LOCAL & GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 27 June 1945, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Two cases of scarlet fever were notified on the West Coast, last week and nine in Canterbury. Other notifiable infectious diseases in Canterbury were; Cerebro-spinal meingitis 1, diphtheria 1, tuberculosis 5,« malaria 1, erysipelas 1, and undulant fever 1. Two deaths occurred from tuberculosis in Canterbury.

The state of the sea on the Grev bar prevented shipping movement yesterday. The s.s.* Kaimiro. with coal for the North Island has been bar bound hince Monday night but may sail this morning. The s.s. Poblta, which completed her coal loading for Wellington last night, is also waiting for bar conditions to improve. The s.s. Gabriella, which is loading timber for Wellington, is expected to sail at about the end of the week. The s.s. Rata is expected to-morrow to load coal for Castlecliff. The m.v. Karu is expected on Thursday.

The Patriotic Shop on Friday is the responsibility of the County. Residents are asked to assist with cash or goods to give a good return. —Advt.

The Christchurch Industrial Manpower Committee will hold sittings at Greymouth and’ Hokitika early next month. So far 13 appeals have been set down for hearing. Four females have appealed against direction to the hospital as laundresses. On female has appealed against direction to Reefton as a kitchen hand, and the remainder of the cases are comprised of appeals' of men against the decision of the Manpower Officer in refusing them permission to terminate their employment, and one of an employee objecting to a male directed to his employment.

County residents: Your shop is Friday, and a good return is needed. Cash or saleable goods will be appreciated.—Advt.

The production of shale oil at the New South Wales Glen Davis plant will reach a rate of 10,000,000 gallons a year by next March. A group of new retorts will be in commission by September and a second group by March next. So far the development of the industry has been impeded by the lack of a suitable water supply. A new scheme on the Fish River is to be in operation by September and should provide ample water not only for Glen Davis but for many towns in the district.

During the Big Coat Drive, Winter Coats are selling from £5/19/6. — White’s Corner, Your Fashion Centre. —Aa'vt.

Under instructions from the Government, the Timaru Borough Council recently installed a weighing machine at the abattoir at a cost of £470, and the council wishes to recover that sum from the master butchers and impose a weighing charge of 4d for cattle and 3d for sheep. The master butchers object to being saddled with Jhe costs without any possibility of a return, and lodged a protest to the council. The butchers met the council and later passed a resolution “that the secretary write to the Stabilisation Committee protesting against the proposed increased charges imposed on the Timaru master butchers on account of installing scales to the value of £470, and weighing charges of approximately £156 a year, and asking if the same is legal and that the Timaru Borough Council be notified accordingly and asked to withhold charges pending a reply from the Stabilisation Committee.”

The Court of Arbitration will hold a sitting at Greymouth on Wednesday, July 4, when a case on appeal from the Magistrate’s Court, Inspector of Awards v. Westland Hospital Board, will be heard.

The Acting Postmaster-General (Mr Jones) announced yesterday that the special air mail letter card introduced in November, 1941, for communicating with prisoners of war in Europe is being withdrawn from sale at the close of business on June 30. Altogether- over 800,000 of these cards had been sold, but the demand is now negligible. The Minister said that after this card is withdrawn from sale, persons desirous of communicating with prisoners of war who were in German or Italian hands, and who had not yet been reported safe, should use the ordinary air lettercard at present available for communicating with the forces personnel. Cards for such prisoners should be addressed to the care of the New Zealand Army Post Office. 35 The Strand. London W.C2. For communicating with prisoners of war and civilian internees in Japanese hands, the special air mail postcard introduced in December, 1944. would still be available at all post offices.

South Island gold dredges, all but two of which are on the West Coast, during 1944 treated about 25,000,000 yards of gravel for a return of 90,831 ounces of gold, valued at £908,825. Arahura dredge, operated by Gold Mines of New Zealand, Ltd., produced a total of 17,648 ozs., valued at £179,729. Another unit of the same company, the Kanieri dredge, produced 13,522 ozs., valued at £136,612. Then followed the Americanoperated Ikamatua dredge, with recovery of 10,097 ozs., valued at £102,725. The Rimu dredge, owned and operated by the same interests, was fourth on the list, with a recovery of 7,360 ozs., of a total value of £74,708. The Ngahere dredge produced 6,397 ozs., valued at £66,570; and Barrytown 5,641 ozs., valued at £56,002. The returns from the remainder were: Austral-New Zealand, 5,543 ozs. £55,602; Snowy River, 5,123 oz. £dl,2z9; Clutha, 6,077 oz. £48,629; Atarau, 3,396- oz. £35,663; Marsden, 2,487 oz. £26,129; Slab’ Hut, 1,703 oz. £17,350; Blackball Creek, 1,599 oz. £16,247; Gillespie's Beach, 1,310 oz. £13,8z1, Maori Gold, 894 oz. £9,391; Waipuna, 780 oz. £8,147.

