LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 May 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Conscientious Objectors. Regulations dealing with the treatment. of conscientious objectors and the provision of alternative service were gazetted yesterday by way of amendments to the National Service Emergency Regulations. A statement explaining the effect of the new proposals was issued last night by the Minister of National Service, Mi' Semple, who said that under the amending regulations the right to obtain exemption from military service on the ground of conscientious objection was to be contingent on a definite liability to perform alternative service at rates of pay and under conditions that may constitute material sacrifice on the part of the successful applicant. Conscientious objectors whose appeals have already been heard and dismissed are to be allowed to apply for a rehsarin? ■

Bowlers’ Patriotic Effort. One thousand and eighty pounds-had been handed over by the Wellington Bowling Centre for patriotic funds, it was reported al the monthly meeting of the centre's committee. This amount included £22 prize money donated by bowlers at the Easter tournament, and also £64 taken at a recent gala day on the Wellington green. Sugar Supplies. The Minister of Finance. Mr Nash, announced last night that an agreement had been reached between the Queensland Government and the New Zealand Government for the Dominion's supply of sugar during the current year. The agreement, said Mr Nash, meant that the arrangements which have been in force since New Zealand entered the Empire purchasing scheme early last year would bo continued and that the shipping tonnage required to convey the sugar from Queensland to Now Zealand would be made available by the Comraonwealth authorities.