LOCAL AND GENERAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 September 1940, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Members of the Greymouth Women’s Patriotic Committee have been busily engaged this week, in packing Christmas parcels for members of the forces overseas. The standard parcel contains a pudding, a cake, cigarettes or pipe tobacco, and barley sugar. Three hundred and forty parcels are to be sent from Greymouth, and donations from citizens are still being welcomed.

At the Westport Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, Henry Whistance and Patrick Egan were charged with the theft of £2l and £5/9/- respectively, funds of the Buller Patriotic Committee, and were remanded until to-day. Sergeant H. H. Russell said that Egan had been arrested on the steamer Wingatui the previous day, before it sailed for Wellington, after he had been asked on several occasions to call at the police station concerning the charge. He believed that might have 'been .a case of momentary fright.

The influence which judges of the Native Land Court exercise in reconciling differences between the Maori and the pakeha was mentioned by a former Chief Judge, Mr R. N. Jones; when speaking at a farewell given in Auckland to Mr C. E. MacCormick, the present Chief Judge, whose retirement will take effect next month. Mr Jones said the Chief Judge had acted as a nation-builder and deserved credit for his work in helping to cement the good relationship between the two races. “We look across the seas to-day and see the two races, the Maori and the pakeha, standing shoulder to shoulder fighting in defence of freedom,” he added.

That the Maori race is making sacrifices for the prosecution of the war effort is again shown by a recent donation to the Government by the Tuwharetoa Trust Board, on behalf of the Ngati-Tuwharetoa tribe, of £l5O as a gift and £5OO as an in-terest-free loan for the duration of the war and six months. The Tuwharetoa tribe resides around the shores of Lake Taupo, and their generosity is a further instance of their spirit of loyalty and generous co-operation, .t Mr Langstone, Native Minister, said it recalled the magnificent gesture some 50 years ago by the late'Te Teuheu Tukino (Horonuku), paramount, chief of the tribe, when he presented to the nation areas of land totalling more than 6500 acres, now familiar to all as Tongariro National Park.—Prtss Assn.

,An increase of £14,388 in congregational givings, and a surplus of £8,645 over all budget expenditure, resulted from the appeal to put mission funds on a satisfactory basis, reports “The Outlook,” journal of the Presbyterian Church. The actual expenditure for all budget fund purposes was £45,634 and the receipts were £54,279. For all mission purposes the expenditure was £42,616 and the receipts £50,794, giving a surplus under this heading of £8,178. This generous response to the appeal reduced the debt with which the year commenced from £16,112 to £7,952. The figures of congregational givings show that £45,684, or £4,408 more than was asked fqr, was contributed.

One of the big reasons why Frigidaire has maintained its leadership in the refrigeration industry is because it has never sacrificed quality for 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 Mackay Street. ’Phone 436.—Advt.

It will be. your 1 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 feffering you seven cakes of Colgate’s Cold Cream Soap for 1/-. Get.yours to-day.—C. Smith’s.—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.