LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21248, 19 October 1940, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Salvation Army Commander Lieutenant-Commissioner and Mrs J. Evan Smith, territorial com-

manders of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, will conduct three special meetings in Hamilton tomorrow. In the afternoon the Commissioner will deliver a recital entitled “The Salvation Army in Palace and Slum.” The Mayor, Mr H. D. Caro, will preside. Mails to Egypt Soldiers in Egypt again experienced a long delay in receiving mails from New Zealand, according to a letter from Mr F. E. S. Long, field secretary for the Y.M.C.A., dated September 13, and just received in Christchurch. He states: “Today is mail day—the first surface mail for months—papers and letters dated as far back as April have just arrived. You can imagine the pile of mail for all of us.” Auckland Operatic Society “Merrie England” is to be presented by the Auckland Amateur Operatic Society next month. The main roles will be taken by Stewart Harvey, as the Earl of Essex, Florence Cristian as Queen Elizabeth, Winifred Clements as Bessie Throgmorton, and Gordc/. Fagan as Sir Walter Raleigh. Mr Howard Moody is producing, and Mr Colin Muston is handling the musical direction. There will be a chorus of 60.

Invitations to Remain Cordial invitations to remain in their circuits for a further term were received by the Rev. R. B. Tinsley, Hamilton, and the Rev. J. W. Parker, Frankton, at the quarterly meeting of the Hamilton Methodist Circuit this week. It will be Mr Tinsley’s sixth year in Hamilton and Mr Parker’s fourth year at Frankton. It was also reported at the meeting that the Hamilton circuit had raised £750 during its special Centennial effort.

Orphanages Appeal The sum of £5230 will be available for distribution among orphanages as the result of the recent street collections and donations, according to a report submitted at a meeting of the Orphanages Advisory Council. Collections in country districts of the Auckland province amounted to £1072 4s Id. Further amounts are still to be remitted from two districts. The council expressed its appreciation of the result of the appeal and recorded its thanks to all contributors. Lake Fishing Grounds The liberation of trout fry in various lakes in the Rotorua district, according to their popularity with fishermen had been the policy of the Internal Affairs Department, said the conservator of fish and game, Mr A. Kean, in Rotorua. Thus there had been an increasing number of liberations in Lake Okataina in the past few years and not many in Rerewhakaitu, where 75,000 fry were liberated this week. Rotoehu had also become popular and consequently more liberations had been made there recently. M Caused a Disturbance ” “ This man has been on a drinking bout and is still suffering from it,” said Sergeant D. Austin, when James Womberg Peers, aged 56, a carpenter, of Frankton, appeared before Mr G. K. Sinclair, J.P., in the Hamilton Police Court today on a chaige of being drunk in Victoria Street last night. Peers was charged as a statutory second offender. “ Last night when he got drunk he caused a disturbance,” said Sergeant Austin, “ and his wife is afraid of him. Therefore, I will apply for a remand until Monday.” Peers was remanded until Monday and bail was refused. New Name for Lower Hutt Mr C. G. White, Wellington, has made the suggestion that the new name of Lower Hutt, when it makes its debut as a city, shall be Churchill —of course, after Mr Winston Churchill. The population of the borough being now 20,000, Lower Hutt is applying to the GovernorGeneral to be proclaimed a city, and a committee has been set up to choose a suitable name. Lower Hutt, and the Hutt Valley, were orginally named after Sir William Hutt, M.P., one of the directors of the New Zeai land Company. His name, however, will be commemorated by Upper Hutt, which will be called Hutt, and by the river and the valley of that ; name. Streamlined Irons | “I know I shall be getting into hot water, but quite candidly some of the things you offer in the shops nere for tourists are utter nonsense with the most horrible design,” was a frank comment made by Mr A. C. Hip well, art master at King's College, when lecturing on trends in modern art at an exhibition in Rotorua. Mr Hipwell was referring to | the attention now paid to design and i simple masses in comparison to the 1 florid ornamentation of Victorian days. While castigating the Victorian modes, he admitted that many silly things were done at present by extending the idea of streamlining to objects such as pianos and electric irons, where it was quite foreign. “I take my hat off to the woman who irons so fast that the iron needs to be streamlined,” he added. Soldier and Superstition Through the centuries fighting men have been known as fairly hardheaded and materialistic when on the grim business of war and have allowed little of the spiritual side of things to interfere with their drive to victory. But, the old order changeth. and it seems that in this more enlightened age new ideas are being introduced into the Army by the young man of the day. This was borne out in Hamilton today when one recruit from the recent ballot reported for service. He had been called to enter camp yesterday but was among those missing. This morning, in apparent good faith, he | called at the Army Headquarters and ! gave his explanation for being a day j iate. It appeared that he had a strong vein of superstition which j prevented him from entering camp l on Friday. Evidently Adolf Hitler, as one of the main figures in the war, does not share the Hamilton soldier’s superstition, for he chose Fridays for his invasions of Poland. Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg. The Army authorities, when reminded of this, expressed the opinion that fools rush in where angels fear to tread.