Potato Shortage.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 226, 23 August 1945, Page 4

Potato Shortage.

Hamilton is at present experiencing a potato famine, l'or the past iortnight wholesale dealers have had no potatoes for sale. Frost Registered. A frost of 7deg. was recorded at the Grasslands Division at Fitzherbert this morning, this being the first appreciable visitation of the kind since the night of July 30-31, when lOdeg. were registered. The Note Issue. The note issue on August 13 totalled £40,043,109, an increase of £137,539 for the week. A year ago it was £37,689,693, and two years ago £33,086,034, states the Deserve Bank’s report. Avalanche on Egmopt. Snow fills the Manganui on Alt. F.gmont to a depth of 60 or 701 t as a result of an avalanche that came down, probably last Friday. It is a spectacular sight, according to climbers, the surface being covered with great masses of snow and ice. Help Given to Greece. From October, 1944, to March, 1945, 500,000 tons of stores were taken to Greece and distributed, said Brigadier T J. King, speaking at a luncheon of the English-Speaking Union about the aid given to Greece after its liberation. Brigadier King was in charge ot the supply and relief branch ot tlie British Land Forces (Grecce).

Dead Fish Washed Up. Dead fish were found washed up on Hawke’s Bay beaches yesterday. This appears to confirm the report ol Hashes out to sea, an unusual mist and a possible marine disturbance north of Gape Kidnappers, says a Hawke’s Bay report. Apart from some minor rumpling, there was no repetition in Hawke’s Bay on Tuesday night of tiio disturbances of Monday night and early Tuesday morning.

Wool Storage at Kakariki. The Kakariki freezing works are to become a wool store to accommodate some of the surplus of last season’s wool clip until shipping space becomes available. It is estimated that several thousand bales of dumped wool will be stored there. The Kakariki works were refitted during the war with the refrigerating machinery from the Port Bowen wreck at Castlecliff, as an emergency store for exportable dairy produce. It was not, however, necessary to use it for this, although installations and repairs had been finished. Nautical Training.

“The Government is keenly interested in the provision of the fullest facilities for training New Zealand boys for the seafaring profession,” said the Minister of Marine (Mr O’Brien) in a written reply to a question by Mr C. L. Carr (Lab., Timaru) in the House of Representatives. “The school of navigation at Auckland has been carried on for some little time by the Marine Department, and the number of students offering has already necessitated the appointment of an additional tutor.” Consideration is being ,riven for extension to correspondence courses, evening classes, and pre-voea-tional training as opportunity offers, added the Minister.

Prices of Children’s Clothing. “The-prices of children’s clothing, as in the case of clothing generally, and all other classes of commodities, are fixed by the Brice Tribunal at each stage right from the manufacturer to the & public,” said the Minister of Supply (Mr Sullivan) in a written reply to a question by Mr W. M. Denham (Lab., Invercargill). The Minister added that in the determination of such prices full regard was paid to the fact that the sales tax on clothing had not been increased. Because of the essential nature of children’s clothing, lower margins covering profit and overhead had been allowed by the tribunal to wholesalers and retailers than on certain other types of clothing.