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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 6 December 1940, Page 8

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WHANGAREI RACES Kensington Hack Handicap.—3-t Verulam, 8.2, 1; 1-1 Rara Avis, 8.0, 2; 11-9 Lady Acushla, 7.7, 3 Also started: Pasture, Expellant, Judgment. Korotangi, Fairfield, Agog, Mis.' Valerie, Won by half n ength; length and a half. Tim.e I.lk SOLDIERS INVALIDED HOME AUCKLAND, This Day. Seventeen soldiers invalided horn•'ro'n overseas arrived at Auckland 1.0-day in a special railway sleep in; :ajr. They were met by relatives, friends and representatives of th.* Army Department. The army pro vided transport to their homes anci three who were travelling to Whangarei were given a meal at the station restaurant. The men are being discharged from the army, but will be given hospital or other treatmen as required. WOMEN AND MINISTER’S ADVICE WELLINGTON, This Day. Women’s fashions are quite obviously not governed by speeches ori the floor of Paraliament. The buying cf gUk stocking? in Wellington has not reached a stage of panic, bu* the majority of stores are experiencing a definite run. Rationing has been resorted to by some stores for a considerable time past, because of th i complete prohibition of overseas supplies and the added fact that locaL factories are unable to fill requirements. With regard to the Minister’s advice to wear woollen stockings, a shopman said: “It seems absurd the Minister to ask women to wear* cashmere when he has almost rro hibited their entry into the country and local factories are either unabl » cr too busy with other work to make them. Our factories have not tfut adequate plant and cannot get yarn. How then are women to take the Minister’s advice?” AIRMAN KILLED AT NEW PLYMOUTH WELLINGTON, This Day It was officially announced tc-da r that an airman pilot under training, Leading Aircraftsman Maurice Sydley Best, of Bombay, Auckland, war silled instantly at about 11 o’clock this morning when struck by an alr:raft approaching the aerodrome at the Air Force station at New Ply nouth. Best was walking along tht ooundary of the aerodrome in company with another airman pilot under training when an aircraft which hod been engaged in training exercises :ame in at a low altitude. Deceased was apparently struck by a wheel o*' the aircraft and killed instantly. The aircraft was slightly damaged, but neither the occupants nof the com-