DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 21 June 1944, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS

distribution of estate. AUCKLAND, June 20. Litigation in connection with an estate of a net value of J 467481 was commenced before Judge> lodged dav n summons having been ioa to e • Ol the “VYo dstrlb" the ?0 y rSy o“ Audliaid, and until reaSrinMX M W te the V Ammons. Reginald Caughey S Smith filed a claim under the Family Protection Act. Messrs Richmond and Aarnock apneired for the Trustees, Mr. J. Stanl ir for the Caughey Smith Preston Memor'al Interdenominational EvanSation Fund, and Mr. H. F. O’Leary, K.C., and Dr. McElroy for Reginald Caughey Smith. POST-WAR RELAXATION OF ■ CONTROLS. WELLINGTON, June 20. A speedy relaxation of the controls affecting employment and material and the easing cf the burden of taxation as soon as the war ended were urged by Mr. Percy Coyle, in his presidential address at the annual meeting of the Wellington Employers’ Association to-day. He said til's would be the main ingredient for New Zealand’s success in post-war competition. The controls necessary in wartime had . the effect of stifling initiative and with the end of the war in sight there should be a general desire by progressive people too look ahead and cherish all that peace should bring—freedom of workers to accept work according to their personal desires, freedom of employers to obtain materials and manufacture goods withe needs of the people, to enter into competition with one another and demand recognition for the quality of their respective wares.

APPRENTICESHIP LEGISLATION.

WELLINGTON, June 20.

A Commission of Inquiry into the existing apprenticeship legislation and to investigate pre-vocational and vocational education facilities, opened a sitting at Wellington to-day, to hear formal evidence. It is expected that the Wellington sitting will take about 10 davs, after which evidence will be heard in other main centres. Judge Tyndall presided, and those present were: F. D. Cornwell, C. R. Edmond, A. Gilbert, H. E. Moston, W. J. Mountjoy, F. C. Renvard, R. G. Ridling and R. Stanley. The first evidence was submitted by the N.Z. Federated Furniture and Related Trades Industrial Association of Workers, represented by W. J. Ferguson, Secretary, whose outstanding point was a suggestion of apprenticeship to the industry and not an individual- employer. He said that as operations in the trade became specialised it wa's against a boy’s interests to be apprenticed to an individual employer, because it limited his scope as a tradesman and usualty resulted in his leaving the industry! because of the limited employment offered. There was no doubt, he said, that the employment of a boy under these circumstances meant ‘ cheap labour with no thought to his future.

MONEY SENT TO AIRMEN WELLINGTON, June 20. Enquiries from relations and friends of New Zealand airmen overseas about the despatch of remittances prompted the Air Department, Wellington, to outline the practice adopted in handling remittances and he factors which often cause delay. As persons sending money overseas usually -Vv'sh it to be received by a specified date special attention is given for the forwarding of remittances by a section of the Air Department which handles this work, it is stated. It is the practice, therefore, for all moneys to be cabled unless otherwise specified, and ' they are normally despatches to the R.N.Z.A.F. liaison officer overseas, who arranges for immediate payment. Because of the periodical transfer of personnel between stations, however, it somelimes happens that a member of the R.N.Z.A.F. is transferred after the despatch of the remittance. Again, it is sometimes necessary-—for reasons of security—that the airmen’s new address be withheld for a period. This all tends to delay the issue of remittances. The greatest delay, of course, occurs when an airman is from one country to another. but in all cases where there is unavoidable delay, the Air Department takes every step to ensure the earliest possible payment. Ir, is pointed out by the. Air Department that when relations or friends lodge money for despatch overseas they should advise the intended recipient of the address to which it is being forwarded. ..Then should the money not be. received after a normal lapse of time, enquiries can be instituted through R.N.Z.A.F. liaison officer or the station accountant officer. It is emphasised that while remittances are given particular attention, it is possible that because of military operations taking place overseas, at present, considerable delay may sometimes. occur in effecting payment. JULY PETROL RATION.

P.A. WELLINGTON, June 20. . The Minister of .Supply and Munitions (Mr. Sullivan) has announced that the War Cabinet has decided to continue the petrol ration for private motorists during Julv at half-coupon rate, and accordingly Coupon No. 1, in view of the new series, will be available at half face value.