NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21853, 25 October 1945, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Australian Rice Notwithstanding the termination of hostilities, the demand for Australian rice from the services is as strong as ever, according to advice received by a New Plymouth merchant. It seems likely, the letter states, that none will be available for Australian or New Zealand civilians before the middle of 1946 at the earliest Information Still Awaited Notification from the Minister of Health, the Hon. A. H. Nordmeyer, that the questions raised in a communication from the Gisborne Chamber of Commerce regarding the strength of the insecticide, D.D.T., had been referred to the Standards Institute, was received at last night’s meeting of the chamber. Further advice in the matter was still awaited, reported the secretary, Mr. M. J. White. Labour for Dairy Factories Dairy factory managers in Southland are very disturbed about .the difficulty of getting labour for factories, said the Hon. T. F. O’Byrne, M.L.C., secretary of the Otago and Southland Dairy Factory Managers’ Union, in announcing that the union was calling a meeting to discuss the matter with the directors of factories and officials of the National Service Department. No Representation at Conference The Gisborne Chamber of Commerce will not be represented at the Dominion conference of chambers to be held in Christchur.ch late next week. No member is available to attend the conference and the executive has made arrangements for Mr. C. D. Edmundson, who has been delegated by the Napier chamber to be present, to represent the Gisborne chamber in addition to his own organisation. Publication Not Favoured The question of the publication in the R.S.A. Review of the names of military defaulters who had applied for release from detention was discussed at a meeting of the Whangarei Returned Services Association. It was decided to inform the Dominion executive that the Whangarei R.S.A. considered the names should not be published, as no good purpose would be served. Shipments of Wool Two shipments of Southland wool, the first since 1940. are scheduled to leave Bluff for Europe shortly. The first, consisting of 13,000 bales, will be carried in the Shaw, Savill vessel Cromarty. This consignment will go to Britain. A few weeks later a second shipment,' for France, will leave.. It W a s originally intended to load 11,700 bales for France, but this allocation has been reduced slightly. It was announced at the end of August that France had purchased 80,000 bales, or about 10 per cent of New Zealand’s annual clip of greasy wool. If shipments can be arranged it is expected that 20.000 bales a month will be loaded between now and January,