HITHER AND THITHER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 167, 18 July 1939, Page 2

HITHER AND THITHER

Harrier Dance To-nigiht. To-night in the Glasgow Street Hail another popular Harrier dance will be held. The Masqueraders’ Swing Trio will be playing s;ucial numbers for the old-time and modern dances. | There will be Montes and novelties. The Latest Brooches. Nettleship s have a collection of the newest brooches that are worth look- , ing at. As well as the lovely coloured ' ones there arc national brooches, in- ' eluding Scotch and Irish designs.* English Engagement. The engagement is announced of Mr. David Keir, the political and lobby J correspondent of the News Chronicle, to Miss Thelma Cazalet, Nationalist.* ■ Conservative M.P. for East Islingscn. ; Miss Cazalet, who is the only daughter 1 of the late Mr. W. M. Cazalet, of Fairlawne, near Tonbridge, and Mrs. i Cazalet, has served as a London county councillor and aiderman. She became M.P. for East Islington in 1931, and retained the scat at the < 1935 election. Miss Cazalet is an ex- ■ pert in housing and education i.she is , Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Kenneth Lindsay, Parliamentary , Secretary to the Board of Educ.u.ion). , She is also interested in art end music. • Her brothers are Captain Pictor ('’aza- ; i let, M.P. for Chippenham, and Mr. P. , V. F. Cazalet, the amateur steeplechase rider. When in 1925 she was ; elected Munici; rd Reform eandiLtle for East Islington—for which constituency Miss Cazalet is now M.P. - she was the youngest member of the London County Council. She las managed to combine social life with a public career, is really interested in clothes, has played in the Parliamentary golf handicap, and is a proficient tennis player. She rus played for Kent. Mr. Keir is the :on of the late Thomas Keir, of Lauder and Dumfries. He has held his present post since 1933, and last year was chairman of the Parliamentary lobby journalists. He is a graduate of Edinburgh University, and a former president nt the union of that university. Danger b rom Japan. Speaking to members of lho Lyceum Club, Auckland, this week, Colonel H. E. BarrowdouH said Japan could conduct hostile operations against New Zealand in throe different ways—by sending a fleet, by sending small landing parlies from ships. ( and by occupying the country. She had the tonnage to bring here what men she wanted, she had about 4,000.000 soldiers Io call upon and she ' had command of the Pacific in that ' nothing at Singapore could stop her i fleet from passing. “We have a .song here which is called ‘God Defend New Zealand.’ ’’ said Colonel Barrowclough. “The attitude here seem.s to be. however, ‘God and America defend New Zealand, but do not ask tjie New Zealanders to do it.’ Why, on the other • hand, should America risk a singlelife or a single ship for a country which will not make any real effort to defend itself.’’ Colonel Barrowclough said much was being talked of

■ the territorial units being formed in the Dominion, but these units were being formed only on paper. Since last September the Territorial Force had increased somewhat, but the men had had no training worth speaking of. If Japan decided to invade the Dominion she could get. here in 21 days from the time she left Japan and the warning in this country would be short. would be no time to e train the men who were to defend the v country. “It is not a fair thing to exn pect your city to be defended by the e Territorial Army which consists for i the most ;»art of boys of 18 years. ,f The people to defend this country should be me between the ages of 21 and 40.’’ Colonel Barrowclough added e that it had been the experience of . t most in the last year that, no matter 4 how husky a boy of 18 looked he was y prone to break down under the strain of modern warfare.