NEWS OF THE DAY

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 180, 31 July 1941, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Awahuri Dairy Co. The directors of the Awahuri Dairy Co., Ltd., have declared a bonus payment of 2|d per lb. of butterfat for supply received during the past season. Big Rise in Price. A rise of 81 per cent, has taken place recently in the retail price of a lib. tin of caustic soda, reports an exchange. The price has jumped from lid to Is 3d while the price of a 21b. tin has gono from Is Gd to 2s 6d, a rise of (5(5 2-3 per cent. Caustic soda supplies comes from Warrington, in England. Handkerchiefs for Soldiers. Material for 4000 soldiers’ handkerchiefs has been supplied to the Hamilton Women’s Patriotic Committee by Hamilton primary school children. The material gathered consists of flour and oatmeal bags, which are boiled, dyed and hemmed before being sent over* A Sailor’s Gratitude. A Hamilton woman who had given a meal and a few shillings to a destitute sailor five years ago had a return visit from the stranger a few days back. He said lie had recently come back to New Zealand in a merchant vessel, and he brought with him a pair of silk stockings, which he said he had purchased in Paris, for the woman who had befriended-him. Flowering Apple as Town’s Emblem At the meeting of the Masterton Horticultural and Industrial Society Mr. H. L. Esau referred to the adoption of the flowering apple as the town’s emblem. “The Beautifying Society has co-operated with great enthusiasm,” said Mr. Esau, “and 800 flowering apple trres have been planted in Masterton. That can be considered good, but it is not good enough. I appeal to every householder to plant at least one flowering apple, preferably on Arbor Day.” Telephones for Schools.

Telephones have now been installed in most of the Christchurch primary schools, in response to a request by the Emergency Precautions Scheme, organiser (Mr. A. R. Galbraith). The telephones are intended mainly to facilitate the use of the schools as dressing stations in the event of an emergency. Mr. L. E. Rowley, secretary of the Canterbury Education Board, said that the board had asked school committees to install the telephones. The committees had responded very well. The Ad.

Among the advertisements in a Homo journal was one in which the advertiser claimed (if you sent him half a crown first) he could “disclose a plan whereby half-penny stamps can be made to do the work of penny ones.” “The plan,” lie claimed, “is perfectly simple and can be used by anyone,” and (this is important) “is perfectly legal.” It was—-and still is—all one has to do (so he informed his dupes)

‘‘ is to use two of them at a time on your letters.”

‘ ‘ Civilian ’ ’ Lorries with N.Z.E.r. New Zealanders in the Middle East, were interested recently to see trade vehicles from New Zealand still bearing the marks of their previous owners make their appearance in camps here, tays the New Zealand Expeditionary Force Official News Service in Cairo. To see motor transport painted in greens or reds in marked contrast to the sombre colours used by the army and to find that “civilian” lorries had joined the Expeditionary Force overseas was a pleasant surprise. The fact that at least one bore the signs of a well-known brewery may have had something to do with this. Need for Army Training.

Addressing a gathering of American students recently, the Hon. Robert I* Patterson urged on them the necessity for doing military training. He said: “It is not a pleasant thing to have one’s college course interrupted; it is not a pleasant thing to have any agree able, normal, beneficial, human activity

interrupted; but certainly it is better to endure such an orderly interruption as i a year of military training than to have j a classroom ripped apart by high explosives or a library laid in ruins by incendiary bombs ... I think you will agree with me that even such a hiatus in your careers is preferable to jthe sort of interruptedness you would be enjoying if you were students at the Sorbonne. of Leyden, or Copenhagen, or Oslo, or Prague. In each of the institutions, I believe, the physical structure of the University is reasonably intact. But is anything else?” Army Offices Recent increases in administrative and regimental staffs at the Palmerston North Army Office have necessitated some reorganisation and the provision of additional office accommodation in the city'. A suite of rooms in King Street, in Messrs. Collinson and Cunninghame’s building, previously used as sample rooms, have been leased by the Army Department, and the sub-area staff, consisting of the officer in charge, Lieutenant K. G. Chamberlain, and approximately 12 other personnel, have recently occupied these quarters. This will be the headquarters of Sub-Area GB, the territory' of which extends from the Rangitikei River to Waikanae. Also accommodated in these premises, in the meantime, will be the orderly room staffs of various units, including the 12th Company National Military Reserve, the 10th Field Ambulance and the Central Veterinary Hospital. The Army' premises in Main Street will continue to be used as the headquarters of the Artillery, the Manawatu Mounted Rifles and other regimental staffs.