DOMINION ITEMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 July 1942, Page 2

DOMINION ITEMS

FATAL COLLISION AUCKLAND, July 1. In a collision between a motortruck and a bus at Runciman, 23 miles south of Auckland, shortly after midnight, a soldier, aged about 22, Foster I. Sties, a passenger in tne truck, was killed outright. Two other young men were injured and sent to hospital. Nobody on the bus was injured.

WELLINGTON CUSTOMS WELLINGTON, July 1. The net customs revenue last month totalled £226,444, compared , With £231,815 in June, .1941. For the six months the figures are £1,350,922 and £1,450,978 respectively. Collections of sales tax in June totalled £92,491 against £98,330 m June, 1941. For the six months the totals are £571,796 and., £554,165. Beer excise collections last month were £9937, compared with £5250 in June, 1941. For the six months the totals are £74,777 and £50,836. The war tax totalled £343,822 against £126,290 in June, 1941. For the six months the totals are £1,101,416 and £737,222.

WOMEN’S SERVICES. WELLINGTON, July 1. “New Zealand’s total war effort, which needs the best possible use of men, women, and material, demands large recruiting of women for various duties in the Navy, Army, and Air Force within the Dominion,” said the Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser) in a statement to-night. An urgent call to-day, he added, was for women from 18 to 45 years of age. . Positions were available in all types of employment, and those needed included shorthand typists, telegraphists, cooks, and mess hands. Indeed, some of the work in anti-air-craft batteries was suitable for women. Some of the jobs required women of good educational qualifications, particularly in mathematics. Mr. Fraser added that it was hot intended to take women engaged on essential production or who had been trained for important occupations m which they replaced men. There was, however, no reason why women in these industries should not make application as it might be possible at a later date to release some of them for service in the armed forces.

COMMANDANT APPOINTED WELLINGTON, July 2. The Minister of Defence (Mr. Jones) announced, to-day, that Mrs. Vida Jowett of Wellington, had been appointed Commandant of the New Zealand Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, the new branch, of the army to which women recruits will belong. The new Commandant and her staff will have offices at Army Headquarters. Up to the present, women taken into the army had remained an the War Service Auxiliary, but the number to be recruited called for a separate organisation, as in the Wrens and Waafs.