LOCAL & GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12254, 9 April 1935, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The Dairy Board was advised by cable yesterday of the shipment from Britain to New York of 10,000 boxes and IftOOO 1 casks of butter. —P.A. The air mail which left Gisborne on, March 12. via the AustraliaEngland air mail service, arrived* in London on April 2, The five persons arrested in the wireless raid on Rosehill courso 1 on Saturday were remanded yesterday until April 18, states a Sydney message.—P.A. The liner Rangitata,on which the Governor-General YT count Galway and his family are passengers, radioed yesterday that she expects to arrive in AVellington on noon on Thursday, April 11, The hoard of trustees of the fund established as a result of Lord Nuffield Vs £60,000 gift for tho assistance of crippled children, lias been completed by the'addition of Sir Donald McGavin. Other members are Sir -Michael Myers, Sir James Grose, Mr C. J. B. Norwood, and Mr J. M. A. Illott.—P.A. The Eirst Coast Airways Do Havilland Dragon, ZK—ADS, arrived at Darton Field shortly after 2.30 p.m. yesterday after an excellent trip, of 2hr. 2min. from Auckland. The plane, which was piloted by Squadron-Leader White, brought as passengers, Flying Officer and Airs. Kirkup, Airs. Johns, and Air. Bruce AVright, chief reservation officer for the Tourist Department in Auckland. - -cjct An effort is being made by the Wellington City Council to keep passenger buses entering Wellington on a specified route in the city. Representations along these lines were made to the Transport Licensing Authority, hut its decision was reserved. The question of licensing ambulances was also before the authority and several points needing investigation caused th’s matter also to be held over in the meantime.—P.A. After opening a new bridge over the .Molyneux River at Clyde on Friday, the Minister of Public AYorks, the Hon. J. Bitchcner, performed !l similar function at Balclutha on Saturday. The new Balclutha bridge is an’imposing structure of ferro-con-cretc, erected at a cost °f £40,003 and incorporates all the latest features which science and engineering skill have been able to devise. Air Bitchcner returned to AA’aimate on Sunday.—P.A. Building permits Famed by the Borough Council during the P a st f.wo years, according to the Mayor (Air John Jackson), in his address at the City Hall last evening, numbered 382 comprising 60 now dwellings, IS oilier new buildings, 991 alterations an“ additions), and 23 for reinstatement of earthquake damage. The total value- of work is £110.758. Building and water fees remitted by the council in connection with earthquake reinstatement amounted' to approximately £IOO. “It is pleasing, added Air Jackson, “1 r> note that tin's last year has seen practically the last of permits issued for restoration of buildings damaged by the earthquakes in 1931 and 1932. Since the adoption by the council, of the new code of building by-laws, public buildings are erected' to a standard of construction adequate to resist earthquakes, thus considerably reducing the risk of damage from shocks should they occur in the. Future.” The, New Zealand Dairy Board in a circular states that tho Agriculture (Emergency Powers) Act cancelled the clause in the Dairy Produce Export Control Act which related to a levy on dairy produce exported. This made it necessary for the reconstituted Dairy Board, at its first meeting, to again institute the levy. In the meantime, the Government had gazetted the maximum levy which could be colleotefl under the provisions of the Agriculture (Emerg enev Powers) Act. Under this .Act all 'clauses of dairy produce exported, together with all dairy produce manu factored for sale on the local market, become liable tor the payment of a levy. In the meantime, the hoard has simply approved of a levy on'export butter and cheese at the same rates as have been ruling during the last two seasons, namely, butter 3-64ths of a penny per lb., and cheese 3-128ths of a penny per lb. It will be remembered that l-64th of a fiennv per lb. oh butter and 1-I2Bth of a penny on cheeSe were included in the above for the purpose of increasing - the amount spent on advertising.—P.A.

Tlie annual, ' oouler.cuco. of the New Zealand Labour Party, which usually extends over .at .leapt four 'days, will ‘tilts'year occupy only three dhys, from Easter Monday, April 22, to Wednesday, April 24. The conference will bo held in Wellington, atrd will be .confined to consideration of Labour’s election policy.

The annual report of the \ King Solomon Mine (Waikaia, Southland), shows that the mine yielded 3842 ounces of gold for the' 12 months. Gold produced from the opening of the mine to the end of the financial year totals 13,821 ounces, of a value of £9,0,252.

The idea,that bread and potatoes are .fattening is an entire misconception, according to a paper siab has been prepared by the Wheat Itesoarcn Institute (states the “Press’’). It states that if more food than is required for perfect health is eaten, tor instance, an ounce, of. rump steak with its'usual amount of fat will put on twice as much as an ounce of bread will, and an ounce of butter will put on three and a-lialf times as much fat as an ounce of bread. Th-is, does not mean that butter and meat are to be entirely avoided by those wisiiing to reduce weight. Butter contains essential vitamins,-and meat, contains essential animal proteins. Much harm can be done by neglecting these essential foods. Tile difficulty with persons of excess weight ii? to satisfy the cravings of appetite, and at the same time to, cat food that does not tend to 'produce excessive fat. Bread is one of the foods that best fulfils these opposite demands.

Baulking at rules and restrictions ;the “young things” of to-day are much more hard to control than the girls of the previous generation, said Miss M. L. Roberts, principal of tho Dunedin Training School cf Massage, in taking of the school’s work at the Mas-seurs’ Conference in Christchurch last Saturday, Mins Roberts sac] that she was sorry for the modern girl with her lack of discipline, although the girls training were of a fine type. While they might not pay much attention to petty rectr’ictions, when they put their minds to a job, .they showed great conscientiousness. . She urged that the system pf training should be more intense, with a ischeme for sending graduates to England for further examination and the much wider.experience which English hospitals, could give. Miss Roberts also suggested that the association might interest herself to a greater extent in the graduates.'