NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 123, 26 May 1944, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

WEATHER FORECAST

Moderate to fresh northerly winds. Weather mainly cloudy, with some light rain likely tomorrow. Moderate temperatures. The further outlook is for rather unsettled weather. Temperature at 9 a.m., 53 degrees. Full moon. June 7. High Water.—Today, 8.37 p.m.; tomorrow, 9.6 a.m., 9.26 p.m. Sun sets today 5.4 p.m.; rises tomorrow 7.32 a.m., sets 5.4 p.m. Honour Without Worship. During his cross-examination by Mr. Justice • Tyndall in the Arbitration Court yesterday, a witness addressed himself several times to "Your Worship." His Honour was finally urged to protest, explaining his proper title, and remarking, "You may 'honour' me, but you may not 'worship' me." One Must Go. It -is not possible for all the members of the Hutt Valley Electric Power Board to be again returned; there is one exception. Mr. A. Walker has represented Eastbourne and Mr. R. G. Stephen, Johnsonville. These two districts are now combined, and will return only one member. Both men are candidates for the combined area, and therefore, one must lose his seat. Mr. Walker has criticised the combining of the two districts, on the grounds that, they are ten miles apart and have no community of interest. '' Well Done New Zealand.'' "The job you are' doing in New Zealand is an excellent one. I have frequently come down here on behalf of the boys who are doing a great job up north in the Islands. Often I have wanted equipment almost the day before I arrived, and despite difficulties and pressure of work the radio industry and the Post and Telegraph Department have not spared themselves in meeting our requests," said a representative of the U.S. Commander-in-Chief at a farewell to the New Zealand radio technical mission to the United Kingdom. "Believe me, I know the boys up north appreciate your help in their task of taking the war away from New Zealand. Your work is astounding and I say in deep sincerity that the job you are doing in New Zealand is as well deserving of the tribute earned by your Fighting Forces. Well done New Zealand. You have done a remarkably good job in the production of signal equipment." Tribute to Minister. . "We have been able to do a good job because we have had a Minister whose intense interest in manufacturing has been an inspiration," said a speaker at the farewell to the New Zealand radio delegation to the United Kingdom. "We have been glad to work under his direction, and because Mr. Sullivan has been so keen a supporter of manufacturing in New Zealand we were able to undertake this job of producing Army Signals equipment. We might not have been so fortunately situated or so successful had the Minister in Charge of industrial development been someone less intensely interested in our work and progress. We are grateful to the Minister for all his encouragement and leadership and we are appreciative of his continued interest, an interest that has placed us in our present excellent position." Clothed with New Vitality. "A quarter of a century has passed since President Wilson (and advisers and statesmen associated with him) gave the world the League of Nations —a League which his fellow-country-men promptly repudiated and which successive crises quickly stripped of its living flesh, leaving a gaunt skeleton of technical organisations. Today," says the annual report of the Wellington branch of the League of Nations Union, "as signs accumulate of World War II nearing its end, that skeleton is being clothed with a new vitality—not the vitality of an isolated President-thinker, or of technical experts and visionary idealists, but the vitality of an informed world public opinion which far-seeing Allied statesmen are using every means to rouse; the Atlantic Charter, inter-govern-mental, and other international talks and conferences, advisory commissions, relief and rehabilitation administration, and their own insistent, fearless, yet tactful expositions of post-war international policy. A new league, whatever name it may assume, is struggling into being, and the world is being intelligently prepared for its effective use. The turn of events, therefore, is soberly justifying the faith of those who, as League of Nations Union members throughout the war, have clung tenaciously to League ideals and principles." Open-cast Mine. Production of the new open-cast mine at Waitewhena, 12 miles from Ohura, will be limited by the amount it is possible to carry by lorry to the railway, according to a resident of the district, who is interested in mining, states a New Plymouth correspondent. This in his opinion raises the question whether a light railway should be laid to the scene of the mine. Bulldozers, he states, can break the coal out in the type of country that exists at Waitewhena as fast as it can be taken away, and it would appear that a greater amount of coal could be obtained if more efficient methods of transport were installed. Comparison with the open-cast mine at Huntly, where the railway runs right into the workings and trucks are loaded by steam shovels, shows the disadvantage of the use of lorries as an intermediate form of transport. For "three months men have been engaged in preparing a track into the-coalfield and the principal construction \yhich remains for the access is a bridge over a small stream between the coal and the road. Once ':hat is completed the progress of the development of the mine can be hastened, it is stated. In places the coal is right on the surface and the position varies according to the locality, but it is estimated that the maximum depth of over-burden is about 30 feet. The greater part of the area consists of fern country.