LOCAL & GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 29 June 1945, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Sittings of the Armed Forces Appeal Board have been set down for July as follows: Reef ton, July 4; Westport, July 5; Greymouth, July 24; and Hokitika, July 25.

Owing to a broken piston, the Christchurch express which was due to leave Greymouth at 10.18 a.m. yjesterday, departed half-and-hour late.

Can Buller take the Rundle Cun from West Coast to-morrow?—Advt.

An air temperature of 36 degrees and a ground temperature yesterday at 32 degrees made yesterday morning the coldest experienced for more than a week.

The s.s. Gabriella with timber for Wellington is expected,to sail tomorrow. The m.v. Karu is expected from Wellington to-night to load coal for return. The s.s. Karepo is expected on Monday to load coal for the North Island. The s.s. Rata is expected to-morrow to load coal ror Castlecliff. |

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. The Chief Postmaster, Greymouth, advises that public telegraphic service is now restored to Luxemburg. Messages must be in English, French, Spanish, or Portuguese languages. Code is not permitted. Telegraphic communication is now extended to all parts of Italy, except to towns of Gorizia, Trieste, Pola, Zara, Fiume, Udine, Bolzano, Trento, Aosta. Torina, Cuneo and Sondrio.

Mr. R. I. Robertson, a representative of Sullivan’s Machinery Company Propriety of Sydney, has been making an inspection of all coal mines in the Grey district. He is visiting New Zealand in connection with the mechanisation of coal mihes, and will inspect various collieries throughout the Dominion, following which, it is understood, he will make a report to the Government.

Schaef’s Hall has finally, been selected by the Land and Income Tax Departments as the site for its Greymouth offices. Owned by MacFarlane and Co., Christchurch, and leased to G. Schaef, the hall has been used for dancing for many years. A petition, urging that it be retained for this purpose has been circulated in Greymouth during the past weeks. It is not yet known when the hall will be taken over.

See the old rivals, West Coast v. Buller to-morrow. —Advt.

The No. 12 District Highway Council at its annual meeting at Waiho on Tuesday evening passed a reslution, which will be forwarded to the Highways Board, recommending that a greater proportion of the tax on petrol should be made available for expenditure on highways and so enable more sealing and bridging to be done, and more main highways to be declared. At present 6d of the tax of 14 7-10 d per gallon is returned to the highways.

Public hearings of applications made to/ the Price Tribunal for authority Io increase prices, says “The Standard” would’ do much to allay a growing suspicion in .the minds of a large section of the people that the margins of profit allowed by the Tribunal are too high. On a number of occasions recently evidence given in the Courts and before Manpower Appeal Committees has conveyed the impression that the profit allowed on certain goods, particularly lines of clothing, is excessive. As Manpower cases and applications made to thq Land Sales Committees are dealt with at public hearings there appears to be a .case for the admission of the Press to sittings of the Price Tribunal as well.

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

More than 12,000 people in New Zealand are at present waiting for telephones. Many want a telephone just for the sake of domestic convenience. Others want telephones for more substantial reasons. However, with the shortage of telephones, cables, and switching equipment, only in the most vital circumstances can consideration be given to the immediate installation of a telephone, and then only when the particular exchange is not already loaded to capacity. In some areas additional telephones just cannot be installed because they cannot be accommodated at the exchanges. This position exists, for instance, in some of the main city areas. Telephones are not manufactured in New Zealand, nor is much of the installation equipment. War consumes tremendous quantities of communications equipment—telephones, telephone cables, switchboard gear, and so on. These facts in addition to labour shortages here and abroad, have contributed to the civilian shortage. .

1 See the Buller team try to take the Rundle Cup to-morrow. —Advt.

Commencing next Monday, a further reduction of half an hour in broadcasting hours will become operative in the Dominion. All of the broadcasting stations will now shut down each day; from Mondays to Fridays, inclusive, from 8.10 a.m. to 8.40 a.m.; also from 11 a.m. to noon; and from 5 n.m. to 6 p.m. (instead of from 5.15 p.m. to 5.45 p.m. as at present). In a joint statement last night, the Minister of Supply, Hon. D. G. Sullivan, and the Minister of Broadcasting, Hon. F. Jones, explained that this additional cut has become necessary to assist in checking the continually rising demand for electricity in the North Island. The Ministers added that the broadcasting hours have now been reduced by 15 per cent, daily. If the electricity consumers in the factories, on the farms, and in the homes would make a similar reduction at the times of the peak loading, and would limit their consumption throughout the remainder of the day, further disconnections would not be required, and the load could be carried.—P.A.

An “X” coupon has to be surrendered for stockings marked “medium” as well as for those sold as first-grade fully fashioned. Two ordinary, coupons are required for stockings known as “seconds.” For the rationing authorities the terms “medium” and “seconds” have certain specific meanings. “Mediums” are fully-fash-ioned .stockings with a special type of colour defect—a difference in colour between the leg and the foot. This difference becomes apparent after the stockings have been dyed, as, in fullyfashioned stockings the leg and the foot are knitted separately and then joined before dyeing. There should be no defect in the actual construction of “mediums.” “Seconds” are also fully-fashioned, but they are classed as second quality because there is a defect .in their construction.