LOCAL AND GENERAL

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4807, 7 July 1939, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Maniapoto Rugby representative team has been drawn to play Cambridge in the elimination round for the Peace Cup, and the match is to be played on July 22. The winner of this game is to meet the holders of this coveted trophy on August 26.

Particulars of a recruiting meeting to be held at Pio Pio on Monday nex"t will be found on page 1. As a result of the decision to bring the Waikato Regiment up to full peace strength, recruiting meetings of this nature are being held throughout the district, and this one is to cater for the Pio Pio-Aria district. Free transport has been arranged from Aria.

The military authorities have received several applications from refugees of various ' ages who are seeking enlistment. It is understood that some of these applications come from men who served their own country during the Great War. These offers are naturally very much appreciated and it is sincerely regretted that full use cannot be made of them, but the regulations insist that the men enrolled must be of British birth or be naturalised citizens.

Parents of a child a few months old in Te Kuiti are congratulating themselves that babies are not quite so delicate as they appear to be. They missed a gold chain bracelet with locket attached, ■ and after searching the house high and low it was decided that it must have been lost outside the house. They were ready to write out an advertisement when the mother, during the. course of her attentions to the child, found the latter had passed it from its body. Apparently the baby, had, as babies will, found the bracelet and swallowed it, and then passed it a couple of days later without any harm to itself. The parents are breathing sighs of relief, not for the recovery of the bracelet, but fop the fact that their young hopeful came to no harm through his swallowing it.

The number of bowlers playing the game as members of clubs affiliated to the New Zealand Bowling Association has increased by 824 in the last 12 months and the total is now 19,039, states the annual report. There are now 382 clubs on the register, 10 having been granted affiliation during the year. An invitation has been received from the International Bowling Board for a team of not less than five fours to tour Great Britain during 1940.

A register has been compiled by the Girl Guides' Association of New Zealand of all those members of the movement of 18 years of age and over, who are willing to give voluntary service in the case of national emergency. The response in signing the forms has been very good. These forms include a brief questionnaire as to qualifications for first aid, home "nursing, transport—driving a car and ability to make repairs—telegraphist work, and office work. . Other questions referred to the care of the old and very young, domestic duties, and canteen work. The register, which will be kept at the Girl Guides' Dominion headquarters, Hastings, will be kept up-to-date in personnel through co-operation with the provincial headquarters of the Guide Asociation.