LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Theatre Notices. On account of adjustments made necessary by restrictions on the use of newsprint, picture theatre notices will be found on page 8. Conscientious Objectors. ‘‘We find ip cases of conscientious objectors that some are genuine and deeply religious, others are merely cowards who are to be pitied, others are enemies of the country, while there is a fourth class who want to stay at home with their present privileges which others are protecting for them,” said Mr Orr Walker. S.M., chairman of the Auckland Armed Forces Appeal Board yesterday, when a number of appeals on conscientious grounds were heard. Most of the appeals were dismissed. I Output of Coal. Coal output for 1940 totalled 2,516,099 tons, an increase of 173.460 tons over the previous year, the Minister of Mines. Mr Webb, said, in an interview at Auckland yesterday. The record output was 2,542,092 in 1930. The number of men employed in coal mines last year was 5046, an increase of 284 over 1939. Production a man working underground was 668 tons—seven tons higher than the previous year. Importations of coal amounted to 64.860 tons, a decrease of 46,677 tons. Exports totalled 81.287 tons, an increase of 37.297 over the previous year. For the first four months of 1941 the output was 11,000 tons up compared with the same period last year.

To Be Opened With Prayer. ‘Tn view of the fact that so many of our boys are falling overseas I think that the time has come when wo should inaugurate prayers before the meeting opens,” said the Mayor (Mr T. W. Hercock), at the meeting of the Napier Borough Council on Wednesday night. The council adopted the Mayor’s suggestion. The Task of Education. ■‘lnternational and social strife can only be stopped by education that is both general and thorough,” said the Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall, in an address to students at the Auckland Teachers' Training College. Education alone, he added, could give the nation Empire and the world that strength and sympathy which would make possible a new order based on more real social justice. Remarkable Achievement. Completed in the remarkable lime of just over five months, two months under contract time, the construction of the new military hospital in the Domain will end when the Fletcher Construction Company, Ltd., which began work on December 12 on a tender of £70,000, hands over the building to the Public Works Department. Provision for 150 beds is made in two connected wings, one of one story and the other of two. Already plans for an extension are under consideration by the Health Department. An extra 3000 square feet of floor space in an addition to one of the present wings will, if plans are approved, make the hospital complete for extensive work | in orthopaedic surgery