Huge Dairy Payment.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 207, 2 August 1941, Page 6

Huge Dairy Payment.

Approximately £2,000,000 was paid out bv dairy companies in the Waikato "to suppliers on Thursday, the amount representing surpluses on the 1940-41 season's operations. Milk-in-Schools Scheme. The annual report of the DirectorGeneral of Health says that pasteurised bottled milk is now available to 217.727 pupils attending 1256 schools; mal'ted-milk powder to 0793 pupils attending 130 schools; and milk for cocoa-making purposes to 4443 pupils attending 29 schools. Another Mine Dispute. Truckers at the Star coal mine at Ohai, Southland, ceased work at midday on Tuesday and the mine was idle for the rest of'the day and all day on Wednesday. It is understood their action was a protest because they believed outside miners were to be engaged at the mine and they considered that senior truckers should l>e given the first chances of working on the coal face. Fewer New Houses. The value of building operations carried out in New Zealand during the vear ended March 31, 1941, totalling £11,060,101, showed a decrease of 3.1 per cent., or £358,333, on the 1939-40 total, states the Monthly Abstract of Statistics. New private dwellings decreased in value by £644,603, compared with 1939-40. but other new buildings and alterations and additions increased by £2370 and £283,900 respectively. Storage of Produce. An improvement in the primary products storage position in New Zealand was indicated by the Minister of Agriculture and Marketing (Mr Barclay), in an interview in Hamilton this week. Mr Barclay said that at one time it was expected that there would be 180,°o"0 tons of meat in store in New Zealand at the end of the season, but as a result of shipments it was expected that the quantity would be 108.000 tons, of which 6000 tons were reserved for canning. Future of Foxton Camp. According to a Foxton report the future plans for the Territorial camp tliere are unknown at present Departmental heads have made an inspection of the racecourse recently and it is understood that, while the site is regarded as a good one, considerable improvements were recommended in the way of accommodation and facilities if the camp is to l>c retained in use. Since the Mounted Rifles went out about eight weeks ago there have only been about 200 men. Engineers and Mounted Rifles, in the camp. Mobile Canteens. Five mobile canteens arc being built in Wellington for the New Zealand Forces in the Middle East. They are expected to be ready in three weeks. Those canteens have been given, through the National Patriotic Fund Hoard, by the staff of "Woolworths (N.Z.), Ltd., who have provided the funds for two, a section of the MasonicOrder, the Now Zealand Federation of Shop ' Assistants, and Native school children. The Native school children's canteen is for service with the Maori Battalion. Good Prices For Stock There is a high standard of values ruling for stock of all kinds in the sale ring at present, and there was even an advance at the Fcilding sale yesterday for some-lines. In one instance a particularly good line of two-tooth ewes—these being of a kind one would normally expect to see retained on the farm for breeding purposes—sold at 37s 9d, anil wether hoggets reached 18s the standard for the "top" lines here being high also. Fat ewes went up slightly in general, one entry reaching 19s. Wethers, also fat, and a very pleasing entry, reached the top price of 28s 4d. Public Service Staffing. Staffing difficulties in the Public iSorvice caused by the war are reviewed j in the report of the' acting-Public Ser- i vice Commissioner (Mr .1. H. Boycs) j which was presented in the House of Representatives. From a permanent and temporary male staff of approximated 18,700 there are 2468 employees overseas or about to go overseas, the report says. In addition, 174 are on home service and 590 are waiting service in the Army. Navy, or Air Force. About 1950 employees have been balloted for Territorial service, with ap-l proximately a further 400 officers continually undergoing Territorial training. . I

Private Income. The estimated aggregate private income in New Zealand for 1939-40, according to the report of the Government Statistician, was £200,21)0,000, an increase of £14,G00,000 on 1938-30. Children’s Health Camps. “In spite of the many other appeals, funds from the sale of health stamps and collections and donations this year reached the substantial total of CiiGlO,” says the annual report of the Director-General of Health. Jockey Club’s Fifth Fire

'l’he fifth fire at tho AVaipuktiran Jockey Club’s racecourse since December of 1939 occurred this week. It was about midnight on Thursday when a stack containing between nine and ten tons of baled hay caught fire, and was so well alight before it was observed that it was not even worth while to call the lire brigade. Mr Churchill’s Good Spirit. For all the weight of responsibility on his shoulders the British Prime Minister’s irrepressible humour crops up at the most unexpected moments. An excellent instance of this occurred at the time General Rommel's Panzer divisions were driving our small holding force from Cyrenaica and three British generals had the misfortune to he captured by the enemy. “From all these, widespread operations,’’ Air Churchill is stated to have remarked, “three of our generals have failed to return,”

Full War Effort. That the maximum war effort of ever.v man, woman, and child should he stimulated was the tenor of a resolution adopted by a recent meeting of the N.Z.H.S.A. Dominion Council. A meeting of the Dominion executive committee discussed and determined plans for the background of a campaign it was proposed to launch in the near future. Co-operation of and with the Government was thought desirable and a reply is awaited to representations made in the matter. The N.Z.R.S.A., is was stated, has staunchly supported compulsory universal national service for years past, and it intends to do its utmost to see that, in reality, the effort of the public of the whole Dominion is “all in.”

Water in the Square. Recollections of efforts in the past years to secure a water supply in the .Square were related to a "Manawa.tu Standard” reporter to-day by Air AY. Anderson, of Broadway, who was a member of the Palmerston North Borough Council when the late Air L. G. West occupied the Alayoral chair. Air Anderson recalled the partial success only of the wells which were sunk at that period, these being little more than sumplioles, and lie said that following the use of the wells the Borough Council attempted to obtain a flow by driving down pipes in.tho south-east garden enclosure (that in which the Te Awe Awe memorial stands). However, this venture also did not have the desired result and was eventually abandoned. From his memories of the configuration of the land in the city’s earlier days Air Anderson was of the opinion that the flow of seepage water across the city was to be found more in the Showgrounds area than across the Square.