NEWS IN BRIEF

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22813, 7 December 1948, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF

REGULAR FORCE CADETS—The New Zealand Army lias received 184 applications for the second draft of ttie Regular Foi-ce cadets to enter the Army School of Instruction at Trentham next month, said an Army headquarters spokesman yesterday. From this number 88 will be selected. TRANSFER REGRETTED.—Keen regret at his impending departure from New Zealand, where he held the post of Austrtlian trade commissioner, was expressed in Wellington by MajorGeneral J. J. Murray. On his return to Australia, ho stated, ho would be

posted to another Government post elsewhere, but lie had not yet been advised where. He believed that the buoyant trade which existed between New Zealand and Australia would continue and that New Zealand would receive an increasing flow

of the essential commodities she required from Australia. TO COACH IN NAPIER.—The national sprint and hurdles champion, Arthur Eustace, leaves Auckland at the week-end for Napier to join a coach■ing school and will be in Auckland for a few days only before the end of this season. Next year he will take a special physical training course at the Dunedin Teachers’ Training College. He expects to return in time to qualify for the New Zealand championships.

YUGOSLAV SHIP COMING TO N.Z.— A Yugoslav Government steamer, fully booked to Australia and with a number of through passengers to Auckland, sails from Fiume this week She is due at Auckland about January 17 to embark Yugoslav nationals returning home. New Zea landers and intending immigrants travelled overland through Italy to joii- her,