DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 June 1942, Page 4

DOMINION ITEMS

FOUND SHOT.

CHRISTCHURCH, June 19.

Hearing a shot while she was feeding fowls near her home at Highbank to-day, Mrs. W. A. Paul went to a shed near the house, where she found the body of her husband, William Adam Paul, aged 56 years, a farmer, lying on the ground with a shotgun beside it.

HOSPITAL EMPLOYEE’S DEATH. CHRISTCHURCH, June 19.

John Thomas Kennedy, aged 55, single, employed by the North Canterbury Hospital Board as an engineer,” received fatal head injuries when he fell at the hospital this afternoon.

The accident occurred when he slipped when carrying a bucket of sand from the boiler room. He struck his head on the tap of a drum.

SIX SOLDIERS HURT. WHANGAREI, June 19.

A collision between two Army trucks last evening resulted in six Auckland territorials being taken to the Whangarei Hospital. They are:— George Rodgers, aged 20; John Williamson, aged 20; Roy Lacassie, aged 20; Purdie Williamson, aged 28, injuries to jaw; Jack Simpson, aged 20, shock; John Tuki, aged 20, injuries to one shoulder.

They were reported to be in a satisfactory condition this morning.

EDUCATION IN SERVICES WELLINGTON, June 19.

The Council of Adult Education has decided to forward the following resolution to the Ministers for Education and Defence: —

“The council respectfully draws the attention of the Government to the urgent necessity for establishing a comprehensive scheme of general education in the services with a view to maintaining and developing the morale of officers and men and of the country as a whole. Information received from all parts of New Zealand convinces the council that there is a feeling of great unrest developing, due to the fact that all fit men between the ages of 18 and 30 who are compulsorily serving in the forces are thereby having their futures jeopardised by being deprived of normal cultural facilities, including adult education classes, during the most critical period of their lives. The fact that at a crucial stage of the last war such an educational scheme was introduced in the British Army as a military necessity, and in this war has been adopted by military authorities in other parts of the British Commonwealth seems to the council to indicate its importance from the point of view of furthering the war effort. Tn addition, such a scheme is vital to an adequate policy of demobilisation and rehabilitation. The council urges on the Government the need for the immediate introduction of a comprehensive scheme.”