NEWS OF THE DAY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 215, 11 September 1945, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Invitation To Minister Decision was made by the Auckland Hospital Board last evening to invite the Minister of Health, Mr. Nordmeyer, and the Director-Gen-eral of Health, Dr. M. H. Watt, to visit Auckland at an early date to discuss with the planning committee matters relating to the reorganisation, of the board's present hospital accommodation and the future building policy of the board. In the meantime meetings of the committee have been suspended. It was also decided to ask the Minister for details regarding- the planned obstetrical and gynaecological at Auckland. Spring Vegetables Late ' Supplies of early spring vegetables are later than usual in makyng their appearance on the Auckland market, but it is expected they $vill come forward in quantity as soon as a spell of fine,.warm weather is, experienced. The late arrival of'the produce is due to the severity of the winter and to saturated ground conditions which have retarded growth. The city in the meantime, is still dependent on winter crops, such as cabbage and cauliflowers and roots. No peas have yet come to maturity, and very little asparagus has been seen in the shops.

Crumbling Cliff Faces Many tons of powdered papa and clay accumulated at the foot of the I waterfront cliffs between Mission Bay and Orakei wharf in recent years- are fc/tihg removed by the City Council works staff. The spoil is the result of the gradual crumbling of the : cliff faces. About -twelve years ago the cliffs were trimmed back and some hundreds of tons of material carted away to reduce dangers. from falling boulders, and since then the process of disintegration appears to have been ■more gradual, but it continues-to go on under the action of sun, wind rain and sea spray.

Hospital Reopened Advice that he had reopened Warkworth Hospital for admissions on the expiration of the period of isolation, after satisfactory medical tests of the staff was received at a meeting of the Auckland Hospital Board last evening from the deputy medical superintendent, Auckland Hospital, Dr. C. B. Gilberd. The hospital was closed last month after one of the nurses had developed scarlet fever!

International College Plan The establishment of a "charter college" as a United Nations war memorial is envisaged in a letter to The Times, London. Signed by the Provost of Oriel College, Mr. W. D. Ross, Arnold Bax, Lionel Curtis, G. B. Pry, Augustus John, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Peter Scott, and others, the letter, in an appeal for-funds, says the idea is to have a college where young leaders from many nations may get to know each other and learn how to build a new world of friends. The college will concentrate on those universal interests which unite mankind —the arts, sports, science and citizenship. No Wind In Austria

One of the advantages of the climate in Austria, despite the intense cold in the Alps during the winter, was the lack of wind, said Private F. J. Whittle, of Gore, who returned with the last draft of repatriated prisoners-of-war. Private Whittle was employed for a time in a laga or work camp in the Austrian Tyrol, where the temperature was sometimes 40 degrees below zero. "I would say that for 99.9 per cent of the year there is no wind," he remarked. "What wind there is could be likened to a draft coming thropgh the door." He said that snow piled on the .wires, trees and fences to a height of seven or eight inches in the shape of a busby. There was no wind to shake it and the landscape was beautiful.