NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 230, 24 June 1943, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF

Milk Supplies The 25 per cent, cut in supplies of milk to civilian consumers imposed in Auckland this week is not likely to be necessary in Wellington, according to the manager of the city milk department, Mr. Beuseman, yesterday. There had been no change in the position in the Wellington district recently, and in about two weeks’ time the supplies should be at normal level, he said. Body Not Recovered. The body of Mr. Walter Hadley, who <1 ■■Antiiml Sinfurrlsiv List

was urowneu oh oaiuniay uuciuwu juou when his dinghy capsized in Balena Bay, Wellington, has not yet been recovered. General Freyberg Meeting B.SIA. Liclit.-General Sir Bernard I’reyberg, V.C., has expressed a desire to meet members of the Wellington U.S.A, at 5.15 p.m. today in the Kailway Social Hall, Waterloo Quay, next to and south of the Salvation Army Recreation Hut. Duke of Windsor’s Birthday. The -19tb birthday of the Huke of Windsor fell yesterday. He was born on June 23, 1894. and succeeded his father. King George V, to the throne of England on January 20, 1930. Almost 11 months later he abdicated and is at present Governor of the Bahamas. Train in Collision. .Injuries to his back, and laceration of his left arm, were received by Mr. 1 1 . 0. Weine, a chairmaker, of 107 Constable Street, when a motor-car and a tram were involved in a collision at 3.40 p.m. yesterday in Customhouse Quay, Wellington. Harbour Soundings. The Wellington Harbour Board last

night approved a recommendation by its acting chief engineer, Air. K. T. Jenssen, for the purchase and fitting, at an approximate cost of £B5O, of an echo-sounder device to facilitate quick and accurate determination of depths in various parts of the harbour and harbour entrance. It is to be fitted in the launch Uta, and delivery is expected within one month. Manpower Round-up. Organized by the manpower authorities in Auckland as a means of checking up on female defaulters under the Industrial Manpower Emergency Regulations, three raids were carried out in the lounges of Auckland city hotels yesterday afternoon. Though no details were available from the Manpower Department, it is understood that about 100 wo•,1 T) A

men were interviewed. —rat Rehabilitation Centre. The letting of a contract to the Love Construction Company, Limited, tor the erection of a rehabilitation centre on harbour board leasehold land in Anzac Avenue, Dunedin, has been announced by the Minister of Works, Mr. Semple. The contract price is .approximately 120,000. Provision is made in the contract for an administrative centre, show rooms, and recreation rooms, and there will be seven workshops. Work will begin on the site within a week, —P.A. Beauty Specialist on Fann. Greater use of the services of land girls as a means of relieving the farm labour shortage was suggested at. a sitting of the Armed Forces Appeal Board at Mosgiel. The secretary said that land girls generally were doing very good work. He gave as an instance the case of a girl formerly a beauty specialist, who, after six months on a farm, had had charge of 600 ewes at lambing time. He also pointed out that girls could be suitably employed on dairy farms.

Auckland Taxis. . Under new regulations recently issued bv the Auckland Taxicab Control Committee, rostering is scheduled to begin in that city on Monday. The regulations arc substantially the same as those made on April 19. Taxicabs directed to meet trains are tQ be exempt from ‘‘clocking in,” and the provision of the April regulations prohibiting drivers from carrying passengers while returning from the completion of a hiring has been deleted. The limit on duration of each hiring is extended from one hour to two. State Buys Road Services. Two of the few remaining major North Auckland road passenger services retained in private hands have been acquired by the State, Hutley’s Motors, Limited, having sold the Auckland-Whangarei and Awanui-Kaeo-Otiria services to New Zealand Koad Services. Giving his reasons for disposing of the services, Mr. Hutley said that the price offered in each instance was attractive and that existing shortages and restrictions made it increasingly difficult for private operators to continue on the road. Dig For Victory. In addition to the 200 vegetable growing allotments already being cultivated on the Town Belt, the Wellington City

Council has decided to make 550 more available on payment of the registration fee of 2/- a year. These plots are situate in Bussell Terrace (200); Morton Street (60); Karori I'ark (30) ; Alexandra Hoad, Newtown end (2.00); Rolleston Street (40); Majoribanks Street (20). The council will endeavour to get the use of a cultivator to turn over the soil on these plots and any others which may be made available. It will advertise its vegetable growing proposals and urge citizens to take part. Artificial Insemination. Artificial' insemination of animals would soon become an important subject in New Zealand, said the president of the Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand at its annual meeting yesterday. The council of the society had resolved that the question of the registration of pedigree animals conceived by artificial insemination be referred to individual breed societies with a request that replies in writing be sent to the Royal Society before its next annual meeting, and that representatives of the societies should attend that meeting. He said that an endeavour would be made at the conference to reach a universal conclusion on the subject.

In the meantime they would endeavour to obtain information on it from other countries. Hotel Reconstruction. Earthquake damage is responsible for the partial reconstruction of several j otels in Wellington. Following upon the rehabilitation of the Caledonian, Regent and Duke of Edinburgh Hotels, the clarendon Hotel in Courtenay Place is leginning to shed the scaffolding that las held it prisoner for the last three or four months. In the interim strengthening repairs have been carried out, the parapet has been reinforced and streamlined, and the whole of the facade remastered. The old veranda, with its Victorian cast-iron posts, has been dispensed with and a cantilever veranda .as been substituted, with advantages in appearance. The cast-iron posts have l.een smashed up for scrap. Another hotel now undergoing repairs is the Pier Hotel. Customhouse Quay

Big Storage Cellar. Excavation into the ground below the Wellington Town Hall is now proceeding tinder the site of the choir gallery. The whole of the lower part of this gallery s.nd the platform supports have been relieved, and a gang of men is now shifting the earth away to the depth of a couple of feet. This will give a clearmice of Bft. between the floor of the cellir (to be concreted) and the main floor < f the Town Hall, providing a huge store, 51 which the chairs can be stacked out <f the way when the main floor is needed fir dancing or floor fetes of any kind. Previously these chairs (which are serew«d on the battens) had to be stacked in I'ie main corridors on the Wakefield street side, of the building, where they were still in the way. Now they will 1 ! stowed away out of sight below floor ii half the time it took to place them in Tic corridors.

Honour for N.Z. Agriculture. In electing him an honorary member, the Royal Agricultural Society of England had been seeking to honour (he Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand, said the president of the New Zealand society. Mr. L. J. Wild, at its annual meeting yesterday. When complimentary remarks were being made by members Mr. Wild explained that he had received no advice except the newspaper report that the High Commissioner had attended a meeting for the purpose on bis behalf, but Lord Bledisloo had told him of the movement to have him elected, stating that a difficulty was that honorary membership was reserved for distinguished foreigners. Apparently that bad been overcome. New Zealand was very much ou the map, largely as the result of the deeds of her forces in the Middle East, ami he expected that the English society had sought a means of honouring the New Zealand'society.