News Of The Day

Northern Advocate, 18 November 1941, Page 4

News Of The Day

Territorial Cases The addition of a measles case from the Kensington Park military camp last night brings the number of territorial cases in the Whangarei Hospital to five, two men being discharged this morning. The majority of the cases are of measles.

Comforts for Far East In accordance with the procedure followed by the National Patriotic Fund Board of providing funds to meet immediate requirements and to supplement comforts sent from New Zealand to members of the New Zealand Forces at various points overseas, an imprest account has been opened at Singapore The amount of this account is now to be increased, a decision to this effect having been made by the board’s standing committee. It has also been decided to send New Zealand foodstuffs to the Anzac Club, Singapore, for the benefit of New Zealand personnel stationed in the Far East.

Orders on Wages The growing practice of employees giving orders on their wages to shopkeepers and travelling salesmen was referred to at a meeting of the Raglan County Council. Reporting on finance matters, the county clerk said the number of orders had risen to a mark where a great deal of time was occupied by the clerical department, and some expense to the council. He had inquired whether there was any obligation on the local body to honour such orders. Some firms, faced with similar conditions as the council, had made a charge of 2i per cent., but actually this charge was declared to be illegal.

Value of Herd Testing The speaker at the Rotary Club’s weekly luncheon today was Mr, George Durney, the chief herd tester in Northland. He gave an interesting and informative talk on the history of herd testing in New Zealand and explained the aims and objects of the movement, which is designed to demonstrate to farmers the capacity of individual cows in their herds, thus making it possible to secure maximum output from minimum herd. The success of herd-testing in Denmark was stressed. The importance of eliminating “passengers” from herds, especially at the present time, when production and more production of dairy produce is the need, constitutes an impelling reason why all herds should be under test.'

Tribute To New Zealanders In a letter to Dr. D. E. Currie, the Rev. C. H. S. Runge, a divisional chaplain with the South African Forces in the Middle East, wrote: “Recently we have been fairly close to your troops and I have met the Bishop who is in charge of the chaplains’ department His chaplains have been good enough to help in looking after some of our troops who were not provided for, and our troops encamped near the New Zealand Division have fraternised eagerly with them. One of our officers said to me when I was at that camp: ‘Wonderfully nice chaps, these New Zealanders; if you want anything they always contrive to help you, and nothing is ever too much trouble to them. All the various troops here get on well together, but I think there is a special affinity between South Africans and New Zealanders.. We had General Freyberg and one of your brigadiers —Hargest—at our headquarters for a meal recently, and they were interesting and most pleasant to meet.”