NEWS OF THE DAY

Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 187, 9 August 1940, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

Citizens* Lunch Club As it is Ladies ’ Day at the Citizens ’ Lunch Club • to-day, Miss Margaret i Poole will speak on “ Occupational Therapy. ’ ’ Cycled Into Ladder When cycling in the Square early last evening, Mr. C. J. le Chcminant, of 3D Shamrock Street, Palmerston North, collided with a ladder fixed to a parked motor truck. He suffered abrasions to face and forehead. Maori Ornaments Maori greenstone ornaments were found on a section in Whangarei when tho owner was digging. This section had not previously been turned over, and when the owner found one greenstone ornament he sieved the soil in the immediate vicinity and so discovered other pieces. Queensland’s Horse Shortage Horses are not likely to solve the transport problems in Queensland created by petrol rationing, because there arc not enough available. Breeding of draught horses is now almost an extinct industry in Queensland, and it would take at least four years to build it up again. 1940 Health Stamps The 1940 Health Stamps will be placed on sale in October. Two stamps, with designs the same as last year's, will be issued, the 14d one (postage Id) being green, and the 3d one (2d postage) being orange in colour. The two values contribute and Id respectively' to health purposes. The stamps are being printed in Australia. Blasting Sea-bed Thousands of tons of iron-hard conglomerate and hundreds of gigantic boulders weighing up to 10, 15 and even 20 tons have been removed from the bottom of New Plymouth harbour by underwater blasting and dredging operations designed to facilitate handling and manoeuvring of overseas vessels. The operations, being undertaken by the New Plymouth Harbour Board, are as yet in their beginnings and it will be seven or eight years before the work is ended. Sulphur Fire at Aramoho Members of the Wanganui Central Fire Brigade were set a difficult task on Wednesday morning, when a fire broke out in 5000 tons of sulphur at Ivempthorne, Prossers, .Ltd., works, Aramoho. They were engaged in a four-hour battle with the outbreak before it was quelled. Except to sulphur there was little damage, and nobody was hurt, and production will continue without interruption. Fortified with gas masks the blaze was fought by nine firemen, and to get at the fire three holes had to be chopped in the wall of the sulphur room. Women’s War Service Auxiliary Mrs. I. Powell, of Palmerston North, organiser for the Manawatu Women’s War Service Auxiliary, visited Wellington on Wednesday to attend a meeting concerning the movement. Mrs. Powell talked with Mrs. H. Atmore, honorary Dominion organiser, and Mr. H. H. Sterling, liaison officer to the Minister of National Service, who were very pleased to hear all that had been done in Palmerston North. It had been decided at first that the organiser would only visit the four main centres but Mrs. Atmore had intimated that a visit would be paid to Palmerston North in due course. Mrs. Hislop had informed the meeting that there would be no interference with existing auxiliaries a point that had caused some concern. Other Farms’ Milk Farmers will now bo permitted to cart other farmers’ milk b?sidcs their own to factories, the Central Taranaki production management committeo has been advised by Mr. P. Skoglund, No. 2 Transport Licensing Authority. Re presentations to this effect were made by the committee to the Government. Thus, where a farmer has changed from home separation to whole milk supply and has no means of transport he will be ablo to arrange with his neighbour to utilise spare room on his truck, or if necessary', eart it separately. It is considered that the rule will also apply where several half-laden trucks are running to a factory over ono road. Farmers will be able to arrange for a concentration of transport to probably half the trucks in operation, with a considerable reduction in the amount o l petrol used. Mr. Skoglund said that the authorities welcomed the scheme.