LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 8 November 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

j Nurses' Uniforms Lost J At the time of the disastrous fire I in the laundry block at the Napier ! Hospital early on Wednesday mornI ing, there was an unusually large I quantity of clothing and linen in ! the building and the loss in 1 his l respect was particuiarly heavy. In j all, 840 nurses' uniforms were | destroyed, 600 being from the | Napier Hospital and the balan.ce 1 from the Memorial Hospital. i | Civilian Aircraft Wanganui's first post-war civilian aircraft has been ordered" in England by Dr. H. K. Christie. It will be an Auster JI — the civilian version of the high-wing monoj plane which was used with -conI spicuous success for artillery spot- | ting during the war. Dr. Christie ! plans to keep the plane at the Wanjganui airport and use it for perI sonal and business flights. Badly Perforated Meat Coupons Butchers are having difficulty in extracting meat coupons from the new ration books, and inquiries showed that exasperation over the jinconvenience and loss of time is > widespread (says an Auckland paper) . "The trouble is the heavier paper and inadequate perforations," said one retail butcher. "The perforations are so poor that when you try to take out one row, two rows of coupons often come away," another butcher stated. "You really need a pair of scissors and the loss of time is considerable when a large number of books are handled." Veteran Car Effort A 1910 ten horsepower four cylinder Austin car owned by Mr. Douglas E. Wood, of Auckland, will shortly attempt a noru-stop engine run from Auckland to Wellington as part of the New Zealand celebration of the jubilee of United Kingdom motor car industry on November 16. The industry will hold a : veteran car run from London to " Brighton, England, but because there are few veteran cars in New Zealand, it has not been possible to stage a similar event here. Mr. Wood's car is in good mechanical jrder and the bodywork is also sound. Sheep for South America One of the largest shipments of stud sheep to leave the Dominion and the first to the Fallclahd Islands since early in the war, will leave by the New Zealand Shipping | Company's .Northumberland from i Auckland oii November 27. About j 270 head will be accommoIdated in special deck pens on the jiiner. The shipment represents some of the best stock from sta- | tions in both the North and South j Islands and will be mainly Rom1 neys. Some of the sheep are to gG | to the mainland of South America, but the majority are for the Falkj land Islands. ' General Sets a Trap "It is customary, I believe, for you, Father Uhlenberg, to press me 'now to "give the school a holiday," ! said the Governor-General, Sir j Bernard Freyberg, after presenting the Navy League's gift of a Union Jack to the Star of the Sea Convent, Seatoun (Wellington). "But" this is a fr^e and democratic country," he added, "and I don't want the boys to have a holiday if they don't want it. So hands up all those boys who do not want*a holiday. I repeat, those who do not want a holiday." It was a trap, but not one of even the six-year-olds fell into it — not a boy moved a muscle — they sat as still as stone.

Many Cargoes Everything from canary seed to grass skirts, bananas tcf basic slag, was included in the cargoes in the 15 overseas ships crowding the berths at the Auckland wharves or anchored in the stream early this week (states the Auckland Star). That was the impression gained from an examination of the ships' manifests and loading schedules. For a week past, berthage space had been taxed to capacity and on Tuesday there were five ships at anchor. By late afternoon, however, three overseas and one large coastal ship had sailed, and with a re-arrangement of berths, three ships from the stream were accommodated. Following two more sailings yesterday all ships were expected to be at the wharves.