News of the Day

Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1942, Page 2

News of the Day

Invalided Soldier Returns. Sergeant Howard Wilmhurst who was recently invalided back to New Zealand from service - overseas," " returned" " last night to his home at New Plymouth. At the station to welcome him were the Mayor. Mr. E. R. C. Gilmour, and Mr. F. L. Frost, M.P. Sergeant Wilmhurst was driven to his home by a member of the Red Cross Transport Corps. Heavy Seas Running. Despite the offshore wind, at high tide yesterday tremendous waves were crashing over the breakwater at New Plymouth some of them rising as high as the windbreak on the Moturpa wharf. When the breakers broke they surged over the wall like a gigantic waterfall, j At high water waves were breaking round the foot of the oil bore at Bayly Road and all along the foreshore _ to Woolcombe Terrace waves were breaking at the foot of the cliffs. The dredge was straining at its moorings and the launches were rising and falling with the swell but were unharmed by the stormy seas. Bivouac Camps Suggested. A suggestion that bivouac camps for soldiers should be held in districts where men were required for crop stooking in the summer was made by Mr. H. M. Blazey, liaison officer for Canterbury of the National Service Department, at a meeting of primary producers at Ashburton. Outlining the scheme, Mr. Blazey said that in a district where 50 men were temporarily required a camp of about 200 men should be established to allow for some training to be continued all the time. The men would be paid about 2s 6d an hour while working, and could have at least two meals a day in the camp- Transport could be arranged by the army. Little Wear on Tyres. The motorist who has reasonably good tyres, and is allowed to purchase only the ration of petrol, has no need to worry about not being allowed to buy new tyres, states the Radiator, the journal of the motor trade in New Zealand. Half a coupon a month permits a car on an average to be run 40 miles a month, or about 500 miles a year, whereas tyre manufacturers claim a useful life of 18,000 miles for their products. Thus, in theory, a tyre at the present rate of use would last 36 years, disregarding deterioration through accidental damage, age, and exposure to air, oil and dirt. Even a tyre three-quarters worn would last nine years. Employcrs and E.P.S. Trial. "Employers cannot refuse to allow E.P.S. workers to go to their duty posts when summoned by an alarm," said Mr. W. Machin, chairman of the organising executive of the Christchurch Metropolitan E.P.S. He told a reporter that in the course of the day he had had at least five telephone calls from personnel of the organisation who were perturbed because their employers had threatened not to release them from their work if an E.P.S. trial and blackout fell at an inconvenient time. Mr. Machin said there was no room for doubt about the position. The law required every E.P.S. worker to go to his post on the sounding of an alarm.