NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 4, 5 July 1943, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

WEATHER FORECAST

Light to moderate northerlies predominating. • Weather fair to fine. Frosty again tonight, but moderate day temperatures. The further outlook is for cloud increasing:. ■• v ■ ■ The Moon.—-Full moon, July 18. H|gh Water.—Today, 7.16 p.m.; tomorrow, 7.50 a.m., 8.3 p.m. i Petrol Thieving1. . ' ; 'A' warning' is given to car owners to take more care in. locking garage doors; for some time past a good deal of petrol thieving'has been going oh in the suburbs .of Wellington. Thieves break open doors and drain tanks. The number of reports made to the Automobile Association shows that, this petrol thieving is more than just a coincidence of isolated offences; someone iis making a business of it. Oold Weather, Fewer Eggs. Not only the hens tnemselyes have been affected by the sharp weather of the past few days, but transport facilii ties for eggs have also been adyersily affected by the'sdme cause. The reIsult is a shortage in local supplies, and [today Combined Distributors, Ltd 'the authority handling this business advises ; that the supply has been rfc duced from 20 per cent to 12A per cent., additional (as before) to requireiments for medical and Plunket pur I poses. The wholesale prices of eggs are unchanged, namely:—Heavy grade 3s 3d a dozen; standard, 3s Id; medium, 2s lid; and pullets, 2s 6d. Brigade Band Honoured. The honour of being the first bras? band to play in Tripoli, after the Allied occupation of the city, fell to the band of the ,6th Brigade, of, the Second N.ZJE.F. states-•Private Lloyd G Walker, in a letter written to a friend in New Zealand, states the Christchurch "Star-Sun." Transport difficulties at first curtailed engagements for the band, while it was camped on the outskirts of Tripoli. Later, however, there were plenty of opportunities to give concerts, two of the most successful being given while wounded soldiers were being embarked on hospital ships. Arriving in Tunisia, the band assisted in a French celebration and recruiting parade at Squsse, and gave concerts in the' front-line area, playing to many. English units. Taupo Work Destroyed. The result of nearly;three months' work, with three shifts a day, ; drag ging the • Walkato. River channel at the Lake Taupo outlet, has.been destroyed by a- southerly gale, for ,the material deposited on the banks in an effort to deepen the channel has "beerwashed back again, states a Taupo correspondent The depth of the channel is now about the same as when the work was commenced. The position became so serious that one of the dragline tractors, which was thought to be high enough up the bank to be safe, had to be hurriedly removed at 4 a.m. on Thursday. The whole undertaking is now at a standstill, with the exception of one dragline. The remainder of the machines are being removed further down the river, below the dam, and some of the men are being taken away to other jobs. The work entailed dragging material from the river bed and depositing it on the river bank and lake shores. Since the work commenced, this was the first of the typical southerly gales- so frequently experienced on Lake Taupo. The World's Finest Herd. Discussing . wapiti and >moose, Mr. Ken Sutherland informed members of the Dunedin Rotary Club that wapiti, which were released in the West Coast Sounds more than 30 years ago, had developed so well that for the past 15 years the herd had probably been the finest in the world. There was evidence lately of crossing with red deer, which would inevitably cause some deterioration of a section of the wapiti. The moose, which had also been released, had not done so well, and the expectation seemed.to be that they would become extinct The moose was a huge animal, sometimes reaching the size of a Clydesdale horse. A curious feature about it was that it had a very, short neck, and consequently could not reach down to feed at ground level. . Man-power After the War. Two Sydney professors have warned the Australian Government that the control and movement of Australian man-power after the.- war must be planned now if chaos is to be avoided. The problem created by the* dismissal of 150 women from, a munition annexe which has been closed, and an offer to them of jobs in the country.at greatly reduced pay, was described by Professor T. Hytten," economic adviser to the Bank of New' South Wales,' asa prelude to what would happen on a big scale if preventive- measures were not taken. "It should be a warning to the Government that a far-reaching plan was necessary to absorb thousands now working in munitions who would be. thrown on the labour market when munitions were not needed, he said. "The 150 women munition workers who had finished their work at the annexe and were now offered jobs of lesser ,importance at lower money were only the first of many thousands who Would follow." Professor Clunies Ross, Director of Scientific Personnel in the office of the Director-General of Man-power, said he did not see the Man-power Directorate ending after the war. It was a far worse thing to have to find • jobs for men than to find men for jobs. It should not be necessary in any pro-perly-organised society, but would be one of the biggest problems after the war. ■ ' ■■