LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21280, 26 November 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Free Pictures for Soldiers Members of the N.Z.E.F. home on leave from camp are being admitted free to New Plymouth theatres. rainier Breaks Leg i A fractured leg was received by Mr Percy James Bcresford, a painter, of 106 Symonris Street, Auckland, when he 101 l from a building in Te Awamutu yesterday. He was admitted to the Waikato Hospital. Taranaki Oil The three wells of Moturoa Oil ! Fields, Limited, at New Plymouth j for the year ended August 31 pro- ! riuced 96,362 imperial gallons, or [2BIO barrels of oil, against 104,536 I gallons (2986 barrels) in the previous | year. j High Temperatures [ For the third successive day hot j summer weather was experienced in Hamilton today. The sun’s heat was very fierce yesterday afternoon and the thermometer reached 75 degrees. The largest crowds this season thronged the lake grounds and river bank. Pohutu Obliges Pohutu Geyser provided a fine display for visitors to Whakarewarewa yesterday, when it played six times to an average height of 80ft. The j longest display lasted 40 minutes. | There were many visitors in the re- ! serve,-during both the morning and J afternoon. Imprisonment Imposed j Three months’ imprisonment was i imposed by Messrs G. K. Sinclair dn d IP. B. Gavmi, J’s. P.. in the Police Court „ociay ui - Joseph McCarthy i' do was arrested yesterday in Victoria Street on charges of rirti/ikenness and of using obscene language. Troops For Hopu llopu Tomorrow afternoon the North Auckland Regiment will encamp at Hopu Hopu lo complete its period of three months’ intensive territorial training, which was commenced at. Whangarei. Some of the troops will travel by rail while others will i journey in the regiment’s vehicles. Home Guard Grows Satisfactory response to the appeal made early last week for recruits foi the Home Guard was announced by the secretary, Mr J. Whellan, to-day He said that in the first four dayj last week on which the recruiting hut in Garden Place was open there were 142 names handed in, the biggest day being Friday, with 54 names. Comforts for Soldiers Owing to the difficulty of ensuring that every soldier receives his “hussif” before returning to camp, the Hamilton Patriotic Committee has decided to leave all “hussifs” in the Patriotic Hut in Garden Place. . All Hamilton members of the armed forces who are proceeding overseas will be asked to call at the hut for their parcels. Troops Write Home Recognised among the troops overseas as the most prolific letter writers of any on active service, the members of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force are not the only Dominion soldiers who find little difficulty in expressing themselves on paper. At Waiouru military camp on Sunday 14,000 sheets of paper and 7000 envelopes were used in the Church Army Hut by troops writing home. Ready To Do Their Bit Long before a man reaches the age of three score years and ten, he may be expected to look back on a military career as a thing of the past. Willing to do their bit in the defence of their country if ever the need should arise, three elderly members of the Claudelands Bowling Club have joined the Home Guard in. Hamilton. They are Messrs H. Paton, aged 85, C. Woodcock, aged 75, and S. Godfrey, aged 71. All three have been active i'n recruiting for the Home Guard since its formation. Double Mishap A farmer with his two small children fell into the water at the Whangarei town basin yesterday, but all three were rescued. The little girl was playing on the steps of a launch jetty, and fell into the water. Her father, who had a small baby in his. arms, rushed along the jetty, and stumbling, also fell into the water, still clinging to the baby. The accident was witnessed by Mr H. Hutton. who dived to the rescue, but the father managed to secure both children, and lifted them to safety. He was then himself able to climb out of the water. Courageous Swim The Eastern Suburbs (Auckland) Amateur Swimming and Life-Saving is to seek from the Royal Humane Society recognition of the courage shown by Raymond Nilsen, the 15-year-old St. Heliers Boy who swam two and a-half miles for help after the capsize of a 14ft. yacht with its crew in the Tamaki Straits near Howick on Saturday afternoon. Both Raymond Nilsen and his brother, Norman, who was drowned, had been members of the club since they attended St. Heliers school. Raymond won the 1000yds. handicap race last summer from Lady’s Bay to St. Heliers. This event had been won two years previously by his brother. The body of Norman Nilsen has not tuyu^recovered.