LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Crematorium for Hawke’s Bay. A decision that a crematorium be established at Havelock North was made at a meeting yesterday of 38 delegates representing 13 of the 17 local bodies in Hawke’s Bay province. The proposal was opposed by the Waipukurau Borough Council, the only dissenting body. Truck Driver Dies From injuries. As the result of a collision between two light trucks at a road intersection in the vicinity of the Maungaturoto cream factory on Monday during a slight fog, the drivers of both vehicles were admitted to the Dargaville public hospital in a serious condition. William Grant, Maungaturoto, aged 52, married, with three children, died on Tuesday evening, and the other driver. John Tomlinson, aged 50, Matakana, is still in a serious condition. N.Z. Army Tank Brigade. Men for New Zealand’s first Army Tank Brigade will be mobilised about the middle of next month, and it is expected they will carry out their training at Waiouru, where an armoured fighting vehicle school has been established. A number of officers and non-commissioned officers went into camp there last week to undertake a special and intensive course in preparation for instructing other ranks. As with all Expeditionary Force mobilisations, each of the three military districts will be required to supply a proportion of the men. Territorial Cadres. “Single fit men shall not be purposely kept back from the expeditionary forces without full and valid reasons,”said the Minister of Defence, Mr Jones, last night, referring to the establishment of territorial cadres. “That is the firm intention of the Government. What is being aimed at in the establishment of the cadres is the training of the territorials, as far as possible, to the standards of the expeditionary force. “It is realised that this will take time and that some members of the territorials will become eligible for overseas service. It must not be forgotten that many in the cadres may not be old enough for foreign service, but as these qualify to go overseas their places will be taken by men they have trained.

1.L.0. Conference. An announcement that the Minister of Lands, Mr Langstone, would be the Government’s representative at the International Labour Conference in New York next month, instead of the Minister of Labour, Mr' Webb, was made by the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, in the House of Representatives yesterday. Mr Fraser, who spoke after a question on the conference had been asked by Mr Polson (Opposition, Stratford), emphasised the importance of the conference from the point of view of swinging into the Allied war effort the workers not only of North America, but also of Central and South America as well, and of counteracting Axis propaganda in Latin America. Gaol for Soldiers. Sentences of 60 days' and 28 days' imprisonment without hard labour, imposed by a district court-martial at Auckland on Gunners S. F. Hunter and T. J. Murray respectively were confirmed by Brigadier Bell, officer convening the Court, and promulgated yesterday. Both men are members of the 9th Heavy Regiment Artillery. Hunter was.charged with breaking out of barracks, desertion, and losing by neglect articles valued at £1 14s lOd. Murray was- charged with desertion. Lease-Lend Imports. “In addition to supplying Britain with armaments and munitions,’’ the Finance Minister (Mr Nash) stated in the House of Representatives yesterday, “the United States Government is endeavouring to assist the Allied cause by making available to both the United Kingdom and other Empire Governments lease-lend supplies of other stores essential to the maintenance of the war effort. By this means the United States is relieving the pressure on the dollar resources of the British Commonwealth and is ensuring that the Commonwealth’s war effort, together with the defence of this and other Dominions, is assisted to the maximum.” The Minister added that in so far as goods might be eligible for supply by the United States on leaselend terms, arrangements were being made for the importation of such goods by the Government, through the Ministry of Supply and licences for imports by private traders could not be granted in the meantime.

Out of 560 American boys in an essay contest on “Love For One’s Mother,” only one dissented. He wrote: “I don’t love mother ’cause she makes me wash my ears every morning.”