LOCAL NEWS

Grey River Argus, 11 October 1949, Page 4

LOCAL NEWS

Owing to a breakdown in the fan system the Liverpool State mine was idle yesterday. The repairs are not expected to be completed until tomorrow.

When cutting a loaf of bread, a Blaketown housewife found a cigarette butt embedded in the middle of the loaf, and surrounded by a nicotine stained area.

After their arrival by the Dominion Monarch, on Friday morning, at Wellington, the All Blacks will be the guests of the Prime Minister at Parliament House at 3.30 p.m. and will later be entertained by the N.Z.R.F.U. They will leave for their homes in the evening.

Yesterday thirty croquet, players returned by the Wanganella to Wellington, after competing for two months in competitions in Australia. The oldest active playeer of the party is Mr Frank Wedd, aged 81, whose opinion of the tour was “good fun.

Take “De Reszke”—See Wally Haybittle’s New Look Railway Hotel, Kumara Junction. —Advt.

Radioactive isotopes offer a simple and rapid means of studying tree nutrition, the United States Department of Agriculture reports. This was disclosed following a recent study to trace, the uptake and movement of radioactive phosphorus in pecan trees at the Department’s Pecan Field Station at Albany, Georgia. In the tests, scientists drilled holes in the trees, inserted salts of potassium phosphate, added radioactive phosphorus solution, then plugged the holes with rubber stoppers. Samples of leaves, stems,- wood, bark, roots, and nuts from the trees were taken at intervals during a 5-month period. The study shows that phosphorus moved rapidly after injection, generally upward from the point of injection; that phosphorus injected in the trunk distributed more uniformly throughout the tree than when injected in roots or branches; that approximately twice as much phosphorus accumulated in the wood as in the bark, and that phosphorus accumulated, in certain tissues of the developing nut.

Private mines received £848,825 in subsidies' on coal produced last financial year, and State mines received £996,266. Have you seen Jeff's new bar ? Empire Hotel, Ross. —Advt.

Including the Ohai mine, recently purchased, the State has paid out more than £1,000,000 on acquiring mines, since April 1, 1948. The mines purchased included Taupiri Coal Mines, Ltd. Huntly, £823,000; Devlin’s Mine, Huntly £10,000; Pyramid Mine, Reef ton £7750; Central Mine, Reefton £5000; Morley property, Ohai, £40,000.

A salvage expert from Sydney, Captain Fant, who has supervised the salvage of many ship wrecks in Australia, will arrive Arahura tomorrow week, to inspect the Arahura dredge, as representative of Australian underwriters, who placed the insurance on the dredge with Lloyds group, of London. With an increase in the price of gold, there now is a greater inducement to hasten the resumption of production from the claim. —i