LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 22 February 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Farmers are notified by advertisement in this issue, that orders for phosphatic fertiliser for crops and unexpended top-dressing rations to be used by 30th June, 1947, must be received by vendors on or before March 15, 1947. This applies only to fertiliser intended for use before July, 1947.

When a tractor pulling a header harvester capsized on a hill at Clydevale, dtago, the driver, John Glendinning Dun, single, aged 34, of Pototunoa, received severe injuries, from which he died in the Balclutha Hospital on Thursday.—P.A.

Captain J. Rankine (Napier) and Captain A. T. Norton ■ (Wellington) will be the nautical assessors associated with Mr A. M. Goulding, S.M., in the Magisterial inquiry next Tuesday at Wellington into the stranding of the Wanganella on Barrett’s Reef. Mi- C. A. L. Treadwell will appear on behalf of Captain R. Darroch. master of the Warfganella.

Don’t forget. Grand Variety Concert, Town Hall, Monday next. Funds aid Owen’s Marching Team. —Advt. State houses in New Zealand are better than the general standard of houses in any part of Australia, states the Town Clerk, Mr T. Ashby, in a report to the Auckland City Council on municipal activities in the Commonwealth. Generally prefabrication is not favoured. The Government in Tasmania sells as freehold State houses rather than let them. He adds that Auckland Council is not likely to undertake any further housing project.

A new time table for the inland air service comes into operation on Monday. The Post Office will improve the exchange of air mails, stated the Postmaster General, Mr. F. Hackett yesterday. The after|noon flight from Auckland to Wellington will permit Auckland to close an additional mail for the south each day. This mail will reach Wellington in the late afternoon and correspondence for Wellington private boxes will be available the same evening. Correspondence for Christchurch will connect with the steamer express, and delivery in the city and suburbs will be effected next morning. An extra flight is to be made from Wellington to Christchurch at 7.50 a.m. daily. This also will enable additional mail to be despatched to that city.—Press Assn.

Advice has been received by the local secretary of thb Trinity College of Music that the examiner for practical work in the South Island this year will be Mr Cox-Ife, who is expected to arrive from England early in June. He will commence his tour of the South Island by conducting the examinations in Kaikoura. The examinations in Greymouth this year will be held earlier than those of the past two years.

Comment on some aspects of the appointment of Judges of the Supreme Court in New Zealand was made at the annual dinner of the Taranaki District Law Society at New Plymouth by Mr L. M. Moss, a New Plymouth lawyer. Among chief points of his address was that Judges should be appointed at an earlier age than was usual at present, and that the retiring age should be reduced. Earlier appointments might assist the AttorneyGeneral, if, and when, it was decided to establish a separate Court of Appeal in New Zealand.