LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 73, Issue 6282, 16 September 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Injuries At Football During the course of the Rugby match, Old Boys versus Pirongia, played at Albert Park last Saturday, two players suffered painful injuries. M. Dixon, of Pirongia, received a broken collar-bone, while a particularly bad fracture of the thumb was sustained by Basil McLean, playing for Old Boys seniors. Rural Mail Delegates A correction is made to a report appearing in last Friday’s issue concerning the rural mail delegates appointed at a meeting held in Ohaupo. The delegates appointed to •represent Kaipaki are M. Cunningham and W. E. Akchurst, while for Paterangi J. McGall should read S. J. McFall. Flower Show Entries for the schedule of classes at St. John's Spring Flower Show are to close to-morrow, and already there is an assurance of an attractive display at the show, which is to open (t the Town Hall on Thursday. The promoters have made adequate arrangements in anticipation of a very attractive display and-'for the expected large attendance at this popular show fixture. V.A.D. Work Praised “I cannot say too much in appreciation of assistance given to us by the Voluntary Aid Division,” stated, the Government appointee to the New Zealand Red Cross Society (Miss M. L Lambie) at the annual conference ci the Dominion council of the Red Cross Society in Christchurch. “It would have been impossible for us to carry on in the hospitals throughout the war years without the help of the V.A.D.’s,” she said. Miss Lambie also paid a tribute to the overseas service of the division, and spoke of the splendid record which its members had established. Flood Of Patents In reply to a question from Mr Broadfoot, the acting-Minister of Justice (Mr Jones), in Parliament, outlined steps to overcome delay in the Patent Office, and emphasised that duiing the past year there had been an extraordinary increase -in the number of applications for patents of a highly technical nature filed in the office. Discussing the reply, Mr Broadfoot said he understood there were about 4000 applicati6ns in arrear, and the long and unnecessary delay in dealing with such applications was a source of great worry to the applicants. It was hoped the Minister’s efforts in overcoming the delay would be successful. Mr Broad’foot suggested strengthening the staff in the Patent by the appointment of men with technical knowledge.

Spirit of Red. Cross Conventions Giving his impressions of the international Red Cross conventions held recently at Oxford and Geneva, Mr G. C. White, chairman of the Dominion council of the Red Cross Society stated at a function in Christchurch that although a number of differences were apparent among delegates of the various nations attending, the predominant aims were for world •wide unity and co-opeuation. “On the whole, the conferences lived up to the ideals of the Red Cross, and if there were some troubles they were often caused by misunderstandings arising from differences in the languages spoken,” said MT White- It was very difficult for an international convention to run smoothly when the speeches of the representatives had to be translated by interpreters, who could not always present the precise meaning of the speakers’ words.