NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 152, 26 December 1944, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

WEATHER FORECAST An anti-cyclone centred to the northwest covers the Dominion. A trough is advancing over the south-western Tasman Sea. Forecast for the city to 5 p.m. Wednesday: Variable winds, but northwesterlies freshening during tomorrow. Weather fine and mild. Further outlook, cloudy with some brief rain on Thursday. • Temperature at 9 a.m., 61 degrees. Rainfall for 24 hours to 9 a.m., 0.08 inches. Full moon, December 30. High Water.—Toflay, 1.40 p.m.; tomorrow, 2.6. a.m., 2.32 p.m. Sun sets today 7.56 p.m.; rises tomorrow 4.47 a.m., sets 7.57 p.m. Huts for Nurses. To provide urgent temporary nurses' accommodation at the Masterton Hospital, the Wairapara Hospital Board has decided to purchase five 10ft x Bft military huts. The huts will cost £25 each on the present site and will cost about £10 to shift and adapt them. Sentimental Age. "I am old-fashioned enough to believe that had each of you been given a whipping at the age of 15 or 16 it might have had the effect of impressing on you your wrong-doing," said the Hon. Mr. Justice Northcrof t, in the Christchurch Supreme Court, when sentencing two young men on charges of breaking and entering. "However," added his Honour, "this-is a sentimental age in which the whipping of naughty boys is not permitted. It is sentimentalism which allows the development of criminals." The two youths were sentenced to three years' detention in a Borstal institution. Busy Traffic Period. Wellington tramways have had an exceptionally busy Christmas week. Every available tram was in use. While returns of revenue are not yet available, it is believed that they will be on a par, if indeed not better, than those of last Christmas. Loading was consistently heavy every day. No accidents were reported over the holiday period. The same record has been established by the Railways Department, which carried exceptionally heavy loads, away from the city last week. Trains all ran to schedule and without a single mishap. The rush, of course, is riot yet over, and bookings are likely to be heavy until the second week of January. Traffic inspectors reported.today that motorists had been exceptionally "well-mannered," and there had also been a complete, lack of road mishaps. Air Link Sought. An application has been made on behalf of a company to be incorporated a"nd to be named Northern Airways, Limited, for a licence to operate an air service in North Auckland. The proposals of the company were placed before the council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, when the support of the chamber for the application for a continuous air service licence was sought, says an exchange. The chamber decided that, while it welcomed the proposal of an air service to the north and wished the applicants well, it was unable to express an opinion on the merits of the application on the information available. It also decided to write to the Director of Civil Aviation suggesting that a licence for an air service to the north should be granted to a suitable .applicant. Christmas on the Gambia. The festive season had due recognition on board the New Zealand cruiser Gambia yesterday, and it appears from a most attractively-designed menu card that the Christmas fare offered was fully worthy of the occasion. The day began well with breakfast of coffee or iced tomato juice, cereals and hot milk, grilled ham, fried eggs and rolls and butter. At dinner, soup was fittingly followed by roast turkey, with sauce and cauliflower, green peas, and potatoes. The Christmas pudding had the inevitable brandy sauce, and muscatels, and almonds and preserved ginger rounded off the feast. Fruit salad, Christmas cake, biscuits, and bread and butter , provided a simple and tasty tea; and for the substantial supper customary in the Old Land there was cold york ham, salad mayonnaise, and mince pies, with, coffee and bread and butter. Fanners' Organisation. The Auckland Provincial Executive of the Farmers' Union on December 20 carried a motion which reaffirms its determination to do all in its power to bring into being a strong Dominionwide organisation of farmers in which representation and control shall be on a democratic basis. It accepts the statement of the president that in promoting the United Farmers' Federation of New Zealand (Auckland Province) he did- so that it might function as part of 9. new Dominion body while assuring that the Auckland provincial conference should have a real say as to what the rules should ultimately be. The president's action, it is also rioted, must come before the Auckland provincial-conference for approval, and is not an action for which, he is responsible to the Auckland Provincial | Executive. Anzac Centre in India. Particulars have been received by the National Patriotic Fund Board j from its representative in India of the j Anzac Welfare Centre opened in Cal- ] cutta by the' Governor of Bengal (Mr. R. G. Casey) for the benefit of Aus-! tralian and New Zealand Service personnel. The centre, the first of its kind. '.in India, is .maintained jointly by the Australian Corriforl- Fund and the National Patriotic. Fund Board. In addition to providing bed and breakfast, the centre's amenities include the serving of light refreshments during the day and the provision of reading material of Australian and New Zealand interest. The premises comprise the upper flat of a two-storey building. There are four bedrooms and four bathrooms, a large sitting-room, a small inside verandah, two open porch verandahs, dining-room, kitchen, and pantry. There is also a flat roof for sunbathing and a compound of about tennis court size. "The flat can comfortably hold 12 men," states the board's representative (Mr. C. R. C. Gardiner), "but in an emergency we can squeeze in a further ,12."