Waihi Telegraph With which is incorporated THE WAIHI MINER MONDAY, NOVEMBER. 2, 1942 LOCAL & GENERAL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXI, Issue 8839, 2 November 1942, Page 2

Waihi Telegraph With which is incorporated THE WAIHI MINER MONDAY, NOVEMBER. 2, 1942 LOCAL & GENERAL

Prisoner of War Previously reported missing, believed prisoner of war, Sergeant Gordon K. Boxall, son of Mr and Mrs F. W. Boxall, of Consols Street, is now officially listed as being held prisoner. Albatross Takes Off A good take-off was made by the albatross which made a forced landing on a Charlton (Southland) farm recently.. The albatross was taken to the tip of a rise and launched into the w>ind. When last seen it was heading for the sea. It is thought from the size of the albatross, that it was only a youngster, and this probably accounted for its being blown so far inland.

Feeling the Strain An indication that even German soldiers of the crack Afrika Korps fighting in Egypt have not all got their hearts in the war is given in a letter written recently by a St. Kilda soldier, states the “Otago Daily Times.” “One day we took a few Jerry prisoners,” he writes. “The German officer who led his men in, speaking perfect English, said: ‘Thank God, we are out of that.’ I take it from that remark that they must also be feeling the strain.”

Treating Incendiaries New York has evidently experienced the same trouble over the treatment of incendiary bombs as New Zealand, for a clipping from an American paper shows the Mayor, Mr Fiorello H. La Guardia, upholding the spray method in a controversy with a Federal official who maintained that jets were the only way to treat incendiaries. The New York Fire Department, the paper added, had arranged for an open-air demonstration of the two methods. The superintendent of the Christchurch Fire Brigade, to whom the clipping was shown, said that the preferred method of dealing with ( thermite incendiaries was with a jet.

Disrespect Alleged “I am jealous of the respect due to the office of Mayor of Christchurch,” said the Mayor (Mr E. H. Andrews) at an Emergency Precautions Services meeting. “I have not always had it from some Government officials.” Mr Andrews said one man had declared that he would not confer with any “tin-pot” mayor. The Governor-General or a Minister of the Crown would not visit the city without informing the Mayor, but some Government officials had even arranged Emergency Precautions Services meetings -without telling him about it, added Mr Andrews. They did not know the proprieties.