LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Trampet’s Safe. Two members of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, Aircraftman Robert Edward Thynne, and Aircraftman Colin John James Summers, who had been reported overdue on a tramping expedition to visit the locality where the TT nion Airways aircraft recently crashed at Mount Richmond, are now safe. They left for Mount Richmond on Saturday, and had not returned yesterday morning. In the meantime search parties had been organised. Sales Tax. Additions to the schedule of goods which are exempt from the payment of the additional 10 per cent sales tax imposed earlier this year were announced yesterday by the Acting-Min-ister of Customs, Mr Nordmeyer, The main item is knitted or lock-stitched piece-goods or cotton, silk; or artificial silk, or combinations of these materials. The other items comprise fielddrainage pipes and tiles, nicotine sulphate, batteries for hearing aids, and certain materials for boot and shoe repairing.

Church Obligations. A strong emphasis on the Christian principles of the sacredness of the human personality and on the responsibility of the Church in the social, economic and political spheres of life was contained in a finding arrived at by a conference at Lower Hutt within the past few days of delegates from jfresbyteries all over New Zealand. The conference was part of the Presbyterian Church’s share in the current Campaign for Christian Order. The finding was as follows: “The Church has an obligation not only to care for the Christian culture of the individual, but also for the directing of the investigation of those aspects of social, economic, and political life that concern the individual personality, with a view to taking the necessary action or demanding that it be taken.” A Test Actidn. It was stated by Mr P. W. Breen, president, at a meeting of the Automobile Association (Otago) at Dunedin last evening that a test action against the Government was being brought by the South Island Motor Union in respect of a recent accident in which an Army vehicle was involved. It was further reported to the meeting that the Attorney-General, Mr Mason, had intimated that the Government had decided to indemnify drivers of military vehicles in certain cases when members of the defence forces were acting under the instructions of a superior officer. After a brief discussion, in which the Minister’s statement was described as simply evading the issue, it was decided to seek further information from the Government regarding cases mentioned by the At-torney-General and to ask what protection was already given to drivers of military vehicles. Assisted the Painters.

“Do you know if much work has been done in Auckland on Saturday mornings of late,” asked Mr Justice Tyndall of a witness in the painters' dispute in the Court of Arbitration, Wellington. Witness replied that he had not heard of any work being done on Saturday mornings recently. “Then I know more than you do,” said his Honour, who added that recently he had assisted painters to paint a private residence in Auckland on a Saturday morning. He had even assisted to hold the ladder, and make morning tea for them. Of course, the painters did not know that their assistant was the President of the Court of Arbitration. “Do you get double time for working on Saturday morning?” he asked one t of the painters. “Don’t you worry about that,” was the reply; “my missus will see to that.” “That may be a new method of policing awards,” remarked his Honour.