NEWS OF THE DAY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26692, 11 February 1948, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

The Housewives’ Case

The vexed questions of the household delivery of bread and other commodities and of the ever-increasing costs of essential foodstuffs will "engage the attention of the Dunedin Housewives’ Association at its first meeting in 1948, which will be held in the Pioneer Women’s . Memorial Hall to-moriiow afternoon. The association is at present engaged in a membership drive, with the object of strengthening the voice of the woman in the street in her approach to authority concerning her problems.

Vice-Regal Visit Advice - was received yesterday that the Governor-General, Sir Bernard Freyberg, V.C., ancj Lady Freyberg have accepted an invitation to be present at the New Zealand women’s marching championships at Carisbrook on February 25. Police Reinforcements

Additional police sergeants alrd constables from the Christchurch, Timaru and Invercargill districts will come to Dunedin to reinforce the police force here from February 21 to 29, the period of the main centennial celebrations. Two mounted policemen will also arrive from Wellington, and they will take part in the Cavalcade of Progress at the head of the procession. Escapee Still at Large

No further information had been received by the police up to last night concerning the whereabouts of William Albert Harrington, an escapee from Paparoa prison, who was last seen on Saturday near Ngapara. At the time Harrington was riding a woman’s bicycle, wearing a khaki shirt, and carrying a haversack and a .22 rifle. Passengers Desert One passenger, who was travelling to New Zealand by the Atlantis, under the Government’s assisted immigration scheme, deserted the ship at Colombo, and two others, travelling under the same scheme, deserted at Fremantle. Another passenger who did not complete the trip was a woman who was admitted to hospital at Fremantle. Surprise at these desertions was expressed by the immigrants who arrived in Dunedin yesterday. The conditions on both the Atlantis and the Rangitata, they said, were excellent. Not So Cold

A seemingly paradoxical observation concerning the relative temperatures of Sydney and New Zealand was made in Dunedin yesterday by Miss T. Taylor, a visitor from Sydney. After being accustomed to .temperatures of 100 degrees or more in Sydney, she told the Daily Times that she found it hot in the Dominion. “They warned me,” she said, “to bring plenty of warm clothing to New Zealand, but to my surprise I have found it hot in your country.” The temperature in Dunedin yesterday was less than 70 degrees.

Air Link With Australia The Australian Trade Commissioner, General J. J. Murray, .who has returned to Wellington from his first visit to the South Island, said he had been impressed by the demand by South Islanders generally, and, in particular, by business executives, for a direct air link with Australia. “ Whether such a service would be a profitable undertaking in the immediate future, I cannot, of course, say,” said General Murray, “but South Islanders with whom I came in contact believe that it would greatly assist their advancement, and prove of equal advantage to Australia.”

Bread Must be Wrapped “If the present regulations are not complied with then grocers will have to take the consequences,” said the Minister of Health, Miss Howard, commenting, at Invercargill, on a report that until they received reimbursement for the cost of wrapping paper some grocers \yere refusing to comply with the regulations that all bread sold over the counter must be wrapped. There was no harm in grocers asking housewives to co-operate in supplying clean bags where possible and thus help to relieve the position, she added. It was very necessary that bread should be wrapped and if grocers were not prepared to abide by the regulations steps would be taken to see that they did.

For rings, watches and jewellery, try Peter Dick, jewellers. 36 Princes street. Dunedin. —Advt.