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Evening Star, Issue 24327, 16 October 1942, Page 2

Regulations which were gazetted last night enable the destruction at tho discretion of a judge of obsolete records of the Supreme, Arbitration, and Appeal Courts, provided the records are not less than 20 years old. The object of the regulations is to foster the salvage of waste paper. A Press Association message states that under the will of Airs Mary Rothney Orr, of Christchurch, widow of Mr Alexander Orr, of Methven. fanner, the following bequests are made;—Dr Barnardo’s Homes, £2.000; Cholmondeley Memorial Children's Homo (Inc.), Governor’s Bay, £2,000; Christchurch Domains Board. £I.OOO. A fine of £lO, and costs, was imposed at Wellington by Air J. L. Stout, S.AL. on D’Arcy Geary for failure to attend a compulsory parade of an E.P.S. warden’s group. The defendant said bo had no excuse to offer. Tho magistrate said ho did not know .what to do with such people. If they did not attend parades he would have to send them to prison. The defendant had a duty to undertake whether ho liked it or not. Air Justice Kennedy has granted probate in the following estates : —Henry Halsey, member of the N.Z.E.F. overseas ; Lyall Alexander McGregor, member of the N.Z.E.F. overseas; Elisabeth Loudon, widow. Kind Bush; Alary Hogg, widow, of Dunedin; Alexander Douglas, retired medical practitioner, Oamaru; James Cherry, retired tailor, Dunedin; Arthur Pratley, gardener, Sawyers Ray; Catherine Margaret Irene Howden, spinster, Dunedin ; Alan Douglas Anderson, member of tho N.Z.E.F : Oswald Russell Kerens, member of His Majesty’s Forces; Alfred Arthur Cockerell, labourer, Hyde; Bridget Hannagan. widow. Dunedin; Annie Julia Broderick, spinster. Dunedin; Cornelius White, sheep farmer, Omakaii. (

