New Zealand News

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 7, 5 December 1930, Page 8

New Zealand News

Bakers Warned... « The Sale of Food and Drugs Act requires that bread and pastry shall iit all times lie keut properly covered from Hies, dust and rain. Tins wag pointed out by Dr. Thomas .)• Hughes, medical officer of health, who said that it had been, noted that 'breadwas being delivered in baskets thai w«r© »«*t properly covered. It was the intention of the Department to take proceedings in all future (•uses the regulations were nob being earvied out, and no further warning would be given. ''l' o hegulatious bad been in force for some time, but apparently there was still M.nne misiiiulier.standiiig jamong bakes v assistants. —Auckland Star. An Earthquake Wave. It is just over 02 years since the "big wave' swept intot Lyitclton harbour. Although the wave is largely associated with L.vttelton, it actually swept along die east coast of the North and South Islands. It was at Lyttelton. however, that the I phenomenon showed the strangest | ferttnres Before Hie wave came I ih;vv ,n< -'. general receding of wa- ; tei fru'ii th- harbour. (-Maimers ! •, v . !iai Lb." bed of the harbour from i Oilnui - p --:i!i;. where work on the 1 mole was in p ogress, to lb' Government wha.'f, wie-' exposed. A rumbling followed—obviously the wave was of earthquake origin -and then the lug wave came in. snapping the moorings of practically every boat in the harbour. There was « rare Hurry anron.g the shipping, and the rising a u d dropping of the waters that followed caused much confusion. It is also said that an exceptional high tide followed.—Sun. Millions Out of Work. Reference to the depression in the ! United States was made by .Mr 1,. jA. Bachelder, American vice-consul in Auckland, who returned by tl I Port Hunter from New York, states j the "New Zealand Herald." Mr. | Bachelder has been away for about a year, most of the time being spent in the New lfitiglar|d States. Mr Bachelder regards the depression !in the United States as part of a world-wide movement and not due to any particular cause. The cost of living has been S°' n g down in a marked degree, and the necessities ol life are now quite 10 per cent, below the level at which they stood a year ago. The number of unemployed i,i ihe I'nited States is probably about 0.000.000 .although it has been estimated to be as high as 10,000.000. The President and the Cover, nor? of the Stales are doing all they can to provide work by anticipating (he necessities of each part of the country and voting money to b» spe tl t rapidly.