MARTON NOTES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 276, 22 November 1943, Page 2

MARTON NOTES

HARVESTING PROBLEM MEN IN CAMP AVAILABLE A comprehensive scheme to assist harvesters was placed before a meeting of the Marton Primary Production Committee at Marton on Friday evening by Lieut.-Colonel J. W. Barry, N.Z.S.C., who was accompanied by Captain A. K. Furrie and Mr. A. R. Donaldson, secretary of the Wanganui Central Committee. Men will be called up under tht month’s camp training provision, and in Area 6 will be accommodated in existing camps at Wanganui, Waiouru, Feilding, Levin, and Linton, where the maximum of comfort in the way of hut accommodation and hot bath facilities are available and will be available from December 1. The troops will be posted as far as possible to the camp nearest their homes, stated Lieut.-Colonel Barry. The Army will provide the transport daily from the camps to the farms where the harvesting is to be done, up to a radius of 20 miles. In Area 6 it is expected that most farms requiring labour can be thus covered from one or other of the camps being used, but in odd cases of farms at a distance men could be billeted on the farm while working there. Reservists called up for harvesting will be paid ordinary Army rates and allowances, plus 6d an hour bonus for an eight-hour day. Work done beyond eight hours will be voluntary, and men undertaking it will be paid for the extra hours so worked at the rate of 2s 6d an hour. These bonus payments will be made by warrant as soon as possible after the men return to their civil occupation. Army pay will be on the usual fortnightly basis. Lleut-Colonel Barry explained that a special staff had been appointed at each camp to control the scheme, so that farmers requiring assistance would be able in an emergence such as weather changes, to make immediate contact with the company commander concerned. This would be valuable in getting a smooth running for the plan. The area commander explained that by using available camp facilities closer co-operation between the Army and farmers requiring labour would be possible, and, in addition, if the men were not required for harvesting for their full month in camp the odd time could be utilised in giving soldier training. Time sheets will be kept, and farmers will be charged at the rate of 2s 6d an hour for labour, the Army providing meals and accommodation, and transport for the troops to and from the farms daily. If Army vehicles are used for actual harvesting operations they will be charged for at the rate of 3s 6d an hour for trucks up to three tons, and 5s for heavier vehicles.

On the information so far supplied to the Area commander by primary production councils 800 men will be required over the four months, the number being called up in the Wanganui district being approximately 120. The men will be drafted in on a monthly basis, and provision has been made for Christmas and New Year leave for those who are in uniform at those periods. The scheme will be considered at a conference of commandants of camps at Wanganui. The speaker answered a number ot questions to the satisfaction of those present, and at the conclusion of his interesting talk a hearty vote of thanks was carried by acclamation to the visitors and Lieut.-Colonel Barry. Wheat growing for 1944-45 was referred to Mr. G. L. Marshall to reply to the Director of the Fields Division. - Mr. G. L. Marshall presided over Messrs. J. Caithness, B. Cochran, S. Wilson, J. Brice. A. C. Birch, W. G. Hawkins, E. G. Frederick. A. S. Coleman, J B. S. Dudding, J. A. Harris. F. C. Jurgens, E. G. Frederick, and J. H. C. Broad (secretary). COURT LITTLE JOHN, A.O.F. The monthly meeting of Court Little John, A.0.F., will be held in the Druids’ Hall to-morrow (Tuesday) evening, at 8 o'clock. CIVIC THEATRE, MARTON "A YANK AT ETON"

Mickey Rooney prove again why he is Hollywood’s number one star in “A Yank at Eton,” concluding at the Civic Theatre to-night. This new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film is acclaimed as another triumph for the inimitable Rooney. As a typical American Boy in England’s most exclusive school, Mickey has some of the most hilarious scenes of his film career, and some of the most dramatic. While Mickey is his usual brilliant self as “The Yank,” Freddie Bartholomew, playing in his fifth picture with Rooney, also is outstanding. Now a full head taller than Mickey, he is hard to recognise as the little boy who once starred in “David Copperfield.” A MONTH’S IMPRISONMENT

On a charge of theft of a wooden ornamental bowl from a shop in Broadway, Marton, Thomas Alexander McGregor, an old offender with 50 previous convictions, and 70 years of age, appeared before Messrs. A. C. M. Parkinson and D. Ingle, J’sP., at the Marton Court last week, and was convicted and sentenced to one month’s imprisonment in the Wanganui prison.

MARTON BOWLING CLUB FULL RINK COMPETITION The second round of the full rink competition was played on the Marton green on Saturday in favourable weather. Following are the results: Gardner, Fowler, Kilpatrick, Callan 17 v. Mo.gridge, Winchcombe, Gibbs, Hamer 22; Smith, Freeth, Finnemore, Poidevin 20 v. R. Williams, Morgan, Ball, Caverhill 17; Honeyman, Sutton, Nuttall, Goebel 25 v. Dashwood, Healey, Thomson, Atkinson 21; Black, Set ford, Hempieman, Brabyn 16 v. W. J. Brown, K. Williams, Lourie, Rayner 18; Dixon, Bending, Lewis, R. Bland 22 v. Foreman, Petrie, Sanders, Hunter 21; Walters, J. Bland, Gorrie, Marr 24 v. Gibson, Baines, Morris, Barton 17; Adams, Head, Way, Tilley 17 v. Jonski, McDonald, Jobberns, Hawkins 18. TIN-IJNED CASES WANTED The Rangitikei New League urgently need tin-lined cases from 12in. to 2ft. square for sending cakes, etc., overseas.