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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 194, 17 July 1937, Page 8

In an endeavour to meet tlie acute shortage of farm labour, representatives of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union are to meet the eicting-Minister of Labour and place before him suggestions for taking men now on sustenance and training them as farmhands.

Hours of work and some wages were agreed on by the Conciliation Council which yesterday considered the licensed hotel workers’ dispute, says a AVellington Press Association telegram. It was agreed that 40 hours should be worked weekly, aud where practicable a five-day week should he observed, otherwise the week to be- days. Alarm at tbe intention of the Government to cancel the long-haulage carriers’ licenses and the opinion that the present service to the country consumer and producer should be retained and transport services should not be a monopoly of the State, were expressed by the Dominion conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union by adopting a remit submitted from Nelson, South Taranaki and the combined conference at Dannevirke.

Having disposed of the ambulance used for the last fifteen years, the Wanganui District llacing Committee has purchased a fine new vehicle. Contributing bodies for the purchase and upkeep of the ambulance, which will be located at Bulls, are the Manawatu Racing Club, AVanganui Jockey Club, Feilding Jockey Club, Marton Racing Club, Egmont-Wanganui Hunt Club, Waverley Racing Club, Rangitikei Racing Club, Rangitikei'Hunt Club, Ash-hurst-Pohangina Racing Club, and Foxton Racing Club.

“I think probably a master historian or philosopher would agree that the real crisis in world politics is taking place to-da.v in Spain, but the real crisis in religion js taking place in Germany and Italy.” said Archdeacon W. Bullock, addressing the AVellington Diocesan Synod yesterday. He was moving that the president, Rt. Rev. H. St. Barlie Holland, Bishop of AA’ellington, should be requested to convey, through the proper channels, the assurance of the prayers and sympathy of the AVellington diocese to the Confessional Churches of Germany in the trying experiences through which they were passing in their endeavours to prcseiwe the purity of tbe Gospl, and their right to proclaim the same. The motion was carried.

Advice lias been received by Mr R. Coulter, M.P. for Waikato, that the Housing Department has been instructed to confer with th Lands Department to decide on suitable areas of land for bousing in Cambridge and Morrinsville. The Government timber committee, which is now working in conjunction with the Standards Institute, has made a recommendation that standard sections are desirable for weatherboards, flooring and portions of windowframes in common use.

Due to the crossing of other trains which had been delayed the northhound Limited express and the Fields express were held up last night. The latter was side-tracked to allow the Limited express to get through To minutes behind schedule, while Field’s express arrived in Palmerston North an hour behind time.

A year of steady and successful endeavour was reported to the Wellington Diocesan Synod yesterday by the Diocesan Social Service Board. Agahi the year’s expenditure on social service work had exceeded £13,000, the figures being £13,304, as compared with £13,065 in the previous year. Further expansion was stated to he under serious consideration. Pleas for the most humane treatment possible to be given bobby calves when they were being transported by motorlorry were made at an informal sitting of the No. 2 Transport Licensing Authority in Palmerston North yesterday afternoon. The chairman (Mr P. J. Skoglund) gave an assurance that the Authority was fully alive »o such a need, and gave consideration to it.

As a further step toward placing the whole of the burden of roading costs upon the users of the roads, it was decided at the Farmers’ Union conference to urge that the 124 per cent, rebate on rural rates, which was in operation for several years, he reinstated and increased to 25 per cent. The Government is to he asked to give larger grants for the metalling of backblocks roads.

Submarines had ceased to he the menace they were in the Great War, largely because of the remarkable developments in listening apparatus and tl.e greater speed of surface craft, said dTr It. J. Grimshaw, a recently-retired constructor in the Royal Navy, who arrived at Auckland from England yesterday. He added that Great Britain had brought her Navy and Air Force to a point where she was equipped against almost any emergency. To assist farmers in producing better wool and looking after it to the best advantage, it was decided at the Farmers’ Union conference yesterday to ask the Government to appoint competent officials to give instruction in the various districts throughout the Dominion, the cost to be taken out of tlie wool levy fund. The opinion was expressed that the destruction of ragwort should be made a national affair, with a national body in control. A youthful tramper standing on a rocky promontory is the design selected for the 1937 health stamp, according to an official bulletin. It was prepared by Messrs G. Bull and J. Berry, of AVellington, and is being produced by the note printing branch of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Melbourne, in a large size similar to the Anzac stamps of 1936. October 1 will be the first day of issue, and it will be withdrawn not later than February 28, 1938.

Strong objection to the introduction of a municipal milk scheme in Dunedin was expressed by a meeting of milk retailers yesterday. A committee was established to meet Mr It. E. Herron, general manager of the Wellington municipal scheme, when he comes to Dunedin next week, and to draw up in conjunction with producers and retailers an alternative scheme in order to meet all parties concerned. The retailers fear the end of their existence under municipalisation.—Press Association.

“People are at last beginning to realise that New Zealand is not part of Australia, although- they still ask how often the ferry runs there,” said Rev. Canon D. Haultain, vicar of All Saints’ Church, Nelson, who returned yesterday after a visit to England. “The term ‘colonial’ is much less used, and New Zealand, along with Australia, Canada and South Africa, and other parts of the overseas Dominions, is recognised as a vital unit in the British Commonwealth of Nations,” he added.

Though the New Zealand Farmers’ Dairy Union Company, of Palmerston North, was the first to operate in the Otaki district with a cream receiving station, the Otaki Dairy Company’s factory, which is to close on August 1, when "the butter will be manufactured at Kuku, has been in existence for 35 years being under the management of Mr F. T. Wilton and his son, Mr Frank Wilton. Originally it was controlled by the Fresli Food and Ice Company, but subsequently it became known as the Otaki-Manakan Co-opera-tive Company, and for over twenty years as the Otaki Dairy Company.

The General Manager of Railways, Mr G. H. Mackley, has advised the Otaki Borough Council that its request to have Otaki included in the stopping places of the 3 p.m. W elling-ton-Auckland express cannot be acceded to. This express, it was stated, was run on a last schedule and any addition to the number of stopping places en route would involve extending the time for the overall journey, which would not be desirable to long-distance travellers. If provision was made for the express train to stop at Otaki, the question of stopping at other places of similar importance would be raised, and it would not be practicable to accede to such requests.

An old proclamation dating back to the early days of responsible Government in New Zealand is revoked by a notice in this week’s Gazette. This proclamation regulated the carriage of passengers by Bailing ships and by steamers from New Zealand to other English possessions in the South Pacific. It was issued under an Act of the Imperial Parliament passed in the session held in the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. These years would 'be 1861 and 1862, and the legislation was described as “an Act to empower the Governors of the several Australian Colonies to regulate the number of passengers to be carried in vessels plying between ports in those Colonies. ”

The unwisdom of so many young New Zealand doctors going home to England to specialise and then returning to find hut little outlet for their talents was emphasised by Dr. Jefcoate Harbutt, who returned to Auckland yesterday from England. Ibe oveireadiness of young doctors to go to England bad many disadvantages, he said, and affected the number of house surgeons available for New Zealand hospitals. “We are gradually setting up a class of medical practitioner who has become a specialist in England and who, after he returns to New Zealand, finds there is little for him to do in his particular branch,” commented Dr. Harbutt. “He finds it necessary to do work as a general practitioner and he may ultimately become a poor specialist and a poor general practitioner. largely because for some years he may not have done general work.”