The Franklin Times PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOON. MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1941. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Franklin Times, Volume XXX, Issue 88, 11 August 1941, Page 2

The Franklin Times PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY AFTERNOON.

MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1941. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Office and Works: ROULSTON STREET, PUKEKCUE. ’Phone No. 2. P.O. Box 1-4. “Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.”

The Knitting Knit Wits. The patriotic' . effort, during I lie week-end. of the Knitting Knit Wits—a band of Pukekohc school girls —on behalf of destitute children of London. resulted in more than £2O being realised. Full details will he published when they are available, industrial School.

“One of the fines I acts ever carried out in the country was Ihe closing down of the Burnham Industrial School,” said Mr It. W. Lacey, child welfare officer for Taranaki, in an address to New Plymouth Rotarians.

"If has been estimated that 90 per cent of criminals in New Zealand came from that industrial school."

Tanks Still in Use. ‘‘There are (JOOO rainwater tanks in Wanganui, and these would cost for tank and stand £lO each, so that house owners have spent £OO.OOO on them.” said the Wanganui (lily Council health inspector. “For that amount, an up-to-date nitration, aeration. sterilisation and water softening plant could he installed for the whole Of Wanganui. This Year’s Wheat Crop. Although il was anticipated that there would be extensive sowings ol' wheat this year, a Timaru Herald reporter was informed that the quanitity so far sown had not come up to expectations, and that there would be little increase on the acreage sown last year. tt would appear that the present prices are not sufficiently attractive and that farmers are turning their attention to other crops. Fertiliser Supplies. During a discussion on fertiliser supplies at a meeting of the South Auckland Dairy Association in Hamilton it was suggested that very few farmers realised that any appeals against the allocation of fertilisers must be lodged by loth August or the allocations to individual farmers would be adhered to. The Association decided to ask the Minister of Agriculture to postpone the first date for lodging appeals until mid-September. Fewer Travellers. A heavy falling off in the issue of passports, due to H war, is recorded in the annual report of the Internal Affairs Department. The report says that during the year 677 passports were issued, as compared with 2186 last year. Renewals granted were d 65 as against .'{'JO last year. The introduction of compulsory national service had added greatly to the work of the passport section, added the report, and the Department had acted in the closest co-operation with the Department of National Service to ensure that no person left the country permanently if he was required from a man-power point of view. Sydney’s Solitary Hansome Cab. Sydney has one hansom cab left, and it is driven by Mr Bernard Breen, aged 70 years. “I first cracked my whip forty years ago, and there were then 1500 hansoms on the streets,” he told a newspaper man. “I still have my regular customers from the old gentility. Every week for thirty years I have driven one man from his home seven miles out to the city and back. Last week an old couple took a ride and wept. They drove home from their wedding in a hansom fifty years ago. With petrol rationing we may again see spirited horses drawing smart two-wheelers through the streets, and some of life’s old dignity will return.”