ROLL OF HONOUR

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 25049, 13 November 1944, Page 7

ROLL OF HONOUR

-EXPEDITIONARY fokce killed and wounded . WELLINGTON, Saturday following, New Zealand Expedi- . \ Force casualties are announced: & KILLED IN action previously reported missing , . VV.— Onfhunga }ul WOUNDED , a o.—C'avcrshiim H"I*' 1 *' r W.—Kech liffs. H""' |o n, G. A.—Ash burton. accidentally injured previously rkported wounded J Bi —Papakura. bepobted not wounded "Sousi-V REPORTED WOUNDED B. fc-Wntec. t ABOUR PARTY REMITS RADIO LICENCE FEE PROPAGANDA broadcasts WELLINGTON, Saturday remit that radio licence fees should . reduced to 12s 6d a year was carried I the annual conference of the New Land Labour Party and referred to f he Government for consideration. A Lotion of the greater use of the dio for explaining Government policy, '"litiral propaganda and matters of national interest was also discussed i referred to the Government. The conference urged that the present facilities for educational and-Jiealth talks should be extended, particularly to the evening session. A proposal that the salaries of member's ot Parliament should be increased ris endorsed, as was a remit that more Parliamentary under-secretaries should te appointed|}ie conference passed a remit urg- . j] ia t women should bo represented t the' peace conference. It was deid to approach the British Labour PartV with a suggestion that it should recommend to the proper authorities hat a number of women should he appointed to the British delegation to the also passed a remit lknf voUD (r orphans should be bi ought rom Great Britain. With reference to aliens and refugee immigrants 111 v e w Zealand, the conference referred to the Government for consideration a proposal that they should be licensed to have businesses for the duration of the war only. betting on dart game SERVICEMAN SPENDS £22 _ PROSECUTION AT DUNEDIN jp iA ,) DUNEDIN, Saturday "These men had evidently been making a welter of gambling, in spite of a warning from the chief detective," said'Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., in fining two men tor breaches of the Gaming Act arising out of playing games of chance in an amusement coart at the Industries Fair. They were Charles Carlyle Carter, aged 43, and Francis Joseph Kennelly, aged 51, and they were charged with playing a game of chance with darts known as "Seven, eight and nine." The police said that Carter was a professional showman, and held a lease of the arcusements court at the fair. Kenwily was an employee engaged to coiling the dart-tlmnving game. A detectro watched Kennelly conduct the pie last night, and saw one man fi/wing a clart and another betting on the result.

.This man had doubled up his betting from 10s to £ls He was a returned serviceman, who went to the fair with £55, which represented his mufti allowince and rehabilitation money, and he laid he spent £22 within an hour at Kennellv's stall ■ Kennedy admitted that this man was,betting on the result pf another man's throwing, but said he believed they were- together and were pooling "the winnings." Both defendants admitted that the chief detective had stepped them playing the same game earlier because he had reason to believe that they' were playing illegally. Carter was fined £2O and costs and Kennelly £5 and costs. RAILWAY SUB-DISTRICT ENGINEERS AT HAMILTON (O.C. HAMILTON, Saturday A new railway sub-district has been established at Hamilton, and Mr H. G. Stevens, of Wellington, has been appointed resident engineer. His assistant is Mr A. T. Gandell, of Invercargill. An cffice is being provided for Mr Stevens and his staff at the Hamilton railway station, while dwellings have heen specially built for them by the Housing Department in Hamilton. The office accommodation is in course of construction, while the houses are nearly ready for occupation. It is exWed that the new administrative ar «a will be inaugurated early next month. COMMISSIONS WON Advice has been received by Mrs U. jjeattie', of Takapuna, that her son, Warrant-Officer John Nesbit Beattie, ".N.Z.A.F., has been commissioned in England. Pilot-Officer Beattie was eduJJted at the Dilworth School, and joined •he R.N.Z.A.F. in 1941. He left for yanada the following March, after gaining his wings, and has since beon servingi in England with fighter squadrons. A brother is jn the Middle East with i 9 Army, and another brother in Eng-in-the Navy. Advice has been received bv Mrs W. & Smythe, of 23 The Parade, St Heliers that her hush." d, Warrantytucer W. N. Smythe, i won his comsaon with the Air Force in North nca pilot-Officer Smythe, who is 29, educated at the Kowhai Junior School and the Mount Albert ammar School. Before he enlisted, he Lm hy Boss and Glendining, i.J " e , gained his wings in New Zea--1942 an ft for in February,

lfi^t> Ce J? as keen received by Mr and Ben, t> k' Islington Street, Z?, 0 £»,▼' that thc ' ir son, Flight-Ser-Vj, Rcbort John Clark, lias gained commission. Pilot-Officer Clark, who i)iin o j- yea i? ,n K e . was educated in Mpmn l - n Pp'isonby School and Seddon Air F e K p - Before joining the J n ;vas '' projectionist with ™>l»anison Theatres. Ltd. He left fn p " lncs ' n the Dominion and *h er ° r ,™t Britain in October, 1943, "0 is captain of a bomber.