NEWS OF THE DAY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27276, 30 December 1949, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

iVNo Publication ty i There will be no publication of the /Otago Daily Times on Monday, Jan- *, Juary 2. 'r-'M Whale In Action M Four young men fisning at Cape K Saunders were given an aquatic disK play by a 30-foot whale yesterday. ■ After rolling about In the water for K some time 'the whale blew a few of the customary water-spouts and moved HoS southwards along tne coast. TT Wool From Chathams -I With the commencement of the wool jW season in the Chatham Islands, the ,/\ first of the regular trips to enable the jill export of wool to the mainland will ? be made by the Holmburn when she leaves Wellington for the island tomorrow. She will carry general cargo ! and supplies on the outward trip. Subj sequent trips will be made by the Port Waikato. - ' Steady Trading “Steady,” was the description given by a Dunedin business man to the v . amount of trading his shop had done X-? yesterday—the second day stores were v open to the public after the Christmas holiday period. This was the case •. with other business concerns, and al■'S though the pace is expected to increase Xr today, the holiday atmosphere is not likely to be greatly disturbed until J.".. well into the new year. No Half-pound Pats Xa, The New Zealand Dairy Products vV Marketing Commission has decided > ' that it is impossible to pack- butter i:. in jib pats under present conditions. This information was contained in a - reply to a Manawatu produce meri:-' chant who referred the matter to the '• commission, according to the Decem■su ber issue of the New Zealand Grocers’ Review. Recently the inquiry was re- ; presented to the local Manawatu produce merchants, who in turn referred V;; it to the five supplying dairy companies. Each company advised that it had no plant suitable for patting, and in any case the proposal was “ impracticable under present conditions and 3 u costly owing to double handling.” ifeTelephone Density ov ; There are 32,000,000 or 33,000,000 telephones in the United States—more ■ than all the telephones in the rest of -*■ the world—and there are about ~'> l 1.000,000 waiting applicants, who are • expected to be connected up within a year. In the United Kingdom, which would need to have 11,000,000 telephones to equal America’s telephone population ratio, there gre only about 4,500,000 subscribers. These statistics were given in an interview by Sir Thomas Eades, an executive of an Eng- * lish telephone company, who is visit- ; ~ . ing the Dominion. On these figures, there are approximately 10J persons V,‘to each telephone in the United King- ' i" dom and four to every American tele- / phone. In New Zealand there is one •„< telephone to a little more than 7J persons. A Southland “ Invermay ” When the former Minister of Agriculture, Mr Cullen, announced that the , recommendation by the Otago- ' Southland Experimental Farm Investigation Committee to establish a sta- ' tion at “Invermay" had been adopted ' by the Government, an undertaking ■ was given that a separate property XX would be secured in Southland, and ty* a special committee was set up to X study the possibilities. At the first ; committee meeting, held in Invercar--1 X Sill last week, the requirements of a research station for the area were disty cussed in detail and it was decided to ‘ give full publicity to the project in , an effort to secure offers of properties. >’ It was agreed that the site should be a property generally typical of the better-class rolling country, reasonably close to township amenities, capable n of carrying about 1000 ewes and 40 dairy cows and of producing the com- - mon cereal fodder and seed crops of Southand.