News Of The Day

Northern Advocate, 12 May 1939, Page 4

News Of The Day

British Defence. A reminder of the thoroughness of the British Government in its defence policy has been received by many officers on British overseas vessels at present in New Zealand waters. An officer on the Waiwera, which left Lyttelton this week for London, said that while he had been in New Zealand he had received from the British Government a request for £8 for the purchase of an air raid shelter for his wife and children, who live in a London suburb. “I shall have to make my two sons start digging a hole in my back lawn when I return home,” he said. * * * Centennial Director. With the object of furthering preparations in connection with the Centennial celebrations, members of committees throughout Northland met Mr J. W. Heenan, Mr A. W. Mulligan, Mr W. S. Wauchop (National Director of Centennial Pageantry), Mr B. C, Ashwin (Secretary to the Treasury, Wellington), and the Mayor of Whangarei, Mr W. Jones. Mr K. Hayr, organiser of the Northland committee, arrived at Dargaville last evening, contacting with the committees at Warkworth and Paparoa en route. The party left for Kaikohe this morning, and will attend the provincial executive meetings at W&angarei on Saturday with the Mayor of Auckland, Sir Ernest Davis.

A meeting of the Pataua Picnic Sports Club will be held in the Parua Bay Hotel tomorrow night at 8 o’clock. The date advertised in error in Wednesday’s paper was May 6th. 61

Life Insurance is the one investment that keeps its promise in good times and bad. It will not fail you. Information gladly given by Neal Armit, A.M.P. Society, Whangarei. Al 4.

Otago Wool Cheque. The Otago wool cheque for the four major sales of the season was £1,294,163, as against £1,364,859 for the previous season. # * * Free Concerts For Kensington Residents. Residents in the vicinity of Kensington Park are being given free musical revues while the Composite Regiment is encamped there. Shortly after reveille was sounded yesterday morning (5.45 a.m.), the regiment’s band struck up a variety of tunes, while throughout the day the sound of instruments could be heard in all parts of the locality. Although some residents were awakened by the early morning musicale the majority lay in bed enjoying the music as it came to them through the clear atmosphere of sunrise, * * * Cold Temperatures. Low temperatures are being experienced in the Kaikohe district, and the cold is retarding the growth of late feed. It was hoped by farmers throughout the Bay that after the recent hot spell the crops would be given a chance to come away, but the growth which had become quite noticeable during the last two or thrbe weeks is now being hampered.

C Grade Salary Bar. The declaration that if justice | metant anything at all, there was urgent need for the immediate and retrospective removal of the C grade salary bar, was made by the president of the New Zealand Secondary Schools Assistants’ Association, Mr H. A. Heron, Wellington, in his 'address at the annual meeting of the association yesterday. “When we consider the great improvement in the attitude toward education and teachers which has accompanied the accession to office of the present Government,” Mr Heron said, “it becomes all the more difficult to understand how there has been tolerated for so long such a piece of flagrant injustice and discrimination as that produced by the remvhal of the C grade salary bar in technical and combined schools without a similar removal in the secondary service.”