LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 29 June 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bodies to be Taken Home It is understood the United States Government proposes disinterring the bodies of American servicemen who are buried in New Zealand for reburial in United States. War ' graves registration personnel are lexpected to arrive by the Mariposa ! on Tuesday next. The bodies of ! American servicemen whose next5 -of-kin iive in New Zealand will not i be removed without the next-of-I kin's conseht. ! N.Z. Boys Were Lovely! | "Yur New Zealand Boys were very ! lovely." This was the- comment by Mrs. O. H. Hafner, through passenger by the Monterey, which arrived, at Auckland from San" Francisco . yesterday. She is accompanied by her husband. Both were closely associated with the Anzac Club, New York, and will be remembered by hundreds of New Zealand Air Force trainees to whom they extended warm hospitality at their home in Park Avenue, New York. 1 Life Saved By Doctor's Skill His life saved by the skill of a ; worid famous American surgeon, ; three and a half years old Graham Somervaille, the boy who was raced by ship and plane to Philadelphia to have an iron screw he had swal- ! lowed, removed from his lung, is ! now back home in ' Auckland with ! his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. | Somervaille, of Remuera. Graham, ! who was accompanied to the United ! States by his mother and grandmother, returned by the Monterey, his mother stating that the cooperation of the American people j was magnificent. i Wool Board j Eight nominations for the three } wool growers' representatives on the I New Zealand Wool Board, were received when nominations closed at : noon ■ to-day and consequently an I eiection wili be held on August 28 ! when the Electoral Committee will I hold its annual meeting and candii uates will be able to appear before it. Those nominated arq Messrs E. A. Cameron, oi Wendonside, Southiand; L. T. Daniell, of Akura, MasJ terton; W. Horrobin, of Waikanae; : G. R. Macdonald, of West Eyreton, .Rangiora; F. K. Pearce, of WaitoI tara; H. J. Wardell, of Kurow; G. C. Iwarren, of Darfield; G. W. A. Wil- ! liams, of Ohangai. Messrs Horro- ' bin, Macdonald and Wardell are , rnembers of ■ the. present Board. j Exchange oi Stamps | The Government has decided to 1 permit New Zealand stamp dealers , to exchange stamps with persons or I concerns in overseas countries other i than Germany, Japan, Bulgaria, i Rumania, Hungary and Austria, | provided those persons or concerns j are not enemy traders for the pur- : poses of the Enemy Trading Emer- •! gency Regulations, announced Hon. A. H. Nordmeyer, acting Minister of Customs. He added that applications by stamp dealers for permission to export stamsp on an exchange basis, should be made to the Collector of Customs at the port of intended shipment and that Col- 1 iectors of Custojns had also been ! authorised to issue special iicences ] to cover stamps imported by dealers | on an exchange basis, 6n the under- ] standing no remittance of funds was involved. Notice to Quit Houses Tenants of 17 houses and six shop buildings in Penrose Avenue, near Wellington Hospital, have received a month's notice to vacate their homes. The Wellington Hospital Board recently bought the land in order to modernise and extend its laundry. Asked if the hospital board woulc^ have to find the tenants alterriative accommodation, the chairman, Mr. H. F. Toogood, said it had made no plans to do this. The notice was a formal one and was the first'legal st'ep intirnating the board's intention of demolishing the houses to extend its buildings. Nothing would be done to disturb the tenants until the board was ready to start tlie work. Gver 50 people are likely to be aft'ected. Forty live-in the 17 houses, and the upper rooms ,df the shop buildings are all used as dwellings. Such of the cahle news in this issue as is headed, has appeared in the Londoh "Times" and is sent to this paper by special permlssion. It should be understood that the opjnions are not those of "The flines" unless ex^ressly stated to he «o.