Waihi Telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9319, 31 December 1938, Page 2

Waihi Telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The "Waihi Telegraph" will not be published on Tuesday next, January Mr A. N. Baker, who has been relieving manager at the Waihi branch )f the Bank of New Zealand for the past six months, has been advised of his transference to the Waipukurau branch. His successor, Mr lon, of Auckland, will be in Waihi to take Mr Baker's place on January 7.

At the Te Aroha Cycling Club's evening sports held on Wednesday, an attempt was made to break the Te Aroha one-lap 440 yards cycling record of 30 1-5 sees from a moving start. The Waihi rider, Alec Moffatt, ■.vas successful in accomplishing the i'eat in 30 sees. Other times were meet (Te Aroha), 30 1-5 sees; Mack (New Plymouth),) 30 2-5 sees; D. Kingsford and Carr (Waihi), 31 sees. New Year's Day at the Waihi Beach will be celebrated on Monday by the usual sports gathering for children under the auspices of the Waihi Beach Surf and Life-saving Club, which has taken over control from the old committee which conducted these sports for so many years. It is usually looked upon as the children's day out and a large gathering is anticipated on Monday.

During the holiday week, the St. John Ambulance Brigade, which is stationed at the Waihi Beach, haa had many calls on its services, and the members, Messrs S. Birse (superintendent), B. Payne (divisional secretary, in charge), Privates I. Pennell, W. Hall and Albert Pearce, have had quite a busy time. Over sixty cases have had the attention of the brigade, the major portion being sunburn and boils, while a small percentage of the cases were inflamed eyes due to the sun and sand, and two broken fingers. It has been pointed out by the responsible officers that more care should be taken in protecting the skin from the sun, as it often leaves serious after effects. This is the happiest and the best spending Christmas New Zealand has known. That is because the Government has willed it so. The fruits of the Government's policy have been seen in the places where the people of New Zealand have been doing their spending. If the Government's policy were unsound and calculated to bring ruin to the Dominion there surely would have been a different story to tell this Christmas. There never has been a Christmas like it in the history of Mew Zealand. For the shops, the hotels, the transports services, the petrol stations, the holiday resorts, the postal and telegraph services, and. in fact, for all those who cater specially for the spending public, it has been a phenomenal period.—" Tho j Standard." The General Post Office in Wellington always presents scenes of bustle

and haste over the Christmas and New Year period, but in one room there has been more than usual activity, says the "Post," It was the room in which ten specially selected members of the staff are employed sorting and deciphering the names and addresses on the mail that was salvaged from the Imperial Airways' Empire flying-boat Calpurnia, which crashed in Lake Habbaniyah, 55 miles west of Bagdad, on November 27. A

lorn, frayed and discoloured package was received from the post o/lice this morning by Mr J. M. Wrigley, but the address was quite legible. On the envelope was stamped by the postal authorities "Received in damaged condition ex flying-boat Calpurnia." All that was left of a calendar contained in the package was its wooden foundation and a picture postcard the subject of which was unrecognisable, while the pages of the covering letter were stuck together and two of them could not be parted. The rest of the letter was readable. Amongst the visitors to Waihi during the week were Mr and Mrs Dudley Holmse, of Hamilton, and Mrs Wood and Miss Wood, of Well-