GENERAL NEWS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 98, 12 July 1946, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS

South Auckland Chest Hospital On the receipt of a letter from the Matamata County Council pointing Dut the unsuitability of Hillcrest, Hamilton, as a site for the erection of a T.B. Sanatorium for South Auckland, on account of the prevelance of fogs and peat fire smoke, the Borough Council last Monday decidsd to support the contention that the selected site was unsuitable and further that it did not favour any site in the Waikato area as conducive for the treatment of T.E.

School Books

Serious delays to the printing of school books in New Zealand have resulted in the Education Department examining books printed abroad. Although the department has been able to distribute arithmetic books up to Form 1., the Form 11. books are still delayed. In history and geography an effort will be made to produce in New Zealand books dealing with local conditions, while books for school library use will possible be imported. Labour and material shortages are attributed as the cause for the printing delays.

‘Meatless” Meals

To help save rationed meat foi Britain, the Hotel and Restaurant Employers’ Association in Welling-

ton has decided that its members will serve more meals with a mam course of fish, brains, sausages, or other unrationed meat. A change in the labour position may also bring about some saving in meat, for as a result of new award conditions many restaurants are closing earlier in the evenings, limiting Saturday meal hours to an hour at midday, and closing all day Sunday. Few restaurants are now open after 8 p.m. .

Increasing Production

The novel means adopted by the manager of a manufacturing concern to speed up production were described by Mr M. Poulter at the monthly meeting of the council of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce. Mr Poulter said that the production of gumboots in this factory l;ad dropped from 500 pairs a week to 350 pairs. The new manager called the employees together and informed them that if they increased production to 500 pairs a week once more, they could go. home when they had achieved that mark. As a result the employees were finishing their work at midday on Friday. No 1947 Cars Soon* First official news of U.S. 1947 models comes "from the Ford Motor Co., and it is negative news. J. R. Davis, Ford’s director of sales and advertising, said in a radio broadcast that present 1946 models' will be continued right through the year 1946. He said the public need for new automobiles is so acute that to shut down at an early date for model changes would be unfair. Other major factors in the industry have been reported as undecided whether to cut short the run on 1946’s and begin on 1947 cars. Several of the smaller companies may introduce some 1947 models in difference price ranges during the summer of 1946, and keep on with present 1946 cars at the same time, he said.

Debt to the Greeks “There have been New Zealand lads on many of these Islands, escaping from Northern Greece,” writes one of the CORSO workers in Greece, Miss W. W. McGregor, of Wanganui, who is with, a public health team based on the Island of Syro, in the Cyclades. “It warms your heart to hear how well loved they were-—we feel it a privilege to reap the benefit of their sacrifice. Many Greeks suffered imprisonment for befriending New Zealanders, and both as a people and individually, I feel we owe all Greeks a great debt.” To maintain the teams of doctors, nurses and welfare experts in Greece, and to send further teams to China, CORSO is appealing for funds. Donations should be sent to CORSO, Box 11, Govt. Buildings Post Office, Wellington. Publicising N.Z. to the Greeks An unofficial job of publicising New Zealand’s attractions is being done by one of the CORSO workers in Greece, Mr L. A. Hayman, who is doing welfare work at Kavalla in Eastern Macedonia. Mr Hayman took a film strip projector with him to Greece, and recently he states in a letter receieved by CORSO Headquarters in Wellington, he showed strips on nursing training and field ambulance work to the patients and staff of Kavalla Sanatorium. To wind up the programme he showed a film strip series “Glories of the South Island.” “It was very well received,” he writes, “that one show justified all the trouble I have had in bringing the outfit from New. Zealand with me.”