Fire Calls.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 3, 1 December 1944, Page 4

Fire Calls.

Compared with nine calls during November last year, the Palmerston North Fire Brigade last month received eight, which were made up as follow: Ordinary, 2; grass and rubbish fires, 4; false alarms, 2. Vital Statistics.

The vital statistics for Palmerston North for November show a big increase in all figures compared with the corresponding month, last year. The details, with those for last year in parentheses, are: Births, 72 (56); deaths, 43 (23) ; marriages, J3B (22) ; marriages by registrar, 11 (5). Acclimatisation Areas.

A clear definition of the Government's future policy regarding acclimatisation societies throughout New Zealand was sought bv Mr T. L. Macdotiald (Nat., Mataura) and Mr G. R. Heiron (Nat., Awarua) in a notice of question to the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr Parry) in the House yesterday. They also asked if it were the Government's intention eventually to control ail or any of the areas at present administered by acclimatisation societies. Holiday Petrol.

In the House of Representatives, yesterday, the Acting-Minister- of Supply (Mr Nordmeyer), replying to an__urgent question asked by Mr K. J. Holyoake (Nat., Pahiatua), said that, if farmers and others desired to use the petrol to be available in December and January later in the year, there should be little difficulty in their storing it until it was needed. Mr Holyoake had stated that farmers who would not be ame to use the petrol during the holiday period should be given an opportunity of drawing it during the off season. Prejudice Condemned.

New Zealandcrs should not pay too much attention to the vapourings of the Chicago Tribune, said Dr. J. W. l>ecker, American co-secretary of the International Missionary Council, speaking at a civic reception in Christchurch. The Tribune's prejudices often got the better of its judgment, lie said. "I never buy the Tribune except as a last resort," said Dr. Decker. "Its twisted and prejudiced attitude is all too well-known in my country. People buy the Tribune, of course, but many of them read it without accepting all the paper says. If you see the New York Times playing a different tune it will be time to sit up and take notice; but don't take too much notice of what the Tribune says." Fear of Police.

"Possibly ever since the creation of the Police Force it has been the invariable practice of some parents and others to make use of the police to subdue or restrain a wayward, or defiant child," said Senior-Sergeant J. H: Hogg, of Gore, in an address to the Gore Rotary Club. "It. is the general thing while on patrol to hear a mother with a wriggling, squealing child say, 'Here's a policeman', or 'l'll give you to this policeman'. We all know what effect this has. It may quell one child, but leaves a lasting effect of nervousness with others. This is something I have always thought to be cruel on the part of parents and something I always have thought fib to discourage. 1 have never attempted to belittle the parent in the presence of the child, when confronted with such difficulties,, but have always endeavoured to win the child's friendship by coaxing and enco ur agem ent.''