LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 71, Issue 6136, 14 September 1945, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Purchase Of Mare At the Cambridge Horse Fair, a 7-year-old bay mare was purchased by Mr C. McDonald, Korakonui, for £2B 10s. Pot Holes Filled In The pot holes in the sealed surface of Alexandra Street have been filled in by the borough staff. Recital By Orchestra A final reminder is given of the recital to be given by the Te Awamutu Municipal Orchestra in fhe Town Hall on Sunday afternoon. An excellent programme has been arranged so that a large attendance is hoped for.

Poultry Prices Poultry sold readily at G. D. Shepherd and Co’s, mart yesterday. Prices realised were as follows: W.L. roosters 4s to 6s 6d, W.L. hens 4s 6d to 6s 6d, B.L. hens Bs, bantams Is to 2s 9d, 8.0. roosters 8s 6d, 8.0. hens 6s to 8s 6d.

Red Cross Depot Goods and services have been gratefully received from Mesdames R. Dawson, Broad, Champion, McGee, T. West, Hinton, Gray (Pokuru), Paterangi sub-committee. Winners of competitions: Tea, Mrs J. Ryan; knitted pullover, Mrs Sherley.

Patriotic Shop Mesdames A. Kay, Boswell and Mexted were in charge of the Patriotic Shop yesterday. Excellent business was done, £l4 18s 9d being taken. Competition winners were: Breakfast, Mrs McClymont; bag, Mrs Godfree; cigarettes, S. Anderson; cushion, Mrs Ben Candy; afternoon tea, Mrs Gibbs. Road Accidents A slight decrease in the number of road accidents involving deaths and injuries’ is revealed in the annual report of the Transport Department. Accidents in 1944 totalled 2097, causing 140 deaths and injuries to 2667 persons. During 1943 there were 2112 accidents, with 145 killed and 2746 injured. In 1939, before petrol restriction were enforced, 251 persons were killed and 5649 injured. The latest figures disclose a very large proportion of accidents in larger urban areas and more particularly in the four main centres. Accidents involving pedestrians were numerous in the metropolitan areas.

Demand For Fur Coats “You must admit that fur coats are a luxury,” said Mr D. A. Bell, representing the National Service Department, to Mr David Langley, a manufacturing furrier, when the latter appeared before the Industrial Manpower Appeal Committee (Dunedin) to support an appeal for an employee. Mr Langley said that his was certainly not a luxury trade. “You do not suggest that there are many women who would pay from £l9 10s for a fur coat?” asked Mr Bell. “There are thousands and thousands of them these days when wages are high,” replied the appellant, who added that cloth coats were, on the average, priced from between £l2 and £l6. He had noticed cloth coats priced as high as £24.

Rehabilitation And Enterprise Commenting on the effect of the war effort on internal trade, the annual report of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce states that there are already signs that the commercial community is planning for the day when its units will be available to take care of the normal requirements of the people of New Zealand. “The questions of reconstruction and rehabilitation are receiving consideration,” the report adds, “and the time has arrived for the Government to declare its policy, to say to what extent it looks to the people to re-establish themselves through private enterprise, which must always be the mainstay of readjustment in British communities, noted throughout history for initiative and enterprise.” State Control “The council of the chamber is fully aware that if the Chamber of Commerce is to mean anything in the future, a full and effective part must be played in combating the inroads of State control into private enterprise,” states the eighty-sixth annual report of the council of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, to be submitted to the anual meeting next week. The comment is made in a reference to the publicity campaign, instituted against the taking over of the Bank of New Zealand, in the first place, and later against encroachments on private enterprise in general. The report stated that the campaign was intended to last at least 12 months, and that constituent chambers had been asked to form publicity committees to criticise and make suggestions for the campaign. The Te Awamutu Chamber of Commerce some time ago made a donation to the publicity campaign fund. Houses Fob School Teachers The problem of providing suitable residences for school teachers was mentioned by Mr A. Hanna, Dominion president of the New Zealand Educational Institute, in an address to members of the North Canterbury branch of the institute. It had been the policy of the instiute over the last 60 years to place the interests of the child first, said Mr Hanna. By doing this they had perhaps erected a screen between the teachers and the powers that be, by which the needs of the teachers might be forgotten. The teacher, if he was to take his rightful place in the community, especially in a rural area, must have a house at least as good as that occupied by any of the small farmers in the district. The residence might not excite admiration, but it should not excite the scorn of those among whom the teacher lived. The importance of the teacher’s job, Mr Hanna said, was often measured by the conditions under which he lived, rather than by the actual job he was doing.