WANTED A BOARDINGHOUSE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 92, 10 February 1947, Page 4

WANTED A BOARDINGHOUSE

Artificial Limbs After inspection of the artificial limbs being made in England, which incorporate the latest devices to make their usefulness to amputees as complete as possible, specialists in New Zealand, assisted by disabled servicemen, are -producing very practical limbs to enable men to take up civilian life again. Though there were only 400 New Zealand amputees in this war, as against 1100 in the last, full preparation had not been made to equip them, but an efficient factory is now well under way in Wellington, where 23 men are employed. At present 92 artificial limbs are on order. Each arm or leg is made individually. The average price of a limb is £42.

j W T' ‘ 'vw V*. * IT is correct to say that there is no more pressing need in Whakatane requiring immediate fulfilment than the establishment of a substantial and first-class boardinghouse (or houses). Granted we have two of the best appointed hotels it is possible to see in country towns, but the glaring oversight is that intermediate accommodation supplied usually by the boardinghouse, There are one or two establishments catering for casual visitors but on the main permanent board in this town is at a premium and the Tact must weigh against its popularity and attractiveness. Why speculation or investment has not been diverted to this very remunerative channel is hard to understand; as is the total absence of rentable flats which usually abound in other centres. Perhaps the time would be ripe for Municipal flats! We wonder?

More Gas From Coal Gasifying low-grade coal for household use and for synthesis in petrol manufacture had been achieved as the result of research work in Great Britain and the United States, according to Mr I. Stewart, fuel economy engineer to the Australian Commonwealth Coal Commission, who visited Auckland recently on his way to Australia from America. Studying aspects ,of the economic use of coal, Mr Stewart found that some of the materials being developed from coal in England would be useful in the plastics industry. America had spent 1,500,000dollars on a coal-fired gas turbine locomotive to meet the competition of oil.