CALL TO SERVICE

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 25054, 18 November 1944, Page 6

CALL TO SERVICE

LIST OF 4600 MEN NOTICE ON TUESDAY THE POSITION OF YOUTHS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Friday A list of the names of some 4600 men called up for. military service will be gazetted on Tuesday. In announcing this tonight the Minister of National Service. Mr McLagan, said the majority would be youths who had reached the age of 18 since the previous callup in June, and under the present policy they would not become liable for mobilisation until they attained the age of 20, but they would have the opportunity of volunteering for immediate service in the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Air McLagan said that ample opportunity would be given these youths and th'eir employers to lodge appeals later wherever necessary when they became liable for mobilisation. However, the Gazette would include a number of men who had reached the age of 20 and were liable immediately for service. Where it was desired to apply for postponement of service in respect of any of those men application should be lodged without delay with the appropriate armed forces appeal hoard. ILLEGAL BETTING OFFENCE ON RACECOURSE MAN SENT TO PRISON Charged with laying totalisator odds at Ellerslie last Saturday, when the Avondale Jockey Club's meeting was being held, Ernest Francis Parr, painter, pleaded guilty before Mr J. 11. Luxford, S.M., yesterday. Accused also pleaded guilty to a charge of trespassing on the racecourse. Detective-Sergeant Aplin said he saw accused accepting bets just before the sixth race. Accused admitted taking bets from 2s Gd to 3 OS, with limits of £lo for a win and £lO for a place. His betting slips showed that be had taken 13 bets on that race. In his possession was £l9 lis 6d. Last April he had been fined £lO for laying totalisator odds, and this excluded him from racecourses. the magistrate that he had taken bets only on the fifth and sixth races. He had got into conversation with former clients and had succumbed to temptation. Part of the £l9 found on him he had won legitimately on the totalisator. "You had your warning last time," said the magistrate. "When you repeat the offence you become a public nuisance. You will not have the option of a fine this time." Accused was sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment with hard labour. LANDOWNER'S CLAIM COMPENSATION SOUGHT QUESTION OF LIABILITY (0.C.) HAMILTON, Friday The hearing of a claim for £SOO made by Wilfred Charles Davies, land, agent, of Huntly (Mr Swarbrick), against the Minister of Railways (Mr Gillies), for flooding and loss of access to property, was continued in a Compensation Court at Hamilton before Mr Justice Smith and two assessors. His Honor stated that the Court had decided to make an alternative award which would automatically be settled after his judgment had been delivered. The judgment would rest, therefore, on the question of liability, on which counsel was directed to submit legal argument. If it was decided that plaintiff was entitled to compensation, His Honor continued, the department would be ordered to pay £225 damages, in addition to £BS costs and assessors' fees. If the department were successful the claim would be dismissed and costs and assessors' fees would be paid by plaintiff. MORE DECORATIONS FLYING CROSS AWARDS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Friday Exemplary conduct on service in the European war theatre has resulted in the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross to two more New Zealand airmen. The recipients are Flying-Officer N. J. Scott, of Central Otago, and FlyingOfficer R. J. Cammock, of Christchurch. YOUNG GROUP CAPTAIN FAMOUS NEW ZEALANDER LONDON, Nov. 16 The youngest group captain in the Allied Air Forces is the New Zealander, D. J. Scott, D.5.0., D.F.C., D.F.M. and bar, aged 26, who rose from flight-ser-geant to wing-commander in 18 months, says the Exchange Telegraph correspondent at Supreme Headquarters. Group Captain Scott's wing pioneered the use of Typhoon rockets and has met every Army request since its arrival on the Western Front, after which it carried out 8000 sorties. BOY CYCLIST KILLED COLLISION WITH CAR (0.C.) WAN&ANUI, Friday Injuries from which he subsequently died in the Palmerston North Hospital were received by a schoolboy when the cycle he was riding was involved in a collision with a motor-car in Hunterville. The boy was William James Quinlan, aged 1.3, only son of Mr and Mrs W. S. Quinlan of Hunterville. The youth was cycling home from school with two companions in drizzling rain and against a strong wind when the accident occurred. FOREST SERVICE TRAINING OF APPRAISERS (0.C.) KOTORUA, Friday The first course of instruction for timber appraisers at the Forest Service training centre. Whakarewarewa, will conclude next week. Eleven of the 12 selected men have had 18 weeks of intensive study, and the standard of work done has earned high praise from senior officers of the service. They are between 20 and 30 years of age, and nearly all have had overseas battle experience. Having passed their final examinations, they will receive appointments in the State Forest Service. BANANAS ARRIVE TWO SMALL SHIPMENTS Two meagre shipments of bananas have reached Auckland from the Western Pacific Islands. A consignment of 50Q0 cases front Samoa, Fiji and Tonga has been distributed to all parts of New Zealand. A further shipment of 700 cases arrived from the Cook Islands, 500 cases of which will be available for the market in Auckland. Retailers expressed concern yesterday at the inadequacy of the supplies, but an official at the Internal Marketing Division gave an assurance that every shopkeeper in Auckland would receive at least one case of bananas. The demand for bananas from the American armed forces in the Pacific, who are willing to pay relatively high prices for the fruit, is believed to he responsible for the dwindling supplies reaching the Dominion. Another suggestion is that the natives are finding more lucrative employment with the Americans than that offered on the banana plantations. Other Island fruits which have arrived in Auckland are pineapples and tomatoes. The shipment of pineapples comprised L'iOO cases of good quality fruit from Fiji nnd < Tonga. It is anticipated that the consignment of tomatoes will be the last of the season* -i