Interest-Free Loans.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 153, 31 May 1941, Page 6

Interest-Free Loans.

Interest-free loans and donations to the War Expenses Fund now total £2.685.179. More State Houses. Mr J. Hodgens. M.P., lias received advice from the Minister ol Housing (Hon. H. T. Armstrong) that his department is callin'; tenders for a further nine units in Palmerston North. Oath of Loyalty. The iollowin" resolution was adopt- j od at the annual conference in Wellington yesterday of the New Zealand j Returned Soldiers’ Association: “That; all persons refusin'; to affirm their loyalty to the Crown should ho debarred from employment in public ser-' vices, and all employees at present in ■Such services refusing to affirm their j loyalty he dispensed with immediately.” | Miners and the War. Speaking at the annual conferenfo j of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association in Wellington yesterday. ; l)r. A. W. Owen-Johuston (Invercar-j gill) said his association was concern-, i'd with the fact that as the mining in- I dustrv was now virtually protected, j men who had not previously been cn- I gaged in it had taken employment in I mines since the war. Miners whose sons j had volunteered for overseas were also j concerned at this aspect.

R.S.A. And Land Settlement. Recommendations on land settlement came before the annual conference of the New Zealand R.S.A., yesterday, those adopted including the following: “The provision for taking land under the idraall Farms Amendment Act, 1940, is a distinct departure from any previous legislation and in its present, form is an infringement of the liberties at present enjoyed by the people. In view of this the New Zealand R.S.A. recommends that the provisions of the Lands for Settlement Act, J 925, for the acquisition of and compensation for lands he applied when acquiring land for discharged soldier settlement.” General Medical Scheme.

' A hint of the possibility of interest- | (ling legislative developments in cornice-; ! I tion with tlie general practitioner scheme under tile Social Security Act! after the Parliamentary session opens 1 was given in an interview to the j i official Labour paper, by the Minister | of Health (lion. A. H. Nordmeyer). The Minister declined to indicate what | proposals he had in mind for speeding ; up the general application of the , scheme, but he said he was well aware ! . of the feeling of disappointment! among the public that the Government! had not yet been successful in securing the co-operation of a large section of the medical profession. It should surely lie obvious, he added that the Government had no power under the existing law to do any more than had been done, but there might be some interesting developments after Parliament resumed next month. "Tank” For Home Guard. A realistic model of a tank which j has been constructed by the specialist I unit of the Palmerston North Home Guard attracted a good deal of interest when it paraded through the streetsj of the city yesterday and to-day. Its appearance in the Square was in connection with the recruiting drive for the organisation.! On Monday it will take part in the j manoeuvres of the Northern Battalion at Fox to n Beach, and its career will terminate when it will be blown up In; I a land mine as a highlight of the day’s exercises. Designed b.v Mr Bernard Cox, its construction was supervised |>v ! Platoon-Commander Lawson assisted! by Pintoon-Cohiinnndor Chapman, and j < Unit-Commander J). Honore is the j' engineer and driver. The building of! i tho tank was in charge of Mr I{.! . Procter and Mr M. Matthews. Com-J pany-Commander Hooper lias arranged < for reconnaissance exercises during | the week-end in which six Air Force : planes will participate, and on Monday ; about 200 members will carry outjc exercises at Manawatu Heads. Unit- j \ Commander Honore has provided a rifle I s range for the Linton platoon o.u his j t property near Kahuterawa Bridge. j t

National Government. The Mid-Canterbury conference of the Farmers’ Union caried unanimously without discussion a remit that the union make representations with a view to the formation of a National Government.— ; Press Association. Speedier War Work. “That the New Zealand R.S.A. urgently press tor a speeding up of Now Zealand’s war effort and insist that legislation to promoted to enable war work to ho carried out by working hours in excess of the standard week.” —One of the resolutions carried at the annual conference of the R.S.A. yesterday. Missing Scow. Under instructions from the Marine Department, the motor-vessel Tamatea left Bluff to-day to search for the scow liorouta, which is now considerably overdue. The scow left Bluff on Wednesday of last week for the Mutton Bird Islands and has not been seen or heard since.—Press Association,.