LOCAL AND GENERAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 July 1932, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A London cablegram stated tha gold was quoted at 116/4 per ounce.

The North \ Canterbury Hospita: Board decided yesterday not to reduce salaries and wages. It was agreed that the position be reviewed in three months.—Press Assn.

Allocations made by the Unemployment Board this week, will provide full time for 11 two-day men, 42 threeday men, and 14 four-day men, working under the No. 5 Scheme in the Greymouth Borough. The amount allocated is £123/13/-.

A collision between a car driven by Mr S. Sullivan, and one driven by Mr L. Phillips, took place at about 7.30 p.m., yesterday, on the Paroa Road. The off-side front -wheels and mudguards of both cars were damaged. Nobody was injured.

Instructed by wireless to return to Cape Maria, the Government lighthouse steamer, Matai, there found ?n assistant lightkeeper, named Leighton, had his finger badly crushed in a winch, while haulifig up the stores, which the steamer had left. He was taken to Onehunga arid admitted to the hospital.—‘Press Assn. *.

The relief system has affected the trade of one Sydenham shopkeeper io such an extent (says the “Sun”) that he has had to go out of business, but from inquiries from, wholesalers who supply many small stores, it was gathered to-day that the instance whs a r l isolated one, and that most of those getting ration tickets were sticking to their old tradesmen.

Honorary members of the Municipal Band are reminded that the second concert for the season 1932, will be held to-night in the Town Hall. —Advt,

Discontent is rumbling in the Department of the Interior at Canberra. Recently the Secretary of the Department issued a circular urging officers to cut down their consumption of tobacco, in office hours. He suggested that they should restrict themselves to two smokes a day while on duty. Now the Assistant Secretary (Mr Percival), who is in charge of lands and survey activities, has banned morning and afternoon tea for all men employees in his branch. He has allowed women and girls, however, to retain the privilege. It is not an economy move, because officers buy their own tea. The assistant-secretary explained that he did not consider it cdnducive to efficiency to allow officials to have morning and afternoon cups of tea. The time wasted in preparing, distributing, and consuming the tea could not be justified. Men should be strong enough to resist the temptation to sip tea at every opportunity. With women it was different. They were constituted differently from men. He thought that the morning and afternoon reviver added to the efficiency of typists.

See our windows for the cheapest meat in Greymouth. The low prices for quality meat will astound you. Coupons as usual. Farmers’ Meat Supply, Marsden Road. Phone 456. — Advt.

“Whether work is to proceed on the Lewis Pass Road is a matter purely for the Unemployment Board,” said Mr Forbes, when interviewed at Christchurch. “It lias to find the monev, and it has to consider if it will have ’ sufficient funds to carry the work through.” Asked where the Railway Board got its authority from to protest to the Unemployment Board against the resumption of the work, Mr Forbes, while not admitting that the Railway Board had had anything to do with the work being stopped, said that it occupied exactly the same position in this matter as any private individual. It could make representations to the Unemployment Board in the same manner as could anyone else who desired to place opinions before the board. Mr Forbes added that he had no knowledge of the Railway Board having intervened in the pro. ject. The question of rumours about intervention by the Railways Board was referred to the chairman of the Board (Mr H. H. Sterling). “You can take this definitely from me,” he said. “The work was not stopped at the request of the Railways Board, but the board may be reporting later on the proposal.”

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Women members of- the Pupuke Golf Club are seeking a Supreme Court injunction to restrain the committee from enforcing a resolution de barring women from playing on Saturday mornings, on the grounds of interference with the preparation of greens for the afternoon’s play. Se’eral women were find £2 for playing in defiance of the embargo.

An Auckland business man, who contemplated taking his motor car with him, on a visit to Australia, has changed his mind. Fortunately, he took the precaution of writing to the Collector of Customs at Sydney, asking what the duty on the car would be. In the particulars supplied, he stated that the car was valued at only £6O. He received a reply stating that the duty for a car, with sedan body was £2lO, and for a car with a double seater tour body, £l64.—<“Star” Special Service.

A strange indirect effect of the recent earthquake on a pen of poultry is vouched for by a New Plymouth resident (states the “Taranaki News”) The shake smashed in his house a bottle each of wine, Worcester sauce; ammoniated quinine, ale and varnish polish, a packet of curry, a packet of cornflour, and four jars of jams and jellies, which all mixed. They were collected, and the man of the house, thinking the mixture would, with addi tion of pollard, make a good mash, fed the hens next morning. z Inside half an hour the fowls were all a-cackle, and during the day several laid doubleyoked eggs, while others each *laid two eggs before nighnall.

Hodder and Stoughton’s famous 2/6 editions of Fiction are now to be sold at 2/- each. This progressive publishing house have brought this particular line of books under the nett book agreement,, enabling retailers the world over to sell them at London published price. All the latest issues in this series are included in th'3 price. Out of print lines are selling at 1/3 each at B. Dixon’s, Ltd., Tainui Street. —Advt.

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