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Kaikoura Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 1, 7 January 1946, Page 3

The British motor industry’s target for 1946 is 617,000 vehicles. Standard locomotives are now being used on the Picton-Christehurch section of the South Island Main Trunk Railway, two of the A type having replaced the two A which have about the same capacity. The Auckland Master Butchers’ As sociation confirms the report that the butchers’ shops will not be opening oh Saturday mornings as from January 12. The decision was reached after meetings with employees. A London message states that tlr? latest bank return suggests that n spite of scarcities, actual spending by the British public may have reached record proportions this year, ’ ’ says the Australian Associated Press. A company from the Maori Battalion will go to Japan with the New Zea land occupation force, according to the liaison officer between the Taranaki Tribal Committees and the Maori Wai Effort Organisation (Captain Ralph Love). Although the Government does not intend to retain young men in the Army until they reach the age of 21, and then send them to Japan, their retention in the Army was necessary to allow the release of certain groups of men, said the Minister of Defence (the Hon. F. Jones). The Hon. Walter Nash (Minister of Finance) and Mr William Joseph Jordan (High Commissioner for Nev Z eala nd in London) have been appoint ed members of the Privy Council. Tin | appointments are gazetted in the Nevv : Tear’s Honours list. The United States State Department has announced that Russia. ->ew Zea Australia, Venezuela, Liberia. Hoiti, {Salvador, Nicaragua, and Pau au|a allowed the deadline date of De cumber 31 to pass withuur b Charter members of the urld BanK a.n.2. Stabilisation Fund tu iX establish ed under the Bretton Woods agreement. These nations can participate in futun if their applications are accepted b; the bank and fund government boards, which have not yet been established. Two local returned soldiers employed “Monty’s” famous “left hook” tactics yesterday when they went int'aetion against a raiding party who were armed with billies and cans, ihe men split their forces, and while the Infantry, with the W.W.S.A. and Nursing Aid in support, moved up, the Tank Corp used the “left hook’ to move round the raiders. A short skirmish ended in a rout of the raid ers. who retired in disorder leaving their plunder and half of their numbe • prisoners. Information that enemy scientists were secretly mobilising disease germs for use in warfare prompted the development in the United States of defence measures which could, if necessary, be used as offensive weapons. This is disclosed in a report to the War Department by War Research Ser vice, a civilian agency studying biolo gieal warfare. Mr Roosevelt estaolish ed the agency in 1942 after a special National Academy of Science committee had reported” that biological war fare was distinctly feasible. Britain the United. States’and Canada co-op erated in the research, which was con ducted secretly as a development oi the atomic bomb.