began, about ‘capitalistic war’ and all that sort of claptrap, but as far as I am concerned, everyone realises the meaning 1 of unity now,” said the Mayor, Mr R. M. Macfarlane, M.P. (Labour), at a social gathering in the Canterbury Bowling Club’s pavilion last evening. “As for the present situation, we know the magnitude of. what confronts us, but in spite of that magnitude we all realise we must stand together here in just the same way as the people of London are standing together at this moment”

“On the railway station, Chicago, I sat at dinner next to a woman with the most work-hardened hands, rough, blackened, and with worn and broken ngils,” said Miss K. Turner in an address to the New Zealand Education Fellowship last night. “She spoke with a foreign accent, but I forebore to ask her what country she came from —a question one never asks in the States. Soon she told me that she was born in Georgia, Russia, and that she had come to America in 1911. She and her sister had bought a little land, and on it they had worked ever since. She was an ardent American, seeming to believe, as so many of her fellow-foreigners do, that her adopted country is the best on earth, and that all the good things that have ever been done have been done by Roosevelt.”

An extraordinary general meeting of the Port Hills-Akaroa Summit Road Trust will be held shortly (says the Christchurch “Press”). It wjll be proposed to tnembers that if the sum of a little more than £2OOO required to complete the Sign of the Takahe cannot be found the trust be wound up and its affairs placed in the hands of a receiver. If such a decision is made, the Takahe will almost certainly revert to the mortgagees and will no longer be public property. The Government has for some time been supplying the labour for the completion of the Takahe, on the understanding that the trust provides the materials. The trust has not been able to maintain the supply of materials, and the Minister for Finance (Mr Nash) and the Minister for Public Works (Mr Semple) have decided that the work must therefore stop. <

The following additional names have been added to the list of the Fourth Reinforcements for Papakura Camp:—D. Cameron, J. Cameron, E. J. Hogg. ' There will be no more replacements or additions to the list of reinforcements. The Burnham and Papakura reinforcements from the West Coast will leave Greymouth at 10.18 a.m., by special train on October 2, and the reinforcements for Trentham at 10.18 a.m., on October 3. The first payment to men of the Fourth Reinforcements who have not been in employment since the postponement of the date for their entering camp will be made at the Army office, Greymouth, to-morrow, but no application for pay will be entertained unless accompanied by a certificate from the applicant’s last employer to the effect that he has not been in employment or from the Social Security Department, that he has been registered as unemployed, since the date on which the men were originally ordered to proceed to camp.

Messrs Duncan McLean, Ltd., agents for Matson Line steamers, have received advice of their appointment as sole booking agents for Pan-American Airways and Associated Carriers connected therewith. This is the recently inaugurated service carrying passengers and mails between Auckland, Noumea, Canton Island, Honolulu, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Enquiries are invited, and full information may be obtained by letter to P.O. Box 137, Greymouth, or by ringing telephones 86 or 87.—Advt.

A limited supply of Tapestry Table Covers. They represent outstanding value to-day. Compare these prices: 58 x 72 16/6, 58 x 86 19/6, 60 x 75 23/6, 60 x 90 27/6. Call in to-day.— C. Smith’s. —Advt.

It will be your loss if you do not view the fashion stocks at White’s. You will find everything there that delights the heart of the discriminating lady.—White’s, the Fashion Centre. —Advt. \ For a limited period only. C. Smith’s are offering you seven cakes of Colgate’s Cold Cream Soap for 1/-. Get yours to-day.-—C. Smith’s. —Advt.