Dominion News

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 August 1949, Page 2

Dominion News

Broke Arm While Tightening Nut While using his right hand .to tighten a nut on a lawnmower, Frederick James Waite, _ greenkeeper at the Onehunga Bowling Club, broke his left arm. When he applied pressure to the wrench he “felt something explode” in the upper left arm. He thought he had twisted the nerves but ' next morning went to the Middlemore Hospital, where a provisional diagnosis was fracture of the left humerus. —(P.A.)

School Boarding Allowance The increase in boarding allowances for children attending primary and post-primary schools would be ss, said the Minister of Education (Mr T. H. McCombs) when he addressed the Auckland Federation of Parent-Teacher Associations last evening. He said the increased rate of 15s a week would apply at the beginning of the first term next year. Mr McCombs said he hoped to announce details of the new values for university scholarships and bursaries later this week. —(P.A.) Estate Of Former M.P.

Judgment for £2OO to plaintiff was given by the Chief Justice, Sir Humphrey O’Leary, in the Supreme Court at Gisborne, on an originating summons in which Mavis Reo Cottle, of Dunedin, claimed a share in the estate of the late Peter Neilson, formerly of Gisborne, a retired baker and former member of Parliament for Dunedin Central. Mr Blair, for plaintiff, said Mrs Cottle, as the only child of the first marriage, claimed a share, partly because the bulk of the estate represented the proceeds of the sale of a house which belonged to her mother, the first wife. Counsel contended Neilson had committed a breach of moral duty to his daughter in leaving the whole of his estate, valued at £llOO, to his second wife, and that the daughter was entitled to half. For the widow, Mr Woodward said the testator had made three wills in favour of his widow and had told his executor that his daughter did not need financial provision. He argued that the daughter should have claimed against her mother’s estate when the Dunedin property was left to Neilson. His Honor said he considered there had been a breach of the testator’s duty to his daughter, although it must have been difficult for him to have done other than leave the estate to his second wife considering her circumstances and dependants.— (P.A.)

Rationing Of Butter “It is incredible that two men prominent in public life can have the effrontery to advocate publicly the transfer of some 14,000 tons of butter within New Zealand from children and needy, into the hands of the wealthy,” said the chairman of the Aid for Britain National Council (Mr F. P. Walsh) commenting in Wellington >on the recommendation by the New Zealand Dairy Conference that butter rationing be abolished and that the Government subsidy be withdrawn. The conference, said Mr Walsh, had been stampeded into passing a remit • which/ it would seem, had been fostered by the chairman of the Dairy Board (Mr W. E. Hale) and the vice-chairman (Mr A. Linton). The essence of the argument advanced by Messrs Hale and Linton, said Mr Walsh, was that because of alleged rationing abuses, it would be better to lift rationing and allow the price to go up. Mr Walsh said that at 2s 6d a pound (the price quoted by Mr Linton) big families would ration butter, as would pensioners and others, and it might be true that New Zealand could still send as much to Britain. “But I do not think the British would accept it,” said Mr Walsh, adding that they would be the first to react to “the rank injustice of Mr Linton’s scheme for keeping up their butter ration by taking it from the poor and needy and transferring it to the rich and greedy.”— (P.A.)