Fewer Parcels To Britain

Northern Advocate, 20 May 1949, Page 7

Fewer Parcels To Britain

NEWS IN BRIEF . . .

The number of parcels sent through the parcel post to Britain in April was 50,583, their total weight being 519,5381 b, said the Postmaster-General (Mr Hackett) yesterday. This was less than half t.he number for the same month last. year, when 107,593 parcels, weighing 1,062,2301 b, were sent. The total in the four months to April 30 was 220,812 (2.259,7161 b), compared with 335,924 (3.135.2221 b) in the same period last year. * * * *

A common scale of fees which will apply to work done by public hospital laboratories and by recognised, private pathologists is provided for in an amendment, to the Social Security (Laboratory Diagnostic Services) Regulations, 1946, gazetted last night. Under the new regulations these fees will be payable from the Social Security Fund and no additional charge for such services" will be made on a patient by a private pathologist. * * * ♦

The chief scientific adviser to the United Kingdom Ministry of Food (Dr

Dr M. Ingram, of the low temperature research station, Cambridge, England, will arrive at Auckland by air on May 31. They will tour*the Dominion, visiting centres of scientific, agricultural and pastoral interest throughout New Zealand, and will finally leave Auckland by air again for Australia on June 25. **. * •

An oil-burner attendant died suddenly in the engine-room of the coastal ship Waipiata at Dunedin on Wednesday. He was Mr John Collins, aged 61, of Mountain View Road, Auckland. An inquest was opened before Mr J. G. Warrington, S.M., and adjourned, * * * • <*

The body of a woman was recovered from the Waikato River below the Fairfield Bridge by the Hamilton police yesterday morning. ■ She was Mrs Maude' Elizabeth Mary Clark, aged 64, of O'Neill Street. Ciaudelands. Mrs Clark was last, seen alive' yesterday morning. An inquest was opened . before the coroner (Mr A G. Ward) and