WAIMATE FEDERAL UNION

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21992, 18 June 1941, Page 3

WAIMATE FEDERAL UNION

Address By The Rev. Acheson Post-War Problem Must Be Faced The world was faced with the absolute necessity of finding some orderly form of organisation or civilisation would perish, the Rev. A. H. Acheson told the Walmate Adult Education group in one of his addresses on post-war reconstruction. There was no alternative, said Mr Acheson. Other methods of trying to preserve peace and order had failed. The old diplomacy, with its attempts to secure a "balance of power,” failed over and over again. The League of Nations had been too weak. Federal union was only the extension of a proved principle. With the shrinking of the world could it not succeed? he asked. Was the time-distance between countries greater to-day than, when the 33 States of America federated? There were many difficulties to be faced, Mr Acheson stated. Federal unions tended to become immersed in legal questions regarding the powers of the union and the States. There would be huge economic difficulties to overcome, especially in the initial stages, and without great patience and long vision, they might wreck any plan. But on the other hand, it afforded an opportunity to asslune democratic control over economic forces. There would be the thorny question of a union army, police force and civil service. The right to secede from the union would be a cause of considerable debate. The coordination of union and state functions would lead to friction and there would probably be a tendency towards centralisation as time went on. All those questions would have to be studied. RUGBY SUB-UNION The dangerous state of studs on players’ boots formed the subject of a letter received by the Waimate Rugby Sub-Union from the Referees’ Association. It was decided that a weekly inspection of boots should be made, and the Referees’ Association was requested to undertake the work. The draw for Saturday is—Senior: Geraldine v. Southern at 2.45 p.m. Junior: High School v. Old Boys at 1.30 p.m.; Southern v. Huimai at 2 p.m. RED CROSS SUB-CENTRE The president (Mrs J. Coskerie) read a letter that she had received from Mr Mackintosh (Sydney), who had generously sent full instructions on how to make sheep skin articles, at a meeting of the Walkaklhi Sub-Centre of the Red Cross. During the month a quantity of linen and 22 articles had

been sent to the depot. Members were asked to offer specified articles, if needed, for the Bluecliffs Emergency Hospital, also linen, flour and salt bags. MAGISTRATE’S COURT In the Waimate Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Messrs F. Pollock and D. Macdonald, Justices of the Peace, judgment for plaintiff by default was given in the following civil cases: J. G. McDonald v. James Anderson, Jr. £l/4/6 (costs 11/-), Morrison and Malthus v. J. M. Adams, 11/- (costs 8/->. PERSONAL Word has been received that LanceCorporal Harold Herbert O'Neill, formerly of Studholme Junction, and Private P. A. Hannifin, Waimate, are safe in Egypt. Mrs L. R. Grant, Waipukurau, is visiting Waimate. Mrs S. B. Holder, who has,been on a visit to the North Island, returned to Waimate yesterday.