NEWS OF THE DAY

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 121, 23 May 1941, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

Aircraft Crash at Kairanga An aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force —crashed at Kairanga yesterday morning and suffered severe damage. The two occupants were uninjured. Board’s New Power Authority to order reservists to join the Home Guard has been given to chairmen of the Armed Forces Appeal Boards which consider appeals against overseas service. During the present sittings of the board in Palmerston North several reservists whose appeals have been adjourned have been ordered to join the Home Guard, or, if they are members, to remain in that organisation. “It Was a Famous ‘Victory’!" In view of recent events, the following extract from “The Times" of March 2, 1936, while the ItaloAbyssinian war was in progress, makes interesting reading: “With the capture of Amba Alagi and the planting of the Italian flag on the summit of the plateau, where Major Pietro Toselli met disaster in 1896, all the territory which was occupied by the Italians before their defeat at Adowa in that year has now been regained. Rome has given itself up to rejoicing, with torchlight processions. The newspapers announced the victory in enormous type." Shitting Deer and Few Birds A shifting of wapiti deer from the Pitt River area of the Fiord National Park (Southland) is reported by Mr. E. J. Herrick, of Hawke's Bay, who made a hunting trip there recently. Where he had formerly seen 22 wapiti he did not see one this yeai. “Having visited different sounds for the last 17 years, I was struck by the absence of bird life. We saw in all only four wekas and heard one kiwi, whereas both these birds used to be very numerous. But what we did see, at an elevation of about 4000 ft. in the snow, were the footprints of two separate stoats or weasels, which, as you know, are death to bird life.'' Lady Galway Guild

The question of changing the name of the New Zealand Lady Galway Guild was raised by Mr. E. llazlett at a meeting of the Otago Provincial Patriotic Council. Mr. Hazlett said he thought the guiid should be distinctively associated with New Zealand and that the present title should be changed to the New Zealand Ladies’ Guild. The speaker said that he hoped that when fcho Mayor of Dunedin (Mr. A. H. Allen) and Mr. J. J. Marlow went to Wellington shortly in connection with patriotic work they would bring this matter up. Mr. Hazlett, whose remarks appeared to meet with general approval, added that the guild was connected solely with patriotic women workers of New Zealand, and it should have a title which would make this perfectly clear.