LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5605, 14 April 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

National Savings Deposits at Te Awamutu last week amounted to £225 17s. The quota is £386. School Sports A party of boys from the Te Awamutu High School left for Hamilton this morning to compete at the schools sports being held there to-day. Conference at Rotorua Messrs S. H. Wanklyn, R. Wynyard and Sid Smith will represent the Te Awamutu R.S.A. at a conference of branches in Rotorua to-morrow. Cost of Living “Though wages have been stabilised, the Government Statistician is to submit cost-of-living figures at fixed periods, and it is expected that a further bonus may be conceded at no distant date,” stated the report of the Wanganui Employers’ Association at the annual meeting. Vitamin in Bread Tests of wheats, flours, and breads for the amount of vitamin they now contribute, and the possibilities of raising the contributions, are to be undertaken by the Wheat Research Institute. A report to the committee said that Dr Muriel Bell’s team had made preliminary surveys of the average vitamin Bl intake in New Zealand. The Institute had hoped to carry out a comprehensive study of vitamin Bl contents of New Zealand wheat products, but was unable to secure a piece of necessary equipment until recently, and the apparatus now seemed to be working well.

K.C.’s New Zealand Badge When the All Blacks visited Canada in 1925 Mr L. W. Brockington, K.C., now the Canadian adviser on Empire affairs to the British Ministry of Information, arranged a reception for them at Calgary. The New Zealanders not only taught him their famous war haka cry, but they initiated him into honorary membership, and invested him with the silver fern badge of the team. When in Dunedin recently Mr Brockington happened to mention that he had long since lost the badge, but he intended to procure another before he left New Zealand. Next morning an identical badge was taken to his hotel. The visitor has also extended his Maori vocabulary: he now uses the customary toast of “ Kia ora.”