NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20919, 20 October 1942, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY

Women Police Three selections have been- made from Gisborne as recruits for the women police. They are Misses J.. M-e Math, M. Sim and M. Malcon, who are to leave next week to enter the training depot. Ration Book Issue * A steady demand for the laew ration book issue was maintained at the Chief Post Office. Gisborne, throughout yesterday, the first .day of the issue, and 1472 books were distributed. A counter was open at the post office during the evening, but very few people availed themselves of the opportunity of attendance at that period. A special staff of two men and six girls is engaged during the day, and it is hoped to complete the issue by the end of next week. There are 20,000 books awaiting collection at the Gisborne Post .Office. Plunket Society At the monthly meeting of the Gisborne branch of the Plunket Society held yesterday afternoon it was reported that babies under supervision , totalled 388, new babies 19, and preschool children 39G. Visits to the 1 office totalled 499 adults, 437 babies and 70 children, making a total of 1006 visitors. Nurses paid 196 visits to homes. In the out-stations, 26 babies were visited at their homes, and 42 attended the office, the Mangatuna j figures being four and 12 respectively,! Tokomaru Bay one and 36, Manutuke 17 and 12, and Waipaoa 26 homes visited and Te Karaka 27 visitors at the office. Guard Officer Farewelled Members of B Company of the Gisborne Battalion, Home Guard, assembled last evening to farewell Lieutenant A. W. Harper, the company’s second-in-command since its inception nearly two years ago. The 0.C., Captain G. I. Parker, expressed his and the company’s appreciation: of the’ efforts of. Lieutenant Harper in the interests of the company, and said .he would be very hard to replace. Lieut. Harper’s interest had -commenced when the Legion of Frontiersmen started parades 2i years ago, and had continued ever since. Captain Parker made a presentation on behalf of the company, and bis remarks were endorsed by several other speakers. Penalties of Pacifism "We have had our political and diplomatic weaknesses, but all have been due to pacifist public opinion,” said Mr. F. G. Hall-Jones. district governor of Rotary, in an address to the Dunedin Rotary Club. "Mr. Baldwin warned in vain,” he added, “that ‘the bomber will always get through’ and that ‘Britain’s frontier :is on the Rhine.’ Mr. Chamberlain, when Chancellor of the Exchequer, put through a rearmament vote of £150,000,000, but the money could not be spent. Business men refused to join tHe despised and hated class of munition manufacturers. When Lord Londonderry boasted in 1935 that he had preserved the bombing plane for use in the British Army, such was the howl of indignation throughout England th&t he had to be dropped from the Cabinet,”