DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 19 May 1944, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS

KILLING DELAYS AT FREEZING WORKS. P.A. * WELLINGTON, May 18. An official of the Freezing Workers' Union commenting on a Dunedin message regarding killing delays, said that this was the difficult part of the season for killing, t owing to the growth of wool and ‘other conditions. He thought the individual killing rates of 92 lambs or 76 sheep were well up to standard. As the men were on piecework it was to their interest to keep figures as high as possible and he hoped the message did not imply an allegation of the goslow policy. SOCIAL CREDIT. P.A. WELLINGTON, May 18. The New Zealand Social Credit Movement, in a letter to the Act.ngPrime Minister comments on the effect of the gold standard on world economics since the last war, and states it views with alarm the possible peril of a return to. the gold standard at the conclusion of the. present war. It says the Social Credit Movement is opposed to inflation as such, but knows that a return to gold can only be preceded bv a period of deflation with a return to the results which characterised the last depression. “This is a major matter and must be discussed bv Parliament before the Government has been committed.” It concludes “no fait accompli will satisfy the people of New Zealand,” AUCKLAND MANPOWER RAIDS. P.A. AUCKLAND, May 12. Manpower raids extending over the widest' area yet attempted in Auckland in one day were carried out by officers from the Nationol Service Department yesterday afternoon. D--rected against male absentees and other industrial defaulters, the raids covered hotel bars and billiard saloons. About 100 men were interviewed. Accompanying the National Service officers were plain clothes constables, members of the provost corps, and the American military police. Places in the city, Newton and Newmarket were visited. HERITAGE MOVEMENT. WELLINGTON, May 12. It is announced that, if railway permits are available, the first National Conference of Heritage will be held in July. Nine branches have been formed, and a' further seven are under way. The movement is . in the interests of children of servicemen. The Wellington Executive acts in the meantime as the National Executive, but a national executive will be elected at the conference. Suggestions for the extension of the work and assistance that can be rendered to the daughters of deceased servicemen in addition to the sons will be discussed and a policy of expansion decided upon. The matter, of Maori children and their welfare is under discussion with the Minister of Native Affairs. The Minister of Education has invited the movement to send a delegate to a conference at Christchurch in August, at which questions regarding all aspects of education and the welfare of pre-scho.ol and other children will be discussed. This has been accepted, and the Educational Vocation Committee of Heritage is to formulate suggestions for discussion at this conference. SHEEP THIEF SENTENCED, p A CHRISTCHURCH, May 15. For sheep stealing, Edgar Maxwell Husband, aged 24, a single man, of Levels, was sentenced to reformative detention for twelve months by Mr. Justice Northcroft in the Supreme Court. ' His Honour said that the offence of sheep stealing' was always regarded as serious. It tended to cause difficulties of a very unpleasant character in country districts, it was usually difficult to trace, and it had always been the policy of the Court to treat it with severity. It was true /that prisoner had been overseas for a short period, but the Probation Officer reported that since Husband’s return he had been behaving in a very irresponsible and unsatisfactory way. He had a duty to the community' and to prisoner in impressing on him the necessity for mending his ways.