LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23997, 21 June 1941, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Third Successive Frost For the third morning in succession, a frost occurred in Hamilton yesterday, the reading being seven degrees, and at Ruakura 4.4 degrees. Brilliant sunsliino prevailed during the day, but conditions were cold. Overseas Mail Lost The Post Office notifies, that a small mail consisting of one bap; of letters from Great Britain and routed by surface mail across the Atlantic and by air mail across the Pacific has been lost through enemy action. The approximate dates of posting are March 13-15.

Next Week's Ballot List Names of men called up for territorial service in "the eighth ballot- will he gazetted next Tuesday. I lie 11,10b single men drawn include the first 18-year-olds to lie called up in the present war, together with men of 19 and 41 who have readied these ages since the last ballot was drawn. Auckland area men included number 1913, those from the I'aeroa area 612, with 375 from Whangarei and 614 from Hamilton.

Carnegie Music Gift A music set comprising /in electric gramophone and 610 records, all catalogued, and covering the field of music of many nations, has been presented to the Auckland Training College by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. It is proposed to make use of the gift as widely as possible and a series of recitals is to be given to the public on 'Sundays from 4 to 5 p.m. Later it is hoped to use the set for school purposes once or twice a year. Parade in City A parade of Expeditionary Force soldiers will be held in the city to-day. starting at 11.12 from the Park Road entrance to the Domain. The route will be Grafton Bridge, Karanua-

hape Road, Queen Street and Customs Street Mast to the railway station. All trnffie will be suspended from 11.10 to noon along this route and also from Grafton Bridge to Welles ley Street Kast and thence to Queen Street. The

troops will entrain for Papakura military camp immediately after the parade hut the camp will be open to visitors both to-day and to-morrow from 2 until I.HO p.m. Home Guard Expenses

The statement that he had received accounts for expenditure by Home Guard units which the council had not previously agreed to pay was made by the acting-county clerk, Mr. E. G. Fuller, at a meeting of the Wnitemata County Council yesterday. The council decided to adhere to its previous decision not to be responsible for Home Guard expenses after March 31, 1941. It would defray organisation expenses up to that date. At a previous meeting it was decided to grant £3O toward the expenses in transporting men to the Home Guard parade at the Domain in April and that grant would stand.

A Satisfactory Visit Much satisfaction with his brief Now Zealand visit and the courtesies and co-operation he had everywhere received was expressed yesterday by Major-Gneral W. C. Holden, D.5.0., M.C., who had just returned from Wellington. General Holden holds the office of Controller-General of Army Provision, Eastern Group, and ho has been conferring for the past few days with the acting-Prime Minister, the Hon. W. Nash, members of the Cabinet

and with the military authorities. The main subjects of discussion, he said, were procedure by which New Zealand supplies will reach the forces in the Eastern theatres of war and ways of providing for New Zealand forces overseas. He expressed much pleasure that he had been able to visit Rotorua on his way back and to see something of the boautiea o| Now Zealand Bconerj?,