GENERAL NEWS Both Islands Exceeded Electricity Quotas

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 August 1948, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS Both Islands Exceeded Electricity Quotas

Consumers in both the North and South Islands again exceeded the electricity allocated during the week ended August 15. In the North Island consumption totalled 34,597,000 units 1,893,000 units or 5.78 per cent, above the allocation of 32,704,000 units. The South Island consumption totalled 13,719,000 units, 442,000 units or 3.33 per cent, above the allocation of 13,277,000 units. —(P.A.) Mails For Britain

A surface mail for letters only for Great Britain, Eire, and Europe, except the Balkan States and Italy, will close at the Chief Post Office. Greymouth, at 5.30 p.m. on August 23. A parcel mail will close at 4.30 p.m. on Monday, September 6.

Notifiable Diseases In the week ended August 16, the following cases of infectious diseases were notified in the Canterbury Health District: Scarlet fever, 5; diphtheria, 2; tuberculosis, 6; eclampsia, 1; influenza, 1. Two cases of scarlet fever were reported on the West Coast. There was one death from tuberculosis on the West Coast, and one from influenzal pneumonia in Canterbury.

No Further Bookings No further trans-Tasman bookings for the Aorangi are being accepted meanwhile by the Union Steam Ship Company, states an Auckland announcement. Although hundreds of applications for berths have been received, shipping officials do not consider the demand for to Australia exceeds the supply. The fares across the Tasman on the Aorangi will be £22 10s first class, £l7 cabin class and £ll third class. — (P.A.) Removal Of Hotel

A start has been made on the removal of the Kokiri Hotel to Stillwater, to replace the Junction Hotel, which was totally destroyed by fire on December 7, 1946. The hotel is being re-erected on a new site, directly opposite the Stillwater railway station and about 300 yards closer to the station than the site formerly occupied by the hotel. The Kokiri Hotel, which is a modern building, was purchased outright for removal and Kokiri will no longer have a hotel. The contractor for the removal task, which is expected to take several months, is Mr E. Butts. Citizens’ Protest

An application to the Supreme Court for an injunction restraining the Wellington City Council from using a site near the Central Public Library as a terminal for the Wadestown bus service is to be considered by a citizens’ committee, representing 16 city and suburban organisations, at a special meeting next Monday evening. The use of the library site as a bus terminal, which has been a civic affairs talking point in Wellington, was decided on by the council by eight votes to seven. Money has already been collected, it is stated, for legal costs if an implication for an injunction is filed.--(P.A.)

Child Run Over When he was run over by a butcher's van, driven by Mr F. Allen, of Rapahoe, yesterday, Donald Forsyth. aged two years, son of Mr and Mrs N. Forsyth, of Inverness street, Dunollie, received injuries to his head and chest. The child was admitted to the Grey Hospital, where his condition this afternoon was reported to be satisfactory. The child, who was playing on the street in front of his parents’ home, was standing at the rear of lhe truck when the driver entered the cab and it was not until he had moved some yards that his attention was drawn by a passerby to the fact that the child had been run over.

Union And School Workers After it had been announced that, as a result of two new awards, if the board continued to employ clerical workers not members of the Clerical Workers’ Union it was liable to a fine of £lOO, the Greymouth Technical High School’s Board of Governors decided last evening that it be an instruction that all clerical workers on the staff should join the union. The votes of Mrs G. Blair and Messrs F. H. Denton and E. O. Henry were cast against the resolution proposed by Mr J. J. Haddock and seconded by Mr S. Gladstone. The resignation of one of the two part-time office workers, a teacher, was accepted by the board with regret, and it was decided again to advertise the position of registrar at a salary of £450 with increases to £5OO. This is a substantial increase on the salary previously offered.

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