General News

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29367, 21 November 1960, Page 14

General News

Over Establishment The Army’s No. 1 Mobile Dental Unit has achieved distinction. It claims to be the first specialist unit in the Territorial Force to reach full strength since compulsory military training was replaced by the volunteer scheme. The commanding officer, Lieu-tenant-Colonel A. H. E. Munden, of Auckland, said that the unit now has 95 all ranks— tour more than the establishment. “Tax Mechanics” “One public accountant informed me that he had entered public practice to give service to his client, to his client’s creditors and to the Inland Revenue, in that order. Today the position is reversed, and he was compelled to regard himself primarily as an agent of the tax authorities. Another public accountant made the same point when he said that members of the profession were no longer taxation consultants, they were taxation mechanics.”— Mr A. W. Graham, secretary of the New Zealand Society of Accountants, in an address on P.A.Y.E. ‘ Fruit Shipments Four hundred cartons bf Hawaiian pineapples are expected to arrive at Lyttelton early this week and should be on sale in the markets on Wednesday. The pineapples are being transhipped from Wellington. About 7000 eases of bananas are expected at Lyttelton in the Tarawera on Thursday, but will probably not be on sale until the following week. Also on the Tarawera will be smaller shipments of paw paws and coconuts. Strawberries, mainly from the Cheviot area, are steadily increasing in quantity in city shops and yesterday were available at between 3s 6d and 5s 6d a punnet, depending on size. Geraldine High Schoo! The proposal to convert the Geraldine District High School into a new type of high school beginning at form I was discussed in committee by the Canterbury Education Board and the regional Superintendent of Education (Mr T. M. Archer) and the Chief Inspector of Post-primary Schools (Mr J. L. Hunter). In open meeting the board received a protest from 10 Geraldine district schools supporting a high school; but protesting against any interference with .forms I and II at country schools. Two Men Arrested On Theft Charge Two men were seen passing sugar sacks of potatoes over the fence from the yard of the hardware and produce shop of Mr Arthur Glubb at the corner of Madras and Salisbury streets at 3 a.m. yesterday by a woman who lives nearby. The sacks were placed in a motor-vehicie. Inquiries were made by detectives, and two men were arrested by Detective E. B. Wallace and Constable A. Calderwood. The men wifi appear in the Magistrate’s Court this morning on a charge of stealing eight sugar bags of potatoes and two sugar bags of onions. Police Examination.—Sergeant E. S. Tuck, of the prosecutions branch at the Christchurch Central Police Station, has passed the senior-sergeants' examination. Detectives P. J. O’Donovan, J.

Police Examination.—Sergeant E. S. Tuck, of the prosecutions branch at the Christchurch Central Police Station, has passed the senior-sergeants' examination. Detectives P. J. O’Donovan, J. Toombs, R. J. Crooks, and J. P. Crozier have passed the sergeants’ law examination.