HAND IN HAND

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24894, 16 May 1944, Page 4

HAND IN HAND

LOCAL ELECTION PACT LABOUR AND COMMUNISTS "I believe I shall be Mayor of Auckland after the 27th of this month," said Mr. W. T. Anderton, M.P., when addressing the opening meeting of the Communist Party's municipal election campaign at St. Thomas' Hall, Union Street, last night. Mr. Anderton said that his previous meeting that evening had finished early because the hall had had to be vacated by 9 o'clock, and he thought he could not do better than come along and help "his friends the Communists."

The meeting opened with an attendance of about 30, but the number grew to about 60 with the arrival of Mr. Anderton and his party, which comprised over a dozen Labour candidates who were later introduced separately to the meeting. The keynote of the addresses was the fact that an arrangement for collaboration between the Communist and Labour Parties had been reached for the forthcoming elections. The two Communist candidates, Mr. J. Mitchell and Mr. G. E. Jackson, as well as the organiser of the Communist Party, who addressed the meeting before Mr. Anderton's arrival, emphasised the fact that unity had been reached between the Communists and Labour. Voters were urged to support the 19 Labour candidates and the two Communists to make the full ticket for the council. The chief criticism levelled at the present council both by Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Jackson was that it was not in sympathy with the people of Freeman's Bav and their problems. The invitation to Mr. Anderton to take the platform was greeted with a round of applause. Mr. Anderton confirmed the candidates' statements concerning the unity reached between the two parties, although he was not present whe'n thev were made. That was why, he said, the Labour Party was running only 19 candidates. _ They, with the two Communist candidates, whose BU P" port he welcomed, would put before the people a strategic policy based on sound judgment.

MISTAKE IN AIRGRAPH PARTS OF TWO LETTERS MAIL FROM MIDDLE EAST (0.C.) NEW PLYMOUTH. Monday Through a mistake in photographing or in joining the film strip, a New Plymouth resident received an airgraph letter half of which was written by his son in the Middle East and the other half by some unknown person. The top part of the airgraph was in order, but less than halfway down the page there was a break in the news story, a change of handwriting and particulars about which the recipient had no knowledge. The signature was unknown to By some means the bottom half of another soldier's letter had been photographed with the top part of that of the original writer, or there had been a mistake in joining the film strip. The New Plymouth recipient of the letter believes that someone also has the correct top section of an airgraph and the bottom half of the airgraph his son wrote.

HOURS OF SHOPS FIVE-DAY WEEK PLAN OPPOSITION BY FARMERS (P.A.) WELLINGTON. Monday A statement of the attitude of the New Zealand Farmers' Union to the movement for a universal five-day shopping week was made by the Dominion treasurer, Mr. W. Horrobin, today. Mr. Horrobin stated that at its recent meeting the Dominion executive of the union passed a resolution strongly protesting against any move to sanction a five-day shopping week. It was considered that such arrangement would impose undue hardship on farmers and other people in the community and in view of the labour position it was most unwise to restrict further the working time of any section of the community. The Dominion executive also believed, Mr. Horrobin continued, that the move would have an exceedingly bad psychological effect on the farmers when they heard that _ yet another section of the community was to be given a fiveday working week while they were being urged to work harder and longer to produce more food for Britain. , 1— THIEVES IN HOTEL SERVICEMEN'S LOSSES (0.C.) CAMBRIDGE, Monday Thieves ransacked rooms in the National Hotel, Cambridge, on Saturday night or early yesterday morning, taking money and cigarettes belonging to American servicemen. Entry was gained by climbing the firc-escape. The exact amount of money stolen is not known. PUNISHMENT FOR THEFT FORMER CIVIL SERVANT (P.-A.) . CHRISTCHURCH, Monday Eighteen months' hard labour was the sentence imposed on Angus Cameron MaoFarlane, aged 44, civil servant, by Mr. Justice Northcroft in the Supreme Court this morning, on six charges of theft of Government money amounting to £327. His Honor said it was clear that MacFarlane and the former head of the Industries and Commerce Department in Christchurch, C. S. Sapsford, had developed a conspiracy to defraud the Government. Both were men of mature years and he was unable to take the view that one was more implicated than the other.

FALL ON RUAPEHU CLIMBER SERIOUSLY HURT (0.C.) TATJMARUNUI, Monday An accident occurred on Mount Ruapehu yesterday afternoon, when a soldier, Private J. Blyth, son of the late Mr. J. Blyth, one of the bestknown alpinists in New Zealand, slipped down a steep face and suffered severe injuries. Private Blyth was carried to the Chateau by Guides Nidrost and A. McKenze and Dr. McLachlan. He was then taken by car to the Taumarunui Hospital. His injuries included fractures of the left ankle, pelvis and left elbow. ACCIDENT IN MINE (0.C.) HAMILTON, Monday An accident in the Glerr Massey coal mine to-day resulted in Mr. Joe Campbell, a Maori, aged 24, of Old Taupiri Road, Ngaruawahia, being admitted to the Waikato Hospital. He was knocked against a pit prop when two trucks in the mine collided and his principal injury was a fractured pelvis. INJURED IN COLLISION When the car in which they were driving collided with a parked car near Mercer shortly before midnight on Sunday, four members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force were injured. They were E. «T. Beeson, of 9 Gladstone Road, Northcote, who suffered bruises and cuts; C. L. J. Byford, aged 26, of 1 George's Drive, Napier, bruises and an injured ankle; A. Dineen, aged 20, of 410 Mount Albert Road, Mount Roskill, lacerations to the forehead; and R. V. Lambert, of 52 Broadway, Newmarket. lacerations to the face and legs. The four men were taken by St. John Ambulance to the Auckland Hospital, and were discharged after being I treated in the casualty department.