LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 960, 9 March 1917, Page 11

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The secretaries of the Puritan and Cape Town Young Men's Christian Associations write asking the local associations iu New Zealand to forward anv illustrated papers and magazines that would be useful for New Zealand soldiers who spend a good deal of their time at the Y.M.C.A. building while in these two towns. Mr Halliday wrote saying that these two associations entertain our soldiers right royally during their stay there. Parcels should be sent to the National OfhYe, Baker's Buildings, Featherston Htreet, Wellington. Books and magazines fur the troopships will be very acceptable. The Post Office clock, which qualified for the Cnreliability Stakes many a moon ago, decided to-day that the circumstance should not be lost sight of. It might have been that good tidings from Mesopotamia set its mechanism into such a paroxysm of delight that the cogs become listless and forgot their responsibilities to the nation. Anyway, the clock stopped shortly after it had announced that midday had arrived. For three quarters of an hour the four faces declared with out any semblance of shame that the time was 10 minutes past 12. The worries, inconveniences, heartburnings, vaxatious and unspeakable exclamations which the Square hail acquaintance of during the clock's delinquency are not possible of writing down. Suffice it to say that the stopping of the clock at such an hour was a very annoying affair.