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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4483, 3 September 1940, Page 2

Quo Year of War. To-,day is the first anniversary of the war. At 11 -15 a.m. on September 3. Mr Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Great Britain, announced that for 15 minutes Britai i and Germany had boon at war. “I am certain that right will prevail,” he said. Mr Peter Fraser, at that time Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand, announced that the Dominion was also at war with Germany. A most interesting movie picture iof a world Bov Scout Jamboree which was held in Holland in 1931 was shown in the Town Hall in the presence of a large number of local Scouts, and a representative gathering of townspeople on Thursday last. The sereenhsr depicted the presence' of 30,000 Scouts from all parts of the worlds (and representing 42; nations. The demonstration embodied all the activities of the Boy Scouts and nro-v----od intensely interesting,especially to the local -Scouts. A Scout rally in Dunedin and the 1937 Jamboree in Australia were also shown. Part of the latter film was> in technicolor and showed to advantage the beautiful scenes of a Boy Scout camp. _ Cant. Herbert, in introducing Commissioner Dorman, thanked him for having made it possible to show the pictures in Queenstown. At the conclusion of the screening the Mayor (Dr Anderson) also expressed the thanks of those present. A. special meeting of the Borough Council wasi he’d yesterday ,afternoon presided over by the Mayor (Dr Anderson). The purpose- of the meeting was- to consider a letter from the Invercargill City Council embodying a telegram from the Hon. R. Semple Minister of National Service, in relation to the forma Horn of an Emergency Reserve Corps or the establishment of a Home Guard. The council was asked to appoint a delegation to- meet the Minister in Invercargill on Wednesday. September 4, to discuss the matter. The council agreed to fall in with the arrangement and appointed the Mayor. Or. A. Scheib and the Town Clerk. The delegation will be joined by Arrow Borough Council. While in Christchurch the Rev D. K. Boyd paid a short visit to the momborsi of the Southland Regiment at present in. camp, at Addington. He found the men he met from the Waka.tipu in the best of spirits. The camp conditions, are good, the food plentiful and all expressed satisfaction, with the Life and find the work interesting. The camp- facilities include a Y.M.O.A. and movie pictures-. A reasonable amount of leave is given—usually one, third of the members being free, at a time and general leave on Saturday and Sunday afternoon®. Generally the health isi good and the uniform® more .tightly fitting .than before entry. The interest of the citizens and anything they can do for the boys- will be well worth while. The Regiment is a line body of men. A paragraph in the annual -report of the Southland Agricultural: and Pastoral Association states: “The district fat lamb competition was limited, in that, the London awards and the competition for the Meat Board’s Shield were eliminated. Gore (Eastern Southland) combined with the Southland district in making a particularly line display of lambs at Makarewa. The ■ champion pen was exhibited by an Eastern Southland breeder -who was I heartily congratulated on his. success. There, is a. surplus of £441-8-7 on the year’® working which can be regarded as very satisfactory.”

At a special meeting of the Bor- j ough Council yesterday afternoon, the ; Mayor took occasion to -welcome Ca.pt. G. A. Herbert to the table. He congratulated him on gaining the confi- , Pence of the electors, to such an appreciable extent and he felt suie that he would work for the advancement of the town as. he had done in many directions in. the past. Capt. Herbert thanked the Mayor for his welcome- and good wishes and assured the council of his co-operation in all matters pertaining to the town’s welfare. Deference to the large number of , applications! received for permits to enable persons to travel to England j was. made by the Minister for Internal , Affairs; (Hon. AY. E. Parry) in an in- ( terview last week, ho case was considered 1 ightly, he said hut the difAcuity was that applicants did not submit evidence from England that would substantiate the reasons govern- j ing their wish to go abroad. Consequently, applications for permits could only bo declined. Mr Parry added that the Now Zealand Government was not placing obstacles in the way to prevent people temporarily residing in the Dominion from returning to England. A year ago the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand was faced with a seri- ■ ous deficit in its general and home and foreign mission funds, says an , Auckland message. The final results of the Dominion-wide campaign under-* taken to put the funds on a satisfactory basis were reported to the Mission Committee at Auckland. The figures isi bowed that for the annual expenditure on all budget funds of £45,631, the receipts had been £54,279. For mission purposes only the expenditure was £42,616 and the receipts £510.794. The debt of £16,112. with which the. financial year was begun, has been reduced to £7952. The amount asked from the congregation was £41,276, and the response was £45,681, which is £14,388 more than the congregations contributed in the previous financial year. A renuost has been received from the military camps for books, magazines or periodicals. Townspeople or district people would confer a great favor on our boys, in camp if they would hand over any reading matter of the character mentioned to the Queenstown, library. It will then be sent on- bv the librarian. Objection to wet canteens in military camm was voiced at the annual meet!ur of the New Zealand Alliance in Wellington. It was urged further that the restrictions on soldiers purchasing liauor at. hotels for consumption off the premises should also apply not oily to the Navy and Air Force but to civilians. The superintendent. Mr H. AM. Milner, reported that with the war and the mobilisation of the fighting forces the valuable policy of 30 years’ experience of drv camps in New Zealand was swept away. ■Proposals' that the marriage laws should be amended to permit soldiers serving overseas being by proxy were, discussed by the AA ellington Provincial Patriotic Council last week. The chairman., Mr Hislop v Mayor of ■AMellingtion. .said he understood the who could he married by. proxv were royal tv. So much the important business of life was done by correspondence it seemed reasonable that one should be able to get married by correspondence. It. wa.si decided that tire subject re- ; .cuiircd further consideration before any action wasi taken . University of California students taking the Civilian Pilots Training Program at the Oakland airport are taught that a pilot’s best friend always lets him .down. It’s the para-chute.—-The New York Times. The local branch of the N.Z.TJ.P. held their usual fortnightly social evening in Scott’s tearooms on Fri- ■ clay last, there being a good attendance. Prizes 1 , which were the gifts : of friends l of the movement were Avon as. follows; Ladies. Miss Jones 1. Miss N. AMallace 2. Miss Cosgrove. _ consolation.; men -.Messrs, E. Baltin 1, C. Downey 2 Mr J. Downev had no competition for co,'isolation. _ After the usual splendid supper Miss A. MiciSbriley provided music for dancing assisted by Mis a L. Edwards, and Mr Bennetts; who played extras. Mim Minister for Agriculture was asked in the House of Itepreset datives the other afternoon by Air AM.M.Ci. Denham (Lab.. Invercargill) whether he was aware that lime companies in Southland had made announcements that they would not accept any more orders this year as they had as many a.s they could handle at the present time and whether the Minister was aware that unless immediate action was taken to relieve the situation, primary production in Southland would receive a considerable setback. Hon. AM. Lee Martin replied that he trad been informed in the acute shortage. and he had asked for a report at the earliest possible date as to the prospects of improving the output from the existing works or anv other emails bv which the enormously increased demand might be met.