Wool For Mans Suit: 30

Northern Advocate, 18 April 1949, Page 2

Wool For Mans Suit: 30

NEWS »N BRIEF

The cost of the 71b of wool required to make a man’s worsted suit of the best quality is no more than 30/-, according to IVIr J. H. Moolman. chairman of the South African Wool Board, who has been visiting New Zealand. Quoting this figure in a recorded national broadcast last night,, he said that the expenses of distribution were a predominant factor in the cost of the manufactured article before it reached the home. Mr Moolman said he had no doubt that science would some day develop a short circuit m the manufacture pf woollen material whereby the long and laborious pro~nw ('rr'r'nve'i c.vflrf be considerably cut down. The time factor between the period of investment in the wool and the sale of the cloth could then be reduced considerably.

The body of a man aged GO to Go years was found floating about 300 yards from the foreshore at Oriental Bay Wellington, by the wharf police at about 11 o’clock yesterday morning. The bodv, at present unidentified, appeared “to have been in the water only a short time. a • * The frigate Fukaki will leave the Devonport naval base late tomorrow afternoon on a routine visit to service the Government meteorological station on Campbell Island. She will caH at Welington on her way south to embark stores and personnel, and a week will be spent at Campbell Island before returning to Wellington. the ship is due at Wellington on the voyage north on May 9, and will reach Auckland on May 12. * S’ Following an emergency operation at the Palmerston North Hospital the top of a thermometer case removed from the entrance of a lung of an eight-year-old girl. The girl was discharged from hospital. The patient, Margaret Anne Fleming, of Wellington swallowed the part while on holiday in Hastings. An X-ray taken .at Napier, showed that the part was caught near the entrance of a lung, and the girl was taken to Palmerston North by ambulance for an emergency operation. :{« * * Butter, cheese and milk came off the ration on Saturday and for the first time for nine years French housewives could walk to the counter and buy dairy products. Only sugar and coffee are still rationed. * * * * The death has occurred of Admiral H. W. Grant, former chairman and managing-director of the Marconi <n-oup of companies, aged’ 79 years. Admiral Gr-nl was on the Naval Staff during the first World War. He was chairman of the Marconi companies from 1941 to 1946. « * * * Paving her first visit to the Dominion. the London Missionary Society's m.v. John Williams VI. arrived at Dunedin from Hobart on Saturday morning. Designed as a coastal trader, the John Williams VI. was purchased by the society last year and named by Princess Magaret in August.

The Local Government Commission will be asked by the Tauranga Borough Council to determine the advisability of an amalgamation of the Tauranga and Mount Maunganui boroughs and the Tauranga Harbour Board into one administrative body. The Mayor (Mr L. R. Wilkinson) said the Tauranga borough was one of the richest boroughs in New Zealand. He outlined some of the advantages to be gained by amalgamation. The closing date for the Miss New Zealand Quest has been extended to May 31. The Auckland regional director (Mr E. G. Reed) said the quest was a patriotic movement run by the Air Force Association in order to raise sufficient funds for the erection of a memorial centre. The centre was planned for exservice men and women and the next-of-kin as a permanent memorial to the dead of both World Wars.