Dominion News

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 September 1949, Page 3

Dominion News

Sea Scouts’ Cruise . ' After 24 days’ exercising . in the Hauraki Gulf, the cruiser Bellona returned to Auckland yesterday afternoon. When fuel has been taken on and officers and men have had leave, the cruiser will sail for combined exercises with units, of the Royal Australian Navy in Australian Waters this month. Six frigates will sail With the Bellona. Aboard the Bellona on the recent cruise Were 25 sea cadets and about 40 Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve men.—(P.A.) Fewer Gangster FJlm©. It was noticeable that filriis of the gangster type were not very much in evidence and those submitted were not quite so lurid in theme and 'treatment as in previous years, y stated |he cinematograph section of. the .annual report of .the Department of Internal Affairs. Of 1573 films of all classes examined, 85 were passed subject to excursions, 154 as more suitable for adults, and 28 as not suitable for children. Three were rejected outright—(P.A.)

Man Dies Of Injuries A man died at the Timaru Public Hospital last evening from injuries suffered when he was thrown from a motor-cycle which was involved in a collision with a motor-car at the corner of Grey road and Hassall street about 9.30 p.m. He Was: Ivari Raymond Pierce, aged 21, single, of 10 Norwood street, Timaru. A companion on the motor-cycle, Albert Wederell, aged 28, 6 Cliff street, Timaru, suffered a broken leg. and was admitted to the Timaru Hospital. Mr Pierce was riding on the pillionseat. The driver of the. car, Douglas Moore, 19 Sarah street, was not injured. The motor-cycle was extensively damaged.—(P.A.)

Nava) Reserve’s Sea Training More than 100 men from the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve will join ships of the New Zealand Squadron for exercises with the Royal Australian Navy in October and November. Most of them have been given leave of absence by their employers for the full period of two months, and the remainder will make their own arrangements for returning to New Zealand at the end of a few weeks. Thirty-one will come from Auckland and others from divisions in Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin. The squadron, commanded by Captain D. Hammersley-Johnston, M.V.0., 0.8. E., R.N., in the Bellona, will leave Auckland for Australian waters on September 29. It will return on November 24.—(P.A.) Anaesthesia Control

Equipment that will be valuable for the control of anaesthesia and for giving an early indication of dangerous trends in the condition of a patient is being developed in New Zealand, according to the annual report of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research presented to the House of Representatives yesterday. Auckland Industrial Development Laboratories in their section of the report said that a prototype pulse-recorder had been designed and constructed. After slight modifications, some most interesting records were obtained during major operations at the Auckland Public Hospital and the Green Lane Hospital, Auckland. It was hoped to combine this with the blood-pressure recording equipment now being developed at the Dominion Physical Laboratory.—(P.A,)

Army Training A request that businessmen reduce their appeals on behalf of staff called up to a minimum was made by the president of the New Zealand Associated Chambers of Commerce (Mr Frank Wilson) in Wellington, yesterday). “Compulsory military training is fully supported by my association,” he said. “It was unanimously endorsed as recently as our annual conference in May before the Government’s decision to hold a referendum. We again affirm that compulsory military training is inseparable from the needs of the moment and, now that the country has declared we must have it, it is up to all employers to see that those young men in their employ who come under the scheme get it. I urge all business people to reduce their appeals on behalf of staff to the absolute minimum.” —(P.A.)

Research Work In Dentistry Dental research of importance not only to New Zealand but also to the world is being done at the National Dental School in Dunedin. The Minister of Education (Mr T. H. McCombs), referring to the “extremely valuable research work,” has said that “if New Zealand were America, details of the research work would be splashed all over the front pages of every newspaper in the country.” Mr McCombs said “the researchers were apparently making absolutely certain of their conclusions before they were announced, but it did seem that at last something could be done to meet the problem of children’s deficient teeth.” Approached today, the dean of the Dental School (Dr J. P. Walsh) said he reluctant to discuss the research work at this stage when so much of the work was not completed. —(P.A.)

Physical Welfare Grants Grants under the Physical Welfare and Recreation ‘Act in 1948-49 amounted to £46,956, said the annual report of the Internal Affairs Department presented to the House of Representatives yesterday. This included grants made conditional on the organisations concerned raising their proportion of the cost of the amenity for which the grant was made. There were 746 applications and 446 were successful. Main beneficaries included: tennis clubs, £4720; bands and orchestras, £3850; Boy Scouts, £3108; church organisations, £2875; hall committees, £2718; golf clubs, £2705; improvement and residents’ associations, £2675; bowling clubs, £2438; community centres, . £2400; young people’s clubs, boating and yachting, lifesaving, and swimming clubs, between £l5OO and £1600; athletic and cycling, basketball, sports clubs, and local authorities, between £lOOO and £1500; football, cricket, councils of sport, tramping, mountaineering, and ski clubs wrestling and boxing, recreation ground committees, and the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A., from £5OO to £6OO.—(P. A.)