Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 4 February 1948, Page 4

Local & General

"Doing Very Well" A young Dannevirke girl— between 14 and 15 years — considers she is doing very well. Her remuneration in an office is -£1 15s a week, says the News. Supplementary work at three weekends at & local institution produced payments of t6 7s lOd, £2 14s, ld and £2 Ys. Lord Mayor Of Wellington? Cr. A. L. TreadweU has given notice that, at the next meeting of the Wellington City Council, he will move: — "That application be made for Royal Letters Patent raising the •position of Mayor of Wellington to the dignity of Lord Mayor with the right to be styled fthe Right Honourable.' " Setback To Industry Never had industry suffered such a serious setback as when the heavy power cuts had been intro'duced in 1945, said Mr. L. D. Burgess, president of the Manawatu branch of the Wellington Manu- j facturers' Association at^a meeting last night. The public would never know what a terrible position the country had beenfln. Forty-Hour Week "I venture to say that New Zealand eannot afford a forty-hour week," said the president of the ! Manawatu branch of the Welling- ! ton Manufacturers' Association, Mr. L. D. Burgess, at a meeting in Levin last night. Emphasising the I matter, he said that during the last election when factories had been closed for two hours to allow workers to vote, New .Zealand had lost 1,000,000 man-hours. A Wild Story 1 Yesterday in Palmerston North j rumour-mongers had something -of a day out. Somehow, probably from | quiet innocent beginnings, the I storv sot around that laree num-

bers of Russ'ian troops had marched across the border into India. [ Suitably embellished, the rumour " wa'S" widely feceived, and some people awaited only a declaration of war from Great Br-itain. Those who ha'd turned on their radios, however, began to doubt the story's veracity when no confirmatory { annduncement was made, and the | 'absenee o'f -any official advice made it clear it was purely a fabrication. [ Beer Drinking Baboon For Zoo I An 1 8 - months -ol'd toque monkey j and a . 10-months-old baboon, bdth | purchased from members of the I crew of the Trewellard, are the j latest additions to the Wellington | Zoo. Though the baboon/ has I received considerable publicity for i its beer-drinking efforts, the mon- [ key's feats have not been made I known to the public. "It has a* j repertoire of about 40 - different | tricks, including back-somersaults | and hand-stahds," said the curaI tor, Mr. Cutler. "It has also been | shaving itself with a safety razor, | but, as this has resulted in its head I becoming aimost bald, we shall I have to put a stop to that." I Ey.es From the Dead ^ | An "eye bank" where the eyes of | dead people will be kept for corneal 1 transplantations will be establishi ed by the Auckland. Hospital Board. | Operations for1 transplanting the ! cornea have not been common in 1 New Zealand, and the scheme has j been proposed by Dr. C. A. Pittar, S the eye bank registra-f at Auckland I of the Ophthalmolqgical Society of I New Zealand. He has been in I edmmunication with an . eye ' bank 1 in the United States. In a" report i to the hpspital board .Dr. Pittar | said that the sources of corneal l material for grafting would be the I eyes of stillborn babies and dead i people. The co-operation of hospi- • jtal boards will be sought. -