DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 27 July 1940, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS

SUPPRESSION OF NAMES CHRISTCHURCH July 26. An appeal to members of the Bar not to apply for suppression of clients’ names unless there were some “superspecial” circumstances to warrant the Court taking the action requested was made by Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. “The Court has been embarrassed by continuous applications from the Bar for non-publication of names, and the position I have been steadily forced into is that unless there are some super-special circumstances I must ask the Bar not to ask for suppression of names,” said Mr Levvey, in answer to an application by J. K. Moloney for suppression of a client’s name. Mr Levvey said that the situation had been reduced to absurdity by a series of such applications on Monday. He had felt that having granted one application he would have to treat the others similarly. In future he would ask members of the Bar to consider the circumstances very carefully before making applications.

He explained that he was speaking generally and not to Mr Moloney per- ■ sonally. “This is a case of dishonesty j and I am afraid I cannot consider suppression,” said the Magistrate. “The Bar is sensible of its responsi-1 bility in asking the Court to suppress names,” replied Mr Moloney. “In this case it is just that the man is going away to fight for his country, and in view of what might happen to him, over there, I thought it might be possible to suppress his name,” he said, j “Oh, well, I’m considering it. That’s all I can say,” said Mr Levvey. MOTOR-CYCLE HITS CAR CHRISTCHURCH, July 26. Two youths were injured in a collision between a motor-cycle and a motor-car ,at the corner of Deans Avenue and Riccarton Road last evening. The rider of the motor-cycle, John Tirikatene, aged 17, of Queen’s Street, Islington suffered injury to his left foot, but after treatment from ambulance officers was able to return tc his home. His pillion rider, Russel Rowe, aged 15, of Main South Road, Hornby, was admitted to the Public Hospital with a fracture of the righ tibia. GIRL FRACTURES LEG ! CHRISTCHURCH, July 26. | While roller skating at a city rink yesterday, Vera O’Callaghan fell and fractured her left leg. She was ad-j mitted to hospital, where her condition is reported as satisfactory. LORD GALWAY VISITS BURNHAM CHRISTCHURCH, July 26. Every aspect of the training of the soldiers now in • camp at Burnham was inspected by the Governor-Gen-eral, Lord Galway, when he visited Burnham yesterday. He spent nearly two hours walking and driving about, the camp confines making a most, thorough inspection, including a visit! to all the huts that provide ’comfort | for the men when off duty, and to j the hospital block. His Excellency, who was accompanied by his aide-de-camp, Captain R. Stuart French, was met at headquarters by Colonel E. T. Rowllings, O.C. Southern Military District, Col-! onel S. D. Mason, Camp Command-! ant, and Major A. J. Moore, Chief In-| structional Officer. He met the officers in charge of each training unit! as he reached their training ground, : and spoke encouragingly to them of the general standard of the work he, saw.

Lord Galway’s visit was more or: less informal, there being no full- '

dress parade.of the soldiers in training. ' But he found all the training units in full battle dress, and commented favourably on the smart turnout and work of each unit. Visits were paid to men working at trench digging, musketry, trench mortar training, machine-gun training, signals, ambulance work, barbed wire entanglements Bren gun training, and physical training. The Bren gun carriers were seen in action, at the request of Lord Galway, who was impressed by the smart work undertaken by the two crews. These mobile vehicles gave a splendid display of routine drill, the crews having to do hard work in stripping and replacing the traction bands and in carrying out manoeuvres at a high speed. His Excellency showed great interest in the several huts where the soldiers spend their leisure hours—the Y.M.C.A. rooms, the theatre, the Salvation Army hut, the dry canteen, cafeteria, Church of England hut, and Everyman’s hut. Later he went through the hospital block and spoke encouragingly to the men in bed there. His Excellency wished each man “the best of luck,’’ and was later photographed with the nursing sisters at the hospital. Before he left, Lord Galway voiced his pleasure with the camp authorities over the* smooth running of all the camp facilities, with the line appearance of the men he had seen during their training, and with the general appearance of the camp. FARM LABOUR. CHRISTCHURCH, July 25. An offer of free unskilled labour for farmers at the week-ends was rejected and a suggestion that a roster be set up to provide a free service to increase production lacked support when they cam e befor e the executive of the North Canterbury Farmers’ Umon yesterday. “I would be happier if I had the privilege of doing something to help the Allied cause.” said a letter from Mr Newman Hall, of Kilmore Street, Christchurch. Mr Hall said that he was in C 3 reserve, a returned man of 56 years not in good health, and not acceptable in any_ one of several useful capacities. He would gladly give his services gratis to any farmer every Sunday for the duration of the war to enable him to attend to more important work. “Could you inaugurate a Canterbury week-end servic e unit and start with my enlistment? We are living here in peace and comfort, and I would be ashamed to take a penny. Do what you can for thousands of others and myself.” concluded Mr Hall’s letter.

“Well, I think this is a very fine gesture this gentleman i s making.” said Mr R. G. Bishop, th e chairman, “but I think there is hardly any need for such a thing yet. After all, when he’s working all the work, the farmer really must have som e leisure on Sundays, and if an offer like this was accepted he' would have to supervise what wa s being done Then there’s the petrol question, too, He couldn’t go far he would only b e able to work near the city.” The executive decided to write to Mr Hall and thank him for his ture. EMERGENCY PETROL SUPPLIES CHRISTCHURCH, July 25The provision made for emergency supplies of petrol in Christchurch by the new order fixing hours for resellers, is explained in a statement issued by the Petrol Resellers’ Association. Emergency supplies will be procurable from Rink Taxis, Ltd-, during the night hours when garage and petrol, stations are be closed. ; “This emergency supply point is for emergency supplies only, necessitated

by urgent calls, sickness, or other unexpected occasions,” says th e statement. “In other words, the emergency supply point will operate along similar lines to that of th e all-night pharmacy. With the restricted petrol allowance existing at the present time, motorists can in most cases obtain their requirements in one fill' each month, so that it is therefore expected that the emergency, station will not interfere in any way with the normal business of garages or petrol stations. "Motorists, it is hoped, will continue to support the garages and service stations that hav e given them their service all along, and through th e decreased gallonage the retention of their custom is even more desirable now than formerly. The introduction of the new hours will assist garages and service stations to economise in wages, lights, etc., and result in proprietors of one-man stations having* more leisure to spend with their wives and families.' It is hoped that motorists generally will obtain their petrol supplies during th e ordinary business hours and thus facilitate the smooth working of the new T*' 0 ’”- lations."