DOMINION NEWS Has The 'New Look’ Come To Stay

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 October 1948, Page 8

DOMINION NEWS Has The ' New Look’ Come To Stay

The two to four-inch lower hemline in' women’s dresses, the “new look” that is now just a year old in New Zealand, would not disappear as quickly as it arrived, forecast Mr J. J. Delahunt, of Wellington, the retiring president of the New Zealand Garment Manufacturers’ Federation, in an interview at Napier. Mr Delahunt expected that the longer hemline -would stay in vogue for some time. He said that New Zealand women, although guided by overseas trends, dictated the fashions in New Zealand. There would not be any major changes in fashions in New Zealand before the Royal visit, predicted Mr Delahunt, adding that there would be a number of changes after the visit. He pointed out that members of the Royal Family were leaders of fashion in the British Commonwealth.—(P.A.)

Butter Rationing A motion urging the Government to abolish or at least to increase the butter ration has been carried by the Southland Trades Council. It was alleged that there was no equality in the butter ration in New Zealand, and one delegate described the system as a farce. —(P.A.)

Prisoner Escapes A prisoner escaped from the compound of the Rangipo prison farm near Taupo at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon. He was Adam Whakaue. He was dressed in prison garb, a grey jacket and moleskin trousers. The direction in which he made off is not known. —(P.A.)

Labour Day Work Auckland waterside workers will work on Labour Day to enable the liner Aorangi to keep her northbound time-table. It is some years since work was undertaken in the port on Labour Day, but the union endorsed the proposal at its stopwork meeting on Thursday—(P.A.) Watersiders’ Hall at Bluff The Waterfront Industry Commission’s administrative building and the waterside workers’ assembly hall at Bluff were opened on Saturday by Judge Dalglish, chairman of the Commission. With outer walls of asbestos shingles and a tiled roof, the building presents a smart appearance. The east end contains the Commission’s administrative offices. In the middle part is the assembly hall, which should accommodate up to 300 persons. At the rear is a first aid room, a kitchen, a boiler house, locker rooms, and showers. The building is designed so that it can be shifted to another site should the wharf require it. —(P.A.)

Three Persons Injured . A woman was seriously injured and two men were injured in Hamilton East at about 6.30 a.m. yesterday when a three-ton truck got out of control, struck a bank, and somersaulted three times before coming to rest on its wheels. The injured were Mrs Margeurita Lusher, aged 46, of Mangakino, with severe lacerations to the head and face; Harold William Lusher, aged 46, an overseer at Mangakino, husband of Mrs Lusher, concussion and abrasions; Gordon Richards, aged 29, married, of Tokoroa, a contractor. Mrs Lusher’s condition is serious, but the condition of the two men is satisfactory. —(P.A.)

“N.Z. Unions Militant” The claim that New Zealand unions were more militant than their Australian counterparts was made during a hearing of a banking dispute before the Conciliation Commissioner (Mr B. Ritchie) in Wellington. In reply to a statement, made by the employees’ advocate (Mr C. A. R. Brunt) that an appeal board for banking employees had worked satisfactorily in Australia for several years, Mr W. J. Mountjoy, the employers’ advocate, said that they might not have such militant unions in Australia as they had in New Zealand. “That will cause a laugh,” said Mr Brunt. “Unions do not interfere in so many trades and callings in Australia as they do here,” said Mr Mountjoy.—(P.A.)

School For State Housing Area. The new Taita Central school, Lower Hutt, the first school in New Zealand to draw all its pupils from a State housing area, was opened by the Minister of Education (Mr T. H. McCombs) on Saturday. The school's nine rooms are already inadequate for the 466 children enrolled, and tenders have been called for two additional rooms. Referring to the special problems of the area, Mr McCombs said the number of primary school children to every 100 houses was 78 instead of the usual 65, and a survey showed ’the figure would reach 138 within five years. Plans for the Hutt Valley included two new high schools, one of which would have an intermediate department, two new intermediate schools, and a new primary school. The Acting-Prime Minister (Mr W. Nash.) also spoke at the ceremony.—(P.A.)

Provincial Bands’ Contest The Ashburton Silver Band won the B grade and the Timaru Municipal Junior Band the C grade championship when the Canterbury Provincial Brass Bands’ Association held its annual B and C grade contest in Christchurch during the week-end. It was the first time the contest has been held in Christchurch for 12 years. Ten bands competed in both grades and about 300 bandsmen took part. The hymn and selection tests were held in the Civic Theatre in the evening. Championship points were:— B grade: Ashburton Silver, 3693, 1; Oamaru Garrison, 2; Christchurch Municipal, 3362, 3; Crichton Cobbers, 329 g, 4. C grade: Timaru Municipal Junior, 313 g, 1; Rangiora Brass, 2593, 2; Christchurch Municipal Junior, 2903,. 3. Alpine Accidents The action taken to ensure prompt rescue work in the event of alpine accidents has been described by the Minister of Tourist Resorts (Mr W. E. Parry). The Minister said that prototype sending and receiving sets had been perfected, and orders for units and their installation were under action. The Police Force had instructions to co-operate with clubs, and each police station had a list of the men who could be called on to assist as searchers or expert advisers. The Royal New Zealand Air Force would make suitable aircraft available to conduct searches or to drop food and rescue equipment. Lists of Air Force and Public Works Department officers with whom the police could communicate when aircraft or trucks were needed were being supplied to the police, and a comprehensive system of air-to-ground and ground-to-air signals had been adopted and circulated to all police stations. The Minister added that climbing equipment and first-aid materials had been brought up to first-class condition.—(P.A.)