End of Honey Regulations.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 256, 27 September 1945, Page 4

End of Honey Regulations.

It will not be necessary to continue the Honey Marketing Emergency .Regulations next season, the Minister of Marketing (Mr Roberts) announced yesterday. The end of the war had removed the need for obtaining priority supplies for the Military .Forces, military hospitals and patriotic and prisoner-of-war parcels. Recognition of Home Guard.

The Minister of Defence (Mr Jones), answering a question by Mr A. S. Sutherland (Nat., Hauraki) in the House of Representatives concerning tlie issue of a Home Guard medal, said the Government had already deluded to recognise the services of the rloniq Guard and home service personnel. Tlie form of recognition was at present under consideration. Policy Concerning Defaulters. .

In the House of Representatives, yesterday, tlie Prime Minister (Mr Eraser), replying to Mr H. T. Morton (Nat., Waitemata), who had asked for tlie Government’s policy concerning defaulters still in detention, said the Government’s decision in regard to military defaulters would be duly announced when our servicemen returned to New Zealand. Minerals Output. Gold and silver bullion produced in New Zealand last year amounted to 470,568 ounces, valued at £1,518,110, reports the Mines Statement presented in the House of Representatives, 'ibis represented an increase in quantity on the previous year of 40,632 ounces, but a decrease in value of £49,495. The gold content of the bullion produced last year is estimated at 142,287 ounces, valued at £1,474,536. Permanent Daylight Saving. Cabinet approval of the introduction of legislation to amend the Summer Time Act, 1929, so as to extend the half-hour period of daylight saving lor tlie whole year is announced by the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr Parry). This means that daylight saying is to be permanently adopted in New Zealand. Its application throughout the year has been observed as a war measure since 1941, when emergency regulations were made providing for a continuance of daylight saving throughout the winter months. Previously daylight saving was observed in New Zealand from the last Sunday in September to the last Sunday in April. Victory Flight Suggested. In the House of Representatives. Mr H. T. Morton (Nat., Waitemata) gave notice to ask the Minister of Defence to arrange for a victory flight, consisting of three Spitfires and three Mosquitoes, from England to New Zealand, each machine to be flown by a New Zealand pilot. Mr Morton said there were thousands of these, the world’s finest aeroplanes, in England and the Mediterranean. The British Government, it was felt, would gladly make available six of these planes in order that the people of New Zealand might have an opportunity of seeing the planes that had so materially helped to win the war, and flown out, as they would be, by the world’s finest airmen.