LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 3 November 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

j Deputation to Minister | With a view to representing the I urgent need for the erection of. a £ maternty home in Levin, and to | urge a decision in favour of secur- ! ing the selected site in Kawiu Road I for the proposed sanatorium, the | Mayor, Mr. H. B. Burdekin, and | chairman of the Horowhenua I County Council, Mr. A. J. Gimblett, 1 are to interview the Minister' of | Health, Miss Howard, at 9.30 a.m. ! on Friday next. Mr. J. J. Maher, I M.P., arranged for the deputation I to interview the Minister i To Study N.Z. Birds j One of the world's leading work- ! ers in the field of ornithology, Dr. I Robert Cushman Murphy, Curator J of Oceanic Birds at the American 1 Museum of Natural History since I 1927, will arrive at Auckland toward | the end of this week. Dr. Murphy | will be rriet by Mr. R. A. Falla, 1 Director of ,the Canterbury 1 Museum, who will be in charge of 2 the arrangements for his New Zea- ! land visit arid who will accompany I him on his voyage to The Snares, | 70 miles south of Stewart Island. | While Dr. Murphy will make a I general ornithological study in the i Dominion he wll concentrate on | the study of the breeding of ! oceanjc birds. | J-Force Replacements I Replacement drafts of airmen i for No. 14 (Fighter) Squadron, ! R.N.Z.A.F., New Zealand's unit in I the British Commonwealth Air j Forces in Japan, are now being I assembled for a year's duty to ! relieve the men who have been I with the squadron for -their 12 i months' overseas service. The first | draft of replacements has just j reached Japan and successive I parties will be flown from New i Zealand in aircraft of No. 41 j (Transport) Squadron, based at I Whenuapai. The change-over now 1 being begun is the second since No. 2 14 Squadron- was first sent to ! Japan ih the'' iight fleet-carrier I Glory in 1946..'-. V5-"4 ! Veterinary Bursaries I Not more than four bursaries for I students to take the veterinary ! course at Sydney University will be I granted by the Veterinary Services | Council for 1948, said the council j chairman, Mr. A. . Linton, in I response to nqmerous inquiries i received from all parts of New | Zealand. This decision had been J reached, he said because of the ■ large number of New Zealand stuI dents at present undergoing veterI inary training at Sydney UniversI ity and because a number of addii tional students would probably be J sent forward next year by the | Rehabilitation Department, under 1 its bursary scheme. If the total 2 number of Rehabilitation bursars ! for 1948 exceeded six in number, he I said, the bursaries granted by the I council would be correspondingly | reduced. * Christmas Fruits Arriving 1 Welcome news for housewives I with thoughts of Christmas, its I cakes and puddings next month S was announced by the Minister of I Supply (Mr. Nordmeyer) on Saturi day. Emphasising that the presI ent scarcity .of dried fruits, raisins, ! sultanas and currants on the marI ket was primarily due to shipping * difficulties, Mr. Nordmeyer said 1 that a vessel had arrived recently | in Auckland with small quantities | of Australian dried fruit for merI" chants in the northern portion of the North island and another vessel brought some supplies from I California. These two vessels, said | the Minister, were due to discharge j consigmnents for Wellington and i the southern dstricts of the. North | Island in Wellington this week. 1 Several hundred tons of Australian j dried fruits were due to arrive at 2 South Island ports this. week, and 1 a shipment of Californian fruit for | both the North and South Islands | was due to arrive at Wellington on 1 November 5.