LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 13 September 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Restrictfqn RelStxed Some ^ales restrictions on diphlordipheny triehlorethane have peen rela^ed- It oan now be sold Dy all stprekeepers — riot'jnst phemists — so ipng a S it is not too strong and it is paeked .-and labelled properly. The annp'al report of the Departmpnt pf Health' gives this mteiesting news. Yes, it's D.D.T. Pnice^of Shirts "i paid 14/3 for my shirt in Dunedin three weeks ago," said Mr. Connolly (L., Dunedin Central) in the Hpuse of Representatives yesterday. It had two eollars, he said. •Membprs' pomments: "Get me a coupie." "is it a shirt or a diekey?" "Take it qft' and show them." Mr. Connolly said that white shirts at a Wellingtbn store were 18/9 eaeh. Large Slatron May Be Acquired The 16/000-apre Lansdowne station, .in the Wairau Valley, Blenheim," may be aequired ~by the Crown for rehabilitatiqn purposes. Owned t>y the estate of the late Mr. G. F. Watts,. the properry, which was one of the hrst to pe taken up in the Marlborough distriet, has had its basie value fixed at £36,000, the stock and ehatteis to be available at £18,000. Gift to Britain As a praGtieal gesture in providing more food i'or Britain, 22 disabled servicemen at the Dunedin training eentre subscribed £50, this eheque representing a voluntary reduction in their wages for a week. The money is to be used in providing food parcels for disabled exservieemen in Edinburgh and the a*ction is intended as as a direet challenge to trainees in other eentres of 'the Dominibn. * Birds Carr|ed Good News A merhod _ of eommunieation in eommon use* before the eoming of ihe telegram was employ.ed by a Northland senoolboy after the railway smash riear the Auekland staLion on Monday eyenihg. The boy had with him two Garrier pigeons, and the'messages he spnt when he released the birds tpld his parents that he had. eseaped injury in the smash and that there was no need for worry. ' * Building Research "I have come here to learn as well as to try to' be of assistanee," said Sir Reginald Stradling, head af the building research station in London and chief scientific adviser to the British Ministry of Works, when he arrived at Auckland' i>y flying-boat from Sydney; He is# visiting New Zealand at the invitation of the Government to advise the Department of Scientific and Jr.dustrial Research and Ministry of Works on technical questions of liousing construction. ' . A Dire Prefliction "The next* war will be a major war and will end with thp destruction of civilis^tion," ' said MajorGeneral H. K. Kippenberger, D.S.O., qt the quarterly meeting. of the "V^anganui Returned Services! Association. "Those whq are left will have to start again. Of course, ihere may be a winning side." Major-General Kippenberger's remarks were prompted when, after explaining the part the-R.S.A. wouid play for the next 15 years, an interjector asked: ""What abqqt the next war?" Norfolk Island Frpit Keen interest among No.rfplk IsIgnders at the possibility of 'a i'evival of the|r Jiofticqltural incjustry was reported by Mr. ' K. Dallas (direptor of the * horticultural divisjpn of the Hepartmpht pf Agriculture 1, twhq has returned by air after a visit" of se'vpral wpek^ tq the island. Mr. Dailas will make a general recommendation to the Minister pf Agriculture (Mr. Oulien) on the possibility of impprting Norfolk Island fruitj and ' fhe report will coritain coinments on the shipping problem, the health of ihe isiand's crops, and tfie auantities and periods in which they "will be avafiable.

The House Laqghs The best laugh in the House. pf Pep.resepfatiyes yesterbgy was wh'pn Hop. \y. E.. Parry, "s'peaking qf an Opposition member's alleged irresponsible statements, observed: "His tprigue just simply moves abppt as the wind blows it." Mr. C. M. Bpwden;.lt must be a pretfy strong wind". *