Local and General

Hutt News, Volume 20, Issue 16, 10 April 1946, Page 7

Local and General

A Compliment to Ourselves. Writing to a member of the Hutt News staff a woman resident of Auckland says: "Thanks for the copy of your paper. I not only enjoy reading your theatre and music news, in which, as you know I am fvery interested, but I enjoy reading the attractive advertisements also. I wish we had something like it in jflilckland, for it gives the housewife "the urge to buy and saves the hours of wasted tramping round and looking for the things one needs. It is just a matter of opening up the paper and there it is; you simply decide what you want, put 6n your hat, and go and buy it. Please keep sending the paper." Street Day Quotas "In Wellington 1 the street day quotas are full; it would take about two years to get through the Wellington City Council's allotment of dates for that purpose," said Mr. J. G. Male, Dominion Appeal Organiser for CORSO at a meeting in Lower Hutt last week. Collision in High Street. Two collisions between motor cars took place in High Street on Frif day afternoon. Very little damage was done in either case. Beer Runs Out. There was a shortage of beer at - some of the Wellington hotels on Saturday. It is stated in some quarters that this is one result of the 40-hour week, a wet Saturday resulting in an unusual influx intothe hotels. Dependence on Britain*. "If Britain sinks we sink too. Britain is our only market." said Mr. F. W. Doidge, M.P., at a meeting in the Taita Hall on Wednesday night. "We in New Zealand must help Britain. Our loyality is to the Motherland." Pipe Band Contest. The New Zealand Pipe Band Contest will be held in Timaru at Easter. Five bands have entered in the A Grade and- seven in the B Grade. .. , i i . j Boy Scouts' World Jamboree. It is hoped that Hutt Valley Boy Scouts will be well represented at the World Jamboree to be held in Paris next year. Arrangements are in hand for raising funds for the trip, and towards the end of the year —on December 7 —a big garden party and rally will be held in Lower Hutt. Plight of Warsaw Refugees The terrible plight of many people in Europe was referred to at a meeting held in Lower Hutt on TlUirsday night with the object of organising assistance for CORSO. One member of the audience stated tvat she had received a letter from h?er husband in Warsaw, who wrote: "I saw UNRRA clothing being handed out in Warsaw, and if you could have seen the faces of those people as they received the gifts you would do a great deal more to help them. Thousands of people are living in German dug-outs outside Warsaw, and their plight is pitiful. Many ,of them cannot come out of the .dug-outs because they have nothing to wear, and they are living among rats."