ITEMS OF INTEREST

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 163, 3 October 1941, Page 3

ITEMS OF INTEREST

We have two cats, a dog and a Press reporter on board. They all turn up in the most unexpected places. The dog and the cats are delightfuL—Sailor's letter home.

"If Italy is your enemy, you must send one or two divisions to hold her; if she is neutral, you must detail three divisions to watch her; if she is your ally, you must send ten divisions to rescue her."—Napoleon.

Under a labour legislation suspension order the electrical industry in the Northern, Wellington and Canterbury districts is permitted to employ apprentices in excess of the prescribed proportion of apprentices to journeymen. Applications for increasing the proportion of apprentices are to be made to the Apprentices Committee, which will grant them unless there is proof of insufficient work available or inadequate training facilities. There is the right to appeal to the Minister of Labour, whose decision shall be final.. It is stipulated that the proportion of apprentices to journeymen must not exceed one to one, and that employers must have had at least one qualified journeyman empuloyed for twothirds full time for six months preceding the application.

"What struck me as wonderful was the courage of the London people in the face of the blitz," said M>r W. J. Mount joy, who has just returned from England, in an address to Wellington Rotarfans, "but even more marvellous was their persistent cheerfulness. I have heard more grumbling over the lack of silk stockings and whisky in New Zealand than I heard during the whole of our stay in London. There the people were always uniformly calm and unruffled. They showed less bitterness than we do and were amazingly tolerant of everyone's views. One could still, go to Hyde Park on a Sunday and hear speakers expressingly quite openly their views on anything without interference of any kind, denoting that freedom and tli# liberty of the subject was as great in wartime in England as it was in peace."