NEWS OF THE DAY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27567, 8 December 1950, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

Water Supply Falling The loss in storage at the Dunedin reservoirs in the 24 hours ended at 8 a.m. yesterday was 1,095,000 gallons. This brought the total storage down to 127,561,000 gallons. When full, the reservoirs hold 149,000,000 gallons. The demand for water up to yesterday morning was 7,500,000 gallons, and the inflow to the reservoirs was 6,405,000 gallons. The inflow was smaller than •in the preceding 24 hours, which is an ■indication that the creeks in the catchment areas are again drying up as .a result of warm winds and dry : weather. Change Of Status An unsual change of status was announced at the break-up ceremony, of the King Edward Technical College in the Town Hall last night. The chairman, Mr J. M. Patrick, welcomed the retired principal of the school, Mr W. G. Aldridge, to the ceremony, both as a one-time principal, and as a new pupil of the school. Mr Aldridge is taking night classes at _ the school where he was once principal. Use Of Atom Bomb Wholehearted support of a resolution favouring the British attitude towards the possibility of dropping atomic bombs in the Korean war was given at the Christchurch branch at the Second NZEF Association s half-yearly meeting. The resolution stated: “That the secretary get in touch with the Prime Minister, Mr Holland, pointing out that the Christchurch branch of the Second NZEF Association is in full support of the Prime Minister of Great Britain in his commonsense attitude on the use of the atomic bomb in Korea.” Parking Problems . The difficulty of finding parking space in Dunedin was brought hcMe to a traffic officer yesterday afternoon, when he found that he had to “ doublepark” in order to search for the driver of a vehicle which had been left in a similar position. A country bus was left standing in Crawford street, close to an intersection and parked outside a tight-packed row of angle-parked cars. The traffic officer turned from Crawford street into a side street m search of a parking space. There was not a single free space in sight, so he left his car standing well towards the middle of the street while he investigated. Dirt In Milk A further complaint has been made to the Daily Times about “foreign matter” in bottled milk supplied in Dunedin. The example brought to the Daily Times office yesterday was a bottle of dirty milk —labelled “ pasteurised,” bottled by the Dunedin Milk Treatment Station, and bearing the day’s seal—and containing a black sediment which was stated to be “ just filth.” The man who brought the exhibit to the Daily Times declared: “ Far too often the milkman is blamed for the dirty milk. Here is further proof that the blame rests entirely with the treatment station. This is another case to add to the long list which includes splintered glass, ‘bugs,’ paint, crude oil, and dirt that the people of Dunedin have received in their bottled milk.”