NEWS OF THE DAY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26772, 15 May 1948, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

Excessive Use of Power An excess power consumption of 7.27 per cent, over the quota allotted to the city was recorded from Monday to Thursday of this week. As the result of daily visits to suburban homes by inspectors, several householders have had the supply of electricity to their water heaters cut off. Regulations require that electric water heaters should not be used between 7.30 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. Service Suspended Advice has been received from the Post and Telegraph Department that all postal services with Palestine have beer, suspended.

Pasteurising Plant The Christchurch Metropolitan Milk Board proposes that a company be established to operate a pasteurising plant in Christchurch. It is proposed that the capital of £25,000 be found equally by the board, representing the consumers, and by the producers, the board to have four directors and the producers four. School Cadet Training

“The question ,of military cadet training is of great importance to the youth of New Zealand as a great deal of time and money are at present spent on it.” said Mr W. Hall (Palmerston North), at the conference of the New Zealand Technical School Teachers’ Association yesterday. He hoped that in the near future cadet training would be liberalised so that it would be similar to the instruction given to Scouts. < Queenstown’s Amenities

The amenities of Queenstown are rather intriguingly portrayed in a “ fun map ” of the district executed by Mr E. F. Harvie. The work is an attractive and useful guide for visitors to Wakatipu. The venues of such recreations as ski-ing, swimming, skating, shooting, yachting are indicated together with steamer excusions, commercial facilities, physical features and mining and farming areas.

Service in Three Wars Three persons who served in the South African War also served in the Second World War. but missed the 1914-18 war, according to the Abstract of Statistics. Excluding those three, 22 others served in the three wars. In the two major conflicts 2330 New Zealanders, including 12 women, twice accepted the call for' service, and in the South African War the totals were 1626 and 7. When the 1936 census was taken, 91,504 New Zealanders had served overseas, and in 1945 the total had risen to 157,553. Population at Last Census

The European population of New Zealand on the night of the census on September 25, 1945, wag 1,603,554. according to the March number of the Abstract of Statistics. The total includes 782.602 males and 820,952 females, compared with 756,220 males and 735,258 females, making up the total European population of 1,491,484 at the time of the 1936 census. The Abstract states that tabulation and analyses of the census have been delayed by staff shortages and other causes. Of the male population between the ages of 16 and 90 or over, 351.791 were married and 171,694 had never been married. Of the women in the same age groups 363,396 were married, while 168,117 had never been married.

Road Safety Problems Eight sub-committees of the recently reconstituted New Zealand Road Safety Council met in Wellington this week for the first time. Among problems considered for reports to the council were:—Should all traffic stop while school buses load and unload pupils? Is the legal speed of passenger buses excessive; if not, should it be increased? Should barriers be erected at locations such as exits from wharves, railway stations, congested shopping corners, to ensure pedestrians moving in the right lanes? Should large lorries and floats have lights on the edges, to show their extreme limits? Whether motor cycle -races on roads interfere too much with traffic? Should fire brigade vehicles come to a stop when faced by a red light, though proceeding at once when they are sure the way is clear?

Common Bonds “Americans may seem to us at times difficult, at times annoying; a few of them may be ruthless: their political system may appear to us to make their responses tardy. But the American people have proved themselves good friends in war and now in peace.” said the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, Sir Patrick Duff, in an address to the English-speaking Union at Wellington. “We should do well, with recognition and appreciation, to salute the fact that, there is no other people at once so powerful, so generous, or so fundamentally in sympathy with all - that the British Commonwealth itself holds most precious and most dear,” he said. “All the influences of common origins—the common sources of speech, political ideas, laws, forms of religious belief and moral principles—unite the American system to the British; and the historical fact of a violent political rupture within the single culture has not destroyed that community.”