Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 30, 3 December 1943, Page 4

Local and General

New Cemetery Approach Steps will be taken by the Whakatanc County Council to metal the approach and tlr'ive to the new Hillcrest cemetery in approximately two weeks time.. Rehabilitation Regulations Amended rehabilitation regulations provide that children of servicemen killed or totally incapacitated may qualify for benefits under the Rehabilitation Act, irrespective of whether their mother is living or dead. This removes an anomaly in the previous regulations., which debarred children of deceased servicemen from such benefits unless the mother were dead. Growth of R.S.A. The financial membership of the R.S.A. throughout the Dominion at October 31 stood at 43,763,. including 698,7 of those, returned from .the present w*ar. This was reported to the half-yearly meeting of the. Waikato Returned Services' Association at its last meeting by the president, Mr Arthur Fow. who added that the figures for the. same time last year were 35,518 an<J 2108.

Skipper Francis' Visit Those who were interested in Skipper Francis visit to Whakatanc last Tuesday in the interests of the crippled and afflicted will be pleased to learn that his one-day Collection in this' town rcaised just over £19. Going Easy On Him ! Lt has happened ! A Yorkshire child baptised the other day was given the names Timoshenko Stalingrad. The only thing to be said about it is that, considering some of the other Russian place names j Stalingrad must be considered, practically an act of mercy. Three Mistakes ''Very little things sometimes arc the beginnings of domestic misunderstandings/' said Mr Justice Blair, speaking to the Society for the Protection of Women and Children at Wellington. "Husbands make three mistakes. Tiles'- get. out of the habit of saying 'thank you' to their wives. As a matter of fact wives should always say it to tlieir husbands. They do it more frequently than their husbands do it' to them. Another tiling husbands must never do is to forget the date of their wives' birthdays. They should never forget the anniversary of. their wed- ; ding day."

New lVjd Stamp Now Zealand's Centennial postage stamps would have all been withdrawn from use at the end ol the centennial year had not the war made the. saving of paper necessary. Therefore each denomination continued in use until printed supplies were used up. With most values this very soon happened, but the halfpenny and the penny-halfpenny, being comparatively little iu demand, still survive. They are now the only Centennial stamps in use. The. halfpenny is likely to continue in use for some; time yet. but stoiks of the penny-halfpenny are nearing an end,, and at the beginning of Februarv next a new penny-hallpenny stamp will take its place. J his stamp will be similar to the ciincnt King Ceorge VI series and will be red in colour.