First Arrest by Policewoman.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 November 1941, Page 4

First Arrest by Policewoman.

The first arrest to be made in New Zealand by a member of the recentlyappointed women police, was effected yesterday when Miss E. M. Callaghan, one of the two officers stationed in Dunedin, took into custody a youth who was subsequently brought before the Children’s Court and remanded to December 6. British Israel Address.

At the Opera House, at 8 p.m., on Wednesday next Major E. E. Barrows will deliver an address entitled “The Master’s Race.” In this address the speaker deals with the reasons for the present war; he contrasts the ideals of Nazi Germany with those of Britain, indicates that our statesmen are cognisant of the destiny of the British peoples, speaks of the scriptural significance of the meeting in the Atlantic of Mr Roosevelt and Mr Churchill, and points to the path we have yet to take to victory. Petrol for Enemy Alien.

Upon it being revealed in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesteiday that an enemy alien had been given a licence to purchase enough petrol to enable him to travel from Auckland tc. Dunedin, surprise was expressed by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., who was on the Bench, that that consideration should be given to such a man while New Zealand citizens were strictly limited in petrol supplies. Otto Schnell was fined £lO for having in his possession more than the six gallons of petrol an enemy alien is permitted by the Aliens Emergency Regulations to have in his possession, and was fined £lO foi making a false statement to' the Oil Fuel Controller.

Wages and Prices. “Evidence exists in abundance to show that the prices of commodities produced in New Zealand, and rents, have increased in a number of regards, and to an extent that this union will not be satisfied that the principles laid down in the Economic Committee s report have been reached, till wages have been increased at least ten per cent on the present basis.” This resolution was adopted by the conference of the New Zealand Amalgamated Engineering and Related Trades Union at Nelson yesterday. The conference expressed grave concern at the stalemate arrived at in relation to wages, and pointed out that while the union remained convinced that stabilisation of prices and wages was a sound economic policy, the stabilisation of 'one without the other was unjust.

Mufti Allowances. “The total involved in these payments is approximately £10,000,” said the Minister of Defence, Mr Jones, at Dunedin 'yesterday, when referring to the amount already forwarded to returned men to cover the increase in the payment of mufti allowances. The increase is from £7 10s to £l2 10s to discharged soldiers returning from overseas. “The settlement of payments due to soldiers already returned has been treated as a matter of extreme urgency in the base records office, Wellington,” Mr Jones said, “and warrants for the payment of £5 each to 1559 men, £7 10s each to 127 soldiers who have not yet returned their kit, and full payment of £l2 10s to 41 men whose kits have now been cleared, are now in the hands of the post office for delivery. The amount involved in these payments is approximately £10,000.”

Appeal Board Decisions. The decisions of appeal boards in cases of conscientious objection were the subject of the following unanimous resolution adopted by the Nelson Methodist Synod: —“We draw the attention of synods to many cases in which the conscientiously-held scruples of some of our own young men who have appealed against military service on religious grounds and have to all appearances been perfectly sincere have been summarily dismissed by the boards, whose principles of operation would appear to vary considerably from centre to centre. We feel called upon to insist that the work of the boards ends with their determination of the sincerity or otherwise of the appellants, and their decision should not depend in any degree on the ability of the boards to find alternative service for those whose appeals are allowed.”