LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5598, 29 March 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Into Recess Owing to the difficulty in obtaining tyres and rubber shoes, the Te Awamutu Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club has gone into recess for the duration of the war. Home Guard Training

The War Cabinet has decided that as from April 1, 1943, the obligatory training to be performed by members of the Home Guard, First Division, will be 16 hours a month. Auckland’s Wool Cheque Woolgrowers in the Auckland Province have now received £1,629,038 for their clip so far this season, which compares with £1,385,905 for the corresponding sales last season.

Daylight Saving to Continue The half-hour daylight saving will be extended throughout the coming winter, according to the daylight saving emergency regulations gazetted last night. Tax on Incomes

Elsewhere in this issue we publish a statement by the Associated Chambers of Commerce dealing with the basis of computation for income tax under the Finance Act, 1942. It should be read with interest.

Price of Apples Apples are only sold at two (fixed) prices at the Wellington public markets this month, fancy grade at 5s 6d a case, and commercial grade at 5s a case. For the time being, at all events, the grade, extra fancy, has been discarded. Primary Production Council The pinion that the personnel of all the Primary Production Councils should be overhauled and that all farmers’ organisations should be represented adequately was expressed in a recent remit from the Cambridge branch received at the last meeting of the Auckland Provincial Executive of the N.Z. Farmers’ Union. Red Cross Depot Goods and services have been gratefully received from Mesdames Blackburn, S- Houston, E. Rhodes, J. Prince, Broadbent, J. Wilton, Wolfe. W. M. Miller, Simms, Flay, Paton, McKee, W. Cavanagh Akehurst, M. Tims, S. Smith, and Humphrey, Miss O’Connor, Mr Oliver, and the Kihikihi SubCentre.

Need for Social Justice The Hamilton Rotary Club was recently addressed by Mr Brian Dunningham, of Auckland, representing the Social Justice Crusade Movement, who spoke of the need for a new social order based on the elementary rules provided in the Bible. Mr Dunningham said that the principles of the Rotary Movement would do more for the well-being of the world in the future than was generally realised.

Evening a Score. Just to make Japanese searchlight men and A.A. gunners “hopping mad,” a young American pilot over Rabaul one night threw overboard a roll of toilet paper. The paper streamed out in the glare of the searchlights and more A.A. guns went into operation. Then the pilot Morsed insulting messages to Emperor Hirohito with his landing lights. His crew caught the idea and threw down empty bottles. He explained that a little earlier he had been kept up all night by a wondering Japanese pilot and to even the score he had flown his machine over Rabaul from midnight until dawn.

Austerity in Men’s Suits The news from Australia that dou-ble-breasted coats and cuffs on trousers may once more be included in tailored suits for man may have its reactions elsewhere. In New Zealand the austerity suit came into being late last year, and is still a legal necessity, more honoured in the breach than the observance. Though several wholesale makers of box-suits have adopted the austirity design—minus cuffs, sleevebuttons, and double-breasted coat—the law has not been strictly complied with in many .instances. A leading tailor said that as English cloth for suits is brought in suit lengths, there is no saving whatsoever in adopting the austerity idea. Even the lessening the width of the trousers saves so little tweed that the economy is not worth bothering about.

Surprise Moves Predicted “ Informed circles expect some surprise moves by the United Nations which may suddenly swing the balance against the Axis,” says the diplomatic correspondent of the Sunday Express (London). The presence of the King of Greece and the Prime Minister in Cairo and the Turkish military mission in Algiers, also unceasing air activity in the Mediterranean, may possibly have the greatest significance. Military experts are planning a big attack on the theory that it will succeed or fail in the first few hours. Therefore it is vital to get the strongest forces into the best positions before the stroke.

Bursaries for Servicemen A report from the Education Department on the assistance it was proposed to give to discharged servicemen and servicewomen was received by the Auckland University College Council. The facilities include bursaries for people capable of studying for university degree both as parttime and full-time students, as well as post-graduate scholarships to be held both in New Zealand and overseas. It is proposed that this assistance will be given to men and women who have served for at least a year in the armed forces, and who make application within three years of being discharged.