LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Calling-up Cancelled. The calling-up of Robert James Capes, Newman Road, Eketahuna (a member of the Third Division) and of Edgar Wallace Moffatt, Royal Hotel, Featherston (already a member of the armed forces) is cancelled in a Gazette notice ‘published today. Czechoslovak Anniversary. October 28 will be celebrated by Czechoslovaks in New Zealand and all over the world as their day of independence. Tomorrow will mark the twenty-fourth anniversary of the day on which the Czechoslovak Republic was reborn after nearly 300 years of darkness and oppression. Collision in Queen Street. A truck and a cycle came into collision in Queen Street during the weekend. The cyclist, Alice Asplet, aged 13 years, of Chapel Street, Masterton, received bruises, and after treatment by Dr. John Rich she was able to return to her home.

Field Gun Crashes Into Shop. Breaking away from a towing lorry, a field gun and trailer crashed through a plate-glass window of a men’s outfitter’s in Whangarei. The lorry was turning a corner at moderate speed when the trailer bounced and slewed round and then, with the gun, crossed the footpath, snapped a veranda pole and came to rest in the window. Business Curtailed. Due to the big cut in the sugar allowance the confectionery business throughout the country has been considerably curtailed, and it would not be surprising, according to an authority, if many of the businesses closed down altogether. One old-established confectionery business in Wellington has been forced to close its doors for three days each week for lack of supplies. E.P.S. Parade. A compulsory parade of all E.P.S. personnel is being held in the Assembly Hall, Wairarapa College, tonight, when an address and film screening of E.P.S. subjects will be given. Colonel Ciochetto, Regional Commissioner and Mr T. Jordan, District Controller, will be _ present. Mr Hamann, technical adviser to the National Service Department, will also be in attendance.

Charge Against Secretary. The secretary of the Waikato branch of the Christian Pacifist Society, Walter Horace Wood, pleaded not guilty before Mr W. H. Freeman, S.M., in Hamilton yesterday, to charges of attempting to publish and attempting to send through the post office a subversive statement, the Christian Pacifist Bulletin. Detective-Sergeant Murray said accused admitted having addressed and posted 40 copies of the bulletin. Accused said he did not regard the contents of the paper as subversive, and that similar papers had been distributed in New Zealand before and had been published in England. He was committed for trial. Guard against Winters ills Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 31