Notes of the Day

Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 223, 20 September 1943, Page 3

Notes of the Day

Members of the Junior Red Cross received generous support in Feilding on Friday when a street collection in aid of New Zealand Orphanages realised the sum of £4l.

Members of the committee of the Feilding A. and P. Association in meeting on Friday night, recorded their sympathy in the passing of Mr. A. Campbell, a past president of the Association and a farmer who had always taken a very live interest in the activities of the organisation. Mr. B. McLeod (president) said that the late Mr. Campbell, for so long a familiar and popular iigure in the community, would be greatly missed. Tributes to the public life of the Hon. J. G. Cobbe, retiring member for Manfiwatu were paid by Mr. B. McLeod (president) at Friday’s meeting of the Feilding A. and P. Association. It was recalled that Mr. Cobbe had been the first president of the Association and had filled the position again in 1911, while he had given outstanding service as a member of Parliament and a Minister of the Crown. The meeting agreed to tender Mr. Cobbe a complimentary social.

In connection with the Social Security medical benefits, it was asked of the Hon. D. Sullivan during his meeting at Feilding on Friday night how it came about that a woman in Feilding was called upon to pay for a prescription. The Minister replied that without knowing the circumstances, he was unable to give an immediate answer, but he suggested that it might not have been a doctor’s prescription. The questioner asserted that it was and the Minister said that he would look into the

A suggestion that out-patients of the Palmerston North hospital residing in Feilding should be provided with free transport when attending the hospital was advanced by a speaker at the Hon. D. Sullivan’s meeting in Feilding on Friday night. Replying, the Minister said that while it was not claimed that the Social Security legislation was not perfect nor that everything had been provided for, he would say that further improvements were under consideration and no doubt the question of transport would be dealt with in the days to come.

The price paid to honey producers for their product was raised at the meeting addressed in Feilding by the Hon. D. Sullivan on Friday night. A member of the audience asked why a producer was only allowed to sell onethird of hia produce privately at Hid. per lb. and was required to sell the remaining two-thirds to the Government at 6sd. per lb. The Minister said that he was not in charge of the industry and he understood that the Minister in charge had been working in the closest collaboration with the industry and that the regulations dealing with the sale of the produce had been passed with the concurrence of the industry.