Closing of Dannevirke Camp.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 203, 29 July 1941, Page 4

Closing of Dannevirke Camp.

According to a Hawke’s Bay report, it is understood that the Territorial camp at Dsinnevrke. which has keen in existence since October last, will be closed next month and the men will he transferred to Waiouru Camp. National Savings.

.Receipts totalling £2,209,260 are shown in the latest figures released by the National Savings CommTttee. Of this sum £936,585 has been received from the sale of national savings bonds and £1,332.675 represents deposits in national savings accounts. Patriotic Costume Display. The sum of £22 5s will be handed over to the Patriotic Fund as a result of the display of gowns worn by cinema stars, at the premises of Messrs Collinsnn and C'unninghame, Ltd., by whose ;generosity the exhibition, which lasted for a week, was made possible. Supplies of Wire.

A contradiction of a witness’s statement in the Hamilton Police (oiirt. during the hearing of a claim tor damages, that wire for fencing was difficult to obtain was made by Mr AY. H. Freeman, S.M. “There is a great quantity of wire and also piping in the country,” said Mr Freeman. “One sees it lying at numerous stations and stores;”

Hawke’s Bay Soaked. The Hawke’s Bay countryside received a good soaking on Sunday night and Monday morning wn.en heavy rain fell. Small creeks were swollen and a great deal of surface water lay about yesterday. In the central Hawke’s Bay area, the coldest snap of the winter has been experienced in the past few days. An inch of rain fell on Sunday night and some of the low country was flooded. Duke’s Pyjamas as Prize. (Social service workers in a little town in Wales where the depression was being felt very much made an appeal for clothing for the unfortunate people and. according to Miss Mary (ireenwell, in an address at the annual meeting of the Y.W.C.A., last evening, among the clothing sent was a pair of pyjamas with the Duke of Kent’s name on them. The opportunity was too good to miss, so they were raffled and brought in quite a good sum.

Earned £32 in Fortnight. A waterside worker who earned £ls 5s Sd last week, £l7 in the preceding, and who had averaged more than £lO a week for the past six weeks, was an appellant on the grounds of public interest before the No. 4 Armed Forces Appeal Hoard in Wellington yesterday. He was a freezer worker. David Stewart. lie said, after detailing his re-j cent earnings, that he received 3s 4d an hour ordinary rate, 4s 9d lor work between 6 p.m. and 10 p.in., and 7s (Jd an hour for Sunday work. He had worked'nearly every day for the past six weeks, including Sunday and at night, up to 13 hours daily. Pohangina River Bridge. About three-quarters of the number of piles for the new bridge across the Pohangina. River at Ashhurst, to link the main highway with the new route across the Ruahinc Ranges, have now been driven and three spans of the nine have been completed. Very hard driving for the piles has been experienced and progress was considerably retarded bv the Hood in May, in which a good deal of timber was lost. Staging was also considerably damaged and the derrick used for pile-driving was smashed. The contractor lias available nil the material required and there will he no delays on account of lack of reinforcing steel or other such equipment.

Collection for Leper Mission. ltotarians in Palmerston North, in company with others who belong to this international movement, have, through the activities of the club’s ser-geant-at-arms, the privilege of contributing to worthy causes by way of “fines.” These are inf posed fpr all manner of “offences.” varying from wearing some other member’s badge to happenings of good fortune in which the sergeant thinks less fortunate people should share. At the weekly gathering of the club, yesterday, the “fines” so collected were given to the Mission for Lepers, in view of the fact that the Dominion secretary of the mission, Rev. F. A. Thompson, was to address the club that day. The sergeant-at-arms had a full list of “offences,” including one which referred to a good dividend paid at a recent race meeting, and then all those who had not been dealt with were asked to contribute a small sum. The total was appreciable for a gathering of that size.