DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 5 June 1942, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS

KING’S BIRTHDAY WELLINGTON. June 4. i The following is a copy of a telegram received from the King, in reply to a message sent by. the Gover-nor-General (Sir Cyril Newall.) on the occasion of His Majesty’s birthday: “Please express to the Government and peoples of New Zealand my sincere thanks for their kind and loyal message on the occasion of my birthday.”—(Signed) George, R.I. MOTOR-CYCLE LICENSE FEES CHRISTCHURCH, June 4. The Commissioner of Transport is to be asked by the South Island Motor Union why premiums for third party risk are unchanged for motorcycles when they have been reduced for other classes of vehicles. Coming to this decision last evening, the executive of the union decided to inquire what effect, if any, the use of motor-cycles by the Army had in the calculation of the premiums. CLOTHES COUPONS FOR NEXT-OF-KIN OF PRISONERS WELLINGTON, J'une 4. Arrangements have been made by the Rationing Controller for 15 coupons quarterly to be made available to next-of-kin of prisoners of war. The coupon's may be used for the purchase only of those articles permitted to be sent to prisoners of wav —footwear, clothing, etc. Members of the crews of overseas vessels requiring rationed goods will be able to purchase same, . after obtaining certificates from the agents for the vessels. The Controller states that orders for suits and costumes placed prior to May 29 will not require coupons, if the goods are delivered by July 31. The same applies to orders for alterations requiring rationed .material. Goods donated for sales of work for patriotic, church and schools organisations can be sold coupon free, and organisations such as national and provincial patriotic bodies, the Order of St. John and the Red Cross, and Government departments, may procure goods ration free against an official order. Such goods ntust not be resold. CABLE CAR FATALITY. P.A. DUNEDIN, June 3. June Cameron, aged 13, who was injured on Monday when the Roslyn cable-car on which she was travelling got out of control, died this morning. LICENSING BREACH BY CHINESE. P.A AUCKLAND, J'une 3. Kwong Shing, a Chinese, aged 69 years, who pleaded guilty on Fridav to selling liquor without a licence, came before the Magistrate’s Court to-day for sentence. A doctor certified Kwong too debilitated to go to prison, and Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., imposed a maximum fine of £5O with costs. ’

NATIONAL GOVERNMENT DUNEDIN, J'une 3. The opinion that if a National Government were formed, an Opposition would immediately be created, was expressed by Mr Barclay, at the conference of the Farmers’ Union at Dunedin. Upon a delegate interjecting that Jim Roberts ran the country, the Minister retorted that such statements were the results of class hatred, bred by hearing one side of the case. He added that national sentiment had to he bred from inside. A National Government without national sentiment was worth nothing. “You w.ll never get unity while you keep picking at the watersiders and other labourers,” he said. “When the workers were given a 5 per cent, wage increase, the newspapers cried ‘lnHation!’ but. when the farmers were given a 15 per cent, increase in the wool price, nothing was said about inflation.” ATTITUDE TO WAR. P.A. DUNEDIN, June 2. A call to the leaders and every individual New Zealander to adopt a more aggressive attitude towards the war and to the menace of Japan, was made by the President of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union (Mr. W. W. Mulholland) in an address to the Otago provincial council l of the union.

“Our immediate aim is to kill millions of Japanese,” he said. At times he had been disgusted by some of the propaganda of people who should have a deeper sense of their responsibilities. “I refer particularly to these Sunday night broadcasts,” he said. “They are called national service talks. Surely there are men who can do better than this insipid stuff that is put across so often. Sometimes someone does say something, but those times are few and far between. There is a huge theme today, and the country must be stirred. We have a right to be told the truth about our danger bv the people who have been entrusted with the leadershin of the Dominion. We are not

going to be rabbtis to burrow out of sight if the Japanese should come. They would get an extraordinarily hot reception from our airmen before ever they reached the shores of New Zealand, and they would get such a lesson that they would not want to try again. That is our real spirit, and iwe need the kind of leadership that will make it the dominant outlook of our national life. A really representative government is an urgent need, and I cannot see any reason why there should not be one. That is what the country wants. The

people to-day don’t care 'two hoots’ about party politics and the few party leaders and other politicians ,who think they do are completely out of touch.” WAR EXPENSES FUND. WELLINGTON, June 3. The total of interest free loans and donations to the War Expenses Fund is x 27.370.078, and included in this amount is a loan of £4,000 by C. A. Jenkins, Maungaturoto, for the duration and six months.