Dominion News

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 June 1950, Page 8

Dominion News

Prime Minister’s New Home The Prime Minister (Mr Holland) said yesterday that he and his family would move into the new official Prime Minister’s residence in Pipitea street in a fortnight.— (P.A.) Waipiata Cargo Dispute The Wellington Port Committee has settled • the dispute over the handling of the deteriorated cargo in the Waipiata. The committee visited the ship and decided that lime could be used to deaden the smell and insecticides used to kill the maggots. This decision was acceptable to the workers. Work was continued yesterday. It is expected that two more full working days will be required to finish the job of clearing rotted cargo out of No. 2 hold. The cargo is being discharged into the hulk Lutterworth for sinking at sea later. —(P.A.) South Island Power Two supply authorities in the South Island had exceeded their power allocation last week, said the generaF manager of the State Hydroelectric Department (Mr A. E. Davenport) yesterday. He added that it was the policy of the department not to publish the names of offending authorities. Mr Davenport repeated his warning that the present allocation could be retained only by keeping strictly within it. The recent crisis, he said, was sufficient evidence of the straits to which continual excess consumption could lead. The figures for last week show that the storage available in the South Island increased by 2,270,000 units to 108,330,000 units. Consumption for last week was 6.07 per* cent, below the allocation, compared with 9.69 per cent, below the allocation in the previous week. —(P.A.) Tasman Flight Planned Flying a Procter V —a single-engine aircraft —Captain A. J. Bradshaw, formerly of Invercargill, plans to make the first direct flight from Australia to Invercargill on June 21. He left England on May 24. Captain Bradshaw is making a leisurely trip to New Zealand in the aircraft with his wife and child. He is to arrive at Sydney on Friday and is scheduled to leave Hobart for Invercargill at dawn on the following Wednesday. He is not attempting to break any records, but in making the first crossing of the southern Tasman he will make history. If the party is able to maintain schedule and begin the final hop of 931 miles at daybreak on June 21, the aircraft should touch down at Invercargill airport before dusk. Captain Bradshaw is well known in Southland. He began his flying career at Invercargill in 1936, and since then he has been flying continuously.—(P.A.) Death Of M'r C. W. Batten One of the men who founded the ' New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association, Mr Claude Wilfred Batten, died at Wellington on Sunday. In the First World War he served with the Main Body and took part in the Gallipoli landing. When he was in-, valided back to New Zealand in 1916 he immediately became interested in the welfare of returned men, and was one of the founders cf the Returned Soldier’s Association. He was the association's first secretary. He was elected Dominion president in 1918, and was a member of the Dominion executive committee for 26 years. At the 1941 annual conference he was honoured, with Mr James Harper, for his part in, the foundation of the association. In the Second World War he enlisted in the National Reserve and was later commissioned in the Air Training Corps. He received the 0.8. E. in the 1949 New Year honours. —(P.A.)

Local Body Administration Efforts are being made by the New Zealand Institute of Local Body and Administrative Officers to institute study courses for training in local body government. In a paper presented to the annual conference of the New Zealand Institute of County Clerks, Mr F. H. Hudson said that progress was being made in the face of difficulties, and he visualised the day when the institute would be the hall-mark of local body achievement. “It is important that more of. the clerks in local body service be encouraged to study if the institute is to raise the status of the administration and administrative officers,’” said Mr Hudson. “It is suggested that young officers are more likely to take an interest in the institute and their own qualifications if present senior officers offer them encouragement and some advice.” —(P.A.)