LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5595, 22 March 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Power Board Meetings The next ordinary meeting of the Te Awamutu Electric Power Board will be held on May 28. The annual meeting will be held on the same date. Successful Invasion Unlikely A belief that the Japanese would never gain a footing on New Zealand soil was expressed by a Te Awamutu farmer on Friday. “They’d get tangled in Government regulations before they got 20 yards from the shore,” he declared. Services Appreciated. • Warm tributes to the work of the officials of the Te Awamutu Farmers’ Union were paid by members at the annual meeting on Friday night, emphasis being laid on the need for a .jtreng Union at the present time. Power Board Thanked At Friday’s meeting of the Te Awamutu Electric Power Board, a letter was received from the secretary of the St. John Ambulance, Te Awamutu, thanking the Board for a donation of £lO. The grant is deeply appreciated by the committee, the writer said, and the ambulance is now in use and has already answered many calls throughout the district. A Reserving Society. The preservation of infant life, and the care and welfare of young children is recognised as a national responsibility, and im this respect Nev/ Zealand has established and maintained a success which*is unrivalled in any other country. This favourable position is largely due to the work of the Plunket nurses, and Te Awamutu residents can show their appreciation by attending or sending a donation to the Paddy’s Market on Thursday next.

Lawyers in Forces The records of the New Zealand Law Society showed that 550 principals and clerks were serving with the forces either in New Zealand or overseas, said the president, Mr H. F. O’Leary, K.C., at the society’s annual meeting. On the return of those men to the Dominion, the society hoped to give them all the help and encouragement that they were entitled to expect. Committees in all the centres had already been set up whose function it was to advise and assist members in their rehabilitation. Destructive Criticism The chairman of a southern county council is reported to have recently made a strong objection to the destructive criticism to which county councils are constantly subjected. He can hardly be said to have broken fresh ground, since such reminders from councillors are frequently published, without any restraining effect. The man in the street is a shrewd critic, and the more effectual for the reason that he frequently speaks after the event, following the humorous advice that one’should always criticise with the advantage of knowing that the other fellow has done wrong. The fact of the matter is that occupants of such offices should not be too thin skinned, and should, philosophically, recognise that, except in rare cases, gratitude from the public is not to be expected.