New Mail Service

Chronicle (Levin), 2 May 1946, Page 4

New Mail Service

The new mail service for Palmerston North, Hawke's Bay and Taranaki, reference to which was made recently, will commence tomorrow. The mail will close at Levin at 7.30 a.m. daily. Demand for Flour According to Auckland grocers the demand now for flour is as great as that experienced when the threat of a Japanese invasion was at its worst. This is the result of householders buying up existing stocks of white flour in an effort to stave off the day when they will have to use flour of 80 per cent. extraction, the milling of which begins to-day. However, it is the opinion of the trade that hoarding is no good because of difficulty of successfully storing flour, which deteriorates rapidly. Unloading in Auckland is nearly completed of the last of the bags of 22,000 tons of flour which recently arrived from Australia. Ash in Thousands of Tons During Mt. Ruapehu's iong period of activity last year prevailing winds carried most of the ash which poured from the central cone or vent within the crater on to the desolate Waiouru country through which runs the Desert Road from Turangi on Taupp's snore to Waiouru. The aggf egatc ash deposit in this territory was about one inch ih' thickness, which represented 100,000 tons to the square mile. The heaviest fall recorded on the other side of the voicano and in the immediate vicinity of Chateau Tongariro was on November 17 last when one-eighth of an ihch was measured. This represented 12,000 tons to the square mile. On the slopes of the rqountain closer to the crater, there was a three-irich deposit of mountain ash and small gr'avel.