OUT AND ABOUT

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14662, 4 May 1948, Page 2

OUT AND ABOUT

Hole-In-One A hole-in-one at the knoll was made by Mr H. Bryan at the Tauranga Golf Club’s links on Saturday. Prefabricated Homes “You have not the prefabricated houses in New Zealand, and I do not advise you to get them,” said Lord Beveridge in a lunch-hour address to the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Institute of Public Administration. “I do advise you, however, to get their kitchen. It is the pei’fect kitchen, but the house is not reasonable —it is far too small.” Improving Ohauiti Road Some time ago the Ohauiti branch of Federated Farmers offered to provide volunteer labour to help in removing some bad corners on the road if the County Council would send a bulldozer to remove the spoil. During the past three days a number of farmers, in co-cperation with the bulldozer, have been busily employed, with the result that the road has been made much saler for motor traffic. Luxury Bus Service Unless some major . calamity arose a luxury bus service would be operating between Wellington and Auckland on September 1 next, said Mr G. K. Prisk, of Wellington. The aim is to make the rin in 15 hours. In the latter part of last year the No 2 Transport Licensing Authority (Mr P. Skoglund) auhorised Mr Prisk to operate the service. Originally it was intended i;o use the articulated type of vehicle, but because of the dollar situation and the petrel position it was decided to change over to Diesel operation. Hours Fe.r Public Service Emphatic disagreement with the proposed alteration in working hours in the Public Service was declared in a resolution carried unanimously at the monthly meeting of the Wellington section committee of the Public Service Association. It was reported that not one department in Wellington had voted in favour of the proposed change of hours, and the executive committee is to be asked to inform the Public Service Commissioner accordingly and make representations in favour of the present hours being reU.S. Minister And Communism Communism was emphatically denounced by the United States Minister in New Zealand (Mr R. M. Scotten),- when responding to a welcome by the English-speaking Union in Wellington. “It falls upon the British Commonwealth of Nations and the United States to step in and save the world from the disruptive element of Communism,” said Mr Scotten. The 3000 miles of common ‘ frontier between the U.S.A. and Canada were unfortified, said Mr Scotten, and this illustrated better than anything the amity between the U.S.A. and the British Commonwealth.

Communism Exposed At the conclusion of an exposure of Communism, Brigadier R. A. Row appealed to all returned servicemen to fight the growth of the creed, when replying to the toast of - the 3rd Division at a reunion of Wellington members of the 34th Battalion. “We have now passed from the war of the bullet and the bomb to the insidious war of Communism,” said Brigadier Row. He reminded his listeners that Communism is not a political force. In the words of a New Zealand bishop, he said, Communism is no more a. political system than was Hitler a democrat.Soil Erosion Though the world is not producing enough food for its ever-in-creasing inhabitants, millions 'of acres of land are allowed to become eroded and unproductive each year, says a report on soil conservation recently issued by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations in Washington. The report says crop lands cannot be conserved while mountains and forests are ignored. It urges Governments and farmers alike to give jealous attention to non-farm lands which support or destroy farm enterprise, and suggests fiscal and legal controls over land use.