LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Soldier Sent to Gaol. Imprisonment for 14 days was imposed on Henry Bryant Maunder, soldier, aged 28, in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, on a charge of being on a wharf without a permit. Free Socks for Home Guard. . “The issue of one pair of socks to each member of the Home Guard, including officers, is approved,” states a recent Army Headquarters administrative instruction. “This authority is not to be construed to cover replacement issues.” Heavy Stock Losses. Stock losses from Central Otago's weekend snowstorms are likely to be fairly heavy. On the Maniototo Plain, from which the snow has now disappeared, the losses are between 30 and 40 per cent, and in the districts still snowbound they will be heavier. Special Battledress for W.A.A.C. A special type of battledress for members of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps has been designed and production is in progress. As supplies i come to hand the battledress now on issue to certain units in training establishments will be withdrawn and replaced by the new type. Greyhound Racing. At the Dannevirke Greyhound Racing Club’s meeting at the week-end the Consolation was won by Royal Step, owned by Mr J. Ryan (Masterton), with Back Loop Slam, the property of Mrs jW. Williams (Masterton) second. The [Ladies’ Purse was won by Mrs Williams’s Micawber’s Worry. Dependants' Allowances. An assurance that the wife of a soldier still retained her financial rights as a wife if she herself enlisted for service in the armed forces was given by the Minister of Defence, Mr Jones, in reply to an inquiry last night. “A soldier’s wife serving in the armed forces is entitled as a. right to continue to draw the dependants’ allowances for which she is ordinarily eligible.” said the Minister. “She has this right in the same way as she would have it if she were working in civilian employment or the Public Service. Eligibility for the allowance payable to the wife of a soldier is not withheld because the wife is also in the armed forces.” Maoris and ths War. . The part being played by the Maoris ' in the war effort was referred to by the Minister of Industrial Manpower, Mr McLagan, in Wellington yesterday. He said this was being left largely to the Maori War Effort Organisation and its various local tribal committees, working in close co-operation with the district manpower officers. “The Maori people,” said Mr McLagan, “are playing an important part in wartime industry, and have set up, under Mr Paikea, as Minister in charge of the Maori war effort, their own organisation for securing a maximum effort. There will be the closest co-operation between the district manpower officers and the tribal committees of this organisation, the officers giving their fullest assistance wherever it may be required and at the same time consulting with the tribal committees on all questions relating to Maori manpower and womanpower in industry,”