Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 7 February 1948, Page 4

Local & General

A "Heated" Meeting Though the discussions at a recent Masterton Licensing Trust meeting could not be described as heated, Dhings^ flared up when the chairman's papers burst into fiamesP The flre was quickly extinguished Fewer American Magaziiies A prominent Wellington magazine distributing concern said yestsrday tbat though supplies of all types of American-publishea books were coming into the country the amount would gradually diminish as a practical step towards saving dollars. Supplies of unordered Anre.iican penodicals for sale over the eounters of magazine retailing establishments are being reduced alsp.( N.Z.'s State Houses Praised "New Zealand's State houses are admirable individually. Their design has been purged of the meaningless and vulgar accretions of jerry-builders and they repre^ sent an admirable starting place for a renaissanee of New Zeaiand architecture,^ said the eminent British architect, Mr. Clough Williams-Ellis, in an interview in Dunedin. He described the average New Zeaiand State house as a "good, honest, clean job." Advertised OWn' Death How a man advertised his own death in a newspap'er, after which his wife, from whom he was legaliy separatedl • received telegtams and letters of coiidolence, was told in the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, yesterday, when Harold Edwin Worboys was charged with publishing his owh death notice 011 January 2. Worboys was conv'icted and discharged, Mr. .1. H. Luxford, S-M., saying that his biggest punishment "was making a fool of himself in front of his friends."

Practical itelp dCo China The headquarters of Corso in Wellington reports a practical gift which has been made by West Caa^Un^ppx^tqJXii^'Rbwi-Ailey^tM New Zealander who is doing so much to assist in rehabilitating China. Runanga miiiers have given 35 complere sets of mining equipment and other West Coast mining unions are providing mOney 'xor freight. The Greymouth Cooperative Society has collected and packed the tools and Corso is ari anging their shipment. Big Onion Consigliment Sixteen railway trucks were required to carry a load of 125 tons of Hawke's Bay-grown onions to the Napier, wharf for export to Montreal, Canada. The shipment constitut^s a record export consignment fram this provihce., The onions were 'grown by Mr.- E. Lay, Mangateretere, who with a total of 90 acres in oniohs at Mangateretere and Te Aute, is probably the largest . individual grawer in the Dominion. JSeVen motor trucks and permahent Maori hands worked tirelessly for six hours loading the consignment &t the railhea'd. Return Of Mr. Nash After being away from "New Zeaiand since N'ovember to head the Dominion delegation to the world trade and employment cbnference at Havana, Cuba> the Minister of Finance and Customs, Mr. Nash, is due to f&turfi in thfe fi'rst Wfeek in March. He will afrivb at Auckland on the British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines service from Safl Francisco. On his way home Mr. Nash plans td Visit Washington to disCu^ with the United S'tates aUthorities a double-taxatioh agreement between New Zeaiand and Amefica. The. details of this agreement have almost been finalised. Mr. Nash also hopes to visit Ottawa befoi-fe his rfeturn.