LOCAL AND GENERAL
Child Injured. 1 lan Inglev, nearly four years of age, of 35 Albert Street, fell off a box at his home yesterday afternoon and cut his forehead. He was admitted to Masterton Hospital for treatment. Legion of Frontiersmen Relic. King’s Corporal G. E. Smith, Brooklyn, Wellington, has received from a sister of the late Major Roger Pocock, founder of the Legion of Frontiersmen, who died last November, the belt that Major Pocock wore on his fam-ous*36oo-mile ride from Ford McLeod, in the Rock Mountains, to Mexico. The belt was bequeathed to Corporal Smith, who was one of the early members of the legion, in Major Pocock’s will. Shortage of Teachers. The difficulties of the Wellington Education Board in obtaining staff are not so acute as in Taranaki, wheie some schools are closed, or in the Auckland district, where this position is threatened, stated the secretary of the Wellington board, Mr W. I. Deavoll, when the reports of the other education boards’ difficulties were referred to him during the weekend. In the Wellington district all schools were staffed with the exception of some ,in Grade I with fewer than eight pupils. Soldiers Sleep at Station. Stressing the need for finding suitable accommodation for soldiers passing through Palmerston North, Major R. McDowall, of Brigade Headquarters, when addressing a meeting at Palmerston North convened by . the mayoress of Palmerston North, Mrs A. E. Mansford, stated that on a recent cold night 42 men slept on the railway station and that was not unusual. It was mentioned that the matter had previously been discussed with Mr Vincent Ward and the National Patriotic Fund Board, and arrangements were in train for the conversion of the old convent building for this purpose. Extensions will be made if necessary. The building is at present being used as an Army, Navy, and Airmen’s Club.
America’s Pledge. “We pledge the resources, the liberties, the honour and the power of 130,000,000 Americans because we believe that Japan is threatening the liberties of all peaceful nations, and we will attack and defeat and destroy Japan,” said Brigadier-General P. J. Hurley, American Minister in New Zealand, speaking at the-annual meeting of the Catholic Seamen’s Institute, Wellington, yesterday. “We come from your kinspeople across the Pacific, for your cause is our cause and your principles are our principles.” Those present included the Archbishop of Wellington and Metropolitan of New Zealand, Most Rev Thomas O’Shea, the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, the Minister of Defence, Mr Jones, the consulgeneral for Poland, Count Wodzicki, and the consul for the Netherlands, M. Vigeveno. Congratulating the Institute on its record, Archbishop O’Shea said that he had heard it praised when he was in London as the finest seamen’s institute in the Empire.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1942, Page 2
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