LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Doctors and the Government. At a public meeting to be held in the Y.M.C.A. Hall tonight at 7.45 o’clock, Mr J. Robertson, M.P., will speak on “The Government and the Doctors.” Golfer’s Escape. A Riverside golf club player had a narrow escape from injury when playing at the Mahunga links during the week-end. The pipe he was smoking was hit by a ball and knocked 25 yards away. Man Found Dead. A timber worker, Mr George R. Williams, about 60 years of age, of Wakefield Street, Lower Hutt, employed by C. and A. Odlin, Ltd., Petone, was found in the firm’s yard at 10.30 a.m. on Saturday lying dead below a scaffold on which he had been working. Boy Drowned in Creek. Allan Chapman Warne, aged eight, only son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Warne, of Gapes Valley (South Canterbury), was found drowned in a creek ten chains from his home, yesterday afternoon. The boy had been missing for a few hours, and a search revealed his body in a pool of water four feet deep. Fire in Wellington. Some excitement was caused in Willis Street, Wellington, on Saturday afternoon by an outbreak of fire in the building at the rear of Boots’ pharmacy, used by the firm as a general store for the supply of its shops in various parts of New Zealand. The damage appears to have been confined to the rear section of the third and fourth floors, but the rest of the building and contents suffered from the effect of smoke and heat. Dominion Day. The 34th anniversary of the day when New Zealand changed her status from that of a colony to a Dominion is being celebrated today. The change was made by Proclamation on September 26, 1907. Dominion Day falls on the Monday nearest to the date when the Proclamation was issued, and is observed as a holidya by banks and legal offices. Otherwise the observance is limited to the flying of the New Zealand Ensign and celebrations organised by ■ the Early Settlers’ Association, which will take the form of a reunion in Wellington. Service in Cadres.

“The men required will be selected,! the intention being to obtain those offi-} cers, non-commissioned officers and other ranks who are considered to be most suitable, and who are available, said the Minister of Defence, Mr J ones, when he was asked what procedure would be followed for the mobilisation of officers and other ranks in certain territorial units for service in the cadres. that are to be formed. The Minister added that in cases where they were not readily available the territorials would be called up, and they or their employers would have the right of appealing to the local man-power committee, on the ground of undue hardship or of public interest. But, as he had stated.when making the announcement of the formation of the cadres, it was hoped that employers would co-operate with the Army authorities to the fullest extent. Personally, he felt that their support could be relied upon.