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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 55, 7 March 1935, Page 6

After three hours’ discussion of the dairy industry, a gathering of Christchurch dairymen decided on an increase in the price of milk, which will be 5d a quart retail and Is 4d a gallon wholesale to shops. It was decided that lOd a gallon be paid to the producers at the farm.

There are six aspirants for the Lab cur nomination for the Auckland City Mayoralty. They include Messrs. 11. R. G. Mason, M.P., and the three sitting councillors. Tlic party will run full tickets for the council, tho Transport Board, the Hospital Board and the Harbour Board.

Another good season for the delivery of Gisborne and coast sheep to other districts has been experienced, and it is estimated that approximately 130,000 breeding ewes have been delivered to date. The Waikato has absorbed almost all of these. A few thousand have been shipped to Auckland, one lot to Banks Peninsula, and a few have been sent to Hawke’s Bay and Tara naki.

An increase in wages of one penny an hour for all employees, or approximately 5 per cent, on the old award rates of pay, was agreed on at a meeting in Christchurch yesterday of the Conciliation Council in the industrial dispute between the Christchurch branch of the Amalgamated Engineers’ and Allied Trades Union and tho District Electric Bower Board of Canterbury.

Two boys engaged in robbing a New Plymouth orchard were horrified to sec the owner wandering slowly towards them. Dropping down from the trees they stood guiltily for a second. One suddenly lost his nerve, threw down his fruit and scurried through a barbed wire fence, getting cut three times on the face as he did so. The other stood his ground bravely, looking as innocent as he could. “Good day,” said tho owner, and saluted the robber as he sauntered past.

A visitor to Hastings from Sydney, in conversation with a Daily Telegraph reporter on Tuesday morning, expressed great surprise at what lie termed the casual manner in which office clerks carried money, more particularly notes, for depositing in the bank. Ho said that the previous morning he noticed three people at least making their way to tho bank, and in each case a quantity of notes were sticking out of the end of books they were carrying. “One would not dare to do that in Sydney,” ho said, “for, in the crowded streets, tho clerk would probably find a shortage on arrival at the bank. Of course, you have not the same crowds, but, at tho same time, to see banknotes sticking out through the end of a small book is certainly a temptation which should be guarded against.”

Since March 1 the delivery of railway parcels in Palmerston North City has been undertaken by the Post and Telegraph Department in conjunction with the delivery of postal parcels. It was pointed out by the National Economy Commission, 1932, that the duplication or overlapping of departmental transport services was obviously uneconomical and should not be permitted. The newly co-ordinated delivery of postal and railway officials is therefore an economy measure so far as the Government is concerned. The two separate deliveries traversed practically the same area, The performance of the combined service has necessitated no extra postal staff nor additions to the department's motor fleet. The combined service has been in operation in Auckland during the last 18 months and is running very smoothly and satisfactorily.