TARDY RECOGNITION

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24535, 18 March 1943, Page 2

TARDY RECOGNITION

I WORLD RACE RECORD I | AUCKLAND GIRL'S FEAT Four years after their achievement, advice has been received from Stockholm of the recognition of two women s world records for 100 yards made in New Zealand. , _ , On March 11, 1939, at Carlaw Park, the late Miss Doreen Lumley, of Auckland, equalled the women's world record for the distance of 11 seconds. A week later, at Morrinsville, the Australian ( athlete, Miss Decima Norman, also recorded 11 seconds. The Auckland Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association applied for recognition of both these records to the International Amateur Athletic Federation, which has its headquarters at Stockholm, Sweden. Ao acknowledgment of the receipt of the applications was received, and it was presumed that either the letter or the reply to it had been lost by enemy action, the war having broken out in the meantime. However, this week the Auckland Centre received a list of records accepted by the federation as late as last September, and this list contains the names of both Miss Lumley and Miss Norman as holders of the world record for 100 yards, together with Miss B. Burke. Pretoria, South Africa, and Miss Fanny Koen, of the Netherlands, who recorded their feats in 1935 and 19138 respectively. Soon after her remarkable run at Carlaw Park Miss Lumley, with hextwin sister, who was also a notable athlete, was killed in a motor accident. MORE STATE FLATS BUILDING AT PARNELL Work has been commenced by the State Housing Department on the excavation of foundations for the construction of a two-storey block of flats fronting Bedford Street, Parnell. According to a report to the last meeting of the City Council, the department also intends to erect a four-storey block fronting Cracroft Street. The department has given no indication of the number of units contained in the blocks. AMERICAN BAND VISIT TO WHANGAREI (0.C.) WHANGAREI. Wednesday An American Service Band will visit Wliangarei this week-end. It will arrive on Friday evening and on Saturday will give a demonstration of marching, as | well as assisting in raising patriotic | funds at a sports rally and a dance. On Sunday the band will play at the | Wliangarei Hospital and in the evening ! give a concert in the Town Hall. It ! will leave for Auckland oil Monday morning. WAR RISK PREMIUM PROSPECT OF REVIEW (S.R.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday "If the situation continues to improve the whole question of the premium paid for war damage insurance will bo reconsidered," said the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, in reply to an urgent question asked by | Mr. W. S. Goosman (Opposition—Wai- • kato) in the House of Representatives . to-day. Mr. Goosman had asked whether in view of the improvement in the war , situation it was the Government's in- | tention to consider a reduction in the , war damage insurance rate. HIGH COST TO MUSEUM GOVERNMENT GRANT URGED "At present we are paying £341 in premiums, including war risk, against the £2l of a normal year," said Mr. A. H. Johnstone, K.C., the president, 1 at a meeting of the council of the 3 Auckland Institute and Museum yesterday. He had had a lot of correspon- • dence with the Prime Minister with- [ out satisfaction, or even any reply since 3 last December. Recently Mr. Fraser ' had expressed the view that they were I unduly troubled about the war risk. but the council had a duty to preserve ihe museum building and it had no funds with which to do it. The pret miums were due in May. v It was decided to urge the Prime , Minister to make a grant to enable the board to take out adequate war risk insurance. J NEW ZEALAND DIVISION COMMANDER'S HIGH PRAISE . (P.A.) DUNEDIN, Wednesday j High praise for the work of the New Zealand Division in the Middle East is contained in a letter received by the Otago Provincial Patriotic Council from Lieutenant-Gencral Oliver Loose. Commander of the corps to which the division belongs. General Loose said it had been a privilege for the corps to have such a division attached to it. 1 The New Zealand Division had been - called on to carry out several very diffi- . cult manoeuvres, and each time it achieved success, largely as a result of [ the great personal gallantry of all ranks , and to_ the intense trouble and work taken in training and preparation. : BUILT 20 HUTS 1 HOME GUARD BATTALION 2 (0.C.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday i A Home Guard unit .can put a lot of . work into its normal 10 hours a month 1 'eight only for the past three months), > especially if its personnel are keen f enough to do some extra hours voltiin- ' tarily. Evidence of this was seen in a ' tour of the Hut-t Battalion's operational ' area when the district commandant, Colonel H. M. Foster, N.Z.S.C., A.D.C., • was making a periodical inspection. ' The battalion, by its own labour, has i built or has now under way more than 20 huts approximately 50 feet by 20 feet. These will provide messing, sleeping and other accommodation to the rear of the various sectors of the bat- - talion's battle stations. f When the 16 hours a month compuli sor.v training resumes, the companies !* will be able to spend week-ends at their f battle stations and, when they are off 1 duty, enjoy as much comfort as obtains 5 in the average permanent camp. FitI tings like stoves have been bought " either from battalion funds or with b money subscribed in the district. These ? huts should have special value in tlj^ - winter and they will serve a useful - post-war purpose. The battalion has 7 also, with the assistance of specialists - in itsj>uJ*s, built several fine bridges ■ properties.