LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 130, Issue 21653, 13 February 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Kicked by Horse A fractured leg was suffered by Miss Eunice Mary Mulcahy, of Tahuna, when she received a kick from a horse. She was admitted to the Waikato Hospital.

Manpower Committee The Hamilton District Manpower Committee’s appointments for next week are Taumarunui on February 17 and Te Kuiti and Otorohanga on February 18.

Police Appeal Board Under the Police Appeal Board election regulations gazetted last night one member of the board will be elected by the police force. The membership of the board will remain at three.

1000 Pairs of Stocking* It was stated at yesterday’s meeting of the Waikato Hospital Board that the Director-General of Health had inquired whether the board was willing to order stockings which would be kept in stock at the hospitals for sale to nursing staffs. The board agreed to requisition 1000 pairs of stockings a year. Red Cross on Hospitals Many people would expect to learn that the Waikato Hospital had been emblazoned with a huge Red Cross on the roof for protection against possible air raiders. It was stated at the meeting of the Waikato Hospital Board yesterday, however, that the Red Cross could be used only on military hospitals. Patriotic Gesture

Typical of the patriotic spirit being displayed by the farming community was the action of Mr Hallyburton Johnstone, of Whatawhata, at a stock sale recently. When 23 sheep offered by him were sold at 21s each he donated the sum received to the patriotic funds of the Raglan County zone. Military Appeals

The No. 2 Armed Forces Appeal Board has arranged the following sittings to hear appeals, against military service; Monday, February 16, Putaruru; February 17, Rotorua; February 18, Tauranga; February 23, Matamata; February 24, Whakatane; February 25, Opotiki; March 2, Otorohanga; March 3, Te Kuiti; March 4, Taumarunui.

Tomorrow’s (Digging In view of the fact that many of the areas are completed in the trench-digging campaign and new locations are necessary, all men who are going to dig tomorrow afternoon will assemble at the sub-station in Garden Place at 1.30 p.m. The two gangs digging in the morning will assemble one in Garden Place and the other at the Y.M.C.A. at 8.30 a.m.

Dependants’ Allowances An upward adjustment in the scale of allowances to dependants of men serving in the armed forces was suggested by Mr J. A. Lee (Democratic Labour—Grey Lynn) in notice of a question to the Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones, in the House of Representatives. The present allowances, he said, were the same as those provided in 1918, namely, £1 Is a week for the wife and 10s 6d a week for each dependent child. “Black Friday” A day dreaded by seamen and other people in whose lives superstition plays a big part, today is “Black Friday.” The superstition regarding Friday the 13th is said to have a religious origin, Friday being looked on with aversion as it was the day of the Crucifixion, and the number 13 oeing regarded as unfavourable as it was the number at the Last Supper. The last “Black Friday” fell in June last, and the next two will occur in March and November of this year.

Cycling Fatality A post mortem examination was ordered by the district coroner, Mr p. H. Morrish, at an inquest into the death of William Paul, aged three, who died at the Whangarei Hospital on Wednesday night. The father, Eugene Whare Paul, said that riding his bicycle home he carried the child on his right hip and not on the carrier, as was his usual custom. Swerving to avoid a car, he lost his balance and fell. The child clung to him and one of its feet became caught in the wheel. So far as he could tell, the only injury was a cut on the right ankle. The motorist took the child to hospital. Country Mail Delivery

“The Post and Telegraph Department cannot, as a general rule, undertake to deliver all letters to rural box holders on application at post offices on non-mail days,” said the Postmaster-General, the Hon. P. C. Webb, when replying to a question asked by Mr F. W. Doidge (Opposition—Tauranga), in the House of Representatives. The Minister said that, if a rural delivery box-holder desired, however, for urgent reasons, to obtain a letter at a post office on a non-mail day, the department was quite prepared to make a search among the unsorted letters awaiting delivery and, as a special case, to deliver the letter. Mr Doidge, in his question, said that in some districts where the rural mail delivery had been cut down to a thrice-weekly service, settlers were denied the right to collect their mail, when they were able to call at the local post office. The Minister explained that a different method of sorting was required for post office delivery from that used in rural delivery.