LOCAL AND GENERAL

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4572, 2 July 1942, Page 3

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Home Guard. The special parade of the Home Guard called for Thursday last was w y eli attended and a most instructive and enjoyable day w r as spent. Through the courtesy of the officer commanding 3rd. Batt. Oeago Regiment, Sergt. McLeod and Corporal McCall, Lewis gun instructors, and Sergt- Halliday and Cpl. Malcolm, Vickers gun instructors, were on parade and gave instruction in holding, aiming and tiring the Lewis T and Vickers guns. In the evening instruction in stripping, cleaning and reassembly was given. Visits of this sort of instructors are very beneficial to the training of the Home Guard. The guardsmen arc taking a keen iuterese in. these instructive parades, Home Nursing. The Home Nursing class, under the leadership of Mrs E. C. Paterson, was well attended last week and yesterday. At the hygiene class instruc? lion was ginen in infectious diseases and general observation of the sick.

On a recent afternoon at Arthur Barnett Ltd.’s premises in Dunedin, an interesting episode was enacted, when a small boy accompanying an elder sister, who was shopping at the time, asked an assistant for an empty cardboard box, which he wished to take home. On receiving one he said that ne would give it to “Tiger” to carry. “Tiger,” an Alsatian, was sitting outside the door. With the box held firmly in his mouth he continued to wait there whilst his young master returned to is sister. Shopping over, the two were leaving for home, but their embarrassment knew no bounds when it was found that in “Tiger’s” box there reposed several shillings. The unconscious collector had certainly done “his good deed for the day,” and his young owner is justly proud of the fact that “Tiger’s” donation is now recorded in the list of patriotic funds.

“Some men have gone before the Armed Services Appeal boards with medical certificates stating that they might die at any time,” said Mr A. Best, of the Primary Production Council, at a conference on the man-power situation on the farms, held at Pukekohe last Tuesday. There was a general laugh around the conference when the chairman, Mr J. N. Massey, M.P., interjected; “Why, that applies to me, or to any of you.” After the laughter had died down, Mr Best added: “One man did get off that way, and is now running three farms, which are returning him the profits of three producers. ’ ’