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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24302, 17 June 1942, Page 2

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MANILA GARRISONS GENERAL HURLEY'S TASK (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday The full story of tho three months' heroic resistance which kept the .Japanese out of Corregidor and other fortresses in Manila Bay appears in American newspapers just received. It is made clear that tho garrisons were enabled to hold out for so long against overwhelming odds as tho result of tho supply services organised hv Brigadier-General P. J. Hurley, who was given this task before he could take up his appointment as United States Minister to New Zealand. The news to hand explains the delay in his arrival in tho Dominion. After the fall of Corregidor last April, the United States Secretary of War, Mr. Stimson, disclosed that, on January 11, tho American officers who had set up their base in Australia were assigned, as part of their duty, an attempt to break the Japanese blockade of the Philippines. "To make sure that special efforts were put into tho task," continues Mr. Stim,son's statement, "a former Secretary of War. Brigadier-General Hurley, was put in charge. He was very successful. He secured several shiploads of supplies, which he got into the Philippines. Part of this reached Corregidor, but for every ship that arrived we lost nearly two ships. "I am glad to say," concluded Mr. Stimson, "that the defenders were never short of ammunition owing to these efforts. Up to the last word from them they had plenty of small arms and artillery ammunition." MOTOR-CYCLIST KILLED COLLISION WITH LORRY (O.O.) T AURA NO A, Tuesday Colliding with a lorry on the main highway on tho Tauranga side of Kaimai yesterday morning, a motor-cyclist, Mr, Jacob Ormsby, married, aged 41, a Public Works Department employee, of Lower Kaimai, received head injuries and died almost immediately. He is survived by his wife and nine children.

WATERFRONT UNION FILLING SIXTY VACANCIES To fill vacancies in the Auckland Waterside Workers' Union 60 new admissions are to be made this week, the work of interviewing tho men being now in progress. They are selected from the number who applied for admission to the union through the Waterfront Control Commission, and they will have to be approved by the commission before being finally accepted. _ It was earlier stated that the majority of the men who applied to join the union when its ranks were opened were unsuitable, either because they were already _ in essential work or because of infirmity.

LICENSING BREACH SERVICE BY WOMAN PORTER (P.A.) HASTINGS, Tuesday A conviction was entered against George Deakin, licensee of tho Hastings Hotel, by Mr. Miller, S.M., when he delivered his reserved decision in Hastings to-dav in the case in which Deakin was charged with permitting a woman not registered as a barmaid to serve in or about a private bar when it was open for the sale of liquor. As it was a test case, no penalty was entered. Tho primary object of the law, said tho magistrate, was the abolition of the professional barmaid and a secondary object the prohibition of female service in or about a bar. Even if a. slide in the bar was used only for handing out liquor to a woman porter for delivery in the lounge there was an infringement against the secondary object, but not against tho first.

SIX SUCCESSIVE FROSTS (0.C.) HAMILTON, Tuesday The sixth successive severe frost was recorded in the Waikato to-day, when 15.7 degrees were registered at Ruakura and 10 degrees at Hamilton. CENSORSHIP BREACH (P.A.) GORE, Tuesday The headmaster of the Clinton School, John Buclian, was lined £2 10s at Gore for a breach of tho censorship regulations in a letter written abroad. Mr. Abernethy, S.M., said he was satisfied deiendant had no subversive intentions, but more discretion must be exercised.

ISSUE OF RESPIRATORS (0.C.) WHANGAEEI. Tuesday A gas attack on civilians now being considered remote, the Whangarei E.P.S. was informed officially last night that respirators were being issued to first-lino sections of the service only. Suitable buildings for gas clearing sfations should be earmarked, but not taken over now.

JUDGE AND WITNESS "This lady has the piano on her mind. 1 think we had better let her got it off before wo adjourn," said Mr, Justice Callan at the close of a long day's Supreme Court sitting yesterday. "But your Honor, if you wish to go—," began the lady, but His Honor interposed genially, "1 don't wish to go. I just lovo being here. If you have anything to tell me about this piano I shall bo delighted to hear it." The matter of the piano was dealt with before the Court rose.

SUPPLIES OF EGGS (0.C.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday An arrangement has been made between the Plunket Society, the Internal Marketing Division, and tho Wellington Master Grocers' Association for fresh eggs to bo supplied to infants, expectant and nursing mothers. It will guarantee each grocer a full supply of fresh eggs against tho Plunket chits held by him. will bo available under the arrangement only for children under five years of age. The scheme will not bo restricted to children under tho supervision of the Plunket Society. HURT IN COLLISION (0.C.) WAIHI, Tuesday As a result of a head-on collision between a two-ton lorry and a half ton van in Waitewheta Road, near Waikino Mr. 1». McLean, aged 44, farmer, was admitted to tho Waihi Hospital with severe lacerations to the face. His condition is serious. Tht) lorry, driven by Mr. W. Phillips, manager of Carriers, Limited, Waihi, was going down hill toward Waikino. When negotiating a corner it came into collision with a milk van driven by Mr. McLean's son. Both drivers escaped injury.