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There might be no war for all the disruption it has caused to everyday life in. New Zealand. There are no black-outs, no‘gas-masks, no air-raid shelters,
Nevertheless New Zea- land is not taking its com- mitments lightly.
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Its people feel they are deeply involved as their kins- men in Britain, and they are prepared to go step by step with them in effort and sacrifice. although these must necessarily take different forms from those of people in the immediate theatre of war.
There is no hint of the feeling some predicted would be evident, that this is a European war and New Zealand can sit back in safety at the end of
the world and let Europe fight it out.
In the last war New Zealand enlisted
no fewer than 124,000 men for over- seas service from population of “Aðal¤ˆ 1,000,000, Thìnšnumber"will"Def exceeded with the large present- day population if necessary, Eager For Service
The. troops nre eager to take an active part in the war. News that The division now undergoing training will go overseas and nol remain on local guard duty has been received with enthusiasm by the men and hus given an Impelus to recruiting.
There Is similar cagerness to par- ticipate in the Empire alr scheme. New Zealanders have been proved
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When war broke out Britain had 181⁄2 million tons of merchant shipping afloat and with all the much-vaunted U-boat campaign we have fost less than 11⁄2 per cent, of that total. Map shows position and actual number of British ships over 3,000 tons in the North Atlantic on any average day just before the war. British Possessions shown in black; French vertically shaded.
"map"was ̃prepared from an Admiralty chast”
Pro. Haldane On Limit Of Explosives
PROFESSOR J. B. S. HAL-
in make good plots, and several have DANE exploded some theories
already distinguished themselves in
the R.A.F. since war started. New on explosives in a lecture
Zealand had completed arrangements Birkbeck College, B.C.
at
It was unlikely, he said, that a
to train a large number of pilots! annually for the RAF shortly before super explosive would be invented the outbreak of war, so thai che is within a generation or two. well equipped to prepare pllots for
There were theoretical reasons for
the further training they will re-believing that it was Impossible to ceive in Canada.
get, much more energy into a given
The Dominion will be able to play volume by chemicnt means than al-
In The Door War
5,911 Ships Convoyed Lady
--Only 12 Lost
THE NAVY have convoyed 5.911 ships during the war, and have lost only twelve to enemy action-eliher mine .or nub- marine.
This equals 0.2 per cent. of loss
On one convoy route alone 12,000,000 tons of stilpping, worth £300,000,000 without the goes, have been escorted in six- teen weeks with an even smaller loss than 0.2 per cent.
Only one British steamer, the Box Hill, was lost last week, and
• one trawler was blown up-by mine becoming entangled in the frawl.
The French Navy have con- voyed 1,080 vessels, with the loss of only two.
a much larger part in supplying Bri-| ready exists in various explosives. tain with essential raw materials and food-sluffs than in the last war. Exports, particularly of dairy pro- VIL significant," he continued, duce and meat have increased en-{ "that there has been no fundamental" ormously since theti, and to-day New advanco in the declen of explosives Zealand is one af Britain's largest in the nut 40 years. Explosives:✦✦ suppliers of such important com- used' In the Boer War are still in use modiles as meat, butter, cheese,;, and to-day." wool
The Dobit Side
There was considerable lack of knowledge about elementary facts concerning the scientifle technique of On the debil side New Zealand is wer. That ignorance was found not. bereft of sterling funds, which is only among the general public, but likely to prove n handicap in finanso ong those members of
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Solom 12.30 Dance Music by the D. 13. C. by F. O'Neil Show: Plano
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(a) A Birthday (1untingdon Woodman),
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cession.
1.00 Local Time Signal and Wea-(b) The Waters of Minnetonka ther Report.
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10.00 Stadio Tho Benxsty England": The Yorkshire Dales The fifth of a seties of talks by the Very Rev. The Dean of Hongkong;
Compositions of Griegimary. Sonata In C Minor, Op. 45, Sergei Rachmaninoff (Piano) and Fritz Kret- sler (Violin); Norwegian Dance In D fuirs,"" Major, Op. 35, Gustave Cloez and L'Orchestre Phliharmonique de Paris.
2.15 Close Down, 0.09
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6.27 Light French Songs by Tino Rosal and Lys Gauty.
0.45
tlons.
6.47
Closing Local Stock Quota-
Chopin-Andante
Spianato
and Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op.
22. Louis Kentner (Piano).
10.25 Variety with Mary EUIS, Billy Mayerl, Oliver Wakefield, Ger* trade Lawrence, and Gibers.
11:00
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E11306 Carman. Selection
LADY CYNTHIA COLVILLE, Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Mary, has led one of the underworld's most skilful E11403-Andante. in A. (Schubert) burglars from crime to restitution.
EMPIRE AIR SCHEME Squadrons To Retain Identity
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Impromptu in. E flat major.. Recently Ernest X., whose per- E10874-The Skaters Waliz
Tres Jolie Walls. sonal file in Scotland Yard's Rogies' Gallery is one of the bulksfest, walked #20380-La Boheme. Thy tiny hand into his. basement room in
Martha. Ike a dream. Shoreditch, and flung a newspaper on E11105-A Liebestraum Fantasy the ground.
