LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Reformative Detention. Three years’ reformative detention was the sentence imposed at Auckland yesterday by Mr Justice Fair on Trevor Norman Foote, labourer, aged 34, for breaking and entering the Royal Oak Post Office and having in his possession explosives with intent to commit a crime. Immigration Policy. The Government is to be asked for a clearly-defined immigration policy and also to appoint a Minister of Immigration. It was pointed out at the conference of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation in Napier that the population of the Dominion could not exceed 1,800,000 on the present trend of the birth-rate. After discussion the conference decided to make the requests stated. Money Stolen by Burglars. Presentation wallets for service men were opened and the money they contained was stolen by burglars who entered the Mount Albert Borough Council Chambers, Auckland, on Wednesday night. The thieves took about £lOO in cash, including £lB in public gift money from wallets and elsewhere and about £5O in unnegotiable cheques. .Entrance was gained by jemmying open a window on the ground floor. Religion in Schools. After a debate the Anglican Synod in Dunedin dropped a resolution presented by the sessional committee pressing for right of entry into schools to teach Anglican children the faith. An amendment was carried that as the national education system would be recast shortly the Church should then press for entry, but ultimately the Synod adopted a suggestion by Dean Cruickshank that the whole resolution be dropped. Doctors and Mileage. An amendment to the Social Security (Medical Benefits) Regulations published in last night’s Gazette removes the limitation on the distance in respect of which mileage is payable to doctors attending patients on their capitation lists. The 20-mile limit in the case of doctors working under the fee-for-ser-vice scheme was abolished during the last session of Parliament. In any case where a capitation doctor is required to travel more than 20 miles to attend a capitation patient, the medical officer of health may authorise a payment at the rate of 2s 6d for each mile or part of a mile, counted one way only, in excess of 20. This does not affect the requirement that mileage is payable only in respect of the distance between the patient’s home and the residence of the nearest available doctor.

Long Stemmed Daffodil. A daffodil with a stalk about three times the normal length has been grown by Mrs Tyley, of Macandrew Bay, Dunedin. Measurement showed the stalk, long and healthy, to be 34in long. Shipping Position.

“I am happy to state now that the shipping position between New Zealand and America is very much improved, but if a big push comes we will have to go back to our previous unhappy position,” said Mr R. W. Marshall, director of the New Zealand supply mission in ’Washington, when addressing the conference of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation at Napier. “Until the arrival of the liberty ships, there was a period of six months without a vessel leaving from the Pacific coast for New Zealand,” he added.

Import Control. Points arising out of the future control and administration of the system of importations into New Zealand were discussed at the conference of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation at Napier yesterday. The Minister of Industries and Commerce, Mr Sullivan, said that, in regard, to the principle of import control, it seemed to him that the principle had come to stay, not only in New Zealand but on a very much wider international basis than had been the case in the past. After referring to discussions regarding freedom of trade and then the general problem of planning, the Minister said that it seemed to be .very widely accepted among statesmen, writers and speakers generally that economic planning envisaged also degrees of import control.

| Baptist Union Assembly. The Gist annual report of the Baptist Union, presented by the 1942-19-13 president, the Rev F. A. Parry, and the Rev P. F. Lanyon, general secretary, to the annual assembly of the union in Wellington yesterday, states that four new churches have applied for affiliation and that the communicant membership stands at 9518. The sum of £9053 was given for foreign missionary work, and the annual self-denial offering in May amounted to £10,638. Two ministers of the union are prisoners of war in Europe, and one is on active chaplaincy in the Middle East. During the assembly, two men who have completed their training in the N.Z. Baptist College will be dedicated to tlie work of the ministry. In his first year of office as' youth director, the Rev P. L. A. Crampton is reported to have made a valuable contribution to the youth activities of the churches. The church extension committee has been responsible for the arranging of 24 missions in various churches during the year, while six churches are under the committee's control for development.