OUT AND ABOUT

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 14299, 24 February 1947, Page 2

OUT AND ABOUT

Wanganella Inquiry A magisterial inquiry, presided over by Mr A. M. Goulding, S.M., will open in Wellington on Tuesday to investigate the circumstances in which the Wanganella went aground on Barrett's Reef on the night of January 19. Captain A. T., Norton will be one of the two nautical assessors, the other of which has not yet been named. Motor-Car Destroyed A Morris car, owned by Mr Pyper, cf Waharoa, caught fire at about '6 o'clock on Friday afternoon on the Kaimai Road a-bout seven miles from Tauranga and was a complete loss. The fire, which spread quickly, se" fire to the road nearby. Generiail Wage Increase The National Council of the Federation of Laibour has decided to press for a general wage increase on the basis of. £1 a week for workers under all aawrds. It believes that such increase, together with the reduction of 6d in the £ in the wages tax to be made in May, will give workers a better measure of real wages. Would-Be New Zealanders A wide range of vocations is covered in information concerning numbers of men and women desiring to settle in New Zealand published in the latest issue of the Commerce Journal. In addition to those from the United Kingdom.applicants have come from Shanghai, Canada, California', British East Africa and Sydney. Employment in the Dominion is sought by accountants, clerks, stenographers, mechanical engineers, industrial chemists, carpenters and nurses. "Not On The Quota" Silence of the kind worse than a volume of abuse pervaded a tobacconist's shop in IChristchurch after an incident which left the proprietor and his assistant, with very red faces. There were half a dozen people at the counter, all seeking cigarettes, and being politely told by the assistant that there were none. Then the proprietor, stacking packages of some description round a high ledge, dropped one. It split wide open on hitting the. floor, and packets of cigarettes scattered everywhere. For a moment no one spoke, then a few people walked out. Others sought to buy cigarettes anew, only to be told they were "not on the quota" of that particular tobacconist. Lunch Hour Concert • Amazing scenes were witnessed inside and outside the Adelaide Town! Hall recently, when, despite the heat wave, 2500 packed the hall and another 1400 were unable to gain admission to Paul Schramm's two lunch-hour recitals. Workmen struggled, in with their lunch-bags; office girls clutched their tickets' in one hand and pushed their way up the stairs, while trammies, clerks, shop girls, and celebrity concert patrons were also among the jostling crowd. A newspaper's music critc, Dr. Enid Robertson, wrote, "Paul Schramm's happy innovation of the short, unbroken programme of familiar (music as a recreative interlude to the business of the day has become in a moment extraordinarily successful here. The choice of wellknown, and less frequently heard Chopin works is an additional recommendation to popular taste, and especially attractive to young listeners, who were well in evidence I among the large and attentive audience." The price of admission was 2's (plus tax)'. , . ;. ;