"I'm going to join up," he said to his pale, drawn wife.
Melody in F. (After Rubinstein) E11201—To meet Lehar. (A potpourri of Lehar
120342-Nigolcito. Duci. Act 11 E11334-Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1. E11160–Parade of the Tin soldiers Hobgolina review.
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Grand Symphony Orch. .Lily Pons & di Mazzel. -State Opera Orch., Berlin. ...Orchestra Mascotte,
.Vienna State Opera Orch. TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY MARINA HOUSE,
E11981-Post and Feamant. Overture The would never go back to crime
clng troops and airmen abroad, and ruling class who were not immedi-tain grow more food, take offence if by the Central Flying School. This LAMBETH TAEKS
POSTPONED
When Lady Cynthin Orsi met Ernest ho was all over the country. Regularly she dropped in to see One of the features of the agree him. She helped him to find a job
governing the Empire Air Training Scheme, which was signed a labourer and he promised her
Sunday, is that quadrons manned by personnel from gain. He worked hard and long, thic Dominions will be idealfed by To-day Ernest is still a labourer, name with those Dominions when but he is working in dungarees to they move to the theatres of war. help the country in which he was Another feature of great importance once a pariah. LONDON-Allen children, work- 'that all pilots will go through the ouring from dawn to dusk to help Bri-full syllabus of tepining as laid down they are offered money for what they will guarantee that nobody will be required to fight the enemy in the she is also in an unfavourable posiately concerned with the problems.
"Unfortunately as a result of that are doing. tion with regard to suppiles of lin-
That is the spirit of Polish and air until he has attained full com- ported goods as a result of the ex- very grave errors have been made."
The war would become much more German boy refugees brought to petence.
Canada is the place on which the NEW YORK (AP)-Annonce change shortage. The war has had very little effect on imports so far, sclentine than it was now it both England by the Earl Baldwin Fund, but Import restrictions have denuded sides used to the fullest extent the They are giving their help to Eug- training centres; but training will also ment of posteocoment of the Lam
that modern Anglican Bishops
was received by the country of all reserve locks, destructive resources which science arms as their opportun work be done in Australia and New Zea-beth Conference of Episcopal and
had put into their hunds, The war in the fields as opportunity to land, with the result leaving little to fall back upon if ship would cepse to be, dominated by poll-serve the country which gave them types of aircraft will be huge of Presiding Bishop Henry St. George
these countries. The Interchange of Tucker of the Episcopal Church ments are interrupted.
Many of them are so earnest about man from the Dominions, large num- The notification, from the Arch- The Government, however, withinical.considerations."
it that they almost resent any far bers of whom will come together in bishop of Canterbury, sald the con- the limitallons of difficulties--it must be confessed-of its own causing. Is cess of local training capacity would mor's attempt even to give them Canada for their final training, ference was put off owing to the
likely still further to increase the outbreak of war. making a sincere attempt to push
Apocket-money, New Zealand's. war. effect ahead, and complete courses in Canada.
with the -announce- In that it has the complete and un-coter proportion of plots would Altogether, 100 boys and girls nged cohesion of the Empire. Moreover, qualified support of every section of have advanced training here, while between 14 and 18, are housed in both Australia and New Zealand will
gunners pud observers would have Cwyrch Castle, lent by the Earl of be able to build up their air strength. ment, the Eplacopal Church's Com-
of the joint mission on Appranches to The administration the community.
only a ground, course; but New Zoo- Dundonald, at Abergele, North Wales, fand could continue the training of There they live with 40 grown-ups training programme in Canada will issued a statement declaring It was gunners and observers till Canada who accompanied them on their be in the hands of the Canadian "unanimous in believing that no such Government." Cagada has many ad-goal as organic union with the Pres- was able to take them.
thort There were Mr. Jones added, al- As boys work in the fields, girls vantages as an bir training centre. byterians can be achieved in
There are plenty of aerodrome sites period of time. It will inevitably. Broadcasting on the Empire Air ready 500 New Zealand airmen are busy in the farmhouses.
Some of the boys work on the and the weather is good. When there take many years." Scheme, the Minister of Defence, Mr. serving, overson, some who served in F. Jones, said that New Zealand had the Great War holding senior ap.huge, over-grown estato which sur-is snow it can be made suitable for undertaken as first objective to pointments. The New Zealand cost rounds the castle, cutting up trees and the operation of wheeled aircraft by
Brewood to last loughing and rolling. Ski under-to preclude £ying training, and n provide almost 10,000 mon for-train-in' the Canadian scheme would be bushes to make
the winter. The carriages are not therefore needed, meteorological study has shown that ing as pltots, observers, and gunners. £7,000,000 for a three-years term, tham
New Zealand training resources and they were also meeting air costs women are putling in order the huge Only for about four weeks in the the balance is strongly in favour of during the thaw, are the Cagade. A compared with Great would, he added, be used to the in New Zealand, estimated at £12 rooms and pasinges of their new year, fullest extent, and persoons in ex-700,000 during the next three years, home after its 20 years of disuse, conditions such that they are likely Britain.
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