NEW ZEALAND NEWS ITEMS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 168, 19 July 1939, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND NEWS ITEMS

Certified S. rd Scarce. toes is rep.u-tod in Hankes Bay? and I prices are said to range between £l6 and £lB a ton. Supplies are coming forward in small quantities oni\. ; Order for Military BooG. Canterbury footwear manufai i ui - i ers have been given contracts to | manufacture 4000 of the 18.000 pairs j of c- for the Defence Department. I Th allocation was made after discus- j sions between the Footwear Assoeia- : lion and the Defence Department and ■ Statistical Information. "The main asjcct of the >iatutu a! • information is that it is much longer j and more complex, and I only hope * • it • • t to thos gentle-1 men who <>• upy supernumerary positions at th*' public expense.” said Mr. j E. H. L. Garner, secretary of the I North Taranaki Co-operative Dairy Factory Company. Ltd., in his report ! Higher In<-om.* Tax. Th? statement thai rh»- Government i intended to increase the tax on higher incomes and to greatly increase death ’ duties was made by Dr. D. G. Me- j MiUan. M.P. for Dunedin West, dur- i ing a publ <• donate held under the I auspices of the Victoria Cortege De-I Pr«»fe samal lii-.ci; line. Th: • • instances of th piining of pi '.mal men occui n notices [ puoh.sht I .n the latent Gazette. On the recommendation of the Medical Coun-j under the Dangerous Drugs K.’guia- ! tions. 1925. from issuing prescriptions | for th? d'.'penslng of such drug?. A! no . ,n Australia is suspended from • practice tor three years by order of the r , n , v Commit!'- under t’n?| La Prartioncr.V Amendment Act. 1933. and is ... >:<-! tn pa. 121 ] Money in ITo»ver-. spring tlov rs a little .-arhei than I < Jington there .. .i.« no* a great quan-| 6s r> S-. One special lot of yellow i the i-er.son. realised 19- for a dozen i smart. hunch- Another lot of poppie- mo-tiy ~i th - bud. brought as j high 3s 9 ia bunch. I Studv of Admiuhtrathe law. "With the machinery of the law j grow .ng rapidly, it should be the job of .-someone in New Zealand, out-ide | official circles, to investigate what is I goin i on • th o administration.” j said Pt t.'essoi Julius Sion > in an ad-l drr-.- :•> the Auckland Creditnien’s' Clu He advocated that administralive a should be studied in the uni- \»-. .:ies of th- Dominion, pointing that in America such c »udi< took almost Ur.-t plac- in academic interest. “Moreover.” he a : led. “thi< study ha.- h- I a most wholesome effect on th? administration of the country.’’ ei- i ’ f< / the New Zealand m?“!:-t in comequenee of the effects of th - ’ t est tions. eported at th? r. e ting of the Waitemata Eh- • i ’ ’ •' eek. Ii w; s state ! th t the ISO ranges pur-cha.-ei !>y th? board last vear for rental pur; - e< would be installed bv next month, and that the manufac-. tunes would h' unable to resume sur-p’ic tin? ' the- commenced proid early in Oc-

Service of Installation. This evening a special *<•!'. ice of nstal itio eld in St. John’s Church. Nagier, in connection with a meeting of the cathedra! chapter of the diocese of Waiapu. The Rev. George Benjamin Stephenson will be | io-tituted by the bishop to the office i of canon, ;o which he was recently appointed as successor to the late Canon E. D. Rice. A service of even- | song will be conducted by lhe dean i of Napier, Very Rev. J. D. Brockle- ; hurst, assisted by Canon A. Neild, and i an address will be delivered by the Ven. K. E. McLean, archdeacon of Hawke’s Bai. Triplet Calves. Triplet calves have been born to a .-ix-year pedigree Jersey cow owned | by Mr. W. J. Dimond. of “Heath- ! row,” Otorohanga. The calves, which average 4Sib in weight, are of a | good healthy type, and it is ex ectcd 1 that they qualify as market calves. The cov. is a high producer, and is in excellent condition. Last year two cows in Mr. Dimonds herd of 75 produced twin calves, and it is believed their dams arc related to th? six-year-old Jersey. The triplets I are being given a little extra atten- ' lion, but there seems no reason why | the\ should not grow into fine heifers, i Scholars for ( ivil Service. New Zealand's failure to provide posts for ils noted scholars who had i studied abroad was commented upon by Dr. J. A. W. Bennett on his return to the Dominion on Saturday on a holiday visit. He said the small, proportion of New Zealanders who returned after taking university rour.e> m England was regarded as fantastic by university people there. There l- a definite need for reorganisation of the Civil Service it: \e • Ze;i.ur. i m - rente opportunities ; for th? entry of men with university ' qua'.iii-ations obtained at local col)j»ges ind abi >a I. In this . cs; eel New Zealand should follow the lead oi | Britain, which took the cream of Ox- i ford students every- year for the ' Collars to Burn. Over-zea!ousne?,s on ih<- pu;t of a , member of a suburban household in th** •. ?ek-en.| re-ulted in half a dozen , • lean collars being ruthlessly con- i igned to the flame'. The man in question hal offered to have a fire •i the garden to burn some rubbish. Hearing of his intentions, the lady of the house asked him if he would also burn some scraps which she had done up in a pari el and left on the kitchen table. She forgot, however, that there was also on the kitchen table a parcel of collars just returned from the laundry. When the good-natured in--•endiarist came to collect the rubbish from lhe table he took both parcels, and it was not until the flames had i'on° their work that it was discover? i that tii? collars had “gone west.” The guiltv person thought it was a great joke—until he found out that half th? collars were his. \ un Lackner’s Maude rings. Rumours have been current in Sydney that Count Felix von Luckner, who visited New Zealand last year in his yacht Seeteufel. was out of favour in Germany and was not returning there, but a Sydney man received a letter from the boatswain. Carl Muller, stating that the yacht’s destina‘on was Stettin. The Seeteufel, after her long sea wanderings, from Australia through the Dutch East Indies and Suez, was badly in need of an overhaul. Muller said. She passed through the canal in March and made a good run to Palermo (Sicily), where he was placed in dry dock to have the hull cleaned and painted. In a terrific gale encountered in the English Channel last month the sails were blown away and the engine disabled. Von Luckner, however, managed to take her into Dover, and Muller said there for a lortn ght while repairs were effected. 1