LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 June 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

’ Publication of Military Honours. j It is announced officially that publication of the military .honours list ,’ has been deferred till July 1. ; Auckland Motor Registrations. ) Motor registrations at the Auckland city depot for May were 24,750, compared with 24,050 in the same month i last year. ! Found Dead on Roadway. Denis Nolan, an elderly man, was I found dead on the roadway in Manor : Place, Dunedin, early yesterday morning. He had received severe injuries to the head and limbs, and apparently had been struck by a vehicle. The 1 police are investigating. i Women Police. The ten pioneer women recruits for the police force reported to the Central Police Station, Wellington, yesterday and were addressed by the Commissioner of Police, Mr D. J. Cummings, before commencing their three-months training course. Three of the women police will be stationed in Wellington three in Auckland, and two each in Christchurch and Dunedin. Married Men and the War. “The time of married men is approaching fast,” said the chairman of the No. 3 Armed Forces Appeal Board. Mr Coleman, S.M., at a sitting of the board in Wanganui yesterday. “Within the next few months we shall be sending married men overseas, and consequently only in the most extreme circumstances can married men be kep! at home.” Racing in War Time. “If New Zealand can pay so much for racing it surely can pay it to help save this country from destruction. It is no.t our business to say how the money is to be found, but it is our business to set a better example and to refuse to cater to a public which appears to be unaware that its country is at war.” Mr A. S. Elworthy, chairman of the [Canterbury Jockey Club, said in his 'annual address to members. Mr El- | worthy, who is also president of the :New Zealand Racing Conference, advocated a considerable reduction in the number of racing days in the Domi- : n.ion, I

Anglican Chaplains Safe. Advice has been received by the Church of England Military Affairs Committee in Wellington that Bishop G. V. Gerard (formerly of Pahiatua • and a well known South Island and ; Bush representative footballer), and all other Anglican chaplains and Church Army personnel were safe as on May 30. Young Farmers' Dance. The Masterton Young Farmers’ Club' will hold its first dance of the season in tlie Masonic Hall. Masterton. " tomorrow night. The music will be supplied by Jack Barnes’s Orchestra. The' floor is receiving the attention of an energetic committee and special arrangements have been made to cater for a large attendance. Wear and Tear. Jerseys and football shorts were in high demand at McLean Park, Napier, on Monday, during the representative match Wairarapa v Hawke's Bay, and the curtain-raiser. In the curtainraiser one player parted company with his pants and needed a shield of his fellow players to effect a change. A Wairarapa player lost the neck of his jersey, but was fortunate in comparison to one of his team mates who suffered at the hands of a Hawke's Bay forward. He lost the sleeve of his jersey but did not have time to change, and in a few minutes the remnants of his jersey had further suffered, being practically non-existent by half-time.' A Successful Scheme. The admission of women to the R.N.Z.A.F. training stations is, according to the results of the experiment at Rongotai, proving most satisfactory, said the Minister of Defence, Mr Jones, at Dunedin yesterday. The purpose behind the move, he said, was to release men engaged on ground duties who were anxious to servo in any capacity overseas. The women were drawn from the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force formed early this year. At present more than 100 were working at Rongotai, where they had been from three to four weeks. They were main- ' ly engaged in staff and office work,] and were making a very good showing indeed. As the result of the success of the experiment a number of women j had just stai'ted at Harewood and a|l further extension of the scheme would I 1 be made where practicable. f