LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

E.P.S. Drill Unit. A parade of the E.P.S. drill unit will be held in the Municipal Hall on Monday night at 7 o’clock. Electric Power to be Cup Off. Electric power will be cut oft in. all parts of the Masterton district, except the western side, tomorrow from 1 p.m. till 3.30 p.m. to allow urgent repairs to be carried out. Men for Camp. About 80 soldiers from the Wairarapa district entered Trentham Camp yesterday as members of the Seventh Reinforcements. There were large crowds at the railway stations to see the men leave. Reservists Sent to Gaol. * For’ having failed to report for military service after having been officially called, up, Laurence Young, dental technician, and Raymond Firmston, postal officer, were sentenced to one month’s hard labour by Mr Luxford, S.M., 'in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday morning. Casual Discussions Dangerous. I “Casual discussions are as dangerous as non-casual discussions," said Mr Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, when fining David William Sutherland, instrument maker, £3O, with costs, for conveying information, about a ship’s movements, to the possible danger of the war effort. Rabbiter Fined. John Joseph Delargy, rabbiter, Kurow, a reservist of the First Division of the General Reserve, was fined £2O for having failed to enrol when he was charged in the'Oamaru Magistrates’ Court yesterday. Fie gave the reason that he was in arrears for three years in payment of his social security levy and was waiting till he had enough to pay the arrears before producing his coupon book. Oil for-Australia. ’ ’ The Federal Government is making the strongest possible representation for the release of more oil tankers for all classes of petroleum products, the • Minister of Supply, Senator McLeay, has announced, a Canberra caolegram states. Three additional tanker voyages have been allotted to Australia. Moral Belligerency. Spain’s attitude toward the' RussoGerman war is to be limited to adoption of a state of moral belligerency. This was stated by the Foreign Minister, Senor Suner, in an interview in the “Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung,” a London cablegram reports. Senor Suner said that Spain’s position could not be other than one of strict moral belligerency on the side of her friends against the, most hated of all Spain’s enemies. He hinted that Spanish vollunteers might be allowed to fight for 'Germany against Russia.

Language Test. Nine Anzacs were trying to escape in a rowing boat from a spot where they had been cut off in Greece by the Germans. According to news from a New Zealander, Gunner D. B. Robb, who was one of the party, their objective was the far side of a bay where they knew they would find British forces. All went well until they were within calling distance of the shore. They waited to make sure who the troops were, but when they called, those on shore had their own doubts of the identity of the small party. The escapees, shivering with cold —their boat had capsized on the way over—were in no mood for long parleys. “We got sick of trying to explain," writes Gunner Robb, “so I yelled out: ‘What won the last New Zealand Cup, you ?’ That did the trick.” Universities Aid Post-war Plans. Planned research into the problems of post-war reconstruction will be undertaken by the Australian universities as a result of a conference between university representatives and the reconstruction division of the Department of Labour and National Service in Canberra recently. The universities, besides directly participating in investigations, will undertake also the special training of personnel for research work. Delegates said after the conference that’ Australia was suffering severely from a shortage of trained administrators and whatever form post-war political organisation might take these administrators would be urgently needed. Reports on the work of the conference will be made to the Minister for Labour (Mr Holt), to the Director of Reconstruction Research (Dr Evatt), and to the universities. Pipes and Drums Lost in Greece. . Pipes and drums of the band of the 22nd (Wellington) Battalion, which was also the honorary band of the Highland Pipe Bands’ Association of New Zealand, were lost in the campaign in Greece, according to information received by the president of the association, Mr G. M. Teller, . of Christchurch. Mr Telfer has received also a letter written from England by the officer commanding the battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel L. W. Andrew, V.C., before its departure for the Middle East, expressing appreciation of “the honour which the president and members of your association have conferred on the pipes and drums of my unit by appointing them the honorary band of your association. It was my request that my unit should have a pipe and drum band, but that would have been impossible without the wonderful help of the Scots of New‘Zealand. The band is playing well and has been a great help to us on all our marches and ceremonial parades.'" A hard, dry cough is one to dread, With anguished throat and aching head. Be prompt to check its stress and strain, Which irritate both lung and brain. A hard, dry cough needs instant care, Of most unwise delay beware. Your need to prompt relief assure Is soothing Woods’ Great Peppemint Cure. 30