LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 November 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Another Call-up. There will be a further call-up of men for general military service on Wednesday. They will consist of those who have reached the age--for service. Record Number of Communicants. It was reported to the Presbyterian Assembly at Dunedin that although the church and Bible class attendances were being affected by the war, .’the roll numbers were a record. The present roll of 56,978 communicant members constituted a record for the church. Shipwrights’ Strike. Shipwrights who ceased work at Auckland on Friday morning do not intend returning to work yet. It is expected that the strike will last at least till after Wednesday, when a deputation will meet the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Nash, in Wellington. The men assert that they will not resume work till an assurance is given by the Government that its promises regarding travelling time and fares will be implemented. Boat-building firms have continued working on a reduced scale with apprentices, who are not affected by the union’s decision. The strike does not affect dockyard shipwrights. Sales Tax and Children’s Clothes. A remit sponsored by the Matamata Chamber of Commerce, asking the Government to remove the sales tax from children’s clothing was carried at the conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce at Dunedin yesterday. The mover, Mr H. E. Schofield, said that such a concession would be a great boon to parents. Mr W. M. Sexton, Palmerston North, said that as a draper and also, a grandfather he was in a position to know just what such a concession would mean to parents. He also said that sales tax was not payable on a great number of articles, including statuary, that had little claim for consideration in this regard. Unusual Names. As in a former generation it was hotels that indicated in their names the kind of trade they expected to get, and Wellington acquired such houses as the “Cricketers’ Arms” and the “Tramway Hotel,” now it is the names of small restaurants and laundries that show the kind of patron for whom they cater. There is a distincly Anglo-American note sounding among the peacetime titles for restaurants like the “Green Parrot,” “Hot Dog” and “Owls’ Retreat.” The “International” Cafe has the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes crossed on its front, and other restaurant titles are “Allied” and “Pacific.” New Zealand’s association with Greece, as well as the prominence of Greeks in the catering trade, is apparently the reason for such names as “Athens,” “Mt. Olympus” and “lonic.” Names recently chosen for laundries are “Al American” and “Essential.” False Pretences Cases. Mr Justice Blair in the Wanganui Supreme Court sentenced William Marshall Ramsden, salesman, aged 44, to two years’ reformative detention for false pretences following the disposal of women’s stockings to Wanganui businessmen in September. His Honour said that Ramsden and Reginald Clarence Watson, labourer, aged 37, had already had special treatment from the Court, and on a previous occasion had been granted probation for false pretences. Earlier in the week Ramsden was found guilty on one charge of false pretences, and another of attempted false pretences. With Watson he had also admitted a third charge of attempted false pretences. Watson, whom his Honour said came in the same category as Ramsden, was sentenced to two years’ reformative detention. A third man involved in the fraudulent disposal of stockings, Herbert Allan Bowie, motor mechanic, aged 34, was admitted to probation for three