General News

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23913, 3 April 1943, Page 4

General News

Infantile Paralysis One positive case of infantile paralysis and four suspected cases were reported to the Health Department at Christchurch yesterday. The positive case is a five-year-old boy of Otlpua, Timaru. The suspected cases, all of whom live in Christchurch, are a woman aged 48, 10-month-old and two-year-old girls, and a boy aged 10 months. There are now six suspected cases in the Christchurch Public Hospital, and it will not be known until Monday whether any of them are positive. The Gfeymputh • correspondent of ‘‘The Press"-says "that » suspected case of infantile paralysis was reported at Greymouth yesterday, a child of six years being under observation. Milk Sent 90 Miles to Auckland As a result of the prolonged dry spell, the supply of milk for the Auckland city has leeri materially reduced. For the first time in the history of the north, the Te Aroha district has been called upon to supply the deficiency, and from last night the supplies to the Te Aroha West and Manawatu factories, owned by the New Zealand Dairy Company, are being conveyed by lorry to Auckland, a distance of more than 90 miles. This supply will probably be required right into the winter months.—(P.A.) Grenade Moi.ar Accident The grenade mortar in which a bomb exploded because of a deficient propellent charge was not one of the type developed by the Munitions Department, but the invention of a Home Guardsman which is being tested at a Canterbury camp. The inventor of this mortar has not been named, but it is possibly Captain J. R. Bayley, of Edendale, who has invented a/mortar of this type. Captain Bayley’s mortar fires the standard grenade, and the propelling agent is a 12gauge shotgun cartridge, which throws the bomb 350 yards. The weight of the piece is about 30 pounds. Dustmen’s Collection A collection of £246 9s 6d yesterday brought the sum raised in the dustmen’s patriotic drive to £lBBl. With amounts to be collected from homes where residents were not in when the collection was made this week and with the collection by dustmen at Lyttelton on Monday and Tuesday, it is expected that the goal of £2OOO will be reached next week. Amounts taken m the various wards yesterday were:— Central, £SB Is 2d; Linwood, £3B 13s; Sydenham, £4O 18s sd; Spreydon, £4B 17s 9d; Sumner-Redcllffs, £36 10s 6d; Waimairi, £23 8s Bd. Army Education Scheme A report by the principal of the Christchurch Technical College (Dr. D. E. Hansen), to a meeting of the college board of governors last evening. said that 231 men and five women had enrolled in classes at the college, under the Army education scheme. Enrolments were still coming in briskly, said Dr. Hansen. Most of the men were taking woodwork and engineering. Classes in panel-beating had been revived, and large numbers of students were now attending, mainly from the Army. ' The women were taking dressmaking and typewriting, Dr. Hansen added that two classes in occupational therapy at an Army convalescent depot were also under the control of the college authorities. An inquiry had also been received about the holding of classes, in nutrition and invalid cooking for members of the armed forces, and if sufficient students were offering, provision would be made for the holding of the classes. Woolgrowers’ Appeals The Minister of Marketing (the Hon. J, G. Barclay) has announced that he has appointed Mr T. C. Brash as appeal authority to adjudicate on woolgrcwers’ hardship applications lodged under the Purchase of Wool Emergency Regulations, 1939, Amendment 1. Such appeals must be lodged with the Minister of Marketing by May 31.—( P.A.) Women Taxi Drivers In view of a recent tragedy at Ashburton, disapproval of women taxidrivers being employed in New Zealand during other than daylight hours was expressed by the chairman (Mr S. P. Taylor) and members of the Ashburton County Council yesterday. It was decided to approach the Ashburton Borough Council, which issues the taxi licences at Ashburton, asking it to co-ooeraie with the County Council in sending a joint recommendation to the Government. Aldersley Street Baby When a street in a Government housing settlement off North parade, Christchurch, was named after Mr P. A. Aldersley he gave the Mayor (Mr E. H. Andrews) £5 for the first baby to be born to residents of the street. Mr Andrews said yesterday that he had been informed that the first baby had now been born and that when this information had been confirmed the £5 would be paid to the parents.