ITEMS OF INTEREST

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 32, Issue 3292, 23 July 1943, Page 3

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Creosoted Timber Tests Marine exposure tests of creosoted timber are being conducted by the Auckland Harbour Board at the request of the State Forest Service. Sixty test pieces of creosoted timber have been placed in position in the water under the new export wharf.

Lease-Lend Machinery For N.Z. Quantities of lease-lend agricultural machinrey and equipment will shortly be made available for release to farmers throughout New Zealand, and details of the procedure have been communicated to district committees of the primary production councils in Southland. Memorial Engine

Replying to the Minister of Railways (Mr R. Semple), the Mayor of Timaru, Mr A. E. Hanan, has written asking that the Minister's proposal to remove the plaques from the memorial engine “Passchendaele” and have them erected, one at the Christchurch railway station and one at the Dunedin station, should not be proceeded with. Mr Hanan wrote that the en-

gine was a memorial to commemorate the deeds of railway men who gave their lives on the Passchendaele front during the last war. It was the engine that was the memorial, not the plaques, he said. “Marvellous Soldiers”

The pakeha soldiers back fropi iiif Middle East have warm praise for their Maori comrades. “They were marvellous soldiers,” is the way or.c summed it up. The Maori casualties had been heavy, but that was only to be expected in the fighting they had undertaken. The spirit of the whole battalion was epitomised in the late Lieutenant Ngarimu, V.C. “The War Looks Bad!”

The motorist stopped at the garage in the tiny backblock township. “The war looks bad,” he remarked to the attendant. “War? Didn’t know there was any war!” “What! You didn’t know we were fighting the Japs,” “Cripes, what are we fighting them for,” “Good heavens—but never mind. Give me 14. gallons of petrol and two new tyres!”

Greetings From Perth Greetings to the Mayor and citizens of Christchurch from the Lord Mayor and citizens of Perth, Australia, were carried by a New Zealand Army officer who recently returned to New Zealand from service overseas. Link With Lidice A New Zealand challenge to the Nazis who razed the village of Lidice, in Czechoslovakia, last year is reflected! in a notable contribution to Auckland's share of the ’Third Liberty Loan. ‘Residents of the small commu-

nity of Puhoi. near Warkworth. some of whose ancestors came from Lidice, have subscribed £215(1/10/-. Puhoi was settled SO years ago by pioneers j from Bohemia. Plenty for ,411 “Anyone who sees our production in war time must know that there is no reason why any people in the world should lack the necessaries, or even the luxuries, of life,” said Mr Douglas Robb, F.R.C.S.. in an address on the future of medicine given to members of the Auckland Creditmen's Club. Found in a Cairo Street Picked up in a Cairo street many months ago. the tramway pass issued to the late Major T. Milliken when he was a member of the Christchurch City Council before the war. was brought ,to the Christchurch Tramway Board’s office recently by a soldier who had returned from the Middle East. Tobacco For Men On Furlough

The Canteen Board announces that members of the 2nd N.Z.E.F. at pre-

sent on furlough have the facility of procuring, for their personal consumption. smokers’ requisites in military

establishments throughout New Zealand. and from canteen stores in Auckland, Palmerston North. Wellington. Blenheim. Christchurch and Dunedin. Exempted From License Fees Exemption from the payment of license fees for self-propelled mowers, and for any tractor or traction engine or trailer used exclusively for the maintenance of sport, recreation, or education grounds is provided by an amendment gazetted recently to the Motor Vehicles (Special Types) Regulations, 1937.