NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 156, 30 December 1940, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

Record Production.

"Although 50,000 men have gone out of active production, our national production will probably constitute a record this year," said the Minister of Labour (Mr. Webb) at Auckland. The Minister expressed the hope that the coming year would bring even greater determination for all sections of industry to put forward their maximum effort. He said that anyone losing an unnecessary day or endeavouring to make an added profit out of the extra impetus of the workers was helping the enemy. Texaiis for K.A.F. Many Americans were enlisting in the Royal Canadian Air Force, said Mr. Edmund Anscombe, F.N.Z.1.A., who has returned from the United States. Thirty-five men from Texas drifted north to enlist. At the enrolling office in Ottawa, where they said they were from Texas, they were told that they could not enlist, Texas being outside Canada. So they went away and studied an atlas, then returned to the office. "Where do you come from?" "Vancouver," said every man. "What address?" they were asked. This completely flabbergasted them for the moment, but they were smart enough to say they belonged to the country and had no fixed address. They were enlisted, i Pohutukawas Coming Out. Fully out in warm and sheltered positions, and rapidly coming out elsewhere, the pohutukawa trees are now a fine sight all round Wellington. They are neither earlier nor later, as a whole, this season, although one or two precocious ones were showing colour before Christmas, but the wealth of bloom appears to be above the average. A close examination of the trees, especially some flowering on the eastern side of the harbour, shows a wide range in colour from almost salmonpink to the deepest crimson. New Zealand's Christmas tree is certainly a fine sight at this time of the year, and an American visitor to Wellington yesterday described it as one of the most beautiful trees he had ever seen in any part of the world. When told that up north he would see far finer specimens, he remarked that he was quite satisfied with what he had already seen.