OUT AND ABOUT

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14712, 2 July 1948, Page 2

OUT AND ABOUT

Accident To Schoolboy While taking part in a game of football at the Maketu school, D. Albert, a twelve-year-old schoolboy, received injuries to his right arm. On being treated at the Tauranga Hospital, it was ascertained that he had suffered a fracture.

Premium On Lambs The Meat Board has been requested to investigate any practical method of paying a premium on early lambs in order to prevent congestion at the works, states the annual report of the meat and wool section of Federated Farmers.

“The Quick And The Dead” The theory that there' are only two classes of pedestrians in Wellington. “the quick and the dead,” may find some support in the fact that of 40 throughout the Dominion who were involved in pedestrian crossing accidents last year, no less than 15 fell to motorists in Wellington,.

Victoria College Fees A new method of naying fees will come into force at Victoria University College next year. This was decided at a meeting of the college council. Fees will be paid at the time of entry to classes. If students find that they have undertaken too much work a refund of fees will be made in approved cases.

Offence Against By-Laws Commenting on the recent use of city walls and footpaths for chalked messages, including propaganda adverse to city-owned trams and a summons to a public meeting on Indonesia, the Wellington city solicitor, Mr M. J. Earle, has stated that

nr>ri<->r the U"-law« it was offence to write, print or paint any "'■'lice on any strep' l nr public pic™. People were also liable to penalty if they defaced waiting sheds, conveniences or such things as telegraph poles and lamp posts.

Shortage of Labour The shortage of . houses and schools was largely responsible for the labour shortage in the backcountry of New Zealand, said the chairman of the North Island hill rountrv c n mn''’ttpp of Federated Farmers, Mr James Andrew, at a meeting of the committee. It was useless to tell farmers who had come through the Hutt Valley that there was a shortage of materials and labour, he said. By starving the rural areas of housing materials the authorities were deliberatelv forcing men away from the land. Farmers’ Costs

If the present system of assessing prices was continued, there must be a determined attack upon the existing methods* of arriving at costs, said Mr W. W. Mulholland at the annual conference of the meat and wool section of Federated Farmers. The conference supported a remit that in computing the prices of primary produce, provision be made to enable farmers to establish reserves sufficient to meet those inescapable hazards to which primary production is subject, namely, floods, fire, drought and epidemic diseases.