NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24414, 27 September 1940, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF

According to the annual report of the Wanganui Garrison Band, the band, apart from rehearsals, assembled on 165 occasions during the year. " I think it is safe to say that the motor industry has supplied most of the skilled workers for the shops of the New Zealand Air Force." said Mr J. Upton at a Hastings meetings last week at which the Government was attacked on its petrol-rationing policy. "We get no credit for that," he said. "If the Government had been called upon to train them it would have taken years." Attention to the fire escapes at the Wanganui Jubilee Home has been drawn by women's organisations in the city interested in the patients. Mrs E. M. Scott reported to the Wanganui Hospital Board that she had gone into the matter with the acting chairman of the board (Mr W. J. Rogers. M.L.C.) and the managing secretary (Mr L. V. Kerby), and the escapes are now in excellent order. The regulation; specify that all householders have a letter box placed as close as possible to the street front. Dickinson Myiton Ltd. can supply. Address: 204 Crawford street, nearly >pp. Otago Farmers'... Military guard duties in Palmerston North formerly conducted by the members of the Class II Reserve have now been taken over by a permanent guard There were about a dozen applications for the positions. A Taradale resident, a keen gardener, arose the other morning (says a Napier paper) to find that a fine crop of young peas, which had been sprouting healthily, had disappeared. Investigation showed that the entire crop had been pecked off at the junction with the earth, presumably by a covey of quail which has been causing a nuisance in that district lately. " Whoever did that sort of thing is a poor specimen of humanity," said Mr M. J. Gemmell, when referring at a meeting of the Wairoa Borough Council to the practice adopted by some people who displayed bad taste by putting silly notes in tins and giving them as gifts in the recent parcels drive in Wairoa. The Mayor. Mr H. L. Harker, said it was certainly a very unfair thing to do. " Waterloo" whisky cannot be bettered anywhere. Order your next supply from Crossan's Waterloo Hotel Caversham...

Maori carvings which will be placed on the porch leading into the restored Onuku Church at the Kaik, Akaroa, are at present in Christchurch. These carvings are a Centennial gift from the Government to the Maori people of Banks Peninsula and will be a handsome addition to the old church, which was restored for the Akaroa Centennial celebrations. The church is now in constant use.

"' Since the beginning of this term the school has received a great number of incmiries for boys and girls to fill Dositions in various occupations," said the principal of Dannevirke High School (Mr E. M. Hogben) in his report to the board last week. " The majority of these vacancies arise from war conditions. In the circumstances in which the nation is at present placed, such increased employment of youthful labour is inevitable, but I must express the hope that as far as possible everything will be done to see that the present generation of youth is not deprived of its educational opportunity." Cotton days are here again, and we are pleased to call the attention of Milton ladies to the materials and frocks now showing at Gray's Big Store...

A decision to abandon the Wanganui Show, which was to have been held in November, was reached at a meeting of the executive of the A. and P. Association last Wednesday. The president explained that every endeavour had been made to hold the annual show, and when it was certain that the military camp on the racecourse would be continued indefinitely other sites had been viewed. "The recent establishment of a'cottage for the training of Maori girls in domestic arts is an epoch-making event on which all concerned are to be congratulated 1 . The contribution to its success made by the four women of the district who act as honorary instructresses, merits the highest commendation. The girls themselves are already proud of their achievements in these Vitally important homely arts." The above paragraph appeared in the report by the senior inspector of schools, Mr R. R. Hunter, concerning his visit to the Pungarehu School, read at the meeting of the Taranaki Education Board this week. ; An auxiliary police force, consisting of ex-servicemen, is to be formed in Wanganui to assist in the emergencv precautions scheme in which ex-ser-vicemen are asked to enrol. The auxiliary force will not be open to those who have already joined the National Military Reserve, the Home Guard or other specialist units. The secretary of the Wanganui branch of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association. Mr F. G. Seddon, said the duties of the proposed auxiliary police foi_ce would be to provide guards and air-raid wardens and to picket and patrol vital localities. Duties would be allocated as soon as the association knew what response was made to the appeal. Where possible, men would be allocated duty in their own districts. Bu.v now New Goods, jusi opened up: many cannot be replaced. Shop early while the selection is good. Gifts for all at Mosgiel's Drapers.—A F Chevne and Co. One of the most progressive moves that has come before the Wairoa Borough Council for some time was submitted at the monthly meeting. when a proposal to carry out kerbine and channelling and the laying down in concrete slabs of somewhere in the vicinity of nine miles of footpaths was considered. The policy was adopted, and in the event of certain concessions for which application is to be made being granted, the programme is to be put in hand. It was explained that the total cost of the iob was estimated at £11,420. In connection with the labour the council was getting a subsidy of £4 4s a week for each man, which left 14s for the council to find. To assist members training for the first aid course the Hastings division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade staged a realistic car "smash," using two vehicles, each in charge of an " intoxicated " driver. The " collisions" •took place at the intersection of Eastbourne and Market streets, and Eastbourne and King streets. Instead of actual written information as to each patient's injuries, this time grease paint, bones, hair shampoo and other materials were cleverly employed to give some realistic effects, and the brigadesmen had something like "the real thing" on which to practise. The demonstrations naturally attracted considerable attention. Grandism (4244): From all time amongst all races, brandy has been known as a stimulant, Grand Cognac, second to none; 13s 6d bottle... "The exhibition comes to us during abnormal times caused by the war," said Mr W. J. Rogers, M.L.C., in the course of his remarks at the opening of the exhibition of New Zealand Centennial art at Palmerston North last week. "It is none the less welcome for wc all recognise that notwithstanding the anxious times we are passing through it is up to us to do everything in our power to maintain unimpaired the business and cultural life of the community," he said. "There will always be an England; the suffering, the heroism and the sacrifice of to-day are going to be the glorv of England to-morrow," said Mr E. A. Batt, in an address to the Wellington branch of the Royal Society of St. George. He recalled that in the last war. prior to the Battle of the Marne. the British Commander-in-Chief, Earl Haig, was wanted urgently at headquarters. He was ultimately found solemnly engaged in prayer. "England will always be England while we have big men like that," Mr Batt said. Had a general of Germany ever knelt down to prayer, and if he had, had that prayer been answered? "The trouble is that the Hun did not understand us 25 years ago." he added. "He was well whacked then and is going to be well whacked again." Have you tried Hitchotrs pork saveloys, pork sausages, or Oxford sausage (cooked)? If your grocer can't supply ring our Dunedin branch (12-344) Mil lon (22)...