POST WAR RECONSTRUCTION

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 66, 17 June 1942, Page 4

POST WAR RECONSTRUCTION

Ectgecumbe Dance Cancelled The dance advertised in our last issue to take place in the Edgecumbe hall on Saturday, June 20th has been cancelled owing to counter attractions. Stand up Home Guardsmen "How many Home Guardsmen are present—stand up," said Colonel Dawe at last Monday's meeting of the County District Wardens. When the obvious response proved to be a single Home Guardsman who was in attendance, Col Dawe continued—• "Well gentlemeen there are some pretty young faces here and I put it to you that their proper plaee should be in the Home Guard.''

THIS is a subject which is figuring' more and more in the public eye. It is universally believed that the present war must prelude the birth of a newer and better state of world order, else we must risk the frightfulness of its repetition a,gain and again until we have absorbed its lessons. The sponsors of a New Zealand-wide movement for the promotion of a more tolerant code of living in the post war period, is already active in this country, and has already launched its campaign under the title of "The People's Plan." This movement has the support of the majority of the thinking people of the Dominion. The churches endorse its more spiritual aspect, which has a high place in the scheme of reconstruction proposed, while the economic aspect is also given careful and adequate consideration. Whakatane residents will have the opportunity on Tuesday next of contacting for the first time in an official capacity one of the pioneers of the movement,, in the person of Mr Brian Dunningham, a gifted young New Zealander of radio fame, who will give public addresses in the Presbyterian Hall, Edgecumbe, on Monday evening and in the Caledonian Hall, Whakatane, on Tuesday evening. The subject matter is definitely of vital importance to every man, woman and child.

It is Not True "The stories of hospitals being bombed by German and Japanese nirmen, are definitely not true,'" said Lieut. Col. Dawe, at the meeting of the district E.P.S. Wardens last Monday. All reports from the front show that they have scrupulously respected the red cross sign. When it has happened, it was because some nit-wit of an artillery officer has put up a battery of anti aircraft guns in the vicinity of the hospital compound. We can expect bombs Mien for we would be accused of being dirty and rightly so—for we would be hiding behind the Red Cross!