LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

R.S.A. Membership. The financial membership of the Wellington Returned Services’ Association as at March 31, 1942, was 4057, the highest number for many years. Bible in Schools. The annual report of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Bible-in-Schools League, presented to the annual meeting, stated that of a total of 195 schools, 71 per cent were known to be using the Nelson system and 89 per cent had religious observances in some form. A total of 12,435 children were thus contacted, 4830 in Wellington city and 7605 in the rest of .the district. A total of 27 schools had no such observances, while no returns had been obtained from 16 schools. An Extra Broadcast. It has been announced from Daventry that beginning on Monday night, Greenwich time, there will be an additional news session in the North American transmission at 9.45 p.m. This is equivalent to 9.45 a.m. on Tuesday in New Zealand, allowing for the summer time half-hour. At this time of the year there is reasonable reception of the Daventry transmission at that hour on the frequency 15.14 megacycles, in the 19-metre band. This news session, which was stated to fit in with the peak.hour of news arrival in London, will continue till further notice. Dairy Produce. An increase in the guaranteed price for dairy produce is expected to be announced this week. The announcement will probably be made in a statement by the Minister of Agriculture, Mr Barclay, giving details of the Government’s programme for dairy production for the season beginning on August 1. The Prime Minister and Acting-Minister of Finance, Mr. Fraser, stated in his financial statement presented in the House of Representatives last week that the z Government had under consideration the question of granting a war costs’ allowance to the dairy industry to offset the increased labour costs arising out of the war. Thfe Minister of Marketing, he said, was at present discussing the matter with representatives of the industry. Church Centenary. <■ The Terrace Congregational Church, Wellington, began the celebration of its hundredth anniversary with two services yesterday. The history of the Terrace Congregational Church, from its humble beginnings, in the meeting in 1842 of five men who, after prayer, solemnly declared themselves a Christian Church of the Congregational order, to the present day, is largely the history of the development of Wellington itself, for members of the church have always been among the city’s leaders. The present pastor, Mr Newell, who took up the pastorate in 1930, is no less prominent in the spiritual life of the city than many of a long list of influential men who have held the post, among them Dr W. H. West, who came in 1870 from the headmastership of Scots’ College, Melbourne, to lead the congregation in a period of great activity and expansion.