LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Conscientious Objectors. The Victoria University College Board of Governors has received advice from the Director of Education that no action was contemplated in connection with the proposal of Canterbury College that regulations with regard to conscientious objectors and defaulters for • teachers should be made to apply to the staffs of university colleges. The director added that it was considered that college councils could deal with the situation under the powers they already possessed. Woman Found Dead. The body of a woman, Miss Zina Mabel Webb, aged 62, was found by the police yesterday morning in a small dwelling where she resided alone in Murdoch Road, Hastings. The room was filled with gas and a gas stove was turned on. Neighbours did not see Miss Webb about for several days, and when they smelled gas, they informed the police. Miss Webb came to New Zealand from England some years ago, and it is not thought that she has any relatives in the Dominion. Wairarapa Training Farm. Over a year ago the Trustees of the Wairarapa Training Farm offered their property to the Government to be used in the training of discharged service men for farm work. The offer was accepted by the Minister of Agriculture but so far no further advise has been received by the Trustees as- to the Government’s intentions. It is understood that the Rehabilitation Board controls all rehabilitation schemes. No word has been received by the Trustees from the board as to what action it proposed to take to put the scheme into operation. Christianity and the. War. “The Cross of Christ which Hitleil hates with satanic fury will yet save us,” said the Archbishop of Wellington and Metropolitan of New Zealand, Rt. Rev Thomas O’Shea, in an address last night on world order after the war. Affirming that the nations ' we were fighting were the immediate cause of the war, his Grace asked if the people of the United Nations were entirely guiltless. They were supposed to be Christian nations, but their Christianity was of a negative kind. As G. K. Chesterton had said, Christianity had not been tried and found wanting but had been found hard and left untried. The results of secular education could be seen in the world today, one of which was maldistribution of the control of wealth. He believed that the United Nations could and would win the war, but they would not win the peace unless the family became the bulwark of the nation and social justice ruled the world.