LOCAL AND GENERAL
Odd Fellows’ Dance. There was a large attendance at a dance held in the Masonic Hall, Masterton, on Saturday night by the Odd Fellows’ Lodge. The music was supplied by the Blue River Dance Band and extras were played by Miss V. Sorenson. The duties of M.C. weie capably carried out by Bro R. C. Baikie. Supper was served by a committee and was supervised by Sisters Harris and T. Rickards. A Monte Carlo waltz competition was won by Miss A. Burgess and Corporal S. L. Hatch.
Battle of the Seas.
His considered belief that this year’s crisis in what he called the “battle of the seas” would be surmounted by the combined efforts of Britain and the United States, specially in shipbuilding, was expressed by Sir Ronald Cross, till lately British Minister of Shipping and now High Commission-er-designate to Australia, in his address at a dinner tendered to him by the New Zealand Government in Auckland on Saturday night. While not under-estimating the difficulties of 1941. Sir Ronald affirmed his hope that a great outpouring of war equipment would make it possible then to select the time, place and scale of the ultimate attacks upon the enemy.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1941, Page 4
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201LOCAL AND GENERAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1941, Page 4
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