LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23994, 18 June 1941, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

School's Fine Effort In a special one-dav effort for patriotic purposes, the teaching staff and pupils of Gladstone school, Mount Albert, raised £93. Half of this amount was donated to the Fighting Forces fund and half to the Mount Albert Inter-zone Patriotic Fund.

Titirangi Road Traffic All traffic has been diverted temporarily from the portion of Titirangi Road immediately above its junction with Great North Road, in order to allow resurfacing to be carried out on and near the level crossing which has been replaced by the new overhead railway bridge. Tho alternative route from the city is by Matai Avenue, just below tho New Lynn station, afid Margan Avenue.

Domain Military Hospital No further word has been received by the Auckland Hospital Board about when the now military hospital in tho Domain will be ready for occupation. Mr. Allan J. Moody, chairman of tho board, said last night that a good many of the beds had been installed, and other necessary work done, but tho paths were not ready. Ho had been given no indication of when the building would officially be handed over to the board.

Married Men Register Large numbers of married men in tho second division of the general reserve registered for service yesterday, with the result that the supplies of enrolment forms in some suburban post offices wero exhausted early in the day. Tho second division consists of married men who are natural-born British subjects other than Maoris, whose ages riingo between 18 and 45 years, both inclusive. Those from 21 to 40 years of age only, as with single men, will bo balloted for overseas service. Okahu Bay Facilities Tho popularity of Okahu Ray next summer should be increased by the construction of two bathing sheds to be built for tho Auckland Harbour Board at an estimated cost of £3278. Work on tho sheds, which will bo made of brick, will probably begin next week. Tho design has been approved by the townplanning authorities and tho buildings, to be erected on ground between the waterfront road and the beach, will moot the needs of the increasing number of residents in tho vicinity of Okahu Bay. Ambulance Church Parade Owing to the large increase in membership brought about by the war, it is expected that there will be an attendance of over 1000 at, the annual church parade of the St. John Ambulance Association and Brigade, which is to be held in St. Marv's Cathedral on Sunday afternoon. Tho Commissioner, Mr. K. J. Hutchinson, will bo in command. The preacher at tho service will bo Archbishop Averill, and the collection is to bo in aid of the ophthalmic hospital maintained in Jerusalem by the Venerable Order of St. John. Air Raid Heroes "Coming up tho street, I saw two squads of men in tin hats and rescue squad uniforms," says a resident of Birmingham in a letter discussing a walk on the evening after a big raid. " 'Black-out time,' I thought, 'and they arc just going on duty. But how queerly they walk. They cannot be drunk; but why is that man swavingp' As they came nearer, I saw their faces, and never shall I forget them. Yellow faces with big eyes ringed with black. They were trying to keep their ranks and to march across to tho liro station opposite, but they were toy utterly blind with smoke and fatigue to walk in step. Then I realised that these men bad been on duty ever since the raid began the night before—22 hours of digging trapped people p.nd mangled bodies out of the debris, toiling and digging to save people trapped in fires."