2,000,000 MILES SAVED

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24368, 2 September 1942, Page 2

2,000,000 MILES SAVED

TRANSPORT REVISIONS ; CURTAILMENT OF SERVICES ; With the object of conserving exist- ■ ing stocks of motor tyres, all licences for passenger and goods services in the No. 1 Licensing District had been reviewed, and alterations in schedules ! already made would result in the saving of approximately 2,000,000 miles of running annually, the No. 1 Licensing ' Authority, Mr. E. J. Phelan, said yesterday. While in some cases drastic curtailments had been unavoidable an endeavour had been made to cause as little inconvenience as possible. ! Special contract trips for sports ; teams, sightseeing trips, holiday services and services to dances, picture shows and concerts would be discontinued, and taxi, general goods and rental car services were under review.. Local committees were assisting the authority by ' the introduction of zoning schemes in i connection with deliveries of all commodities. ; Mr. Phelan said that wherever pos- : sible passenger services had been rei duced by 25 per cent on week days . and 75 per cent on Sundays. It had been found necessary to eliminate some 1 services, but others had been retained with only slight alterations in time- • tables in order to provide for the requirements of workers and schoolchildren living in isolated districts. REMEDIAL TREATMENT ; INSTRUCTIONS SUSPENDED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday "Previous instructions regarding compulsory remedial treatment have been ' suspended, and the question is now ! under review," stated the of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones, to-night. 5 "In all cases where soldiers have re--1 fused to undergo remedial treatment ' and who, in consequence, are liable to prosecution directions have beei given for any pending or contemplated proceedings to be withheld." '

; OLD BOOKS AND CURIOS VALUES OFTEN EXAGGERATED (0.C.1 CHRISTCHURCH. Tuesday Commenting on a statement by_ the secretary of the National Patriotic Fund, Mr. G. A. Hayden, that old books and curios of value collected for the Churchill auctions were worth about £40,000, Mr. E. J. Bell, librarian of the Canterbury Public Library, said he was inclined to doubt whether the true value was l-20th of the stated sum. t Owners of old books and curios, he s said, often placed a fictitious value on > them, and possibly Mr. Hayden had 5 been guided by this. 3 "For instance, a book thought to be worth £3O or more was recently found ' to be worth about 305," added Mr. [ Bell. "I could go on describing scores of such instances which have come under my notice during the last 30 years. Possibly those persons interested in art have found the same exaggerated values placed upon pictures." : TRAINING FIREMEN ' (0.C.) GREYMOUTE', Tuesday "You have to get them into the . smoke. That is why it may take years ' to train a fireman," said Superintendent ' A. T. White, of the Grey mouth Fire Brigade, when appealing for exemption ' from military service for three members s of the brigade. "He has to get into the ■ smoke to learn properly," he concluded. J INTRUDER SURPRISED f »(0.C.) HAMILTON, Tuesday An intruder was surprised at the residence of Mr. W. Miller, Hamilton East, last evening. The family were seated in the sitting room when a noise in the front bedroom was heard. When investigation was made the visitor decamped through a window. Mr. Miller • gave ( chase and saw a man running 1 across the lawn on to the street. The man then disappeared. A tobacco pouch | and a small purse containing a key were taken. ! CARILLON NOT PLAYING (0.C.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday The Wellington Carillon is no longer playing. Colonel A. Cowles, chairman . of the management committee of the National War Memorial Carillon, and ' of the Carillon Society, said that although the building, which had been 1 constructed with the possibility of j earthquakes in view, had not. been r damaged by the recent shocks, one of i the larger bells, weighing over one ton, had moved in position. It is the heU given in memory of the men of j the Hutt Valley wlito gave their lives . in the last war. Tt was practically impossible at this | time to get an engineer to undertake i the replacement of the bell in its proi per position, but it had been made i safe in the meantime. Another reason why the bells were not being rung was that the electrical system had been affected, and it was not possible at present to get a qualified electrical engineer to attend to it.