Points From The News

Northern Advocate, 14 July 1938, Page 8

Points From The News

01-EAKING ;u a complimentary dinner given by the Gisborne Junior National Lea,a,tie, Mr C. 11. Weston.

chairman ot the Dominion Executive

of the National Party, raid that various people were raying that the National Party intended to abolish unionism. That was furthest from their thoughts. The National Party were

as proud of unionism as the unionists themselves. The union system was one of the advantages of the British Empire, he considered. It was not intended to abolish it. but to abolisn the compulsory part.

■''l’ HERE is a very acute shortage of milk in Christchurch, due to the bad weather,” said Mr A. A. Cooper, secretary of the Christchurch Dairymen's Society, yesterday. ‘"Supplies of cream are being obtained from the North Island, and this has enabled small supplies of milk to be sent to Timaru to relieve the position there. Difficulty has been experienced in supplying milk for the milk-in-schools scheme in Christchurch." Air Cooper said ho bad been told that if suppliers had not been able to obtain cream from the North Island to satisfy the consuming public, the milk-in-schools scheme would not be able to operate fully in Christchurch.

npHERE was an attendance of over

50 returned men al a meeting at Waipukurau called to protest against the remarks of Mr A. Campbell, M.P. for Chalmers, to the effect that the four colonels recently retired should be “stripped of their peacock feathers." The following resolution was passed, with four dissenting: ‘‘That this representative meeting of ex-ser-vicemen in Central Hawke's Bay deplores the disgraceful remarks used by the member for Chalmers in respect to His Majesty's uniform, and, further, that a protest be forwarded to the member concerned, through the member for this district."