LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Charges Against Airman. Not guilty on a charge of drunkenness while on duty at Harewood Air Force Station or of being unfit for duty through previous indulgence in alcohol was the verdict of the court-mar-tial at Harewood yesterday in the case of Flying Officer George Cyril Vincent Buckley. The Court’s finding on a further alternative charge relating to the alleged use of offensive and obscene language to three non-commis-sioned officers'will be communicated to the officer convening the court, Air Commodore Saunders.

National Savings. Receipts in the first year of the National Savings Campaign will reach a total of more than £3,100,000, the chairman of the National Savings Committee, Mr T. N. Smallwood, announced last night. Of this amount £1,800,000 has been saved during the current financial year, which began on April 1. Steady progress in the drive for 250,000 National Savings accounts is also being made, and the number of accounts now opened has reached the total of 227,000

Gift Cigarettes. Practical steps have been taken by the National Patriotic Fund Board to prevent the possibility of the sale of gift cigarettes in the future to members of the New Zealand Forces in the Middle East. The board has now completed arrangements with tobacco firms from which it draws its supplies to have the words ‘New Zealand Patriotic Gift Issue” overprinted in red on the packets of cigarettes sent from the Dominion to the New Zealand Forces. This will operate after the Christmas gift issue of cigarettes has been made.