DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 16 March 1945, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS

ART UNION WINNER - NAPIER, March 15. It’s better to be born lucky than rich stated Mrs. Agfies Gebbie, tho Napier winner of Happy Days Art Union. Mrs. Gebbieiis the mother? of an adult family of six- children—four sons, two daughters,'all married. Both she and he husband have lived all their lives in Napier; After tea, last night, a son remarked: .“According to the paper, the first prize has come to ?Napier,”; and read out the number of, the winning ticket. ’ - Mrs. Gebbie go--ing out to retrieve the butt from, her purse, returning, asked her son to read the number, again. “I felt; shaky,” said Mrs, ■ Gebbie, “when I heard*, him read out the number. I said, “Good heavoris, I have won it.” The winning ticket was sold by a street seller, who. has sold a previous winning ticket, ’i? ' BLOWN OVER BY WIND WELLINGTON,' March 14'. Blown over, by' the wind near the corner of Dixon and Taranaki Streets to-day, Miss E. Clarke, of Cleveland Street, Brooklyn,/received a fractured left thigh and/'a jsevere lacerated wound on the back of her head, and a suspected fracture of the foot. The hospital reported her condition this evening as fair.<- . /• . LICENSING COMMISSION •:' IT/ . ///'J WELLINGTON, March 15. ?Mr F. S. McLean, of the Health Department, Wellington, was cross-ex-amined by Mr?;’Boys, counsel for the New Zealand Alliance,, at the Licensing Commission t’b-dSy. He aare.ed alcohol was an important' factor \ in the prevalence Aoi venereal disease. He was questiorieef about, an application received/fron} an Auckland-firm for the manufacture of . gin. Her said that his Department hbs not ...been consulted. IJeither’ was he * aware of an alleged dhse of uiyciean bottles in the Pacific as a result bl'/which. New Zealand soldier/ had become ill- , , i ' - ” - ? HOUSING LAWS FOR MAORIS P-A. ’/ WELLINGTON, March 15 Special /provision , enabling the Maoris, to?) obtain loans' toy build .houses was to-day referred to by the Native Minister, Mr. Mason, who said the Native ./Department included among its activities the provision of houses for Maori, people. ■ Work wascarried* on under the statutory authority of- tfie Native Housing Act, 1935 and an Amending Act of 1938, authorising thwmaking of loans to Maoris in appropriate cases. Any Maori desirous of, improving his -living conditions by. obtaining a new house was required to make application in writing to the -(Registrar of the Native. Land Court, for the district in which his land was situated, or in which he lived. .? Already a considerable number of Maoris'haa availed themselves o f this beneficial provision. At a meeting of the board of Native Affairs on February 22, applications from 73 Maoris for loans for the erection of houses, totalling £30,131, (were already approved. ’ '