LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

No More Biscuits. Shops have been.notified by wholesale merchants that after the end of this month no more biscuits will be supplied. Commitments to the armed services, who will be the consumers supplied in future, have necessitated this. Methodist Youth Work. New youth work proposals were submitted to the Methodist Synod in Wellington this week by Mr N. R. Seddon, secretary of the Youth Board. These include changes in policy, with an increase in the number of youth directors from three to five, an order for young men or women who are willing to give the Church a year of sacrificial service, and the raising of a special fund of £9500. The proposals were forwarded to the conference for favourable consideration.

Wet Canteen in Prohibited Area. In view of the Church’s responsibility for the moral and spiritual welfare of the Maori people, the Wellington Methodist Synod this week adopted a resolution expressing its grave concern at the “questionable action” of the Government in opening a wet canteen in the King Country, thus introducing liquor to a prohibited area. It strongly protested against such action, saying it was a violation of the pledge given by the Government to the Maori people, and it urged the immediate closing of the wet canteen. Military Appeals.

Appeals in respect to men called up for military service in the Gazette to be issued on December 22 will be accepted within the extended period allowed by the regulations normally to cover exceptional cases. The Minister of National Service, Mr McLagan, said yesterday that the' period for lodging appeals expired on January 1, but the extended period would permit of appeals being lodged up to and including January 11. This extended period of 10 days was expressly provided for in the regulations and conferred a discretionary power on appeal boards to accept appeals outside the normal period. Sale cf Health Stamps.

“For the • first month of this year’s health stamp campaign, the sales, of health stamps show a most encouraging increase over last year,” said the Post-master-General, Mr Webb, yesterday. He added-that the total sales for October (including overseas orders) amounted to £5162, compared with £3115 for the same month last year. “The health camp executives in several districts have been exceedingly active,” said Mr Webb, “and the result is reflected in the figures for those districts. Auckland, with £756 to its credit, takes the lead for the largest district sales for the month, closely followed by Dunedin with £607, Invercargill with £524, and Wellington with £502. Of the smaller centres, pride of place goes to Oamaru with the most creditable showing of £273. Patriotic Appeals and Taxation.

Disapproval of the principle of raising money for the all-purposes patriotic appeals by means of taxation was expressed in a resolution adopted yesterday by the Dominion conference of patriotic bodies. The conference recommended that the Government be asked to pay to the patriotic funds the amount required for prisoners of. .war food parcels, recreation huts in camps, and such other matters as may be decided upon. It was felt that some of the items at present figuring prominently in the expenditure of both the National Patriotic Fund Board and the provincial patriotic councils were matters that were rightly the concern of the State. These, it was pointed out, had been cheerfully accepted in the past but with the increasing scale or the Dominion’s war effort, certain commitments were such today, that they were, beyond the capacity of voluntary effort.