General News

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26854, 6 October 1952, Page 6

General News

Impertinent Thief A thief who calls himself “Curley” broke fete Metrqpelitaß Motors, Ltd.. 136 Daminien read, Auckland, egrly on Saturday morning, selected a sfe. lien waggon and a mater .cycle from a. number of vehicles, took nearly £? in stiver from a tm. and drove off after leaving a note complaining feat there wag no money fe tne safe- Afe on .to the roof. He forced a skylight, and then opened, fee garage doors fronting en Domtmen road. Tp get the station waggen .he drove several cars out rafe Bdmmion road, and left them mere. The empty safe had not been locked. ’Why don’t you use your gate more often?" eompiamed fee thiei llun«r iJTdfW ®Twa W hta S by a ctf W garage, mfer-eyefe, Mas vat Men It wm tke time wjth= weeks tjueves hM broken mt© the

©flees ef Australian and South Afeican epanaea were feereaaed hy id a pound last week. The new price order issued by the Ffiee Tribunal eame infe fo?ee un Friday, It fixe? a naaxwnum retau pr-iee ©f i s ad a euund 4qf oranges sold in the metrepbutan areas ©t Auekland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin, and the cities or boroughs of Whangarei. Hamilton, Gisborne, New Plymouth, Stratford, Wanganui, Palmersten North, Napier, Nestings, Senheim, Nelson, Qreynwth, Westport, Tinaaru, Oama?Ur Gere,- and Invercargill. Elsewhere th© prices will be is ?|d- Jamaican oranges and grapefruit are unchanged in nri©e. In the main centres fee prices will be Is 2d and lid, and elsewhere Is 2id and ll£d. . - police Ijqgs The Minister in charge of Police (Mr W, H- Fortune) has returned from his mission to Ottawa, as leader of the New Zealand , delegation to fee Commonwealth Parliamentary Association’s conference, more than ever convinced feat police dogs have a place in New Zealand. He discussed the use qf dogs wife senior police ofecers in England and Canada Mr Fortune said in Auckland last night feat he end the other New Zealand delegates had visited Scotland Yard while in London on their way to the conference. In Canada he had watched a policeman wearing special protective gear being attacked by a. trained dog. In spite of his agility and knowledge of dogs, the man had been no match far the animal. The dog instantly obeyed the command of fee mnn in charge. Mr Fortune said that if police dogs had been used in New Zealand when a Wellington girl, Marie West, was re-, ported missing a few . years ago, her pady would have been found in a few minutes. To overcome the shortage of manpower, other countries'were making mote use of women at police stations. Instead of policemen laboriously typing their own reports, they spoke into dictaphones, and women did fee. transcriptions, Mr Fortune said—(P. A.)

Teacher Camposes Opera A full-scale light opera, “The Gypsies,’' has been composed by Mr Hamilton Dickson, a teacher of singing in Wellington, and formerly of Christchurch, It will fee performed for the first time on October IJ. Mr Pickson believes that his opera is the first work of its kind to be written in New Zealand, “The Gypsies” covers 200 pages of manuscript, 90 of them parts for a small string orchestra, and takes more than two hours to perform. Although it will be presented at first by young people and is set ifiainly in the higher vocal ranges it is not an opera for children. Elusive Gas Leak

A bad leak in a gas. main under the intersection of Customs and Albert streets. Auckland, has baffled gangs of Auckland Cas Company workmen since Friday. Mr Rupert Worley, general manager of the company, said last evening that the leak was highly dangerous. “'Hie public should be warned,” said Mr Worfey. “Anyone looking on might get gassed. A lighted match, or even a cigarette, would be enough to start a very serious fire.” Although workmen have been digging in various parts of fee intersection throughout the week-end, the leak had not been found when they ceased work at 10 p.m. yesterday. The first warning of fee trouble came when it was found feat the basement of the Auckland Transport Board’s building was filled with gas. Workmen will continue the search today, but their task will be made more difficult by the heavy traffic which crosses the intersection. Already parts of the roadway are roped off. Although some traffic could be diverted, trams and trolley-buses must use fee crossing—(P.A) Dutch Migrants for N.Z.

The Dutch liner Waterman left Rotterdam today with nearly 500 Dutch emigrants for New Zealand and 3QO for Australia. Th© Waterman will sail via the Panama Canal to Wellington .and then to Melbourne. The passengers include Mr J. W. Dennik, who will settle in Auckland with his wife and three children as pastor of fee Dutch settlers’ Reformed Church, and Fathers J. Sehokker and T. T, Homan, who will work among Dutch Roman Catholics in New Zealand. —The Hague, October 4. Old. Ticket Punches For Sale

The Auckland Transport Board is advertising fee sale of 250 ticket punches at prices ranging from 2s 6d to 10s. The punches are still in good working order but are not up to the standard required by the board. The advertisement states that fee punches will be useful for Christmas stockings and that “children love them.” The board’s manager (Mr C. R. Gribble) has advised parents buying the punches to keep concession cards out of the way of the children. Tickets punched will be regarded as ‘‘used.” Communism in Asia Unless New Zealanders “are prepared to sweat more in peace, they are going to bleed more in war,” according to Mr T. Wilson, principal of Ardmore Teachers’ Training College, who recently saw fee effects of Communist infiltration into South-east Asia. Mr Wilson, who addressed a meeting at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, yesterday, returned a few months ago from Siam, where he was chief of the UNESCO educational mission to Sian), “The chances of the Communists going right through Asia are very real.” Mr Wilson said. “I think fee white man is getting his last chance. New Zealanders are too cotnplacent, and they are not fully prepared to stem this flow. Unless we dq, demands are going to be made on Us which will undermine our standard qf living. The Asiatics are fearful of white imperialism, and they are chary Of accepting assistance from white countries. On the other hand, they do not regard the Russians as white imperialists. The Communist doctrin® has a greater emotional appeal, and they feel that what Russia offers them is practical,”— (P.A >