General News

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26465, 5 July 1951, Page 6

General News

Power Cuts for To-day Districts E, F and G in the Municipal Electricity Department’s area will have power cuts to-day.

N.Z. Protests to Hungary The New Zealand Government has protested to the Hungarian authorities, through the Foreign Office in London, against forced transfers of population, in the course of which a New Zealand-born woman was expelled. This was announced by the Minister of External Affairs (Mr F. W. Doidge) yesterday. Mr Doidge said the transfers of population had been carried out in a manner calculated to cause the greatest hardship and distress. Among those expelled had been a number of dual nationals, including Mrs Amy Millicent Guilleaume, who was born .in Dunedin. LieutenantGeneral Guilleaume. her husband, was 84. and Mrs Guilleaume was 75. They had been deported to a single room in a country village, said Mr Doidge. —(P.A.) Need for Irrigation “We should not’be content with the assurance that some time a survey of irrigation possibilities of the district between the Rakaia and the Walmakariri rivers would be made,” said Mr T. H. Langford at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Progress League yesterday. Evidence of the possibilities of irrigation could be gained from the success of the North Otago. South Canterbury and MidCanterbury schemes, he said. “We should press for action. At the present time we shear 4.000.000 sheep, and tail 3.000,000 lambs in Canterbury. and with increased productivity of the soil those figures would be materially increased to the economic advantage of the South Island and New Zealand." Mr Langford said. Bell for Rawene The township of Rawene Is to have a historic bell outside its new fire brigade station. It is the ship’s bell of the Joseph Craig, a 714-ton iron barque which Was wrecked inside the bar at Hokianga Heads in August, 1914, while outward bound to Melbourne. On the Joseph Craig’s last voyage, her first officer was Mr W. E. Sanders, who later, as a lieutenant-commander in the Royal Navy, won the V.C. and D.S.O. for his work as captain of a “Q” ship. He and his crew were lost at sea three years afterwards. The Sanders Cup, a trophy for interprovincial sailing, was given in his memory. Motor Registration Check

The results of the check on motor vehicles in Christchurch over the last two days indicated that a satisfactory percentage of motorists had conformed to the regulations concerning vehicle registration and the renewal of drivers’ licences, said the traffic superintendent of the Christchurch City Council (Mr G. P. Kellar) yesterday. Many cars had been stopped because they did not display the new black and white number plates, said Mr Kellar. • In most of these cases, however, the drivers had registered their cars at suburban offices but had not been able to take immediate delivery of their plates. “About 40 unregistered vehicles have so far been discovered, together with about the same number of expired drivers’ licences. These cases will all be reported.” The numbers were not surprising. Mr Kellar said, since much the same trouble was encountered every year. Shortage of Physiotherapists

Marriage claims 40 per cent, of the New Zealand Physiotherapy School’s women students within three years of their graduation. This information was given by the principal of the school (Miss E. M. Gotti;) at a national conference at Wellington yesterday of field officers of the Crippled Children Society. Miss Gotts had been asked why there was a shortage of physiotherapists in New Zealand. The school was taking 60 new students —its maximum—each year, she said. In recent years there had been about 80 applicants, and the 60 most suitable were selected. If the staff were increased it would be possible to take more students. The high marriage rate among graduates and the fact that since the end of the war many had gone overseas were the factors primarily responsible for the shortage—(P.A.) Sweets and Dental Decay

The president of the British Dental Association (Mr E. B. Dowsett) to-day urged the control of sweet-eating by children to save their teeth from decay. In his presidential address. Mr Dowsett said; “If all the sweet shops were prohibited by law, dentists’ work with children would largely disappear.” He called dental disease a disease of civilisation—and the most prevalent of all diseases of practically every civilised race.—Landon, July 4. Power Supply Disconnected

Eight consumers of the Auckland Electric Power Board have had the whole or part of their supply disconnected by the board this week for excessive use of power. About 20 more are under notice of disconnexion. They include commercial and industrial users, as well as domestic consumers. These are part of the measures being taken by the board to see that its quota system is observed—even as records in the use of power are being set over the North Island ns a whole. “The situation is over to consumers," said an officer of the board. “In their own interests they must cut down the use of electricity.”—(P.A.) Licensing Control Commission Mr Eric R. Graham, secretary of the Licensing Control Commission, arrived in Christchurch last evening. During a two-day visit he will interview local bodies and other organisations about the sitting of the commission in Christchurch, beginning on July 24.

Radio Programmes in N.Z. “We are spoiled, here in New Zealand. Over here we have a variety of about 24 radio programmes from which to choose, whereas in England there are only three—the home service, a light programme, and in the evening the third programme,” said Mr Andersen Tyrer, who has just returned to New Zealand from overseas. “In New Zealand we have programmes to cater for the tastes of everyone, but in England if you don’t like any of the three programmes there’s nothing much you can do about it,” he said. Effect of Revaluation

Sterling parity in New Zealand had kept prices down and countered inflation, the chairman of the New Zealand Press Association (Mr P. R. Scoble) told a luncheon gathering today. Relations between Australia and New Zealand had improved wltlfc the passage of time and it was impossible to emphasise what would be gained by the South Pacific countries getting together. “I cannot help feeling that Australia is going places.” he said. “It is on the way up when other countries are on the way out.”—Hobart, July 3. No Tasman Yacht Race Next Year

No Tasman yacht race would be held next year, said the commodore of the Royal Akarana Yacht Club (Mr W. S. Robertson) at Auckland yesterday. “We have decided to postpone the race until 1953 in the hope of getting a larger entry from Australia,” he said. “As a number of Australians will want

to take part in the Sydney to Hobart race next season and would not be able to take part in the Tasman event as well, we considered it would be better to miss next year, with the possibility of getting a bigger entry the following season." —(P.A.) 5000 Members The South Canterbury Automobile Association welcomed its 5000th member at a social in the club rooms last evening. He was Mr A. Baker, of Winchester. “If it had no been for the early stalwarts the association would not have been in such a happy position to-day," said Mr Robert Wilson, president of the South Island Motor Union, offering his congratulations. “The South Canterbury section can now take its place among the major movements in the Dominion. I have watched with interest and pride the growth of the association during the last 25 years. There has been extremely rapid development since the end of World War 11, and the membership has risen from 2200 to 5000.—(F.0.0.R.) Councillors Leave Meeting Six of seven councillors at a meeting of the Mount Roskill Borough Council on Tuesday evening walked out of the meeting after disputing rulings of the Mayor (Mr P. E. Potter) on a number of motions.—(P.S.S.)