NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21809, 4 September 1945, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY

600 Tons of Coal Lost The Tatu miners resumed work yesterday morning pending further negotiations. The loss of output through the strike is estimated at 600 tons. —P.A. Nuhaka Fish Licence The Bureau of Industry notifies, in the current issue of the Gazette, the granting of a license to T. R. Kane, Nuhaka, to operate a 12ft vessel, the Kunai, fising long lines, hand-lines ana crayfish-pots, the catches to be landed at Waikokopu. Nati Bobby Calf Fool The latest issue of the New Zealand Gazette contains an announcement of the appointment of Messrs. Donald Collier, Frank Manuel, W. F. Metcalfe, H. Ngarimu G. W. Stainton, Warihi Tako, Wi Tawhao, Wi Waikari, John Walker and Tutu Wi Repa as members of the Nati bobby calf pool committee. Sale to British and Dutch

A New Zealand Army works unit was engaged in. dismantling buildings erected in New Caledonia when New Zealand troops were stationed there,stated the Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones, in Wellington. Thebuildings were being sold to the British and Netherlands Indies Governments.

Petrol Costs At a meeting of the Automobile Association (Hawke’s Bay) some' Ini teresting figures concerning the cost of petrol were given by the secretary, Mr C. V. Freedman. Petrol was landed in the country, he said, at the cost of only BJd a gallon, and was sold to the oil companies at 10Jd a galloii the Government thereby receiving 2Jd direct profit. There was a taxation ol is 27-10 d per gallon out of which the Main Highways Board received 4d the Consolidated Fund 4d, and 7-10 d went to war tax. Resellers received ( profit of 3Jd. Presumably the balanct of 6d represented profit and distribu* tion charges of the oil companies. No Pennies

The post office was the only plact in the Chatham Islands where pennia were used, said Mr. A. J. Lamberl school teacher, who has just returned from there after five years, when be ing cross-examined before the Hoy a Commission on Licensing in Welling ton He explained that a practice haj grown up whereby shops, which wed in the same building as the two hotell charged to the nearest above silver coni That is. ’an article costing a penny « the ordinary way would cost 3d, a 2j| box of matches 6d. and so on. Aska whether this was because of a pennl shortage, the witness said he thougH the pennies had all landed up in th post office because the shops charge! only silver coin prices.