DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 1 February 1946, Page 7

DOMINION NEWS

TROUSERED SMOKING WOMAN WELLINGTON. Jan. 30. “If you have a tomboy daughter who likes to be out with her brothers, don’t be too concerned. She’ll turn out all right,” said Mrs. General Carpenter addressing mothers at a woman’s meeting. ‘'Ey ‘tomboy,’ I didn’t mean the trousered smoking woman,” she continued. "The most grotesque creature I know is the woman wearing slacks^her head done up in some sort of bandanna, and smoking a cigarette. Whatever would anyone coming from another sphere think she was?” Mrs. Carpenter contended that to be a good woman, good wife, and mother was the ultimate objective. “I am especially concerned for the married women,” she said . “Loud voices are demanding that women choose their own work as men do. But God has given us oim work. “Married women in England are being advised to put their children into nursery schools and to go out and get the work they wish to do. I’m all against that. There is no nursery school’like the home.” Recently a group of intelligent women had met to consider seriously the idea of women building houses. “Let the men build the houses,” saai Mrs. Carpenter. “We’ll tell them where to put the cupboards, but let men and women together form the home.” Mrs. Carpenter said sue was not advocating forewomen a narrow life—only that the home should have first place. ALIENS STILL TO REGISTER WELLINGTON. lan. 30. With the lifting of wartime regulations, there is no such person in NewZealand to-day as an enemy alien. It is no longer necessary for such persons to obtain a written permit if they wish to be away from their place of abode longer than 21 hours or to travel a distance of over 20 miles. They are now as free from restrictions as any New Zealander, except that all aliens are required to register with the alien office within seven days of their arrival in the country and to give seven day’s notice of a change of address. These restrictions were not in force before the war but it appears that New Zealand is to follow the lead of Britain and other countries and continue alien registration by the police in peacetime. Persons who were enemy aliens are now permitted to possess radio sets, qameras and othex- previously proscribed articles and they no longer are required to have their radios sealed by an Officer of the Post and Telegraph Department. One effect of the return to peacetime conditions has been the large number of applications by aliens foxnaturalisation. It is understood that the only question that has not yet been dealt with by the Government concerns the deportation of ex-in-ternees, but it is believed that all those who were interned will be allowed to remain in the country. S.S. KAREPO WELLINGTON, January 31. It is estimated that repairs to the Union Steam Ship Company’s damaged collier Karepo will take from six to eight weeks to complete, an official of the company said. A departmental inquiry is being held in Wellington at present and after it is completed the mattei- will be referred to the Minister of Marine, who will then decide whether a Court of Inquiry is necessary.

CONTROL OF INVESTMENTS WELLINGTON, Jan. 3. “N.Z. Commerce,” official organ of Associated Chambers of Commerce, Elated:—“ln response Io an inquiry from Associated Chambers, the Minister of Finance (Mr. Nash) stated undex' date Septembex - 13 last, that with regard to the existing wartime restriction!; on capital issues, ‘the subject, is at the present, lime under consideration, and as soon as the mattei’ has been determined I will be glad to announce- the policy of the Government.’ ”

DRIED MILK FACTORY AUCKLAND. Jan. 31. A new dried milk factory is to be built at Manurewa by the East Tamaki Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd. Plans are being prepared and tenders will probably be called in about a month. It is hoped that the factory will be' in operation early next season. The factory would provide facilities for' suppliers who preferred to supply whole milk than to cater for their own pigs by separating themselves, said tiie chairman of the company, Mr, J. H. Ferguson. The milk would be separated at the factory, the cream being sent to the company’s present butter factory and the skimmed milk being processed. This would stabilise conditions at the butter factory and would also absorb any surplus from town milk suppliers. Similarly, any shortage in the town supply could be marie up from the factory. The principal advantage of the new factory was that skimmed milk which was now thrown away, would be made into a food, said Mr. Ferguson. Operations would be confined to the processing of skimmed milk at first, but later whole.mik may be processed and other products manufactured. Most of the plant for the factory would be obtained in New- Zealand, the chairman continued, but the drying plant would be brought from Australia and the boilers from Britain, as the type required in each case was not available in the Dominion. Two representatives of the company had already visited Australia and selected the drying plant best suited to the factory’s needs . The project, which is a fanny big one, has been approved in principle bv the company s shareholders. The new building will be constimeted on the south side of the Papakura Stream at Manurewa, about four niilcs from the company’s existing butter factory. POSTHUMOUS AWARDS AUCKLAND, January SI. The Governor-General and Lady Newall received privately at Government House the immediate relations of a number of deceased personnel.. His Excellency handed to the next-of-kin the insignia and decoration mentioned:—D.S.O. and D.F.C., M s. L C. Foster, Waimauku,. sister of the late Squadron Leader J. A. Hegman; DSO., Mr and Mrs J. H. Herrold, Rotorua, parents of the late SubLieutenant (A) J. D. Herrold; D.F.C.,

