NEWS OF THE DAY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 170, 21 July 1942, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Singing for Victory J Singing not only acclaims happl- J Hess but it also acts as an important , factor In keeping up the morale of : the people. At a factory in Hamilton s girls were heard "singing for vie- ] lory" while they were very busy ; "working for victory." Unfortun- : •tely, but no doubt for a very good : reason, the songsters were Instructed by a departmental head to silence their vocal chords. ' Economy of Material Economy of material Is the principal feature of the new "utility clothes" coming on to the British ( markets this autumn. There will be no more pleated ikirta, slit button aleevea, double-breasted suits or overcoats, or turned-up trousers, and women's skirts will be shorter. It , la anticipated that these restrictions on the use of material will apply eventually to clothes outside the utility category. Twelve thousand out of 30,000 clothing manufacturers In Britain have been designated by the Board of Trade to produce "utility clothes," which must form two-thirds of their total output. Fowls Replace Pheasants Poultry and egg.4 for the general public and not pheasants for the sportsman will be raised by the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, according to a decision reached on Wednesday night after the presentation of a report by the game committee. It waa decided to dispose of approximately half the pheasants at tne farm and keep only a stud stock. The purchase of pedigree fowls was •greed to. The question of collecting and marketing swan eggs was discussed, but no action was taken. Expertence was quoted of the financial which had attended a similar « Lake Ellesmere. while frirt?nn »uSadded objection of fike WaTraYap?* ,ind owner " on "Obicme" Parnell Eulogising the Very r«v Dr ?S n ' n / C B nl,y ,iappointed parish priest of Parnell, at a farewell gathering of St. Patrick's Cathedral parishioners last night, the Rt. Rev Monslgnor Hoibrook told a atory of a former priest of that pariah. He died, and the news was cabled to Scotland. There the local newspaper reported that the good father had died "in Parnell, an obscure Island in the Pacific." Monslgnor Hoibrook said that while Scottish newspapermen hnd experienced difficulty in finding Parnell. Rome had had no trnuhio at all since two bishops, the late Dr. Lenihan. of Auckland, and Bishop Drodie, of Christchurch, had eaeh been elevated to the episcopate when parish priest there. Monsignor .Hoibrook said he was sure that if God had further honours in store for 12? well-loved ex-adminlatrator of Mto;gf<Mtwar>l parish Dr. Buxton I «*Ty them with dignity.

No References Required

"It could not work," was the opinion expressed by industrialists when the owner of a factory in the North of England, to step up hiß war production, began to employ all-comers without demanding references. He states now, however, that this system of trusting employees to do their best has never yet failed him. He makes no exception to this rule, even to men with prison records. In fact, wherever possible, he puts such men in positions of extra responsibility and trust.

It Was a Cold Night

The following story is vouched for, writes a correspondent. A certain "reinstoushment" was spending week-end leave in town after coming from probably the highest, bleakest camp in New Zealand. He had been fitted some time previously with a brand new set of false teeth and on going to bed at "lights out" took them out and placed same in a mug of water, following time-honoured practice. Imagine his disgust the following morning at reveille to find the whole lot one solid lump of ice! And the ticklish bit was thawing them out to be in time for breakfast. Impositions and Economy

It appears that erring pupils have in some cases been disappointed in any hopes which they may have entertained that the nation-wide effort to conserve paper supplies would result in the suspension of the time-honoured punishment of "100 lines" (says the Otago Daily Times). A parent whose son had, together with all other members of his class, Incurred this form of imposition, pointed out that in this instance no fewer than 120 sheets of paper would be sacrificed for the sake of preserving discipline. He suggested that an alternative form of punishment, such as committing to memory F »ort ions of the works of the more amous poets, would more suitably meet the needs of the times, and would also tend to preserve in the minds of the culprits some of the more neglected gems of English literature.

frame and Their Contents

Sidelights on the "prama on trams question were given laat week at a meeting of the Women's branch of the Citizens' Association by Mr.'W. S. MacGlbbon, a member of the Christchurch Tramway Board. A woman, he said, prepared to board a tram coming from a suburb to Cathedral Square, and told the conductor that she had a pushchair to be put on the tram. - The conductor we T t , to "ft the pushchair aboard, ar.d found that it contained a sugar sack of potatoes. "He refused to put It aboard, said Mr. MacGlbbon, "and tne woman said—no, I can't repeat what the woman said." Conductors, Mr. MacGlbbon continued, had injured their backs lifting Into trams prams that appeared to contain nothing weightier that a coverlet and baby clothes, but in realitv were packed with the week's groceries, joints of meat, and other household necessaries.