RISE OF £114,570

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24631, 9 July 1943, Page 4

RISE OF £114,570

MAY RAILWAY REVENUE (0.C.) WELLINGTON, Thursday All increase of £114,570 is shown by the net railway revenue for the period of four weeks ended May 29 compared with the result for the corresponding period last year. The net revenue was £3150,471, against £221,901 last year. Gross revenue was £1,243,529, an increase of £192,206, and expenses were £77,036 higher at £907,058. For the two periods to May 29 the working profit was £684,929, an increase of £277.614 on that for the same periods of last year. Gross revenue was £2,565,701 and expenditure £1.880.772, increases of £647,206 and £369,592 respectively.

MOST FAMOUS ARMIES NEW ZEALAND'S PART In paying homage to the Eighth Army after the Tunisian victory Richard Capell. war correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph in the Middle East, said such a tale of vast and sweeping victories chequered by staggering reverses, of endurance and endeavour, would never weary British ears. The writer says the only other army, being a constituent formation, with a similar place in British annals was General Plumer's Second Army of the last war, but the Second Army's constituents were never the same three months running. It is worthy of note that the Now Zealand Division formed part of Plumer's command for the greater part of its service in France from 1916 to 1918. The Eighth Army was first referred to as such in the autumn of 1911, the formation previously having been known as the Western Desert Force. SPORT FOR SOLDIERS RACES IN NEW CALEDONIA (N.Z.E.F Official War Correspondent) NEW CALEDONIA. June '27 Such a race meeting as New Zealand soldiers overseas dream of sometimes but never expect to see until their return to the Dominion was staged in one ol the areas in New Caledonia on Saturday. It was a fully-fledged meeting on a full-sized track, with seven horses, seven jockeys and a few thousand spectators contributing to the liveliness of the afternoon. The fact that the t.otalisator handled the equivalent, of £SOOO in New Zealand currency on the five races is testimony to the popularity of the meeting. Nearly all the ollicials had had experience of racing iu New Zealand, and the soldiers had put every effort into the erection of buddings and the laying out of the track. Considering the fact that the- horses, lent lor the occasion by Colonel 11. P. I)i\". a former Imperial officer now resident in New Caledonia, had been in the hands of the New Zealand hoys for training for only a few weeks, the times recorded were very good. Pacing was of a high order, and the crowd roared its approval as two or three horses struggled gallantly down the long straight toward the finish. On the course there was colour in plenty, provided in part by visiting French women, dressed in attractive summer suitings, but primarily by the natives, whoso singular appreciation of bright colours was evidenced by their selection of robes. FACTORY VENTILATION Figures showing the effects of ventilation upon productive eliiciencv, sickness and accident rates, which have been proved in factories in Great Britain and elsewhere, are given in a bulletin issued by the Industrial Psychology Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Wellington. Production on heavy work in hot weather, it is stated, has been shown to lall by as much as 50 per cent. Absence through sickness in hadlvvc 111 iI a ted buildings has been found tn be .'i-l per cent greater and accidents I,'iO per cent greater in hot, study conditions. The Industrial Health Research Board of Great Britain, says the bulletin, has recommended that fresh air at a rate of not less than 1000 cubic feet per person he circulated throughout industrial premises each hour.