NEWS OF THE DAY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26782, 27 May 1948, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Milk Bottles Scarce

Aiv acute shortage of milk bottles exists at present in Dunedin, and the Milk Treatment Station is having great difficulty in procuring new stocks. An appeal has been made to all consumers who have surplus bottles in their possession to return them as soon as possible. Many Amenities Provided

Since the inauguration of the St. Clair Improvement Association in 1927, more than £2IOO has been raised and spent on major amenities at the St. Clair Beach. Of the larger amounts, £1244 was spent on the pavilion, £295 on the playing grounds, and £132 on the baths. Trams Held Up

An overhead wire on the main tram route along Princes street which broke near Manor place at 10.20 last night, held up the various services at a busyperiod. Maintenance crews were quickly on the job, however, and the trams were running again within half an hour.

Gift for Y.M.C.A. A donation of £SOO has been received by the Invercargill Y.M.C.A. from the Sargood Trust, Dunedin. In making this announcement at the annual meeting in Invercargill, the vice-president. Mr G. Skipworth, said that the money had been given to the Y.M.C.A. to assist it in meeting expenses entailed in the construction of the boys’ camp at Athol. Diplomatic History Awarded a Rotary foundation fellowship on the nomination of the Auckland Club. Mr Peter Dempsey, aged 23, a son of Mr W. S. Dempsey, of St. Heliers Bay, will leave by the Ruahine next week for England to become a research student in diplomatic history at the London School of Economics. He was educated at Wellington College, the Auckland Grammar School, and the Auckland University College. Muttonbird Season Over The muttonbird season has ended, and on Tuesday night the Wairua left Bluff for the islands to bring the birders home. The vessel is expected back late on Sunday night. About 10.000 birds were brought back a few weeks ago, but these were readily absorbed, and the main supply next week will reach a bare market. Mrs M. C. Thomas (“ Rosaline Redwood ”) sailed on the Wairua to collect material for a series of talks over ,the new shortwave station of the New Zealand Broadcasting Service. Costs in Labour

To buy a lib loaf of bread the urban Russian'factory worker must work 31 minutes, the American worker 7 minutes, and the New Zealand worker 4 minutes, states the journal Consumer News, f A pound of tea costs the Soviet worker the average earnings of 11 hours, the American worker 39.’. minutes, and the New Zealand worker 1 hour 17 1-3 minutes. A woman's cotton working dress costs in Russia 31 hours 51 minutes of work, in America 2 hours 22 minutes, and in New Zealand 7 hours 54 minutes. Occupational Psychology

Applications are being called in New Zealand and overseas for the position of occupational psychology research officer. Announcing this yesterday, the Minister of Education. Mr McCombs, said it was anticipated that occupational psychology research would form a small branch of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and the main activities would be concerned with research problems in occupational psychology as distinct from the service problem, which would be undertaken by the Department of Labour and Employment. Dominion Museum

The Government is to be urged by the Royal Society of New Zealand to complete the restoration of the Dominion Museum and Art Gallery in Wellington in time for the Pacific Science Conference and the royal visit next year. A motion to this effect was passed at the annual meeting of the society after concern had been expressed by Professor L. R. Richardson that the museum would probably be closed to the public for another two yegts. The director of the museum, DiER. A. Falla, said that Mr Fraser had undertaken to look into the speeding up of the work. Sound Sleep

Commenting on the recent statement by Mr T. F. Doyle, M.L.C., that New Zealand was “completely free from industrial troubles,” the Auckland Star asks: “ Where was Mr Doyle when tlie Labour Conference was discussing the need for purging the movement of insidious agitators who had no loyalty either to the party or the country, but who would go to any lengths to cause disputes in the interests of a foreign Power? Even a member of the Legislative Council should not be so soundly asleep that he knows nothing of what is going on in the country.”' Expensive Postage A letter from Shanghai which arrived in the Dominion recently bore postage stamps to the value of 14,000 Chinese dollars. The writer’s name appeared in a New Zealand magazine requesting a correspondent in this country. In reply, he received 74 letters which he claims to have answered. His postage bill to New Zealand alone then amounts to 1,036,000 dollars. To add to this he states that he has correspondents all over the world, many of which will cost him as much, if not more, in rates. From New Zealand it costs 3d to send a letter surface mail to Shanghai, and only Is 9d by air mail. Human Pests For the second time in Christchurch human beings have been described by witnesses before the Sheep Farming Industry Commission as pests. The first occasion was at the previous sitting in February, when a higlvcountry runholder alleged that rationing officials were pests because they did not understand provisioning difficulties. On Tuesday Mr R. Le C. Latter said that trespassers were "pests and a real curse to penholders." “On my land,” he said, “ sheep have been shot and tussock fires started by trespassers at the wrong time of the season. My whare out on the Clarence River has been robbed on many occasions by them. Horses belonging to my neighbours have also been shot by trespassers.”

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