Medical Board Sitting.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1940, Page 4

Medical Board Sitting.

The sixteenth sitting of the locdl examining medical board will be held in the Masterton Drill Hall on Thursday night, February 29. Y.M.C.A. Appeal. The following cablegram from Ma-jor-General Freyberg, dealing with the joint appeal for funds for the comfort of soldiers at home and overseas, has been received by the National Council of the Y.M.C.A.: “Understand appeal pending. Hope people of New Zealand realise how much we appreciate work done by National Patriotic Society, Y.M.C.A., and other societies, for men here in Egypt.—G.O.C., N.Z.E.F.” Methodist Home Missions. “It is obvious that the position is extremely serious," stated the Rev G. I. Laurenson, at the Methodist Conference at Dunedin yesterday, referring to the financial position of home missions of the Methodist Church. He said that from the credit balance of £543 in 1938, last year ended with a debit of £6lB. If the 1940 estimates stood, the year would end with a debit of £2013. Mr Laurenson said that he required £l5OO more. A motion was passed urging that a special effort be made in circuits and stations to increase the revenue.

Crippled Children Society. At a meeting of the Wairarapa Executive of the New Zealand Crippled Children Society held yesterday two new cases were reported. Both are inmates of the Masterton Public Hosjjj.tal. Arrangements have been made for a young boy to attend evening classes at the Wairarapa College for engineering and other subjects. Another youth has commenced his secondary education at the College as a day pupil. On Tuesday next a clinic will be held at the Masterton Public Hospital when a number of cases will be examined.

Need for Unity. The importance of national unity at present was emphasised by the Primate of New Zealand, Archbishop A. W. Averill, at an afternoon tea reception given by the Government yesterday in his honour. It was the bounden duty of all. he said, to put their shoulder to the wheel for the common good. The archbishop said he wished to commend the Government for the support it had given to the Motherland and the Allies in this great crusade, which was taking place against the enslavement. of mankind. It was not difficult to visualise the state of affairs there would be if they did not oppose the policy of certain European nations. Just as New Zealand did its duty in the last war. so the young manhood of today would do their duty in tliis contest, encouraged by the devotion and gallantry of the young New Zealanders in the Achilles, and bring honour to their country and the services to which they belonged.

In the local list of donations published yesterday in connection with providing comforts for members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force overseas, the name E. McKenzie should have read R. McKenzie.