Seed Potato Shortage

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 194, 18 July 1939, Page 6

Seed Potato Shortage

A shortage of certified seed potatoes is reported in Hawke’s Bay, and prices are said to range between £l6 and £lB a ton. Supplies are coming forward in small quantities only. Military ’Planes Arrive. A further shipment of military aircraft for use by the Royal New Zealand Air Force have reached Auckland. The machines are part of fairly extensive purchases made by the New Zealand Government. Drafts for Australia.

Australian tradesmen brought to Auckland by the Government to work under the housing scheme are now being issued with money-orders at the Chief Post Office for transmission of funds to Australia but it is disclosed by inquiries among them that strict limitation is put on the amounts they may send. Local Defence.

An outline of the way in which Class 11. of the National Military Reserve was being organised in the Central Military District was given by Colonel E. Puttiek yesterday. Guards for vital points had already been constituted. “There will he companies at Gisborne, Napier, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Patea and Palmerston North, their duties being ’ocal defence in their own areas,” said Colonel Puttiek. Racegoers' Shrewdness. “People who frequent racecourses with the idea of having something to do with some transaction with the totalisator are gifted with a certain element of shrewdness,” commented Mr. Justice Blair .n the Supreme Court at Palmerston North, yesterday. His Honour smilingly remarked that, however, some people might doubt the wisdom of those who participated in the custom of attending racecourses. What Watersiders Earn

“In the month of May the greatest number of men employed on any one day was 662, and 293 the fewest,” said the chairman of the Wellington Harbour Board (Mr. M. A. Eliott) in an address in Palmerston North yesterday, on the activities of the Wellington Harbour Board. “The average wage earned during that time was £6 13s 6d, hut some men made up to £B, £lO and £12,” added Mr. Eliott. “Only 67 nonunion men were employed, and this was done only at times when there were no union men available.”