Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 75, 8 July 1942, Page 4

Local and General

V.A.D. Passes The name of Miss E. Armstrong should have been included in the recent list of successful passes at the recent V.A.U. examinations conducted at Taneatua. Still No Sigtn The search for the. Hindu .Rai Kapcor who was swept out to sea last Thursday evening still continues. Reports this morning show (hat there is still no sign of the missing man. Woman R.S.A. President "This is historic," said the president of the New Zealand Returned Services Association, Mr Perry, M.L.C., in announcing to the association's conference that Sister L. Higginson, matron of the Greytown -Hospital, has been elected president of the Greytown R.S.A. They had had to wail till 1942 for a woman to become president of a local R.S.A. branch, he remarked. Something to Remember There are five British soldiers back in England who have reason to ■ remember their escape from Crete. They had given up all hope of getting away when out of the mountains came a little wizened man tvho offered to get them safely off the island. After they had followed him for two nights they were convinced that he Avas going to betray them to the Germans, instead of which he took them right through the Ger-< mans lines to the coast. Then he went back for more British soldiers to rescuei Labour for Graves "I 'know that grave digging has not been declared an essential industry but it is something we must have all the same," said an appellant before the No. 1 Armed Forces Appeal Board (Napier) on behalf of the sexton of the Taradale and Puketapu cemeteries, who had been called for military service. One of the members of the board contended that although grave digging was hard work, there were many men who- could be called on in an emergency, and any man who could put down strainer posts could, dig o grave. It Avas deckled to release the reservist for service in three months' time.