HOLIDAY WORK

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24423, 5 November 1942, Page 2

HOLIDAY WORK

TEACHERS AND PUPILS COMPULSION POWERS THE CHRISTMAS VACATION To meet seasonal labour demands in many spheres, arrangements are being made to use the services of high school boys and male teachers during the summer vacation. In the case of the boys, the work undertaken will be on a voluntary basis, but compulsory direction may apply in the case of certain male teachers. The main reserves of available schoolboy labour are in the four main centres, in which the Governmentyouth centres are compiling lists of boys available. District manpower officers are also making contact with principals of high schools and technical schools with a view to enlisting as many boys as possible. Welfare of Boys

As in other years in which the scheme has been in operation, every care is being taken to safeguard the welfare of the boys, and those travelling to holiday farm work will be given a reduction at approximately 60 per cent on adult ordinary return tares on producing a certificate from a headmaster. Permits to travel more than 100 miles will also be issued. It is intended that the boys' scheme should cover such work as general farm operations, haymaking, harvesting (for older and more heavily-built boys), linen-flax harvesting, market gardening and tomato growing, fruit picking, grading and packing. Freezing Works and Canneries

During the summer recess, many teachers or students normally make their own arrangements to take up seasonal work, and it is intended this year that such arrangements should be allowed to stand. In addition, other teachers, who are single men or married men without children, and students are to be directed to such work if fit for it. The employment to which they may be directed will include freezing works, wool stores and canneries, as well as the classes of work_ set out for boys. Other teachers are being asked to offer their services for work or, in the case of teachers in country districts, for assistance in supervising the welfare of boys placed in their areas. Assistance of Women It is not considered a special registration of male teacners and students will be necessary. Lists of names and addresses of male teachers and students will be obtained by the district manpower officer irom the local education authorities or principals, and their availability for direction to work will be investigated. Consideration is also being given to the possibility of securing through routh centres" the voluntary services of older schoolgirls and women teachers to assist in light seasonal work. It is intended that manpower officers should co-operate in the scheme, and it is considered desirable that teachers should be included in groups of girls engaged for the work, except in the cases of private arrangements between employers and parents.

WORK ON FARMS OPERATION IN EMERGENCY (0.C.) CAMBRIDGE, Wednesday The question of maintaining primary production during a national emergency in which the Home Guard is called into action was raised at a meeting of the Cambridge Primary Production Committee. It was stated that as many farmers were members of the Home Guard it was imperative for some organisation to assume responsibility for milking and other farm arrangements. The belief that an enemy's main objective would be to obstruct production was expressed by the vice-president, Mr. G. A. Walsh, who said this aim would be successful if the Home Guard was brought into action and farms were left without labour.

The question was referred to the Wai kato Council of Primary Production.

THREE INJURED

COLLISION BETWEEN CARS (0.C.) HAMILTON, Wednesday

Two women and a girl were injured in a collision between two light motorcars near the Hopuhopu crossing on the main South Eoad this afternoon. One car was driven by Mrs. Ethel Theima Vowless, aged 35, wife of Mr. J. H. Vowless, of Te Kauwhata. and the other was driven by Miss S. Wheeler, a Plunket nurse who was returning to Xgaruawahia. Both cars were extensively damaged. Miss Wheeler received spinal injuries and Mrs. Vowless was severely cut on the head and legs. Her nine-year-old daughter, Ivy Theima Vowless, was cut on the head. The injured people were removed to the Waikato Hospital. Miss Wheeler's condition is serious. SCHOOL CLOSED TEACHER IN ARMED FORCES Concern at the closing of the Koputauaki School, near C'oromanclel, through the failure of the Paeroa Appeal Board to release the teacher from Army service, was expressed at a meeting of the Auckland Education Board yesterday. It was stated that in the meantime the education of the 15 Maori children involved was being carried on by correspondence. Mr. F. A. Snell said there was a big school in Auckland which had not yet lost many of its men teachers. It seemed unfair that the Coromandel children should lose their school because the man was not released. He asked whether the hoard could have recourse to the regulations governing essential industries, since teaching had now been declared essential. The secretary, Mr. A. Nixon, said the position had been advertised a number of times without result. The trouble was that while they had a number of women teachers who might take the position the lack of proper accommodation for the teacher and certain other factors made it impossible to appoint a woman.

It was decided to advertise the position again before making another appeal for rehearing of the case before the appeal board.

ASSAULTED A WARDER

GAOL FOR BORSTAL INMATE fP.A.) INYERCARGILL, Wednesday

"Assaults on prison and Borstal institution officers have increased." commented Mr. Justice Kennedy in Invereargiil when sentencing Peter Lawrence Samson, an inmate of the Inrercargili Borstal Institute, to three years' imprisonment with hard labour on a charge of assaulting a warder at the institution so as to cause actual bodily harm. "The officer's skull was fractured and it was fortunate for you that he did not succumb," added His Honor. The sentence was made concurrent with the term of five years' detention which the prisoner is already serving. He was also ordered to be transferred to a prison. ANTI-VICE SQUAD fP.A.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday An anti-vice squad has been inaugurated in Wellington. The Commissioner of Police, Mr. D. J. Cummings. stated to-day that a special squad of police constables headed" bv a sergeant had been allotted the task of dealing with the growing menace of rice in the city. Hitherto each police district had been left to deal witn suspects or suspected nlaces, but the new squad would be available to help in any police district in the capital.