LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 8 March 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

^ — Y.W.C.A. Building Appeal The local committee * met recently to receive the report of its first produce collection fbr the Y.W.C.A .'s Opportunity Shop in Wellington. Contributors and wellwishers will be interested to learn that the monetafy result was £10 2s 5d. It is hoped that the effort to be made at the beginning of May will have even bctter results. Playreading Season The Levin Playreaders' 1947 season will open in the Horowhenua College Hall next Wednesday at 7.30 p.m. The reading chosen is a bright three-acE ' cqmedy , "George and Margaret," -jwhich should fuliy maintain the high standard of presentation achieved by the Playreaders since they resumed activities a few years ago.* -Several new members have already joined this year, and it is hoped to have a much wider representation of members taking part in the readings during tlje coming year.

A Woman Diplomat Miss Agnes Ireland, who has been appointed third secretary to the offlce of the High Commissioner for Canada in Wellington, is expected to arrive at Auckland on Monday next on the City of Swansea. She will be met at Auckland by Miss Charlotte Lusby, private secretary to the High Commissioner, on his behalf. Miss Ireland joined. the Department of External Affairs at Ottawa in June, 1943, as a warfcime assistant. and has been an officer of that department since her ippointment. For. the past two years she has been serving in the division of the department dealing with Commonwealth affairs and has oeen particularly concerned with questions affecting New Zealand.

Magistrate on Radio Serials Radio serials are more harmful in their effect on adolescents than films, in the view ,of Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M. After being told by a delinquent in the Children's Court that he liked listening to radio crime serials, the magistrate said that" although no doubt there were some films which were unsuitable for children, his ' experience was that although he ffequently went to theatres, he had seen little or nothing to which exception could be taken. He added: "But from what one hears on the radio some serials are definitely unsuitable for children. It is a matter for some concern that many serials heard over the radio are so unsuitable." He hoped :he matter would. be given considoration by the authorities concerned.

u Independent Tariff Board A resolution recommending that the Government set up an indipenient tariff board sufficiently strong ^o resist "pressure groups" was adopted at the annual meeting of New Zealand Customs agents in Invercargill. A copy of the resolution is to be forwarded to the Associated Chambers of Commerce. Mr. A. McRae (Dunedin) said that f import control was to be limited to any extent it would have to be by the appointment of a tariff board. It was the general opinicn that if such a board were set up it would have to include people closely associated with the manufacturing industries, importing and exporting, but he said he thought that those people would not get the board anywhere. He said he thought the board should be free of what he termed "pressure groups." "The politician will never let go," deelared Mr. L. W. Snencer (Invercargill) . It had been the privilege of the Minister to play round with tariffs and it would remain so. He said he doubted whether they would ever'succeed in getting a tariff board.