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Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 60, 12 March 1943, Page 4

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Mr. and Mrs. Dawbiu, of Kopane, havo received word that their son, W. 11. I. Dawbin, has been awarded the Slrirtcliffe Research Scholarship. Mr. W. O. Young, of Palmerston North, has bcon admitted to membership of the New Zealand Society of Accountants with the status of A.R.A.N.Z. (associate registered accountant). Mr. Laurence Binyon, the well-known author and poet, has died at the ago oi 73, says a London report. 110 was per haps best known by his poem “For the Fallen”, containing the famous lines which began: “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; age shall not weary: them nor the years condemn.” Private advice has been received that Lieut. D. A. R. Moloney, the former New Zealand cricket captain who was .previously reported missing and wounded, was killed in action on July 15, 1912. Aged 32, ho was a son of Mrs Moloney and the late John Moloney, of Dunedin. He captained New Zealand against Julicn Calm’s eleven and represented Otago, Wellington v and Manawatu at cricket, lie went to England with the New Zealand team in 1937, being one of the most sucessful bowlers, averaging 34.53 for 46 innings and taking 57 wickets. The death occurred in Gisborne of Mr. William Barrington Miller, one of Gisborne’s best-known citizens. He was chairman of the management committee of the Poverty Bay Rugby Union foi many years, and occupied seats on several local bodies. He early developed a keen interest in theatrical matters. Mr. Miller acquired an interest in His Majesty’s Theatre, Gisborne, and then turned his attention to Dunedin. He then went farther afield, and secured a substantial interest in the Greater J. D. Williams Pictures, Ltd., of Australia, and took a leading part in the stormy period of that company. Later, Mr. Miller took up his residence in England for many years, but retained contact with his interests in New Zealand by frequent visits to the Dominion. About a year ago he returned to Gisborne, but on the voyage from England had a fall which affected his eyesight, and his health since his return had not been good. “Trammics” Come and Go “Traimnies,” as women tram-conduc-tors in Wellington are called for short, differ in stamina and character as do their male comrades in the service. Young women applying for jobs on the trams arc usually enthusiastic, both in learning the duties and performing

them, for the first month or two, after which with the novelty of the new employment worn off, they are not quite so zealous. At present, the department would do with another 25 women of the right type, but they are becoming increasingly hard to secure. Minco the beginning of the new year, somo IS women have been initiated into the duties of tram-conducting, but 27 have given the job up. New Zealand Girls in Industry “In England girls are not only doing canistry work, but are engaged on practically every type of machinery,” said Mr. A. N. Haggitt during the hearing of an uppeal before an Armeci Forces Appeal Board in Dunedin. When the co-appellant, stated that girls would bo unsuitable for canistry work, Mr. Haggitt commented that ono heard over and over again that New Zealand girls could not be employed in certain avenues of work. “Does this mean that our girls are not capable of doing' what their sisters in England are doing?” he asked. The co-appellant replied that the trouble was that employers were not permitted to engage girls for certain work. If this country was bombed, however, people would no doubt do many things they could not do how.