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Evening Star, Issue 26087, 29 April 1947, Page 4

About 50 applications were set down for hearing by tlie Otago Laud Sales Committee at its sitting this afternoon. The Gaming. Commission completed its Napier sittings yesterday, and left this morning for Wellington, where the commission sits at 11 a.m. on Thursday.—Napier Press Association message.

Three hundred and eight places obtained their National Savings quotas last week. All the principal centres were successful, and in each of the 20 postal, districts the full district quota was attained. Investments continue at a high level, the deposits for the week amounting to £190,658, compared with thg Dominion objective of £86,327.

Several donations to the 1947 Poppy Day appeal have been received from country districts in the province, and the total, as acknowledged by .the Dunedin It.S.A., is now £3,018 16s sd.

The - following , cablegram was received by the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, Sir Patrick Duff, to-day from Mr Charles Ball, secretary of the Old Comrades’ Association, in England:—“On this,thirty-second anniversary of the landings at Gallipoli, the president, officers, and old comrades of the 29th* Division send their warmest greetings to all comrades in New Zealand.” The cablegram was addressed to Sir Patrick Duff as High Commissioner, but it also happened that he was an officer of the 29th Division at both the landing at Gallipoli and the evacuation.

An American-style jewelled brooch of a kind rarely seen in New Zealand brought.'the high price of £4OO when auctioned in Wellington. The brooch was of platinum ancl gold, shaped' like a bow, and' contained 29 diamonds and 12 pigeon-blood rubies. At the same sale a pair of carved ivory African figures' brought 40gs, a carved ivory ipowder puff box £25, and a carved ivory card box £2O. Carved, mahogany dining-room chairs were sold at £lB to £2O apiece.

A new track which hap just been installed by' the Northern Hawke’s Bay Greyhound Racing Association at League Park, Napier, is the most modem in Australia and New Zealand. Built andl installed by a North Island firm, it is based bn the latest methods being used in Australia with several improvements added, and will permit the running of races involving more than one lap of the course. With the previous track one-lap races only were possible. In the new system the hare will be carried on a 3-ft arm from machinery which runs on a rail outside the fence. Previously it was carried on a wire in the centre of the track. The new track is first to be in operation next Monday night at a special meeting at which the members of- the Gaming Commission are to. attend prior to hearing the association’s claims for the introduction of a totalisator at the course.

There are shortages of labour in many British industries that are more acute 'than those being experienced in New. Zealand. The clothing industry is 27 per cent, below its mid-1939 level, while footwear shows a decline of 17 per cent., andv paper and printing 22 per cent. According to figures supplied by employers to the National Employment Service, the clothing industry in New Zealand was 29 per cent., footwear 16 per cent., and printing 9 per cent, short of current requirements last October. The figures show the labour position to be almost exactly same in the clothing and, footwear industries of both countries, but, in its monthly review, the National Employment Service stresses that the New Zealand industries are short ou ourlent requirements rather than ou 1939 levels. Last October the clothing industry employed 16,707 persons as compared with 12,315 recorded in 1939, while the footwear industry employed 4,477 as compared with 3,075 in 1939.

The Lepers’ Trust Board announces that the recent appeal for the lepers in the South Pacific realised the sum of £25,000, and this has been allocated as follows:—New Hospital, British South Solomons, £8,000; Rehabilitation Depot, Suva", £4,000; Leprosy Survey, New Hebrides, £3,000; Makogai Leper Station, £3,000; Melanesian Mission (Anglican), British South Solomons, £2,000; Catholic Mission, British South Solomons, £1,000; Methodist Mission, British* South Solomons, £1.000; Seventh Day Adventist Mission, British South Solomons, £1,000;- New Leper Settlement, Aoba, New Hebrides, £].- 000; Leper Hospital, Wallis Island, £500; Leper Hospital, New Caledonia, £SOO. Total allocation, £25,000. The Trust Board is an undenominational organisation co-operating with all mission bodies doing medical and leper work in. the islands.