NEWS OF THE DAY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 176, 28 July 1942, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Cost of Keeping Fowls

kaikoura Hospital has a fowlhouse which recently cost £18 to build. .Last month the hens produced 45 dozen eggs and the cost of upkeep of the birds was 14/. This information was given to the North Canterbury Hospital Board by Mr. F. J. Monk, who explained that no charge was made for labour, the nurses being keen on looking after the fowls. Trailer Pumps Progress in the manufacture of trailer pumps for fire-fighting was referred to by the manager of a Wellington motor company during a sitting of the Manpower Industrial Committee. He said that ever 200 had been made in the Dominion, and had been waiting on supplies of hose for the completion of their equipment. Recently 75,000 ft of hose had arrived to permit the completion of this work. Wide Ministerial Power «Z!i?^. at » ent, 2 of the Auckland Hospital Board has been drawn by the Director-General of Hospitals to hospital administration emergency regulations which have been passed Which provide the Minister with power to appoint a commission of one or more persons to supersede any hospital board which the Minister may hold to have seriously mismanaged Its affairs, failed to have appointed adequate staff, or acted arbitrarily or improperly in its «. a, , rs iP, the detriment of the hospital efficiency. "A Child has Intelligence" The contention that children should be permitted freely to express their own personalities was criticised by Mrs. A. Mcintosh, Dominion president of the National Council of Women, in the course cf an address at Te Awamutu. Such latitude, said Mrs. Mcintosh, produced rebels, and while the child was always expected to do as it was told, children had to be helped and guided. "From the time a child is born," she added, "it has intelligence and must be treated accordingly." Uncongenial Work The fear of being called on by a manpower officer to go into some essential work, perhaps into uncongenial factory work, seemed to be causing many girls of 18 to 20 years to enlist when they otherwise might Btay in their jobs, said Miss C. E. Robinson, girls' vocational guidance officer at Christchurch. She complained that girls who should have been under the direction of the youth centre were answering advertisements and taking unsuitable and Insecure positions, or else were flew?# u ? j ? ' n w hich they were thi ? trained in useful work to enter the armed forces without asking the guidance officer for advice. The Sap Between Meals A survey by the hospital board secretary of the tea and sugar ration as it affected the supply of morning and afternoon tea to the hosnitai hv thp ß flnanni n 8 ~r ecomme ndation 1 an ? supplies committee to the board last nicht that the female attendants be served with morning and afternoon tea. and the male attendants with only afternoon tea, conditional on milk beinc sudplied for only one cup of tea per Eerson, and on one slice of bread and utter per person being the accompaniment of each cup of tea. The board decided accordingly, with Mr J- Sayegh putting himself on record j," opposed to the principle of the discrimination in favour of the ™ rker l, by allowing them tea which was denied the male attendants.

The Mother's Place

Hitler and also some people in this country say that the mother's P ,ac ® if in the home," declared Mrs. Jj Mcintosh in the course of an address at Te Awamutu. "If the mother s interests are limited to the home, the speaker went on, "the interests of the child must also be limited. Both have interests, duties and responsibilities outside the home. Energetic Whirlwind "The most peculiar accident I have seen in this country occurred during the heavy storm on the morning of July 12, when a whirlwind struck a two-ton pole on the stopbank at Melling, lifted it completely out of the ground, and deposited it on the bank," stated the engineer and general manager, Mr. E. F. Hollands, at a meeting of the Hutt Valley Electric I ower Beard. Mr. Hollands said that as men were working in the vicinity the supply was quickly restored. Shooting of Deer with Arrows The view that the shooting of deer with arrow.? constituted cruelty was expressed in a letter from Mr. W. B. Dutf, of Balclutha, which was received at a meeting of the Otago Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals recently. The writer enclosed a newspaper cutting describing the activities of a group of deer cullers at Amberley who killed the deer by means of bows and arrows. Mr. Duff emphatically denounced this as cruelty. Horses in Wartime "It takes as long to rear a bullock as it does to build a battleship, and similarly it takes four years to rear a horse to working order," said Mr. C. V. Dayus, district superintendent of the Department of Agriculture, w-hen speaking to the Otago branch of the Royal Society. He made a contrast between the neglect of the breeding of horses in New Zealand and the extensive use of horses by the German Army, and said that when he was in England in 1939 German agents were in England buying British cavalry horses, discarded because of army mechanisation. Mr. Dayus said that in Great Britain the draught horse had come into its own again, but in New Zealand it had not. even though the life blood machinery on farms was oil. Whose Responsibility? The question of who is liable for the financial payments when a business firm is oDliged to rent property for the purpose of erecting air raid shelters was raised by Mr. J. S. Skinner at a meeting of the council of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce. He gave as an instance tbe position of a company whose premises were in such a condition as to render the erection of a shelter an architectural impossibility. As the company was compelled to erect a shelter, it had become necessary to rent other property. Would the Government or the city council be responsible for payment? he asked. The council decided to refer the problem to the Associated Chambers of Commerce. Merchant Seamen's Estates Efforts are being made by the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce to have merchant seamen's estates exempted from death duties. It was reported at a meeting of the council of the chamber that the Commissioner of Stamp Duties had advised tfle Associated Chambers that no lurther action was being taken in r™ ,te [ at present. The Dunedin - howe ver. decided to make further representations, as it is of In that moJiJ at * an anoma 'y exists in mat merchant seamen, although ve to ce the same hazards and dangers as members of the Royal Navy, are not "overed by the exemption granted to members of the armed forces In regard to death duties.