FULL COMPENSATION

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20911, 16 September 1939, Page 6

FULL COMPENSATION

EMPLOYEES AND WAR BERVICE CITY COUNCIL ATTITUDE * (Special to Times) AUCKLAND, Friday The Auckland City Council decided this week to keep open the positions of permanent employees enlisting for active service and to compensate them for losses in salary which they might suffer through enlistment. The question was raised for discussion by the Mayor, Sir Ernest Davis, who expressed the view that the council’s line of action was plain—it should protect from loss those who took up arms for their country. Moreover, it was appropriate that the council, as the largest local authority in New Zealand, should give a lead In the matter. 'He therefore moved as a minimum:—(l) That an assurance be given members of the council’s permanent staff, who undertake war service, that their positions will he safeguarded during their absence, and made available to them after their demobilisation; and (2) that the council make itself responsible for payment of any difference of pay between the military rates and those of the officer’s remuneration in order to brinig it up to his usual rate of salary. The resolution was carried unanimously. Veteran’s Patriotism One of the first applications in Napier for enlistment in the volunteer force was a veteran of the retreat from Mons. He enlisted in 1914 and went to France with the British Expeditionary Force, serving throughout the war. In ease his claims of service were not believed, he arrived at the army office complete with his M.C., Mons Medal, D.-C.M., framed copies of his mention in dispatches, and personal congratulations from two generals in the British Army.

FRENCH ADVANCE VILLAGE CAPTURED GERMANS HASTY DEPARTURE COPENHAGEN, Sept. 15 The French troops attacking in the Moselle region, captured the village of Perl, just inside the German frontier, and are advancing along the road to Saarburg, nine miles to the north. The Germans were forced to evacuate Perl so hurriedly that they had no time to blow up the railway. The French High Command is still most discreet as to the exact whereabouts of the positions taken. BIG BATTLE PENDING GERMAN PREPARATIONS COPENHAGEN, Sept. 16 The Polidiken’s Berlin correspondent in Berlin says that preparations for making a great fight on the west front are being made by the Germans. Already vast territories of west Germany has been evacuated and it is expected that 18,000/000 to 20,000,000 eventually will be moved to central Germany. All the ordinary duties of the Nazi party organisations have been suspended in order to build up the inner front. Berlin has officially confirmed that towns near the Siegfried Line have been evacuated, but it is described as a temporary measure. FOXTON RACES Carnarvon Cup: 2 Quadron, 1; S Old Surrey, 2; 1 Centrepoise, 3. All started. AVONDALE RACES 4—4 Lovaals, 7.9 (R. W. McTavish), 1; I—l Kentucky, 8.0 (T. Greene), 2; 2—2 Beau Leon, 8.0 (C. G. Goulsbro), $. Scr.: Surepay, Beau Peri, Miss Hallomet, Belle Cane. Champion Plate: Our Jean, 8.0 (R. Horne), 1; Orollio, 8.0 (R. W. MeTavish), 2; Hagen, 8.9 (C. G. Goulsbro), 3. Palmint, Erlick, Classform, Wyndora, Bonnybelle, Duncannon.