W.E.A. Lecture.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1942, Page 2

W.E.A. Lecture.

Readers are reminded that a public I lecture -will be given by Mr Hely, ’B.Com., in the Municipal Building at :7.30 tonight. London Relief Fund. The collection taken up at the exhibition of photographs held recently at the W.F.C.A., Ltd., Masterton, showing conditions in the bombed areas of > London, realised £2l 15s Bd. This money will go to the Lord Mayor of London’s Air Raid Relief Fund. Public Conveniences. Plans for the provision of temporary public conveniences on a Trust property in Church Street, prepared by the Borough Engineer, Mr C. R. Mabson, were submitted to last night’s meeting of the Masterton Borough Council. It was stated that the estimated cost would be £B5. The council decided to submit the proposal to the Trust Lands Trust for its approval. The Working Week. Suggestions that with the object of meeting the present shortage of labour, weekly hours of work should be universally extended to six days of eight hours each, with payment for the extra hours at ordinary rates, appeared to meet with fairly general approval at a meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce last night. There was some disagreement on a further proposal that the additional money so earned by employees should be compulsorily diverted to some form of war savings.

The Hon H. T. Armstrong, Minister of Public Works, will be at the Y.M.C:A. Hall at 8 o’clock tonight, arid an invitation is extended to all party members, friends and supporters to meet him.