General News

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 27 May 1944, Page 4

General News

Public Investiture His Excellency the Governor-General has announced his intention of holding a public' investiture in the outer Domain at Auckland on the morning of the King’s Birthday (Monday, sth June), commencing at 10 o’clock. At this ceremony approximately 60 decorations awarded by His Majesty the King to officers and men of the Armed Forces and the Merchant Navy will be presented. Malaria Notifiable Malaria is declared a notifiable disease by a notice published in this week’s Gazette. Public Trust Office Estates to the value of £520.478 were reported and accepted for administration by the Public Trustee during the month of April, 1944. The total value of estates and funds under administration by the Public Trustee on the 31st March. 1944. was £66.700,992. Grants of administration made by the Court in favour of the Public Trustee numbered 169 for the month. During the month 612 new wills appointing the Public Trustee executor were prepared on behalf of testators and lodged for safe custody, and 338 existing wills were revised to provide for changes desired by testators. The total numbers of wills now held in the Public Trust Office on behalf of living persons is 125.732.

London Manager of N.Z. Meat Board The appointment of Mr S. A. Chisholm as London manager for the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, a position held for many years by the late Mr R. S. Forsyth, was announced by the board last evening. Mr Chisholm, who is at present Director of Stabilisation. will take up his new duties in a few months. Mr Chisholm is a business man with a wide experience of primary produce marketing in New Zealand and overseas and was in the earlier part of his career a livestock auctioneer in Taranaki. He was later connected with the export of primary produce from New Zealand. From 1936 to 1939 he travelled extensively in Australia, the United Stales. Canada and the United Kingdom preparatory to taking a senior position in London with a Tooley Street provision firm. In England he was associated with a number of wartime trade bodies representing the provision trade in dealing with the British Ministry of Food. He returned to New Zealand early in 1942 and was appointed a Deputy Food and Rationing Controller, a position he occupied till he became Director of Stabilisation in August last year.

Timber Consignments Heavy consignments and shipments of timber are now being made from the West Coast. One vessel this week took 78.000 silver pine fencing posts to Gisborne. the second consignment of this size recently. More than half of the posts came from Ngahere and Aha lira, and others came from Ross. Kumara. and the Otira line. Sawn timber is also being sent away in large quantities. The Gabrieila took 420,000 superficial feet, and the Karu will load another 420.000 superficial feet. In addition, the railways this week are conveying 200.000 superficial feet, comprising about 20 bogie waggon loads, to Lyttelton for shipment. Coal traffic by rail is about normal, but consignments from the Buffer district are down to about 200 tons daily. ; Americans’ Honesty | An Auckland bank teller who had j made a mistake in changing American i dollars into New Zealand cux-rency j was saved the loss of about £l4O ! through the honesty of a United States { sailor. The teller was asked by two i sailors to change 200 dollars into New ; Zealand money. He gave them £2OO. | instead of about £6l. and did not dis- ! cover his error until after the sailors. ! who apparently did not count their money, had left the bank. The only : identification of the two men which could be offered by the teller was that j one was tall, of medium weight, and had fair hair, and that the other was short, of medium weight, and also fair. The notes which had been changed were two 50-dollar biffs and five 20doliar biffs, and the teller in exchange gave 40 £5 notes. At mid-day the next day. however, one of the sailors volunj tarily went to the bank and gave the ' teller the balance of the money.

Honour Without Worship Duv.ni; hi, inoss-itx 'in-uniion by Mr ; Justice Twicial'l > ll the Arbi ration; '• nun in \VOllmgtun. wiim ; ed himsell' several times to ' Your Wori Uiip.” His Honour v.as filially urged | to protest, explaining hiss proper title. i but you may not 'worship' me.” i Suffering Housewives ! A novel competition held by the j I Blenheim Women’s Institute was entitled: "The silliest thing I ever did." The answer that won unanimous approval. says "The Express" was: "To j try to bake scones with the Blenheim I gas as it is at present. ’ ! Manager of Licensing' Trust Appointed The Invercargill Licensing Trust to. j day interviewed two applicants selected out of 84 for final consideration for the position of secretary-manager to the trust and appointed Mr Eric B. Barnett, Auckland. Mr Barnett is at present a member of the stair of Campbell and Ehrenfried Co. Ltd., wine and spirit merchants and hotel owners, Auckland.—P.A. Gap Between Town and Country "The gap between town and country is definitely widening,” said Mr R. G. Gerard. M.P., in an address at the annual meeting of the Ashburton branch of the National Party. He added ; "We are developing into a very selfish community, not considering the interests of the country as a whole. I do not except farmers. Each section is too busy trying to do more for itself to consider the genera! welfare.” It appeared to be the Government’s policy to widen the gap, he said. Country people were inclined to say that they were the producers, and that town people only serviced and consumed goods. They forgot that towns, to a very large degree, provided their principal markets. Clothed with New Vitality “A quarter of a century has passed since President Wilson (and advisers and statesmen associated with him) gave the world the League of Nations —a League which his fellow-country-men promptly repudiated and which successive crises quickly stripped of its living flesh, leaving a gaunt skeleton of technical organisations. Today.” says the annual report of the Wellington branch of the League of Nations Union, "as signs accumulate of World War II nearing its end , that skeleton is being clothed with a new vitality—not the vitalit3’ of an isolated President-thinker, or of technical experts and visionary' idealists, ,<but the vitality of an informed world public opinion which far-seeing Allied statesmen are using every means to rouse; the Atlantic Charter, inter-govern-mental. and other international talks and conferences, advisory commissions, relief and rehabilitation administration, and their own insistent, fearless, yet tactful expositions of post-war international policy. A new league, whatever name it may assume, is struggling into being, and the world is being intelligently prepared for its effective use. The turn of evtents, therefore, is soberly justifying the faith of those who, as League of Nations Union members throughout the war, have clung tenaciously to League ideals and principles.”