LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

House Construction Scheme.

During the year ended March 31, 1942, 2605 dwelling units were begun by the Department of Housing Construction, comprising 1444 single-unit houses, 383 double-unit houses, 16 three-unit houses and 49 blocks of 347 flats.

Women's War Service Auxiliary. The Women’s War Service Auxiliary in Masterton now has a strength of 175. A successful parade was held last night, at which there was a muster of over 100. A n.c.o. class was selected for special training. The various sections also commenced a course of instruction under Home Guard officers. Felt Like a “Conchy.”

It’s a sign of the times when a girl feels “outside the pale” because she’s not in uniform. When ' five Auckland girls went out together on a recent night, there was only one not in uniform. As it happened, she was filling a man’s place in a bank, but on this occasion, while the soldier girls flung “mess’ gossip about and chronicled the doings of Corporal Mary Jones and Sergeant Sally Smith, she felt, she said, “like a conchy.” Manslaughter Charge.

Arising from the death of Alice Takarua ,aged 20, a Maori, on the HimatangiFoxton road on the night of January 24, James Trevor Morgan, aged 28, a truck driver, was charged in the Magistrate’s Court at Palmerston North yesterday with manslaughter, and was remanded to appear at Foxton on February 8. He was also charged with breaking and entering the premises of Jolly and Mills, Ltd., with intent to commit theft, also with the unlawful conversion of a car valued at £385, the property of Jolly and Mills, Ltd. On these charges he was remanded till next Tuesday.

Radiolocation Recruiting. A special endeavour is at present being made to recruit girls and women into the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, for direct entry into the radiolocation units of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. To give all eligible women an opportunity to volunteer for this vital and interesting work, the local Women’s War Service Auxiliary office, which is receiving all applications, will remain open to nine o’clock on Friday nights, for the duration of the appeal. A recruiting stand will also be open today and on Friday in Queen Street. Girls and War Service.

“Girls enlisting ror service in the armed forces are covered by the Occupational Re-establishment Emergency Regulations in the same manner as males, and they are entitled thereunder to reinstatement in their civil occupations on demobilisation,’ states the Director of National Service, Mr J. S. Hunter. “Apparently,” he adds, “some girls who are desirous of enlisting in the armed forces, and who are employed in undertakings which have not been declared essential, have resigned their positions with the idea of facilitating their entry into the armed forces. By so doing they place themselves outside the protection afforded by the regulations.” The director stressed the advisability of a girl remaining in her present position till such time as she was actually posted for service with the forces. On receipt of a mobollsation notice she should promptly advise her employer, but she should not tender her resignation if she wished to have the benefit of the Occupational Re-estab-lishment Emergency Regulations. Her employer was debarred by the National Service Emergency Regulations from dismissing her because of her entry into the forces. .