LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Railway Services Resumed. Full railway service, passenger and goods in both directions, was maintained yesterday on the Wairarapa line for the first time since Monday. After being blocked for three-days, the line was cleared sufficiently for the afternoon railcar from Wellington to run on Thursday. Good progress has been made clearing the slips, and though the line is opened, some work remains to be done. Prisoner Handcuffed in Dock, Clifford Douglas Keane, 28, stood in the dock of the Auckland Magistrate’s Court, on Saturday, handcuffed to a constable, when he was charged with breaking and entering a dwelling by day, and stealing £9 in cash and a camera valued at £5. “There are numerous other charges pending, including two of escaping from custody,” said a detective. Accused was remanded till July 24. Coupons for Servicemen, Members of all units of the New Zealand forces in camp in the Dominion are now receiving their special issue of 15 clothing coupons. No time limit to their cancellation has been fixed. The coupons, which are numbered, are yellow. According to the civilian scale for men, the issue will supply one each of shorts, shirt, socks, singlet, underpants, pyjamas, and eight handkerchiefs. Attempts have been made by women to negotiate at drapery stores the coupons with which soldiers are issued when they come on leave. They have been disappointed, and in some cases indignant, when they are told that there is nothing doing.

Servicemen Injured. Serious injuries were received by a visiting serviceman and two others were also admitted to hospital when a truck in which they were riding capsized at the intersection of Mercer Street and Jervois Quay, Wellington, on Saturday afternoon. The injured men are: A. Holmburg, lacerated leg and internal injuries; H. B. Grimm, lacerated leg and shock; B. Hestro, lacerations to face and slight concussion. The accident occurred when the vehicle was making a right-hand turn from Jervois Quay. It rolled over and came to rest on its side with Holmberg crushed beneath it. His condition was reported last night by the hospital to be slightly improved. Salvation Army’s Policy.

“God help the Church that will yield its principles, change its policy, and lower its standards in response to the clamour of a traditional demand,” said Colonel W. Ebbs, of the Salvation Army, at the Vivian Street Citadel, Wellington, yesterday, referring to a recent decision of a church council to lower its ban against dancing and card playing to cater for the demands of the time. He declared that the unchanging aim of the Salvation Army was to bring men and women into vital contact with God, and that could not be done by compromising with the world or sacrificing standards to meet popular demands. Grave Transport Position,

“The tire situation is most grave,” said the North Island transport zoning officer, Mr H. M. Christie, addressing a specially-convened meeting of business men in Petone on Saturday. “There are only sufficient tires to carry on our heavy traffic for four months, and the zoning of transport will have to be extended. The breakdown of transport would disrupt the Dominion’s civil life, with which the war effort is so closely dovetailed. I think it may safely be said that there is today a state of emergency in transport. As zoning officer, my job is not to see by how much transport can be cut down, but to see how much of the necessary transport can be provided.”