LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grey River Argus, 5 November 1949, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

“If you want your member of Parliament to stand around Market place or if you want him to have nothing else to do but to attend every social function, prizegiving or baby show in Blenheim, then you will have to get another M.P.,” said Mr. T. P. Shand (Nationalist, Marlborough), replying to criticism that he has never been seen in Blenheim. “If you want me to be hanging around pubs at 5 o’clock so that you’ll know where to find me you’ll have to get another M.P. ’

Tenders for the supply of 50 prefabricated aluminium houses to accommodate men called up for compulsory military training are being called by the Housing Construction Division of the Ministry of Works. The Commissioner of Works (Mr. E. R. McKillop) said the houses would be established at Waiouru, Ohakea and Woodbourne. They would be permanent. Tenders were being called throughout New Zealand and in Great Britain.

The retail price of sugar will be increased from 41 to 5d per lb throughout Australia next Monday, as a result of a decision by the Queensland Government to raise the wholesale price of sugar to £4l 9s 4d per ton.

“It is big business which supports the National Party and is its real backer. An illustration is the press. Not all the papers, of course are m the category of big business, but they are all tied up in a typical capitalist racket, the’ Newspaper Proprietors Association, whose purpose is to prevent competition and stifle personal enterprise. So, of course,, whatever the editors and reporters and contributors may think themselves, the policy of the papers is, always has been, and always will be, anti-Labour—ex-cept for those papers which were established for the purpose of backing Labour.”—Mr. G. H. Ormond Wilson (Labour, Palmerston North).

“Half a guinea is any amount for half the stuff w e hear over the radio,” replied Mr. W. Tucker (National, Napier) when asked whether he favoured the cost, of radio licences beingreduced.

Tomorrow morning at 11 o’clock, at a service at the Cenotaph in Wellington, a wreath bearing the inscription “In Remembrance from the Government and people of the United Kingdom” will be laid on behalf ot the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom by the senior naval liaison officer of the United Kingdom sen-ice liaison staff (Captain W. M. Richmond, D. 5.0., 0.8 E., R.N.).

An expedition, led by Dr. Anton Brunn, to explore the ocean depths, leaves Copenhagen next August. Tasman deep, in the Tasman Sea, and Kermadec deep, near the Kermadec Isalnds, are two areas wher it will invesf’gote life in the ocean depths. Two New Zealand scientists, whose names have not yet been divulged, have been selected to join the expedition. Yesterday the Assistant Director of the Auckland Museum, Mr A. D. B. Powell, said that, if successful, this operation would probably throw the present theories of fish evolution out of gear. More would probably be found out about the formation and development ol fossil organisms.

‘I do not mind if I am always portrayed by Minhinnick in a piupiu (flax skirt) —that will suit me,” the Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser) told a gathering on the Te Kotahitanga marae at Kaikohe. He was replying to a Maori speaker who expressed pride that the cartoonists often showed the Prime Minister as a Maori. “I feel very flattered at being told I have a Maori heart,” Mr. Fraser continued. "I am honoured that the cartoonist puts me in a piupiu which is just a kilt of reeds instead of a tartan. I wish I looked as well in it as the Maori people.” He hoped that research workers would one day prove that the Celts and the Maoris were originally of the same race.

'Phe monthly stop-work meeting was held at the Paparoa State mine at Roa yesterday, and after a discussion, the men returned to thenhomes. The mine will resume production on Monday.

Have you seen Jeffs new bar ? Empire Hotel. Ross. —Aflvt.

Greymouth primary schools will not be closed on election day, November 30, states the Canterbury Education Board, which considers that teachers wil have ample opportunity to vote outside school hours The board added that some country schools which offered the only accommodation in the district for polling booths, would probably be closed for the day.

Two Christchurch ollicers, ’Sergeants E. C. T. Broadley, and G. C. Donnelly, are being transferred to Greymouth to fill vacancies in the Police Force, following the transfer of Sergeant H. O. Hansen to Palmerston North, and Sergeans B. W. Wootton to Dunedin Central.

James Stephen Davies, aged 41, a seaman, appeared in the Greymouth Police Court yesterday before Mr M. J. Fogarty, J.P., on a charge of deserting from the British ship Mahana at Lyttelton, on November 1. Davies was remanded until next Wednesday.

Roderick Noel Brooks,, a son of air and Mrs G. Brooks, of Camerons, suffered a broken leg when he was knocked down by a motor car at Camerons yesterday. He was taken to Grey River Hospital, where his condition, last night; was reported to be satisfactory. The car involved was driven by Mr G. McGrath, of Taramakau.