Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 209, 6 September 1940, Page 4

Local and General

Awakeri Red Cross. The dancing public are reminded that the Awakeri Red Cross Society are giving a dance in the Awakeri Hall on September 17th at 8 p.m. A good orchestra and supper will he features of the evening. A Change of Name The New Zealand Gazette, as becomes such an organ, is proofed perfectly—as a rule.. That qualification is added because a supplement dated August 30th,- and received at this office on Wednesday morning, bears evidence of some haste. Setting out the conditions of sale of South Island potatoes, it states, inter alia; "I* Watler Nash, Minister of Marketing, etc. . . but did not contain a notification that the Hon. Minister had changed his christian name from 'Walter.' Suspicious Waikaremoana Fire. Suspicious circumstances surround the destruction by fire of the Y.M.C.A. at the Tuawai liydro-electric construction works, at Waikaremoana,. on Sunday night. The hall, situated some distance from the power works, was leased to the Y.M.C.A. by the Works Department and was valued at about £1200. As the fire ifi reported to have originated in a porch outside the hall, the police are making careful investigation as to its origin. Nothing was saved, the Y.M.C.A. losing two billiard tables, a radio, and a piano. Patriotism Deep-rooted. "I will give you a password for the times —"Our , country,, still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, to be defended by all our hands/' said Sir Thomas Hunter, principal of Victoria University College, addressing the Wellington branch of the Royal Society of (St. George on the subject of patriotism. He said that many modern people despised patriotism, but to him it seemed a sentiment of highest value. Many people, he said, believed that internationalism could not exist together with patriotism, and accordingly despised or condemned it. But it seemed' to him that internationalism that was not the fruit of genuine patriotism was less likely to succeed. What had happened since 1918 should be a warning to British people when principles of internationalism .were being considered.