LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 8 November 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

w Remembrance Day Tomorrow is Remembrance Day and citizens are invited to commemorate it by observing a silence of two minutes from 11 a.m. A short blagt will be sounded on the siren and at the Levin Fire Station at 11 a. m. Bank Nationalisation Would the Prime Minister take steps to safeguard the rights and privileges of New Zealand shareholders, employees, and others interested in Australian roanks who have no right to exereise their vote for or against the proposed legislation to nationalise such banks, asked Mr. A. S. Sutherland (Nat., Hauraki) in the House of Representatives during question ti-me.

Food For Britain As a result of the campaigns ! organised by the three Wanganui , candidates in the "Miss New Zea- 1 land" quest and their committee. i £1944 has been contributed to the ■ Royal Society of St. George to purchase food parcels for Britain. j All of the candidates raised morei than the qualifying sum of £250,! Miss Janet Campion's total being; £850, Miss Marjorie Melville's £65u, and Miss Isobel Cameron's £444. j Airfield For Niue ! As part of its policy to provide i first-class airfields throughout the Pacific Islands for immediate use in civilian flying and for possible strategic use, the Government has decided to construct an airfield on Niue Island. The Public Works . Department will send a fullyequipped expedition from New Zeaiand in about April of next year,' and it hopes to 'finish the airfield before the dry season ends in November. The airstrip will bo over 5000 feet in length. "Money For Walter" What with "acid drops" and acting as a radio beam for lone fliers across the Tasman, the Minister of Finance has been getting a great deal of publieity lately. A Wellington store has now gone one better. Among a number of striking placards pasted across *its windows advertising a sale is one stating: "We Need the Money for Walter." Mr. Nash.is pictured in caricature i'orm grasping an armful of bulging, money-bags. Dates For New Zealand An Australian paper just received in Levin features a picture showing a wharf labourer shovelling up wet dates which had burst from their baskets on to the wharf when they were being landed at Sydney recently from the freighter Chyebassa. "The watersiders," adds the paper, "were granted an extra 9d ari hour for handling 761,0001bs. of , wet dates from India which are being transhipped to New Zealand for industrial use. Fumigation of the vessel was ordered because 20 to 40 rats had been reported."