LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 77, Issue 6977, 13 October 1948, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Unusual Charge An unusual case came before the Wellington Magistrate’s Court recently when Malcolm David Glasspolc, described as a company director, was charged with attempting to take a child aged 9 years 11 months, away from its parent, with intent to deprive the parent of the child. In prosecuting, a Senior Detective said that when Glasspole was arrested he had in his possession a loaded automatic pistol and seven rounds of ammunition. Accused had no fixed employment and wag separated from his wife. He was remanded for sentence.

Industrial Design Recent developments in industrial design were revealed in a British feature film screened in a local theatre over the week-end. It traced the trend of design from the age of craftmanship in which a leading part was played by William Morris, the improver of domestic arts, Thomas Chippendale, designer of period furniture, and Josiah Wedgwood, the most famous of 18th Century English potters, to the days of Victorian elaboration and modern vulgarity The claim was made that beauty and utility can exist together, and examples were given of the successful adoption of art to industry, particularly in domestic economy, architecture, and transport.

Groceries And The Exchange

The return of the exchange rate to par is not likely to have any marked effet on grocery prices, according to the New Zealand Grocers’ Review. The journal says it has been estimated that 65 per cent of the grocer’s turnover is not affected by -the exchange rate, and that the greater portion of the remaining 35 per cent, is affected only to the extent of imported ingredients or components. In any case, no reduction in prices can be expected until existing stocks have been disposed of. “Another Loop of Red Tape’’

“The Soil Survey Council seems to be only another loop of red tape between local bodies and the Government,” commented a Waikato local body member when informed that where riverside rodding improvement was concerned a copy of the local body’s estimates and specifications supplied to the Public Works Department had to be sent to the Soil Survey Council. It was explained that a soil survey was required of a particular swampy area by the river. The point under consideration was that until the swamp waters, inflated by recent rains, receded it was not possible to obtain fair samples for analysis in the laboratory in Wellington, and therefore progress with the road improvement wag considerably delayed.