LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Interhouse Field Day. At a meeting of the Wairarapa Interhouse Association last night it was decided to hold the field day on November 23. It is understood that sixteen girls’ team will be competing this year. Soldiers and Police. A warning that soldiers must recognise the authority of the civil police was issued by Mr Stout, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, when imposing a sentence of seven days’ gaol, with hard labour on each of two soldiers who pleaded guilty to having used obscene language and resisted Constable E. Burnett in the execution of his • duty. After serving their sentence they are to be handed back to the military authorities. New Street Named. i The Wellington city council has approved the proposal to call the new western access road between Wellington Terrace and Tinakori Road, Bowen Street. Actually the new road is a continuation of old Bowen Street westward, so that there should be no confusion in the future. Hitherto that section of the road leading off Tinakori Road was called Sydney Street West, a name that has now been dispensed with. The new tramway route to Karori and Northland will be known as the Bowen Street route. Gift of Fighter Planes. Cable advice has been received by the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, that Mr Alma Baker, Malaya, has donated £20.000 to the British Government for the provision of four fighter planes for the Royal Air Force. The planes are to be inscribed “Alma Baker, New Zealand." “Alma Baker, Malaya,” “Alma Baker, Australia,” and “Alma Baker,” The first machine is inscribed to record the fact that Mr Baker is a New Zealander—he was born in Otago in 1857, though he has lived in Malaya for 52 years. The other three machines. MiBaker said, are given in grateful remembrance of the splendid response to his battleplane appeal during the last war.” First Division Reservists. “No appeals against being called up can be considered till a reservist has been actually selected in a ballot,” said the Minister of National Service, Mr Semple when referring yesterday to the “avalanche” of correspondence which had been received by the Department of National Service from reservists who wrote protesting against their inclusion in the First Division of the General Reserve and desired to apipeal against being called up for military service. Mr Semple said that when a reservist had been drawn in a ballot there would then be plenty of time and opportunity for him to subJmit an appeal to properly-constituted 'tribunals for exemption on one or [more of several grounds upon which appeals may be based.