Post Office Savings Bank' deposits in July (£3.232.937). according to the August Abstract of Statistics, were higher than in any month (at least since 1923), and compare with £2.8C7.254 for the previous mouth. Withdrawals (£1,990.594) were on the low side, and the excess of deposits over withdrawals for the month reached the record high figure of £1.242.360. The Hospital Board has received advice from the Director-General of Health stating that the department is prepared to recommend the Minister to consent to the erection of an additional floor to the X-ray building at the Dunedin Hospital. The board’s architect lias been instructed to prepare the necessary plans. Fifteen cases for relief involving the expenditure of £l6 6s Hid were dealt with by the Benevolent Committee of the Otago Hospital Board during September. Notifiable diseases reported to the medical officer of health for the Otago district for the week ended to-day were two eases of tuberculosis, one case of ccrebro-spinal meningitis, and one ease of erysipelas. One case of tuberculosis was reported from Southland. About ID a.m. to-day, directly on the curve at Cargill's Corner, the motor ease drooped from a tram bound for St. Clair. Traffic was held up for over an hour until the tram could be taken back to the depot. Thera was no damage. For the first time the Army Nursing Service and the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps are constituted part of the defences forces within the meaning of the Defence Act, 1909. Provision for this is made in an amendment to the Defence Emergency Regulations, 1941, which was gazetted last night. Previously neither of these women’s services were units of the defence forces within the meaning of the Act, although the Army Nursing Service has been established for some years. The amendment gazetted defines the terms of service and provides for transfers from the Nursing Service to the AV omen’s Auxiliary Army Corps. The Peninsula County Council decided unanimously at its meeting yesterday to support the Waikato Hospital Board’s request to the Government for hn increase in payments to hospital boards from the Social Security Fund. Members of a military camp in the Auckland area take special pride in a clog which has attached itself to them, and which makes a feature of turning out every time the call is sounded for tho changing of the guard. First “ man ” on parade each time is the dog, which always heads the squad through the various evolutions until the new guard has been set, whereupon he dismisses himself to seek company elsewhere. The common story goes that as a raw recruit the dog made a “ buddy ’ of a particular soldier, but when this pal of his incurred penalties for several breaches of the regulations the dog showed his displeasure by transferring his friendship to another member of the camp. J ust what were his nailing and connections iu civil life the dog has not deigned to reveal, but somewhere he seems to have absorbed a strong sense of military duty. The road from .Te Anau to the Homer tunnel is not open to general motor traffic beyond the Divide, which is 54 miles from Ts Anau and 10 from the tunnel. This information has been received by tho Automobile Association (Southland) from the Public Works Department. There is a locked gate across the road at the Divide and another at Marion Camp. Permission has to bo obtained from the Public AA r orks Department to pass through these gates, but , such .permission would- not he of much use to the average motorist as the road from the Divide to the tunnel is fit only for lorries. The road from Te Anau to tho Divide is quite suitable for cars. The executive of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce met yesterday, the main business being in connection with the annual conference to he held at Wanganui next month, and delegates were appointed to attend and the remits considered. It was decided to recommend to members that they invest in the Liberty Loan and do what they can to see that the Dunedin quota of £BOO.OOO is fully subscribed. Other matters discussed were censorship regulations and the matter of an airport on the foreshore, both of which were left to be further discussed at the council meeting, when more information will be before members. A Boston newspaper which has been received by an Auckland resident states that cows on some of the farms at AVellfleet. in the Cape Cod district of Massachusetts, have been munching N.Z. hay as the result of a beachcombing expedition by their owners. Eleven large bales of hay were discovered after being brought in by the tide, every ■one being marked “ Fine Marlborough 'Hay Supply Company, G. AV. Parker Limited, Blenheim, New Zealand. It was thought that the hay was part of a deck load on a merchantman bound for Britain “ In this area there must he as many as 2,000 men who are shirking their responsibility to serve with civil defence organisations,” said the chief traffic inspector, Mr E. H. Barrett, at a meeting of Emergency Precautions organisations at Ravensbourne last night. These would soon experience a rude awakening. Air Barrett continued. Each controller was at present issuing the personnel under him with identification tags, which they would subsequently have to show to their employers in order to prove that they wore serving in an E.P.S unit. Defaulters would thus be exposed. AA’ar activities enter even into prisons Work. The annual report on the subject states that in addition to the reclamative effort energies have been focused on increased production to assist in the national war effort. Prisoners have beenemployed mainly at farming, quarrying, road works, tailoring, bootmaking, and laundering. Besides its occupational value, a good proportion of this work is directly related to the war effort. The total credits for the year wore £80.514, representing an increase of approximately £3.000, thereby reducing the gross prisons expenditure from £158.704 to a net charge against taxation of £78.190, or £BO per head.—Parliamentary reporter. A challenge to the Leader of the Opposition to resign bis seat in order to contest an election in the same 1 constituency against him was made by Air Kyle (Riccarton) iu the House last night. He said ho was prepared to immediately resign his present seat for that purpose. They should go to the poll on the issue of the no-confidence motion. (Government applause.) Mr Kyle said he was on the cross benches because he differed from the Leader of the Opposition on this point. AVhen the mining trouble was discussed in the National Party caucus a ballot paper was produced which mentioned the first issue as being that work be resumed under State control, tho dispute to be referred to the Disputes Committee. The Prime Alinister: Is it seriously •stated that any member of the caucus said that thing was tho ballot paper? Air Kyle replied that this was the ballot, paper reported to the caucus, but the member for Kaipara stated in the caucus that it was not the correct paper. —P arli amo nta ry reporter.

The Dmiedin Junior Patriotic Concert Party visited a military camp on Thursday night to entertain the troops. The accompanists for the evening were Mrs Kirk-Burnnand and Mr Lee. Captain Stubbs thanked Mr Lee and his party for the evening's entertainment.