Conserving Electricity.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 177, 28 June 1941, Page 6

Conserving Electricity.

In order to conserve electricity the Hamilton Borough Council has restricted the use of electric advertising signs. Six Soldier Sons. Mrs E. Thompson, of Macroa, Waikato, has six soldier sons on active service and all have reported themselves safe and well. Collection of Bottles.

Though a campaign lor the collection of bottles began only on Wednesday, already approximately halt a million bottles, liasks, jars, and other glass containers have been collected by the school children of Wellington and suburbs. A Nazi “Cow.”

The German radio, referring to a recent bombing raid by the R.A.F., said no damage had been done and only a cow had been killed. The Moscow radio, referring to-day to the German report, said: “It must have been some cow, as it burned for three days!”

Prisoners of War. The .Acting-Prime Minister announced last, night that the Government had received further information concerning prisoners of war. Next-of-kin. would be advised immediately ol all the names which had come to hand, and a list would appear in the newspapers on Monday.

Clergyman's Benefactions. Anglican organisations and the St. John Ambulance Association in Auckland will benefit under the will of the late Rev. W. 11. W. Rattray, vicar of Point Chevalier. The amount that will ultimately become available for distribution in these legacies is estimated at between £BOOO and £IO,OOO.

Sport In the Snow. About 30 ski-ing enthusiasts from Palmerston North left at midnight lor Tongariro National Park by the first of this season’s special week-end “snow” trains. The train, which leaves from Wellington, was hooked out last Tuesday and consequently a number of local enthusiasts were unable to obtain seats. Conditions for ski-ing at National Park at present arc reported to be very good. Beekeepers’ Association. Appreciation of the services of Mr E. A. Eield, ol Eoxton, during his two years as president of the New Zealand National Beekeepers’ Association, was voiced by delegates at the annual conference in Wellington. He was unanimously re-elected president for the ensuing year. Mr W. -J. Lennon, Central Otago, was elected vicepresident, and the new executive committee comprises Messrs J. R. Barber, Auckland; E. I). Holt, Waikato; T. E. Penrose, Canterbury; and H. H. Hamilton, North Otago. Prisoner in France.

Advice lias been received that Air Oliver S. Walker, chief engineer of tlie steamer Mainioa. sunk by a German raider of vile Australian coast in November, has been interned in France for the past five months, Jn a letter to his wife, who lives at Ilford, Essex. he stated lie was m good health. Mr Walker was formerly chief engineer of the steamer Tairoa. which was sunk by the Admiral Graf Spec in 19159. He was taken prisoner, but was released when the pocketbattleship put into Montevideo during the River Plate engagement. “Bled to Death.”

He was a Boy Scout and his good turn for the day was to act as patient for one of the ambulance classes held regularly in Christchurch. B'lf when he reported for duty he found the classroom deserted. Undaunted, ho climbed into hod and protended to look like a person who has a sever hoemorrhage. That was what the card above his lied said ho was suffering iroin. After an interminable wait the patient realised that lie had mistaken the night of the class, but he compensated himself for a wasted evening by inscribing on the card the following message to his would-be benefactors: “Bled to death; gone home.”

Interest In Raid Victims. As showing how interest in rescue w*rk 111 the bombed areas of Britain leads to similarity of views, held by people thousands of miles apart, on melliods to prevent loss ol life, a reader has forwarded to. the “Manawat.i “Standard” a copy °f tho Bondon Daily Mirror of January, 1941, in which a woman resident of Surrey suggests that every person should carry round his neck a whistle on a chain, tho whistle to he blown should the owner be caught in the debris of buildings shattered by bombs. The suggestion is described by the Daily Mirror as a good one and had been made before in its columns. As already reported. a somewhat similar suggestion has been ljccn put forward by Mr 11. H. Blake, of Palmerston North.