R.S.A. Membership.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1941, Page 4

R.S.A. Membership.

Financial membership figures of the N.Z.R.S.A. at August 31 show an increase of more than 3000 members over last year’s figures at the same date. Included in this total are more than 600 members returned from the present war. Youth Believed Drowned. A farm worker, John Gordon Vicker, aged 17, is believed to have been drowned in a. flooded stream near Rananui, in the Raetihi district. He was reported missing on Saturday, having left on horseback on Friday to visit a friend's place three and a half miles away. At Tongahoe he had to- ford a stream which was flooded. The police searched the locality and found the missing youth’s horse stranded on a ledge below a waterfall 50 feet high. Vicker’s saddle, overcoat and trousers were found in deep water. There was no sign of the youth or the six dogs he had with him. National Savings. Three changes took place in the leading towns in the National Savings flag competition during the fortnightly period which ended on September 23. Kaikohe, in the Auckland district, replaces Dargaville, Waverley in the Wanganui district achieves pride of place over Ohakune, and Opunakc in the New Plymouth district has taken the lead from Stratford which held the position of leading town in that district since April last. Dominion leadership is shared between Riverton and Queenstown, both in the Invercargill district, each town having recorded 100 per cent depositors to population. In the Wellington district, Featherston is the leading town,