LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 June 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Army Reserve Transport. Routine orders for the week, issued by instruction of Captain D. B. Curry, in respect to the Army Reserve Transport, No. 13 Lines of Communication Company, are as follow: Tonight all Masterton personnel vzill parade at A. & P. Rooms at 7. Sunday, June 21: There will be no company parade on this date. Tuesday, June 23: All officers and n.c.o’s. and other personnel wishing to attend will parade at the A. and P. Rooms at 7 p.m. Sale of Petrol, Following on representations by the Petrol Advisory Committee regulations have been made providing for uniform hours for the retail sale of motor spirits throughout the Dominion during the present emergency. These hours- are as follows:Weekdays, 7.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.; Saturdays, 7.30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Sundays, closed all day. Special provisions have been made to enable petrol to be obtained during closing hours in cases of an emergency which a driver could not reasonably have been expected to foresee or provide for. R.S.A. Work Appreciated. At the annual conference of the New Zealand Returned Services’ Association held in Wellington yesterday, the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, expressed his appreciation of the work of the association, specially its strong, vigorous and enthusiastic support of New Zealand’s war effort ever since September 3, 1939. Never on a single occasion had the R.S.A. failed, and he was confident of its contribution in the future. He hoped the new returned soldiers would join the association, the co-operation of which the Government would welcome in giving the men what they deserved. Sunday Pictures for Servicemen. Arrangements were completed yesterday and confirmed by the Film Industry Board in Wellington for the opening of two Auckland picture theatres next Sunday to members of the armed forces and their friends. Mr M. J. Moodabe, representative of the motion picture interests on the mayor’s Sunday entertainment committee, said the arrangement at present applied to next Sunday only. The theatres would open at 8.15 p.m. in order not t'o clash with the church services . The programmes shown would be the same as on the preceding night. The same charges would be made and each serviceman attending might be accompanied by one friend. Shortage of Teachers. The question of appealing for balloted teachers because of the acute shortage was discussed by the Auckland Education Board yesterday, when Mr S. B. Sims, Hamilton, said that in two recent Gazettes there were vacancies for 48 teachers that attracted no applications. He gave notice to move at the next meeting to rescind the board’s previous resolution to appeal only for head teachers of schools grade four and higher and teachers of mathematics and science in secondary departments of district high schools, and to resolve that in future the board appeal for all teachers. The board’s secretary, Mr Nixon, said later that more than 500 teachers from the Auckland province were now in the fighting services.