Soldier Stranded in Lift

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 63, 10 June 1942, Page 5

Soldier Stranded in Lift

Tα be alone in a lift which suddenly became stationary during its descent was the experience of a Hastings soldier in the T. and G. Buildings in Napier recently. After passing the , second floor the lift stopped about half-way to the first floor, and the soldier's efforts to summon assistance by pressing the alarm button were of no avail. Some 20 minutes elapsed before he managed to* get the lift going again, during which time he pressed every button emplojjed in the operation of the mechanism. The lift naturally responded only when he pushed the inner steel floor into its correct position. Children and Films Supporting the Wanganui Education Board, which considered that films Avere largely responsible for delinquency in children, and that an educational officer should be on the Board, of Censors, the Wellington Education Board has advocated the need for a stricter censorship, and that theatre- proprietors should be made legally responsible that children are not present during the screening of films for adults. The fact that some films were recommended for adults merelj r made children curious, said Mr C. H. Nichoils Manj' of these films gave children Avrong impressions. There was a Aveakness in a system that permitted films suitable for adults being shown at matinees, said the chairman, Mr W. V. Dyer.

Heroes of the War

"You have to take off your hat to the Merchant Navy, which is doing continually dangerous work and which will play a very considerable part in winning this war." said Mr 11. W. Morgan in an address to Christehureh businessmen recently. "Without the Merchant Navy Ave cannot receive the thousands of tanks ami guns and aeroplanes that America is turning out to-day; they are real heroes of the war, and deserve the utmost respect." Mr Morgan said that he travelled on a ship that carried munitions and aircraft, and he- wns lull of admiration for the men wiio, well av<are of their danger, were doing this Avork. "Try travelling night alter night and day after day sitting on top of a gunpowder plot of this kind, and see what you think-," he said.