Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 73, 3 July 1942, Page 4

Local and General

New Zealand War Correspondent The appointment of Sergeant W. A. Brodie as third war correspondent with, the New Zealand Division in the Middle East is announced. Formerly 011 the stair of the New Zealand Herald and the Taranaki Daily News, Sergeant Brodie is a brother of the Avell known New Zealand writer, John Guthrie. He was wounded towards the end of last year when serving with the New Zealanders in the Libyan campaign. Prams on Trams "The women spend 80 per cent of the money in this country, so surely they ought to be able to £et the big business houses on their side." said Mrs R. D. Ncale, speaking about the carriage of prams on trams at a meeting of the Christchurch Housewives' Union. "I ( f the women can't get into town to spend their money because they can't get their prams on the trams the big shops are going to suffer. So we ought to enlist the help of some of them to get the Tramway Board to make it easier for women with young children to get in and out of town for shopping."

Australia's' Prosperity Australia's increasing prosperity is reflected in the rise in bank dev< posits, since the war began of about £19,000,000. Deposits increased from £245,587,000 in June, 1939, to £264, 146,000 last April. In addition,, a act amount of £23,929,000 has been invested in war savings certificates In the. past two years. Difficulties of Young Mothers "This is what you might call a young district and most of the homes here have young mothers with children. The natural question arises, therefore, in the event of an emergency of where it is the duty of that mother to be —with her children or rushing oft' to an emergency post." Mr S. Spence at the meeting of E.P.S. Wardens yesterday. Civil Defence ir-Refei-ring to the appointment of a Ministry of Civil Defence in the newly formed War Cabinet, Colonel West at Wednesday's meeting of E.P.S. Wardens said it was very obvious from this that the Government had recognised the importance of the E.P.S. and would be depending upon it to carry out much im-i portant work. It was a sure sign that there was no intention of dis-< banding the movement.

Glider Record A Vichy French pilot, Nesslerr with a flight of 38 hours, 21 minutes and 24 seconds, claims the world glider duration record. Newespapermen and l E.P.S. Because in an emergency, newspapers might provide an important and essential means of conveying information to the public, it has been recommended that those newspaper employees regarded as essential for the actual production of the newspapers should be allocated to some branch of the E.P.S., such as an information suit, from which they could be_ released quickly for their work if necessary, stated a letter from the Director of National Service, Mr J, S. Hunter, read at the last meeting of the Paeroa E.P. S. Central Committee.