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Kaikoura Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 63, 14 August 1944, Page 2

A sitting of the Magistrate’s Court will be held in Kaikoura on Wednesday next.

Mr Mackenzie King (Prime Minister of Canada) has announced the complete exclusion of Japanese immigration after the war. He said that a special commission would determine which Japanese in Canada were loyal and which were disloyal. The latter would be sent to Japan, whether they were born there or not. Those who were loyal would be treated justly, but not allowed again to congregate in British Columbia. Mr Mackenzie King said that of 23,149 Japanese in Canada, 22,096 lived in British Columbia before the war.

Since we entered the war, experienced teachers with master’s degrees have been paid, in some of the Southern States of America, less than stenographers who are not even high school graduates are able to earn by working for the Government. In other parts of the United States teachers working in war industry plants are able to earn mjpre per week than they used to earn per month. —National Education Association.

A Pan-American clipper carrying 26 passengers and a crew of live crashed into Nipe Bay in an attempted take-off from Antilia, Cuba. Two passengers were killed and 15 are missing. It is believed the remainder were save-1. — Havana dated August 8.