NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 49, 27 August 1945, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

WEATHER FORECAST

Forecast to 5 p.m. Tuesday: Fresh to strong- northerly winds. Weather cloudy to overcast with occasional rain, especially tonight, but improving someAvhat tomorroAV. Temperatures moderate. Further outlook mainly fair. An anticyclone east of the North Island is moving away. A complex trough is moving on to the Dominion from the Avest. New Moon.—September 7. Temperature at 9.30 a.m., 51 degrees. Rainfall for 24 hours to 9.30 a.m., 0.60 in. Rainfall from July 27 to date, 5.42 m. High Water.—Today, 8.25 p.m.: tomorrow 8.41 a.m., 9.16 p.m. . Sun sets today 5.51 p.m.; rises tomorrow 6.53 a.m., sets 5.52 p.m. Three Eggs This Week. In addition to the normal delivery of priority eggs, there will be an issue this week of three eggs to each butter registration. Encounter With Bull. A bull attacked members of the Westland Catchment Board Avho Avere inspecting erosion effects on the Punakaiki River area last week, and there were some tense moments, states a Greymouth correspondent. One of the members, in making a hasty retreat, tripped over a broken fence and it appeared for a moment that the charging animal had fallen on top of him. However, the bull had himself become entangled in the broken fence. Leaving this member of the party the animal then rushed at the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Mr. N. Clay, who grabbed the bull by the horns and. twisting its head, swung it clear of him. The animal subsequently retired from the scene. Colliers For Union Company. A suggestion was recently made to the Union Steam Ship Co. by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce that the company should purchase several light-draught vessels of the type of L.C.T.'s (landing craft tanks) for carrying coal cargoes from the West Coast of the South Island. In a reply received at a meeting of the chamber it Avas advised that such ships would be unsuitable for navigating bar harbours. The Union Company stated that it had already placed orders for a number of more up-to-date colliers. . Return of Dominion Troops. "I hope an effort will be made to have all our overseas troops home before Christmas," said Mr. M. G. C. McCaul at the fortnightly meeting of the council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. "The quicker the nation gets down to peacetime production the better. We will have our difficulties, but the sooner they are faced the sooner will they be OA'ercome." Mr. McCaul said that the statement by the Prime Minister on the subject of demobilisation was welcome. The quicker the young men and women were permitted to return to their regular avocations the better. Inquiry Into Baking. Lwestigations into New Zealand's bread baking and distribution systems and the Dominion's factory and Avorkers' compensation laws will be made by Mr. Hamilton Knight, Minister of Labour and Industry and Social Welfare in the New South Wales Labour Government, who has arrived from Sydney, states a P.A. telegram from Auckland. Mr. Knight, who is member for Hartley, was met by his uncle, the Minister of Works, Mr. Semple. Mr. Knight was accompanied by an administration officer of his department, Mr. Spencer Woodham. He will leave for Wellington tomorrow and Avill spend a fortnight in New Zealand. "Conquering" Nature. "I hate that phrase 'conquest of Nature,' " said the Rt. Rev. J. S. Moyes, Bishop of Armidale, in an address to ministers and clergy of the National Council of Churches at Bishop's Court, Auckland, on Friday. "We do not conquer Nature, Aye obey her laws," the bishop continued. "We do not conquer the air, for instance. We find Nature's laws in the air and obey them. It is by humble obedience to her laws that we achieve so much, not by conquest." Attacked By Ferret. For the second time within a feAV months in Southland an infant has been attacked and severely injured by a ferret, states an Invercargill correspondent. This time the infant was four months old. The baby was left unattended in a motor-car at Mokotua and one of two ferrets, which were tied up in a bag in the luggage compartment, freed itself and attacked the child, whose cries attracted a passerby. The child suffered injuries to the face. £700 House From Army Huts. The statement that officers of Government Departments were investigating the possibility of constructing houses from Army hut sections on the lines of a house exhibited at the New Zealand Industries Fair was made on Friday by the secretary of the Canterbury Manufacturers' Association (Mr. R. T. Alston), states the Christchurch "Press." The house, which would cost about £700, was built from hut sections and covered With a type of fibre board. It comprised two bedrooms, a living-room, a kitchenette, laundry, and bathroom. Its life, he said, was put at '20 years at least. The house had been built to show Avhat could be done at low cost with these materials to relieve the housing problem, he said. It had been one of the chief items ot interest to the Minister of Industries and Commerce (Mr. Sullivan), and to Government officials and local body members. Baby In Danger. When members of the Christchurch Fire Brigade entered a burning flat a few nights ago they found a four-weeks-old baby there alone, states the "Press." The call was received at 10.55 p.m. When the last engine left on its return to the station at 12.13 a.m., the baby's mother, who had left the.flat some time before the alarm was given to attend a dance, had not returned. The alarm had been sounded when the fire Avas seen from the street. "This, I am very pleased to say, is the first case in my 30 years of experience in which I have come across such negligence," said Superintendent A. Mornson. "The brigadesmen were appaii-=d to find the baby in the empty flat. No law covers such cases. The question is one of moral responsibility; no child should be left alone." Both doors of the fiat, though closed, were unlocked when tlie brigade arrived at the block of three flats, and a quarter of the area of the sitting-room Avas ablaze. The firemen heard the baby crying, and found it in its perambulator in the adioining room, only 15 or 20 feet away from the fire. _ Later, a neighbour took charee of it.