General News

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 1 July 1943, Page 4

General News

Consignment of Potatoes Under the Potatoes (Transportation) Order, 1943, no potatoes grown in the South Island may be consigned for delivery at Wellington except by a member of the New Zealand Grain, Seed and Produce Merchants’ Federation. Don McKenzie Memorial Hall The Don McKenzie Memorial Hall at Epsom road, Sockburn, has been presented to the Methodist Church of New Zealand by Mr and Mrs J. R. McKenzie in memory of their son, L/Ac. Don McKenzie, who was killed on a training flight in the Dominion. The hall is built on a section given by Mrs Treherne Hill in memory of her husband. After being dedicated by the Rev. C. H. Olds, president of the Methodist Church of New Zealand, the hall was opened on Saturday by Mr H. B. Duckworth. Physical, spiritual, and social activities are provided for in the amenities of the hall, which include gymnasium equipment. Memorial tablets were unveiled on Sunday. Forty scholars have been enrolled in the new Sunday School formed. Engineers of the 8.8. U. The work of the engineers and their assistants, without whom there could not be a 8.8 C., is described in the 8.8. C. Year Book for 1943. As Sir Noel Ashbridge, their controller, points out in his opening sentence, “If one may judge from remarks one frequently hears, it almost seems that many people imagine the 8.8. C. staff to be mainly composed of announcers. ...” Sir Noel recalls that just before the ■ war there were 1,300 men, largely train- 1 ed engineers, employed all over the country in the Engineering Division alone. With the vast expansion of the 1 Overseas and European Services transmitter hours have increased nearly six- 1 fold, and to-day the Engineering Divi- 1 sion numbers more than 3,000. No fewer than 417 8.8. C. peacetime engineers are serving in the Forces. Many women are now employed in the Engineering Division, and Sir Noel notes that 1 they are employed on practically i every type of apparatus calling for : duties of an operational nature. Children's fleecy lined Bodices, limited quantity only. To fit ages 2 to 13. Priced from 2/11 to 4/6. Coupons. McKay's.* Children's Cotton Interlock Panties Green and Brown, 20in, 5/3. Peach,' « Green and Cream, 22in, 5/6. Interlock Bloomers, Cream only, 20in, 5/6, 22in 5/9. 2 coupons. McKay’s.* Friday Specials! Millinery Reductions, 9/11 to 25/6. Frocks from 59/6. Coats from 84/-. —McKay’s.*

h Soil Conservation II Soil erosion and conservation are discussed in the latest New Zealand Army Current Affairs Bulletin issued “ for the benefit of soldiers by the Army u Education and Welfare Service. The [ bulletin, which is called “Defending Our Soil” has been written by Mr K. B. Cumberland, lecturer in geography e at Canterbury University College, ti Vital Statistics Vital statistics in Nelson for the J month of June were as follows, the e figures for the corresponding month t last year being given in parentheses: Deaths, 26 <25); births, 27 (35); marriages, 5 (10). The total figures for the D last six months show a decrease of e over JO in the number of births in Nel- _ son as compared with the number for the corresponding six-monthly period last year. The total figures were r as follows (1942 figures in parentheses): 1 Deaths, 126 (113); births, 153 (215); g marriages, 47 (58). - Embassy Martyrs i During his recent visit to Washington x Mr Churchill received a very heavy "fan” mail from American admirers. - Prominent amongst the many hundreds - of gifts were boxes of cigars and cakes of chocolate. These the Secret Service did not permit him to enjoy until they ! had been examined for poison or ex- . plosives. As a result the British Embassy staff spent a considerable time puffing dollar cigars, careless of whether they blew up in their laces, and munching confections which proved more dangerous to their figures than to B their stomachs. Skis lor Oran } The remarkable secrecy with which l the plans for the Allied landings in ! North Africa were preserved is emphasised in a letter from a British officer 1 who acted as liaison officer with the • United States forces. He mentions that . a newspaper correspondent who went with the landing force to Oran was so sure of the "inside information” that he 1 had gathered that he took with him a t pair of skis. What use he found for j them in North Africa is not recorded. - Tribute to New Zealanders ; “Perhaps the most outstanding fea- ’ ture of the year under review has been the spread of the war in the Pacific,” l said Viscount Hampden, speaking at . the National Mortgage Company’s meeting in London "Happily, however, the situation has now improved, and it is ■ hoped will continue to do so. I cannot . conclude my remarks,” he said, "with- . out paying the highest possible tribute to the men of the New Zealand Forces, - °n land, on sea, and in the air for i their gallant and effective services to the Empire They well deserve the , outstanding reputation they have gain- : ed ” , Paua Shell Jewellery For the training of disabled men in 1 the manufacture of paua shell jewel- ■ lery, a new workshop was opened in . Wellington during the past year by the t Disabled Servicemen's Re-establishment League. Four men are being trained ’ by a competent instructor in this craft, i It is intended not only to supply New ! Zealand requirements, but also to build [ U P an export trade to America after } the war. [ Artificial Limbs for Soldiers . The Rehabilitation Board has acquir- , ed a business dealing with the manufacture of artificial limbs, and has handed • this activity over to the Disabled Serl vicemen’s Re-establishment League. i Manufacturing will be carried out in i the training centre now nearing completion for the Wellington branch of the league, and a number of limbless ’ men from the present war will be train- ■ ed in this work. 1 Proposed Gift Book Her Excellency Lady Newali pro- j ! poses to publish a gift book under her • name to in raising funds for the ; All Purposes Fund of the National Pa- , triotic Board. At Lady Newall’s re- ' quest, the New Zealand centre of the ' P.E.N. has undertaken to produce the > hook, which will comprise contributions in prose and verso by New Zealand j authors only. “I Prefer T« Be Here” A contribution to the discussion , about the future of the 2nd New Zealand Division is contained in a recent ! letter from a Dunedin soldier now serving in the Middle East, states the "Otago Daily Times.” “You still worry about some funny things at home,” he writes, "and I can’t help feeling that one of the funniest—if you like tragi-comedy—is the. flow of crocodile tears from the eyes of the politicians about the tired soldiers in Egypt. I doubt whether there’s a man over here who isn’t tired of the whole country and the whole war, but at the same time not more than a handful of them have even the faintest desire to go back to some killing garrison job in New Zealand or the Islands, even if the bait is a few weeks' leave at home. Consider the position of men in our own brigade who have spent practically nine months changing over from infantry—a wearing nine months at that, in spite of plenty of leave and reasonable amenities. They would infinitely prefer to try themselves .out in their new medium, rather than limp home in tile category of worn out veterans. And there’s no heroics about that either. Mind you, I have my doubts in my own case, but I do know that as long as I am in the Army I prefer to be here, or wherever the next stop is, to carrying on among the khaki-clad hordes at home. And the reason is the Army itself. ’ One thing it possesses above all others—consistency, a hoggish, purblind consistency, which I feel I can cope with better here than ever I could at home.” Wool Combinations. Short sleeves. Wm’s. and O.S. 25/9. 26/3, 27/3, no sleeves. Wm’s. 20/6, O.S. 21/9. Long sleeves, O.S. only. 28/3. Cotton Interlock with short sleeves, W. 12/6, O.S. 3 3/-, X.O.S. 14/6. 4 coupons. McKay’s.*