Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 17, 23 October 1942, Page 4

Local and General

Still Filtering In It is stated by men who have just returned to New Zealand l'rom the Middle East that months after being reported missing, men are still filtering back to Egypt, from Greece and Crete. Plunket Collection To-day Readers are reminded that to-day is the annual Plunket street, collection day and that their donations !.o this important cause will be warmly appreciated. Their patronage of the produce stall in the theatre foyer will also be appreciated. Illegally on Premises) In the Whakatanc Court before Mr J. King, J.P., last Wednesday a young Maori Rawiri Karauria Meibana, pleaded guilty to being found at night on private premises at Poroporo. He was sentenced to one month's imprisonment. Captured' N.Z. Cigarettes While he was lying wound eel alongside a captured German officer who spoke excellent English, states a New Zealand soldier who has returned from the Middle East, the German offered him some cigarettes. They were a well-known New Zealand brand, which obviously had earlier been captured, by the Germans. Amazing Operation The story is told of an amazing operation performed, in a hospital in England. A man was brought in with a live shell lired from a Missscrschmitt in his side: Knowing that the bomb might explode at any moment, the surgeon nevertheless operated. Tiie operation Avas successfully performed and the patient is making a good recovery. Police Statistics The number of persons committed to prison in New Zealand last year was 2369, an increase of 168. over the total for 1940. According to the annual report of the Department, presented to Parliament last week, this increase is almost en- j tirely accounted for by committals for breaches of the National Service Emergency Regulations in respect of military obligations. Dilapidated Laws "The sooner we scrap some ol these old, dilapidated, out-of-date, old-fashioned laws the better it will be for the country," remarked Mr D. G. Sullivan, at Wednesday's meeting of the Hauraki Plains 'County Council when a letter from the Auckland Engineering School seeking the council's support of the effort being made to have the school recognised as a training centre at which students could obtain then Bachelor of Engineering Degree (8.E.), was read.