LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

National Savings. National Savings receipts at the Masterton Post Office yesterday amounted to £449, making the total for the week to date £llOl, which is well above the quota. Red Cross Examinations. The following members of the Masterton Sub-Centre of the Red Cross Society obtained passes in the recent hygiene and sanitation examinations: Miss S. Mace, hons. elementary; Mrs E. Meanie, intermediate.

Pedestrian Injured. Knocked down by a motor-lorry in Cuba Street, Wellington, opposite the Royal Oak Hotel, Mr C. Varnham, retired, 253 The Terrace, was taken to hospital by the Free Ambulance shortly before 1 p.m. yesterday. Mr Varnham had a fractured skull and concussion, and last night his condition was serious.

Victory Book Drive Parade. Members of the Masterton unit of the Women's War Service Auxiliary marched through Queen Street, Masterton, yesterday afternoon in furtherance of the Victory Book Drive for men overseas. The unit gave a finished display of marching and favourable comment was passed by members of the public who witnessed the parade. Members paraded in their, smart khaki uniforms. Today members canvassed the residential areas of the town for books. Too Tired for Drill. For failing to attend a compulsory parade, Herbert Henry Hagger, french polisher, a member of the Wellington City Battalion of the Home Guard, was fined £5 with costs in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, by Mr Goulding, S.M. Hagger said he had been working 60 hours a week, and was too tired to attend parades after work. His average earnings were about £l3 a week. “Long hours of work are no excuse whatever for failing to parade,” said the magistrate. “A parade is just as important as your £l3 a week is to you.” Chance for Reinstatement. An announcement that it had been decided to take back into the police force, if they wished to rejoin, those men who resigned from the service to join the armed forces after giving one month’s notice before the Police Force Emergency Regulations came into operation on June 3, 1942, was made last night by the Prime Minister, MrFraser. He said that if through their war service any of the men concerned were so impaired in health as to be no longer fit to carry out police duties, arrangements would be made for placing them in suitable employment under the rehabilitation provisions. Representations on this subject were made to the Government by both the Returned Services Association and the Police Association.

Purge of Electoral Rolls. The work of purging the electoral rolls throughout the Dominion is being actively carried on by the registrar of electors, and, to conserve paper, a somewhat modified method is being adopted. Through the Post and Telegraph Department registrars are getting knowledge of electors who are believed to have left districts, and .forms of inquiry as to new residence are being posted to them. Where these are returned “undelivered,” second notices are sent out, and if these also return undelivered, they provide the necessary authority for removal of the names from the roll. Should such form of inquiry reach an elector, it should be* returned immediately with the required information, and the necessary action will then be taken by the registrar to have the correct address entered on the roll. Enrolment and notification of change of address are compulsory, and it was stated yesterday that prompt response to all electoral notices by the public complies with the law and at the same time greatly assists the registrars.