LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

♦- Ban Removed. Mr Robert Lazenby, New Zealand representative of the Watchtower Bible Society, has received cabled advice from Mr Nathan Knorr, successor to Judge Rutherford as world president of the society, that the Canadian Prime Minister removed the ban against Jehovah’s Witnesses on October 15. Veteran of Seven Wars. “I am 91 £ and am a veteran of seven wars,” said a witness in a case heard in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday. In reply to a question he said the first war he had fought in was the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. He had also fought in the Boer War and the World War of 1914-18. Sufferers From Tuberculosis. “There are 10,000 sufferers from tuberculosis in New Zealand today,” said Dr. Turbott, of tjie Health Department, in an address to the Young People’s Club in Wellington on Tuesday night. A large proportion of these cases were Maoris, who were ten times as susceptible to the disease as whites. Dr. Turbott stressed the importance of milk as part of our food, and said that 30 per cent of New Zealand soldiers today had artificial teeth because they had not been fed sufficient milk as children. Toll of Swimming. More lives were lost through drowning in the five summer months than in all types of road accidents during a similar period, commented the president, Lieutenant-Colonel T. H. Pettit, at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association in Christchurch, when referring to the toll of drownings in the Dominion. When it was realised how much money was spent on road safety, it was amazing, he added, that so little money was spent by the Government in endeavouring to overcome the drowning menace. Parcels for Troops. That the troops in the Middle East have not been forgotten this year by relatives and friends in New Zealand is shown by the fact that already nearly 200,000 Christmas parcels have been dispatched to them, it was s~.ated officially yesterday in response to an inquiry, while another 50,000 are awaiting shipment. These latter represent the postings made after the time fixed by the Post' Office for the closing of the Christmas mail, but it is expected that they, too, will reach the Middle East in time for delivery by Christmas, or at all events by the New Year Work of Land Girls. While the suitability of some classes of work for female labour performed by land girls is somewhat a matter of agreement between the farmer and the girl, enquiries have shown in many cases that land girls have efficiently carried out various tasks associated with lambing. Particularly in connection with dairying, and, to a lesser extent, with sheepfarming, farmers have intimated their intention of retaining girls after the war. Many enquiries are being received from' members of the women’s land service as to whether this organisation will continue after the war, and thus help the girls to make farming a permanent career.