LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opunake Times, 25 July 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

V. for Victory.— lu England, in enemy occupied Europe and now in New Zealand the V. or its morse equivalent ... —, campaign is reaching amazing proportions. The victory sign is also taking a prominent place in Opunake and the familiar V seen on shop windows and in doorways should certainly. play its part in helping to dispel any tendency towards defeatism that may be abroad. Swimming in Dead Sea. —

Swimming in the heavy waters of the Dead Sea is very different from swimming- in ordinary sea water. A New Zealand soldier, Gunner 1?. A. Doms, who recently spent a week’s leave in Palestine, describes his efforts to “swim,” in a letter to his parents in Chritchurch. “The water is thirteen times as dense as ordinary sea water,’’ he wt-ote. “and so full of minerals that it stings the face. I walked in to mv waist, and. my feet left the bottom. I tried to swim but whih' flat in the water, my feet and legs were right out. T tried to stand up. but oould not force mv legs down again-—it wa ;<? most amazing.”