Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 83, 27 July 1942, Page 4

Local and General

Required for Home Guard The Heme Guard is making an urgent appeal for prismatic compasses, binoculars and telescopes. A number of generous owners have already handed some of these instruments to the Guard for the duration. All care will be taken of any articles loaned to tlie Guard. Even if a compass is out of action, send it in, for the Guard has facilities for repairing these instruments.

Taneatua Gift Parcel

Writing from England Flight Observer Trevor Griffiths of Rotorua, in 'the course of a letter to friends states: "I also visited N.Z. House and was presented with a parcel from the Tancatua War Women's Association, containing a Christmas cake with 6d in it for luck, pad, envelopes, pencil, boot laces, razor blades, chewing gum, and a tin of fruit salad. Needless to say they were greatly appreciated."

Doctors' Panel Lists Are doctors, some of whom are making up to £5000 a year from their pane] practice, still being paid lf)S a year for men whose names appear on their lists but who are now in the armed forces?" Notice to ask the Afinister of Health tihis question was given in the House of Representatives by Mr D. C. Kidcl (National, Waitaki). Anti-Climax "The circumstances in this case are rather unusual," said counsel for the defendant in the Magistrate's Court in Christehurch charged with being unlawfully on licensed premises. "The offence occurred on a Sunday. The defendant was going out to. lunch, when he saw two ostensible civilians unobtrusively entering a city hotel. Feeling the need of an appetiser, he joined them, only to discover when it was too late that they were policemen in plain clothes. Needless to say," concluded counsel, "he did not get his drink, and he did not enjoy his lunch."