Fined for Failing to Enrol

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 122, 24 May 1941, Page 6

Fined for Failing to Enrol

Failing to appear to answer a charge of neglecting, when a member of the first division under the National Service Regulations, to apply for enrolment, Richard William Roberts, aged 27, single, was fined £l2 and costs at the Whangarei Court yesterday.

Everybody Tagged. The system that has been adopted in Britain to identify air raid victims and to restrict fifth column activity is likely to bo adopted in New Zealand, according to Mr. J. S. Hoar, who has just returned to New Zealand from a visit to England. Everybody iu Britain, said Mr. Hoar, had to be on the national register and carry an identification band on the wrist. This procedure was compulsory, and anyone who could not produce an identification number when requested to do so was in serious trouble. Even babies had to be tagged in the event of the parents being killed. Mr. Hoar said that he had explained the system to the authorities when he arrived in Wellington, and it was stated that a similar scheme would be adopted in New Zealand. Index to Mollusca of World.

Begun as a spare time occupation ten years ago, a systematic index to mollusca of the world by Mr. A. W. B. Powell, assistant-director at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, has now

come to the stage of giving a return in easy and quick reference in his research. This information is contained in the report of the director, Mr. Gilbert Archer, at a meeting of the Auckland Institute and Museum Council. So far Mr. Powell’s index is 100 per cent, complete for the New Zealand recent and fossil mollusca, and about 98 per cent, for molluscan genera of the world. Customary inquiries have been answered, and this month included an investigation for a clothing factory, in which the stock had become infested with moths. Out-of-date Rivalry.

“Even in the short time I have been in this Dominion, I have frequently been struck by the rivalry that exists between the various localities,” said the Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newali, when speaking at a combined patriotic societies’ luncheon in Auckland. The responsive laughter that followed caused His Excellency to remark: “1 see you are conscious of that rivalry.” To a certain extent rivalry was excellent, he aded, for it acted as a spur to further endeavours, but it must be broadminded or it degenerated into jealousy and became unhealthy. Ths geographical features of New Zealand ( no doubt gave the historical cxplana- , tion of this rivalry, but scientific progress had broken these barriers down and some of the rivalry that, remained was as out of date as the stage ooacli.