NEWS OF THE DAY

Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 263, 5 November 1943, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Citizens’ Lunch Club To-day’s subject is “Radio,” by H. F. Tattersfield. Armistice Day Citizens and traffic control authorities throughout New Zealand are requested to observe the customary practice on Armistice Day (November 11, of two minutes’ silence from LI a.m. and the suspension of all vehicular traffic during that period. Where services are held it is suggested that, they should be at the local cenotaphs or war memorials. Notice to this effect appears in the Gazette. Transport Licenses and Rehabilitation The amended Transport Licenses Emergency Regulations gazetted tonight provide that licensing authorities in° dealing with applications for new licenses or for the transfers of licenses under the Transport Act, shall take into account the desirability in the public interest of reestablishing in civil life discharged servicemen. An amendment also empowers licensing authorities to protect discharged servicemen from paying excessive goodwill for transfers of licenses and accordingly may on such grounds refuse to grant transfers. Ban on Shellfish Because a local case of typhoid fever was traced to the eating of pipis taken from the Whakatanc River, the medical officer of health has notified the prohibition of the taking of all shellfish from the harbour in the interests of public health, states a Wliakatane correspondent. Drainage from many premises goes directly into the river. The Whakatanc County Council, to whom the notification has been sent, anticipates a certain amount of antagonism from the Maoris, who regard the river pipis as part of their ancestral right, having been in the habit of taking shellfish from the harbour beds from time immemorial. Fat Cattle from Coast To enable, owners to share in the high prices being obtained at Addington market large numbers of fat cattle have been sent forward from the West Coast. The situation arising from the high prices at market compared with the retail prices allowed by the Price Tribunal was discussed at a meeting of Greymouth butchers, when it was decided to ask the Government to restrict killings bv 30 per cent. The meeting also decided to ask the Government to leave in abeyance the proposed system of meat grading until after the war. It was considered that the present system had worked satisfactorily and butchers were afraid that the public would demand only meat shown a.s first I grade, leaving the other on-their hands. Even Cemetery Plots j Most Auckland' homes, even those I right in the city, can boast a patch of garden with reasonable facilities i for hanging out and drying washing. (But in the heart of Wellington, where i flats are developing a skyscraper trend, jit is a different story. Discussing the space and living problem in. Wellington with a friend in Auckland, a ! woman told of washing hung out on an endless rope on pulleys, since there was no room for walking along the line to “peg out.” She added seriously that, she had made inquiries about buying a plot at a neighbouring cemetery to I enable her to grow a few vegetables, j remarking dryly that the ground would 1 be of more use to her now than “ when j she joined the great majority. ’ ’ ; Smokers and Non-smokers - The Railway Department is anxious J to check a tendency on the part of the i travelling public to disregard definition ! between smoking and non-smoking carI riages and there are freepient comI plaints regarding smoking in non-smok-!mg compartments. Railway guards and , ticket collectors are constantly endeavouring to detect offenders, several of ' whom have recently been prosecuted. | For the most part, however, offences of this nature occur at times calculated j to escape official observation and it is | by no means easy to acquire evidence , iii support of prosecutions. The Department, is directing the attention of ! the public to its bylaw prohibiting ! smoking in non-Rmoking compartments | and similar announcements are being i broadcast over the amplifier system on ! railway stations.