General News

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 180, 2 August 1940, Page 4

General News

Rotary Club Speaker. The speaker at Monday’s Wanganui Rotary Club luncheon will be Mr. A. D. Charge, who will give a talk on New Guinea.

To Be Paid By Council At the meeting of the Rangitikei County Council on Thursday it was decided to pay the superannuation payments of as many of its employees as are accepted for service with the Army, Navy, of Air Force.

Men for Light Work. The Wanganui Placement Office would be glad to receive offers trom persons who require full-time or parttime men for garden work, or looking after lawns, as they have the names of several men on their books who are unable to do hard manual labour.

Supreme Court. The Wanganui Supreme Court is to resume at 9.30 this morning, when addresses and summing up to a jury empanelled to hear a civil claim fo.damages will be given. Yesterday the July inspected the scene of an accident which gave rise to the claim. Tire scene was 11 miles nearer Wanganui than Raetihi, on the Parapara Road. ‘ Only 6!) Miles An Hour." “And tile driver of the cycle at that lime drove it -at 70 miles an hour and ran into a motor-lorry," said Mr. C. J. O’Regan to a police witness in a case in the Supreme Court at Wanganui yesterday, referring to the past history of a motor-cycle in the case? which had figured in an action six years before. Constable J. H. Beaton, Raetihi, replied that the speed had not been 70 miles an hour. His Honour, Mr. Justice Blair; No; only 69. Monotony in Malaya. "The worst feature about Malaya is that the weather is all the same the year round—it is always sticky, night and day,” said Professor N. S’. Alexander, Singapore, in an address to members of the Royal Empire Society in Auckland recently. “The days are almost exactly the same length, the average maximum temperature is about 88 degrees on the hottest days, in the coolest month the lowest aboul 75. One sometimes would give anything for a change.” Appraisal of Crutchings. Wanganui woolbrokers were busy yesterday with the appraisal of crutchings. The last of the 3500 bales will be dealt with to-day. All Wanganui brokers have shares in the small offering and the usual system of appraisal is being observed, appraisers working on a specified schedule of prices. Mr. A. Smith, headed the appraisers, and the others were Messrs. C. L. Hughes, A. Champion, R. Parkin G. V. Anderson, and E. Foster.

Military Camp. Preparations are being made fo; the military camp on the Wanganui Racecourse, which will begin on August 13, when officers and n.c.o.’s will arrive from outside centres to undergo an intensive course of training. it is not known whether there will be a wet canteen, The Wanganui camp will differ from most o£ its kind in New Zealand, for it is in an area where hotels are a short distance away and is also situated right in the city. Camps like Trentham, Burnham, ano Papakura, are some distance from centres. All have wet canteens, but all are for men of the Second New' Zealand Expeditionary Force. “Spring to It!" Speaking as president of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association and a member of the War Council in a national broadcast on Tuesday night, the Hon. W. Perry, M.L.C., san. that before long New Zealand would be an armed camp, prepared to give a good account of herself in defence oi her own shores. In addition 80,00 C men had been enlisted for overseas service, a splendid effort. But the making of the country into an armed fortress that might deter an invader depended on the spirit and morale ol the people. His message was, “Spring to it, New Zealand." Okoia Dairy Company. It is disclosed in the annual report of the Okoia Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd., which is to be presented to shareholders on Wednesday, August 14, that last season the company had 692 suppliers. The season before there were 729 suppliers. Cream received last season weighed 4,602,038 lbs. During 1938-39 the quantity received war 4,457.127ib5, Butterfat obtained from cream during the recent season weighed 1,821,2791b5. The season before that the quantity obtained was 1,739,9461b'5. The average butterfat test last season was 39,575. In the 1938-39 season it was 39.037. Insult to Nazis. “One thing you must admire about the Germans is their thoroughness," says a writer in Zealandia, the Roman Catholic newspaper. “They think ot everything, and if you happen to be a German citizen they certainly see to it that your thinking conforms to the interests of the State; that is when you think out loud. For instance, there is the story of the 80-year-old man who died in Cologne, and whose son had a memorial notice published in the daily papers: Tn memory of Ernst Muller, whom God has called to a better world.’ Next day the bereaved son was arrested on the grounds that the manorial notice constituted an insult to the Nazi State. Such admirable self-restraint, too! They did not even ask who God was. anyway, that He should transfer a German citizen without a Nazi permit." National Security Charge. Whether or not members of the New Zealand forces serving abroad are liable for the national security tax of Is in the pound in respect of a proportion of income other than salary or wages received last year, on which social security charge has already been paid, it is considered unlikely that demands for the tax' will be sent to them. No official statement was made in reply to inquiries but the view was expressed that the Taxation Department would scarcely “chase men serving abroad” for a tax imposed since their departure. Liability for the national security tax was stated to be on exactly the same basis as liability for social security charge, but official sources were unwilling to answer a direct question as to whether or not men serving abroad would be expected to pay. It was | suggested that the question was receiving consideration.