Mrs. M. I. Mackie, Devenport, mothexof the late Flight Lieutenant S. C. R. Mackie; Mrs M. Smaill, Greenhithe. mother of the late Flight Lieutenant W. B. Smaill; Mrs. J. W. McGregor, Orakei, mothex- of the late Flying Officer N. Y. McGregor. DUNEDIN NATIONAL PARTY MOVE. DUNEDIN. January 31. A political move by members of the Armed Forces who served overseas was made at a meeting last even ■ ing at Dunedin, when it was decided to form a Returned Services section of the National Party. It was stated that the main object would be to furthex- aims of the National Party, particularly as regards rehabilitation and othex- problems arising froxh the war. The section would be. composed of members from the foxm city electorates with representation on the Electorate Committees. INFANTILE PARALYSIS IN OTAGO. DUNEDIN, January 31. Five additional cases of infantile paralysis have occurred since yesterday, all mild forms of the disease. The Otago total is now 27. BRITISH SERVICEMEN TO LEAVE. WELLINGTON, January 31. About 30 or 40 of the British servicemen who were brought to New Zealand in the hospital ship Tjitjalenkti last Octobex- after their release from Japanese hands, will leave Auckland next week for Wellington. They will join the Dominion Monarch, some going to the United Kingdom and others disembarking ixx Australia to travel to India, Malaya, and the Far East. Tn most, cases the men were suffering from malnutrition and tropical sicknesses when thev were brought to New Zealand. IMPORT LICENCES. WELLINGTON, January 31. ' The Minister of Customs (Mr Nash) has agreed to u request by the Associated Chambers of Commerce, that in view of the special cix-cum-stances, licences for the year 1945 issued in respect of goods ordered from the United Kingdom prior to November 1, 1944, under the eighth period of licences, will be made valid to cover imports by the Themistocles, which aftex- a slow passage and delays in loading is not due at Wellington until February 6. In Decembex' last, the currency of the eighth period of import licences was extended to January. 31 because of the delayed loading owing to the dockers’ strike in Britain. DEATH UNDER ANAESTHETIC. CHRISTCHURCH, January 30. John Dx-on, aged 22. of Ealeairn. North Canterbury, collapsed and died while under an anaesthetic in a private hospital in Christchurch today. Mr Dron, who had been m poor health for several years, had been admitted to Ihe hospital to have some teeth extracted. DAIRY PRODUCE COSTS P.A. WELLINGTON. Jan. 30. Tiie Commission of Inquiry appointed by the Government to detex mine the'dispute about debiting costs in connection with holding down the x etail price of butter and cheese m New Zealand concluded its sitting to-day. Mr. T. P. Cleary, for xhe Go\ew.ment submitted that the dairy industrv had agreed that cost allowances'' be debited to the Stabilisation Account. It now appeared that the Dairy Board wished to set up in flat defiance of the agreement. Mr. G. G. G. Watson, for Ihe New Zealand Dairy Board, said it was not seeking to amend anything which it had agreed to regarding the sale <d' butter overseas. What bargains they had made they would keep. The Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) said the Commission was grateful to counsel for ibe way in which they had endeavoured to sift out the difficulties of a complicated matter. Decision would he received. REVOCATION OF WELLINGTON'. January 3.1. “This week’s Gazette will announce the revocation of the remainder of the declarations of essentiality still operating, with the exception of those relating to the industries of coal-mining, dairy factories, freezing works, hospitals, prisons, sawmilling, and tramways, and some small industries subsidiary to these,” said the Minister of Industrial Manpower (Mr McLagan) last evening. “The more important of the declarations now being revoked concern brick and tile works, building, canvas, cement, clothing, concrete products, engineering, fertilisers, lire boards, flour milling, footwear, furniture, Government services (including the Public Works Department, Rehabilitation Department, Price Tribunal, and second division of the Railway Department), laundries, main highways, rubber, sack manufacture, tanneries, timbex- merchants, woollen mills, hosiery mills, and knitting factories. In regard to the declarations being’ retained for the present, those covering hospitals and prisons will be lifted on February 28, tramways on March 9, and the others px-obably on March 31.”