HELPING THE ORPHANS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 25029, 20 October 1944, Page 6

HELPING THE ORPHANS

STREET APPEAL TODAIY NEEDS OF THE CHILDREN The care and upbringing of orphaned children is the object behind the orphanages annual appeal day, which will take the form of a street collection today. The appeal is being held under the auspices of the Auckland Orphanages United Council, which is representative of all the Church organisations in the province. . "Of the many present-day appeals, there is none more warmly received or more heartily supported than that of the orphans," said Mr C. F. Bennett, president of the council, in a broadcast address last night. "In the 15 homes throughout the province operated by tlie council there are 735 children, while there is als6 the wider call for greater service and preparedness to meet the possibility of many more orphans coming from overseas. The council has already intimated its readiness to meet any such emergency by giving temporary accommodation to several hundred children. "Plans also are visualised to enlarge many of our homes, as soon as building conditions permit, for the greater needs of the future. A hostel lias recently been provided at one of the orphanages to accommodate some of the girls after passing through the school age." Mr 13ennett stated that the maintenance costs of the 15 homes, including clothing, this year were over £33,000. Of this only £15,000 was contributed in social security and other fees, the balance of £IB,OOO being the concern of all Church organisations. It was toward meeting this deficit that the council was making its annual appeal. The appeal throughout the province Inst rear resulted in the collection of nearlv £IO.OOO. which enabled a distribution of £l3 a head for every child. This meant that 5s a, week was publicly subscribed toward an estimated cost of just over 17s fid a week, or 2s fid a day, for each child, inclusive of clothing. Mothers would agree that this was bv no means an extravagant estimate for a child's maintenance, education and clothing. JET PULVERISATION TREATMENT OF MINERALS NEW PROCESS IN USE (0.C.) NELSON, Thursday An adaptation of the principle of jet propulsion, jet pulverisation, is being tested by Lime and Marble, Ltd., Mapua, a company which ope'rates a grinding plant for the treatment of several Nelson minerals. The process, which has been recently developed in the United States and which hitherto has not been used in New Zealand, so far as is known, has many novel features. Coarsely-ground materials are treated in two stages. The raw material is projected at high velocity by air jet against a steel plate in a suitably-designed container. From this point the material is conveyed to another chamber, where it is entrained in a number of air jets,at a very high velocity. The contents of the machine rotate at a great speed, approximately 1250 miles an hour. Violent interactions between the particles are set up, which disintegrate the material. Products ground by the jet pulverising system are reduced to an extremely fine state of subdivision, generally to one-five-thousandth of an inch, which is inanv times finer than milled products produced by the methods usually employed. Ultra-fine products produced by this new process can be utilised in paint, rubber, paper, ceramic, plastics and chemical industries, where fineness of raw materials is often vitally important to manufacturing processed It is proposed to instal a 75 h.p. jet pulverising unit at the Mapua works to meet the urgent needs of several industries' in other parts of the Dominion. The new process may make possible the utilisation of several local raw materials. RAILWAY REVENUE SEPTEMBER DROP £197,652 (0.C.) WELLINGTON, Thursday A working profit of £101,981 shown by the railway accounts for the four weeks ended September 16 compares with £299,633 for the corresponding period last year, a decrease of £197,652. Tho gross revenue was £1,067,022, a decrease of £169,540, and expenses at £965,041 were £28,112 higher. For the period from April 1 to September 16 the net revenue was £570,027, a decrease of £1,080,590 from that of tho similar period last year. Gross revenue was £6,312,168, a drop bf £866,681, abd expenditure at £5,772,141 was £213,908 higher. A DEPARTMENT'S LORRIES (S.R.) _ WELLINGTON. Thursday Was it a fact that six private lorries were being hired by the Post and Telegraph Department at a cost of approximately £SO each a week whilo departmental lorries were standing idleP asked Mr W. H. Gillespie (Opposition —Hurunui) in a question to the Post-master-General, Mr Webb, of which notice was given in the House of Representatives. Was it because the department would not pay the ruling wages? MONETARY CONFERENCE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Thursday A report on the international monetary conference dealing with the international monetary fund, the bank for reconstruction and development and exchange stability, would come before Parliament, it was expected, before the end of the present year, probably shortly after the resumption of the session in November, stated the Minister of Finance, Mr Nash, in reply to an inquiry today*