NEWS & NOTES

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1940, Page 6

NEWS & NOTES

1,000 Dozen Medicine Bottles. Practically 1000 dozen medicine bottles were included in the huge mass of bottles received by the Inglewood patriotic committee as the outcome of a'recent bottle drive held throughout tho Inglewood County. So far these bottles remain on the committee’s hands, although the secretary has. endeavoured to secure..outside markets. Apparently there is little demand foi them at present. “Slow Loading of/Cargo.” “What is slow loading?” IVIr R. W. Bpthamley asked when .a letter from the Union Steam‘Ship Company, stating the delay in the shipment of cargo from Auckland to Wellington was partly : due to slow loading, was read to the Wellington Chamber of ■ Commerce. Captain S. i Holm commented that a walk or, the waterfront might supply the information, and-Mr P. B. Pattrick asked if it was a case of “can’t and won’t?” “I think they have got to the stage where s they can’t,” Captain Holm replied. Hawk Destruction A letter of congratulation to tlm society on the way in which it has cleaned up the hawk menace in the province was received by the Hawke’s Bay Acclimatisation Society from a poultry farmer. The farmer stated that before? the society took on the job of destroying hawks, there were thousands flying .about the district, but now there was a decided decrease in the number to be seen. This had saved. the lives of hundreds of, fowls and ducks, which meant a great deal, particularly in time of war. Octopus at Titirangi Beach While searching for flounder in a foot of water at Shag Point, Titirangi, Mr A. G. Rogers, of Titirangi Rpau, speared an octopus. The creature, which had tentacles Bft long, was seen in the water and tittle difficulty was experienced in killing it. , Wqmen on Farms That there were a number of young women-in aiuiiws . tg .do some* work on farms in summer was mentioned in a. letter received by the Manawatu provincial executive df the Fanners’ Union frgm the head office.pt the union. The women would be prepared to do such work as. hoeing crops, the letter said, and The executive-was asked for an opinion’as to whether the services .of . women; s organisations set up to assist- the war effort wvoujd he required on the land. It was decided to reply expressing appreciation of the gesture of the-women and saying that if the occasion arose fanners'would be pleased to make use of Their services.

» Polish Railway? . Addressing j .the Wanganui Rotary Club, ■Mr M. -Sendyk, a Pole-who left his country some 18. months ago, said that one of the measures taken by Ids people to retard the Nazi invasion was to! destroy railway time-tables. That, he! said, might not seem impressive to ; Wanganui people, but when- it r was. known thtat trains', both .international and national, had to pass through Warsaw every -few minutes, something of thp intricacies of tlie timetable Leonid be imagined. 'He said that it was estimated that it would take competent engineers and train administrators >j 15 years to restore the time-table to proper shape and sequence. Mr Sendyk also said that many; of the olh carrying trucks were effectively punctured by the Poles and the oil allowed to run to waste