LOCAL AND GENERAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 July 1945, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The shop day conducted by the combined badminton clubs at Greymoiith yesterday realised £55/9/6 for the patriotic fund.

Investments in National War Savings at Greymouth this week amounted to £560/2/8 as compared with the quota of £520, a surplus of £4O/2/8.

Provision for approximately £3350 to the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, for the comfort and relief of orphans, and the aged and needy in Canterbury, is made in the will of Mr. Alexander Aitken, of Pleasant Point, who died at Timaru on May 15.—P.A.

The condition of Mrs. Noelle Wilson, of Gladstone, who was struck in the back by the engine of the Hoki-tika-Grey mouth train yesterday morning, and admitted to the Grey Hospital with injuries to her back and head, was reported early this afternoon to be still serious but slightly improved.

The fact that many men on leave without pay from the services did not appeal’ to be aware that driving licenses issued to them by the @ommissioner of Transport were not now valid if they were driving civilian vehicles has been pointed out. The order permitting drivers on leave without pay to use the special licenses was revoked some time ago and it is now necessary for these people to obtain licenses from the local authorities. A driving test is not required if the license issued in the services is presented.

The annual meeting of the Westland Branch of the N.Z. Institute of Surveyors was held at Greymouth last evening, Mr. J. Mclntyre presiding and also present being Messrs T. Learmont, N. Clay, H. Hutchinson, and J. Overington. Mr. Learmont was elected chairman for the ensuing year and Mr. Hutchinson acting-secretary. Mr. Overington was appointed to represent the branch at the annual conference of the Institute at Wellington in September, and after a discussion, three remits were framed for presentation.

The first Rotary Forum to be held on the West Coast was held in the Club’s meeting room (Harker s) on Wednesday evening, there being an attendance of over 80 including visitors from Hokitika, Westport, Christchurch and Ashburton Clubs. Instructive addresses were given on the aims and objects of Rotary by Mr. W. D. Taylor, President of the Greymquth Club and Mr. S. H. Thomas, VicePresident of the Christchurch Club. Impressions of the annual conference held at Auckland were given by Mr. R. Dawber, President of the Westport Club, and an address on employeremployee relationships was given by Mr. E. Bevan, of the Christchurch Club.

Four applications for release from the Army and Air Force were heard by the Armed Forces Appeal Board at a sitting at Hokitika yesterday, and an indefinite release was recommended in each case, the men concerned being J. A. Connor (Paterson Michel and Co.), L. N. Diedrichs (G. L. Diedrichs). L. T. Tainui (A. Tainui) and W. J. Wright (G. Wright). A. J. Ellis (Mrs. E. A. Ellis) was recommended for release for three months, and an application for a re-hearing of an appeal by C. Cook for E. J. Strange was declined. One review was made being of an appeal by Rope Construction Co. for C. T. McEvoy and a sine die adjournment was granted.

The July meeting of the Barrytown Women’s Institute was held at the residence of Mrs Blunt, with Mrs Richards as assistant hostess. The President (Mrs Rowe) opened the meeting by reading the Dominion President’s letter from “Home and Country.” The cookery competition, plain scones, was won by Mesdames Butterworth, Rowe and Wafer, with Mrs Richards second. The monthly guessing competition winner was Mrs Blunt. Members spent the rest of the afternoon celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of the Institute, competitions being won by Mesdames Blunt, Butterworth, Langridge, Rowe and Wafer. Afternoon tea was served by the hostesses.

The law relating to the registration and training of nurses and midwives is consolidated by the Nurses and Midwives Bill introduced and read a first time in the House of Representatives yesterday. The Minister of Health (Mr. Nordmeyer) explained that the Bill also provided for the training and registration of male nurses. This was the main amendment to the existing law. The causes dealing with male nurses states that a register shall be kept ol male nurses and that the Nurses and Midwives’ Board may approve as a training school for male nurses any hospital or institution controlled by a State Department or by any hospital board or’charitable institution. r lhe qualifications required for the registration of male nurses are set out m the Bill.—P.A.

Following representations made to him on behalf of milk producers in the Greymouth district the Mayor ol Grevmoiith, Mr. F. A. Kitchingham, telegraphed the Minister of Transport (Mr. O’Brien) pointing out that because of the export, of lucerne hay to Australia the price of inferior lucerne hay is £7/10/- a ton on trucks in Canterbury as compared with £4 10/- per ton previously for good quality hay, and that producer-retailers in particular are feeling very strongly on the increase as they are getting no higher price for Winter milk, lhe Mayor suggested that the problem be tackled with a view to putting the industry on an economic footing peranently. Mr. O’Brien has replied that he has taken the matter up.with a view to action being taken.

After completing her cargo in the afternoon, rough seas on the bar prevented the departure of the Raimai with coal fdr Wellington last night, but the swell moderated and she was abel to sail about 12.30 p.m. to-day. The swell was not sufficient last night to prevent the Pakura from entering for the second time, this week, and she is expected to sail to-night, her coal having been ready for loading. The Poolta, which only arrived yesterday, is another due to depart with to-night’s tide, the diversion of the Rata to Westport having resulted in plenty of coal being available. Following the departure of the Poolta the port will be empty until the arrival of the Kartigi on Tuesday, and this vessel, so far, is the only one set down to trade here next week.

Common sense, energy, and a good deal of luck were required by the good detective, said Inspector J. B. Young (formerly of Greymouth), in a recent luncheon address to the Invercargill Rotary Club. People should ;not judge the everyday work of defectives by the standard of popular fiction, he said. Methods which worked in the crime novel would not be tolerated in a legal system which regarded all men as innocent until proved guilty and all as equally entitled to the rights of British citizens. Fingerprints, he said, were a most valuable part of detection, and although their scientific tabulation was modern, their use was known in pre-' Christian days. The whorls on the end of a person’s finger did not change, except in size, from three months before a child’s birth until the body of a dead person decomposed. There were no two sets of fingerprints exactly alike.