Soldier Wins £6000.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1939, Page 4

Soldier Wins £6000.

After he had been sworn in the A.1.F., a soldier, who had been on the dole for two years, received word that he had won £6OOO. in a certain consultation. Commenting on his luck he said that it had taken him a long time to make up his mind to enlist, and now he is thinking that it will take him a long time in getting out of the army. Boys Kept U-Boat Watch. Forty-seven schoolboys who landed at Liverpool last month after an exploring trip in Newfoundland heard of the declaration of war from a German radio station when they were camping in the bush 380 miles from St. John’s. Before the boys—members of the Public School Boys' Exploring Society—were allowed to lapd in England their names were entered in the National Register. They were sixteen days late in reaching Liverpool. On the way across they took it in turn to keep watch with field glasses for submarines, doing two-hour shifts throughout the twenty-four hours. Retort Courteous. Even the serious atmosphere of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand at Christchurch was relieved by humour at intervals. In welcoming the president of the Methodist Conference (the Rev Angus Mcßean), the Moderator, the Rt Rev J. Lawson Robinson, said that the only difference between Presbyterian and Methodist Ministers was that the Presbyterians were handsomer men. The honours rested with Mr Mcßean and members of Assembly laughed heartily when he remarked that Mr Robinson's remarks were a further reminder of the humility of Presbyterians. A Jury's Question. The anxietv of a jury which wished to know whether the full amount of damages it awarded would actually go to the injured man was allayed by Mr Justice Callan in the Supreme Court at Auckland before the jury gave its verdict. He said an inquiry from the jury had reached him as to whether the plaintiff would get the exact amount the jury awarded or whether the Court or some public official would deduct some money from this. “I asked the registrar." said his Honour, "to make it quite clear that the plaintiff would get the full amount you award and that it is your duty to award what you think to be a fair sum." Aliens in Britain. The first alien tribunals which will decide what is to be done with the 60,000 enemy aliens living in Britain, began their sitting's recently. They met in vestries, church halls, and small courts, and fathers, mothers, and children attended in family groups. At Golders Green. Hampstead. and Hendon, three districts which between them are estimated to hold nearly a quarter of the aliens in the country, the local tribunals worked rapidly. A judge or other legal .authority, a policeman, and a clerk were in attendance. The tribunal had power to decide the fate of aliens in any of three ways: The alien may be interned, he may be set at liberty until further notice, or he may be exempt from special restrictions under the Aliens Order. Under Home Office instructions the men are usually heard first, but in the case of a man and wife, their cases may be investigated together.