In the News

Southland Times, Issue 25350, 29 April 1944, Page 4

In the News

Roll Closes Today

Residents who have not already enrolled will have their last opportunity today to have their names insertedin the supplementary municipal roll. The roll, 'which is open at the Town Hall, will close at 5 p.m. Enrolment is now compulsory, and during the last week the staff at the Town Hall has experienced a busy time dealing with inquiries. Up until yesterday more than 600 names had been added to the supplementary roll and the usual last minute rush is expected. Many of the new enrolments are being made by soldiers who have returned from overseas or from camps in New Zealand and by those who have attained the age of 21 years since the last election. “Invercargill” March The fame of Mr Alex Lithgow’s stirring march “Invercargill,” has spread to Canada. At a graduation ceremony on an air station in Canada when Pilot Officer R. J. Payne (whose father lives at Limehills),-Morrison Watson (Venus -street) and Jack Murphy (Waikiwi) were presented with their wings, the band played the “Invercargill” inarch. Meat Pool Surplus

According to a statement made by Mr H. P. Mclntyre at a meeting of the Southland Provincial Executive of the Fanners’ Union yesterday, a surplus of £2,000,000 had been built up in the meat pool account. It was expected that by the end of the year this surplus would amount to £3,500,000 and -that by the end of 1945 it would be £5,000,000. This surplus was causing concern among farmers, and the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board agreed that it should go to the producers. The Government .stabilization plan was holding up payment and that was one of the main causes why the producer was not getting more for his meat. Bluff Water Supply

Though rain has fallen at Bluff this week, no difference at all has been made to the level at the reservoir. This still remains at 13ft., the level at t which restrictions were partly lifted. The position is that with the long spell without rain the ground has become so dry that it is still absorbing a good deal of the moisture, thus restricting the flow into the reservoir. Anomalous Position

The case of a returned soldier of the present war who had secured a contract to carry mails and who had been unable to obtain the necessary licensing from the No. 4 Transport Licensing Authority was mentioned at a meeting of the District Council of the R.S.A. yesterday. Mr W. Dawson (Ryal Bush) claimed that the position was highly anomalous. He said that the authority had stated 1 that preference would be given to returned men. It was decided to refer the matter to the Dominion executive. Name to be Changed

Last year the Dunedin Manufacturers’ Association extended its activities by forming a branch in Invercargill. The progress of the branch has - been such that the association has now decided to' take the necessary legal steps to change its name to the OtagoSoiithland Manufacturers’ Association, Incorporated. ' . Grade II Men “I thought that grade II men were not required in the Army now,” commented an appellant at a sitting of the No. 11 Armed Forces Appeal Board at' Dunedin. “The wind changes” replied a member of the board, who added that grade II reservists were' now wanted for the Air Force.

“Old Gang and Left Wing” The impending return of the Minister of Finance (the Hon. Walter Nash) was commented upon by Mr J. T. Watts, M.P., in a luncheon hour address in Christchurch before members of the National Club. , There was a definite possibility of a split in . the Labour Party, he said, between what he called “the old gang and the left wing.” Therefore, the return of Mr Nash from Washington was highly significant “The Minister is not coming back from the United States for nothing,” Mr Watts said. “His task will be to try to pull his party together, but he will have a stiff problem on his hands.” There were ample indications during the last Parliamentary Session, added the speaker, ,of the activities of the Labour Party’s left wing, and he believed that the member for Timaru (Mr Clyde Carr) 'was not “entirely unfamiliar with it.”

Days of Crisis “All over the world human life is crumbling to pieces and mankind is facing • the most serious crisis in all history,” said the Rev. Dr John Henderson, the newly-appointed professor of theology and church history at the Theological Hall, Knox College, when speaking at a welcome social tendered to him in Burns Hall, Dunedin. “The Church shares with the world the dangers of the crisis,” Dr Henderson said. “There has never before been known a time when the Christian Church and mankind in general have faced a crisis of such magnitude as that which has come upon them in recent years. The present great battle is a soldiers’ battle, and is being fought by soldiers in the rank and file of the armies. Similarly, the struggle of the church in its own particular'crisis must be fought by individual men and women of the Church as they bring to bear on their everyday life the influence of their religious faith.” Electric Power Supply

The urgent need for electric power development in the South Island was emphasized at the monthly meeting of the Dunedin Manufacturers’ Association. Mr S. D. Macpherson, reporting on a meeting last week which had been addressed by Mr F. T. M. Kissel, chief electrical engineer of the Public Works Department, said that a conference to consider electric power supply problems would be held in Christchurch at an early date. Members said that owing to the vital part that by-pro-ducts of coal were playing in industrial development the time was not far distant when it would be impossible to obtain coal for many purposes for which it was now used. It would therefore be incumbent upon the electric power supply authorities to provide a substitute for heating and gen« eral domestic purposes. Link With Crimean War

A link between Greymouth and the Crimean War has been established by the discovery of the grave in the Greymouth Cemetery of Miss Mary Tattersail, one of the original Florence Nightingale nurses. The daughter of a country clergyman in England, Miss Tattersail went to the Crimea with Florence. Nightingale after her fiance had been killed in action. At the end of her service she came to New Zealand and lived at Greymouth, where for about 30 years she was a professional nurse. In a letter to the matron of the Grey Hospital (Miss N. Moffatt), Mr William Noy, a former resident of Greymouth, recalled that in 1895 Miss Tattersail was buried at Greymouth. Steps have been taken by the Registered Nurses’ Association to restore the grave.