If there.was any lesson to be learnt from the German concentration camps, it was the need of people to keep themselves informed of what was going on in their midst, said Mr. A. T. Campbell, tutor-organiser of the Canterbury Council for Adult Education, when addressing a quarterly meeting of delegates of the South Canterbury Council of Sport at Timaru on the work of community centres. He said the German people had developed super physical attainments but had left it at that. There must be a balance- between physical, recreational, and educational development. Community centres were principally educational institutions providing a service of information that adults’ must have. When thanking Mr. Campbell for his address, the DeputyMayor of Timaru (Mr C. E. Thomson) said the Borough Council had brought a section in Barnard Street at the back of the council chambers, to btfild a community centre. He urged delegates of the Council of Sport to co-operate in this plan.

All people in the country districts are asked to help the patriotic Shop on Friday. A little help from everyone will make a big return. —Advt.

The return from the Slab Hut Creek dredge for the week ending June 22 was 52ozs. from 19,800 yards in 124 hours. For the week ended June 23 the dredges of Associated Gold Dredges (N.Z.) Ltd., received 121ozs. from 50,100 yards in 2761 dredging hour. The Gillespie’s Beach return was lloz 17dwt in 109 hours from 12,107 yards. The Clutha River dredge return for the week ended June 22 was 1270 z in 90 hours. The yardage for the four weeks was 138,000. Ngahere Gold Dredging, Ltd., advises that on June 11 the dredge ceased operating to instal a new bucket line and carry out the annual overhaul. It is anticipated that these repairs will take five or six weeks to complete, after which dredging will recommence. The return for the period until dredging ceased, which included a general clean-up of the tables, etc., was 109 oz, the estimated yardage being 19,000 cubic yards dredged in 47 hours.

Railwaymen! Llamys. The worker’s friend —the genuine article—-double-breast, long sleeves and belt. All sizes. 60/-. Post free from H. Hamer, Kumara. —Advt.

“British industry is now beginning to turn from destructive to constructive work,” said Sir Harry Batterbee, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in New Zealand, speaking at Auckland. Referring to the “absolute necessity” of her export trade to Britain, Sir Harry Batterbee mentioned the importance of New Zealand to the United Kingdom, and of the United Kingdom to New Zealand. The two countries were in a complementary position as regards trade, he said. Each country, by helping the other, was helping itself. Realisation of plans for the conversion of British industry from war to peace use would take time, and would vary from industry to industry, he said. However, the position had eased since the beginning of this year, and there had been a lifting in the restrictions on the export of machine tools, agricultural, industrial, and textile machinery, and such consumer goods as cutlery, glassware, plastic materials, cooking and heating appliances, bicycles and motor-cycles, wireless receivers, radio gramophones, prams and umbrellas. It did not follow, of course, that these would be immediately available. The best way for importers to take advantage of this easing was for them to keep in close touch with theii* regular suppliers in the United Kingdom.

Mr W. Green. Secretary of ■ the Westland branch of the Motor and Horse Drivers’ Union, received telegraphic advice from 'Wellington last evening that the Arbitration Court had granted the following weekly increases to members: General drivers, 40-hour week, 10s; 44-hour week, 11s. Passenger drivers, part I, 10s; part 11, Us. Local bodies’ drivers, 10s Bd. Taxi-drivers, 12s 6d. All increases are retrospective to April 1, 1940.

“0.K.” said the weed merchant. "There’s lots of brands of tobacco, as you say, but in a manner of speaking, you can divide them broadly into two classes —the toasted and the untoasted. Yes, and I’ll tell you something more —once you take to toasted —the real thing, mind—you won’t care a row of pins about the untoasted, no matter what the brand' is.” The customer looked thoughtful. “Can toasting really make all that difference?” he ventured. “It can—and it does!” declared the tobacconist emphatically. “The toasting of tobacco is one of the most ingenious and efficient processes as yet invented. What does it do? Why, it cuts out the nicotine and at the same time gives this tobacco that fine,, pure, clean sweet fragrance smokers 10ve.,. You can smoke any amount of it with safety—and, my word, you enjoy every whiff!” “I must certainly have a packet,” laughed the customer, “a small one, just to try it out.” “You’ll want a big one next time,” prophesied the tobacconist. “You wait and see.”—Advt.

The coffins of Frederick the Great, Frederick Wilhelm I, of Prussia, and President Von Hindenburg have been discovered in an underground shrine in a saltmine near Nordhausen. An official statement says the coffins containing the bodies of the two Fredericks were apparently removed from the garrison at Potsdam while Hindenburg’s coffin was removed from the Tannenberg Memorial when the Russians invaded East Prussia. The cache included immensely, valuable Prussian, regalia formerly kept in the Hohenzollern Museum at Potsdam, besides 225 Prussian battle 'flags dating from the early Prussian wars. The treasures included the two gold crowns used in 1601 for the Coronation of Frederick Wilhelm and his wife, Sophie Charlotte, the jewelled sceptre used at the Coronation, and death helmet first used in 1688; also 271 paintings, including some of the German master, Lukas Cranach. German workers said the relics were deposited on March 16 in the greatest secrecy and sealed up on April 2. The correspondent adds that all the treasures and the coffins have been removed for safe keeping.