Local and General

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 April 1943, Page 4

Local and General

The Patriotic Shop, which was conducted yesterday by residents of the south end of the town, resulted in £34 being obtained.

Thanks to the reduction of Greymouth s weekly quota from £622 to £497, the National War Savings objective was easily reached this week. A total of £572 10/4 was deposited, giving a surplus of £75 10/4. A further party of twenty United States Marines will arrive on a visit to Greymouth bv the express this afternoon. The Mayor (Mr. F. A. Kitchingham) will greet them on arrival. Satisfactory billeting arrangements have been made.

One positive case of infantile paralysis and four suspected cases were reported to the Health Department at Christchurch yesterday. The positive case is a five-year-old boy of Otipua, Timaru. The suspected cases, all of whom live in Christchurch, are a woman aged 48 years, 10-months-old and two-vear-old girls, and a boy aged 10 months. There are now six susoected cases in the Christchurch Public Hospital, and it will not be known until Monday whether any of them are positive. Two fresh positive cases of infantile paralysis were notified in the Greymouth district yesterdav. bringing the total to three during the last 11 days. One, a boy is six, of Greymouth, was first reported as a suspect yesterday morning. The other, a woman, aged 30, of Ahaura, was reported late in the evening.

Another vessel will be put into commission soon on the steamer express service to and from Wellington, according to advice received by “The Press” from the Minister of Marine (Mr. O’Brien). Although the permanent repairs to the traffic bridge across the Big Wanganui River have not yet been completed, the structure is again open for traffic. The Public Works Depart.ment have made rapid progress in the 'latter stages of the work.

When a goods ti’ain travelling from Otira to Greymouth was at Inchbonnie, at 11 o’clock last evening, the tender of the engine became derailed in the station yards. Half an hour’s delay was entailed to the train, which is normally due at Greymouth at 1 a.m.

The Minister of Marketing (Mr. Barclay) has announced that he has appointed Mr. T. C. Brash as appeal authority to adjudicate on woolgrowers’ hardship applications lodged under the Purchase of Wool Emergency Regulations, 1939, Amendment 1. Such appeals must be lodged with the Minister of Marketing by May 31.

The Army authorities state that, as the result of an accidental dischai’ge of a rifle, Sapper K. C. Morgan, aged 20, the son of Mr. C. F. Morgan, 43 McGrath Street, Nqpier, was fatally wounded at a camp in the Manawatu district, yesterday. A Board of Inquiry has been held. —P.A.

As a result of the prolonged dry spell, the supply of milk for the Auckland city has been materially reduced. For the first time in the history of the north, the Te Aroha district has been called upon to supply the deficiency, and from last night the supplies to the Te Aroha West and Manawatu factories, owned by the New Zealand Dairy Company, are being conveyed by lorry to Auckland, a distance of more than 90 miles. This supply will probably be required right into the Winter months.—P.A.

Mr. L. W. Brockington, Empire adviser in the British Ministry of Information, who is visiting Australia and New Zealand and other parts of the Empire at the request of the British Government, was the guest at a civic luncheon at Dunedin to-day. He was welcomed by the Mayor (Mr. A. H. Allen) and Mr. Sullivan, on behalf of the Government. He gave a stimulating address on the- Empire’s war effort, especially in Great Britain and Canada. The people of Great Britain, he said, were working side by side in a great unity that would “put an end very soon to any stupid class distinction that remained.”—P.A.

One aspect of parental control was discussed by Miss J. R. Barr, former principal of the Timaru Girls’ High School, in an address during Timaru Community Week, on the adolescent girl, with particular reference to the part the father played in some homes. Invariably, said Miss Barr, when the daughters sought some advice or asked for permission to keep certain appointments, the father would reply: “Oh, ask your mother.” Then, when something happened that displeased the father, he would take refuge in the retort: “Well, no one consults me about anything!” This brought a ripple of laughter from an audience composed largely of women. “We believe that after this war is over there will be such a demand for our products that our living standard will be higher than ever, and that by organising production and industries necessary in this country we can increase the prosperity of New Zealand, build up our exports and give everybody a job with good wages,” said Mr. W. J. Polson, National member of Parliament for Stratford, at Ohoka last evening. Labour said the National Party would attack social security and cut wages, said Mr. Polson. That was emphatically denied and he would not Le a member of a party with such an outlook. The social security system proposed by the National Party would be a just plan, he said, not the present haphazard scheme and system which despised and attacked thrift.

Linen Check Tea Towels, 27 x 27, to match every kitchen, blue, black, red, and wine, one inch checks, 3/3 each, at C. Smith’s.—Advt.

Nursery Squares, 30 x 30. twill back, flannelette squares, British make, only a limited supply, 31/6 doz. at C. Smith’s. —Advt.

Pardon me, Madam, “Have you the time?” Have you the time to do all you would like to do in civilian defence, Red Cross work and other war activities. Think what you could accomplish with one extra day each week by using our Laundry Service. Think of the freedom, too, from that weekly drudgery of home laundering. You’ll save not only time but energy, and most important, your health. Hanging clothes in a cold, windy yard is risky at this time of the year. Your clothes will benefit, too, we know exactly what temperature, what suds and what method to use for each type of fabric and colour. You’ll find your white things whiter, your coloured things brighter.—Westland Laundry Ltd. ’Phone 136. Depot, 27 Albert Street.—Advt.