LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 2 October 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Day of Remembrance The new "Day 'of Remembrance" for the dead of the past two wars has been fixed for November TO. The forms of the service have been drawn up on the authority of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. Lesson in Saving Referring to the Post Office Savings Bank Book of a Yugoslav ' immigrant to New Zealand, which was put in as an exhibit during a civil claim heard in the Auckland Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Cornish said: "This should be sent to everyone in the community of Anglo-Saxon extraction for his admiration and respect, and as a lesson in sa'ving." Coupon Saving Scheme Latest weekly returns of the National Famine Emergency Committee's campaign to save food coupons for Britain show that during the past week 5541 butter and 173,467 meat eoupons were saved, making the total for 25 weeks 236,442 butter coupons and 4,513,245 meat coupons. Gisborne headed the jlist for the third successive week I and has now been placed first on i 11 occasions. I 200 Rats in Three Days I More than 200 rats were killed in I a New Plymouth warehouse in i three days last week by Toby, a ' five-year-old fox terrier belonging to Mr. A. ' E." Whittington', qhief inspector of the New Plymouth Society for " 'the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Toby, Mth the aici of a youth to move bags and cases, began operations on Wednesday morning, and by mid-day of the next day his score was 16'2. He had passed the 200 mark whem work finis'hed for the week on Friday. September Rainfall Rain fell in Levin on thirteen days during September and the total recorded was 4.34 inches, as compared with 4.01 inches for the isame month last year. The first j eleven days of the month were dry. j So far this year the aggregate rainjfall is 36.09 inches, while for the first nine months of 1945 it was 39.79 inches. There were only two light frosts during September, one on the 20th and the other on the 30th. Otherwise the morning temperatures were very mild, seldom being below 50 degrees. Heavy rain was experienced late yestersday afternoon and last night, 1.5 inches being, registered in this period. These recordings were made by Mr. H. Harvey, of Cambridge . Street. Canadian Food A^teement Canada has signed new food j agreements with Britain, the largest since 1939, according to cabled advice received by the High Commissioner -for Canada in Wellington (Mr. Rive) . The agreements cover apples, eggs, beans, raspberries, and pium pulp. So great is the quantity that it is estimated that 5000 railway cats will be needed for its movement.to the seaboard. Continuing the expansion recorded in July, Canada's August merchandise exports rose sharply in value to 243,000,000 dollars, the highest monthly total since Japan capitulated. The increase over the July figures was 54,000,000 dollars. Merchandise exports during the first eight months of 1946 totalled 1,494,000,000 dollars, compared with a war-time total of 2, '296, 000, 000 dollars for a similar period of 1945. Security Trade with Australia The report that funds were being made available by the R'eserve Bank to permit -New Zealanders to buy and sell securities in Australia was not correct, according to a statement made by a Reserve Bank ' official, commenting on an article. published recently in Auckland. Arrangements had lately been com-; pleted to permit Australian resi-i dents to sell Australian securities ; on the New Zealand market, pro-: vided that the proceeds o'f such, realisations Were immediately usedi to purchase other Australian! securities on the New ^ealand mar-! ket, thus ensuring tha't New Zea--1 land's total hold'ing of Australian securities remained the same, the official said. Though the arrangements now in operation enabled some addition'al transact'ions to he effected between the Australian and New Zealand markets, it could •not be too clearly emphasised that pe'rmission was not given by the New Zealand authorities -for the remlttance 'of fuhds bvbrseas for the sole pur.pose of investing in Btock Ekchiange securities.