GENERAL NEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, 21 December 1950, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS

Hydatids Campaign Support for the hydatids campaign was urged by the Federated Farmers Wanganui Provincial executive yesterday. Suggestions made were that the livers and lungs from all sheep killed should bo boiled and that all dogs should be drenched. Christmas Transport For the first time in many years Wanganui will have an internal transport service operating on Christmas Day this year. Greyhound Buses Ltd. will be undertaking a service on all city and suburban routes, the buses operating to the normal Sunday timetable. Red Cross Service The New Zealand Red Cross has so far received four applications from welfare workers in the Dominion for membership in the eight relief teams to work in Korea for which an appeal was recently issued by the International Red Cross. Each team is to consist of a welfare worker, a medical officer and a sanitary engineer. The four applications have been from welfare workers. Fire In Freighter Tentative arrangements have been made for the chief marine superintendent in New Zealand for the Shaw, Savill Line, Captain A. Mclntosh, to leave Wellington by air for Suva via Auckland to supervise personally the lighting of the fire in the freighter Ivor Jenny’s holds when she arrives there on Boxing Day. Confirmation from London for Captain Mclntosh’s departure is- awaited by the company. Grants to Varsities Victoria University College is to be given an additional grant of £16,000 to enable it to make up its arrears of scientific equipment incurred as a result of the war years. Massey Agricultural College will receive an increase in its annual grant, the money to be expended for the normal purposes of a special school. These decisions were announced yesterday by the Minister of Education (Mr Algie). More Cigarettes. Provided expected supplies come to hand before Christmas, tobacconists foresee no acute shortage of cigarettes over the holiday period. Smokers may not be able to get the brand of cigarettes they prefer, but generally stocks should be ample. AL present tobacconists are holding reserves of imported cigarettes. They say that the supply position this year is probably the best it has been since the end of the war. Goodwill Flight A Royal Australian Air Force Lincoln bomber made a few runs across Wanganui at a low altitude shortly before four o’clock yesterday afternoon. The machine was on a goodwill flight over a number of North Island centres, and was scheduled to spend last night at Ohakea. Powered by four Rolls-Royce engines, the Lincoln bomber is a large version of the Avro Lancaster, which was one of the main heavy bombers used by the Royal Air Force in World War 11. To Make Vvorld Better. Two things should be abolished to make the world a better place—the internal combustion engine and the typewriter. This opinion was expressed by the Archbishop og Canterbury (Dr. Fisher) in a speech at the Lyttelton Centenni?! banquet. “If the internal combustion engine were abolished, people would stay put, and if typewriters wore done away with, we should write in our own hand, and think twice before \v*e put our thoughts on paper,” said Dr. Fisher. Kiiw Country Dry.

The persistent dry westerly winds of recent weeks and the succession of hot davs, have cut back the feed in the King Country, said a Wanganui man who recently mad.? a daylight trip through the Main Trunk. On some hill-country areas, where normally summer .growth lays the foundation fo” the winter sustenance of cattle, pastures, he said, are becoming bare and brown. This means added difficulties for the farmers on the hill country in carrying their cattle through the winter.

Dirty Milk Cans Because farmers have complained they are getting dirty milk cans returned to them from the Wanganui Milk Treatment Corporation’s treating house, the directorate yesterday decided to write to the bulk purchasers asking them to rinse their cans before sending them to the treating house. Some of the cans were “green” and had an offensive odour, the farmers complained. The plant manager, Mr S. V. Howells, said it was difficult to check cans returning from bulk purchasers, because the plant, was short of cans and unwashed ones sometimes were. accidentally taken by the truck-drivers to make up their quotas.