Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 25 March 1948, Page 4

Local & General

"The Chronicle" Holidays There will be no issue of _ The Chronicle" tomorrow (Good Friday) or on Easter Monday. The paper will be published as usual on Saturday and the office will be open until 11 a.m. on that day. . Food Parcels Arrive . The Rimutaka has arrived m the United Kingdom, carrying 18,166 food parcels of a total weight oi 180,518 lbs. These parcels, the General Post Office stated yesterday, were posted in .the southerh part of the North Island and the South Island (except Otago and Southland) from January 24 to February 4.

Local Body. Drivers' Award j ■ Increases of pay ranging . from . 2s 6d to 3s 9 'd a week .are provided j in a new award for New Zealand . local bodies' drivers, in which the j weekly rates go.„frpm £6 11s 8d to j £7 10s according to the class of j work done. Provision is also made j for an extra 6d a shift for after- j noon and night, and for a clothing j allowance for days worked on tar, j bitumen and oxj.de work. „ The j award is for one '.year. from Mureh ; i. • | t j Fioneers' Spree J "In 1849, on the ffirst anniversary of the settlement -of Otago," said I Sir Patrick Duff , ' High Commisr ; sioner for the United Kingdom, in an address to the Otago Early | Settlers' Assoeiation at. Dunedin; ■recently, "the 'Otago News' said of j the celebrations. 'The sports pass- ; ed off free from accident, while some few were in a state to remember a mass of things • but nothing' distinctly.' " Sir Patrick added that he had wondered as be j read of the first anniversary What ■ the hundredth would be like. j Radio Telephones I Though stated to'be still in the1 1 experimental stage, , radio tele- | phones, have now been used by Wellington fire brigades for more than ! a year. The Nd. 1 machines at the Central and Thorndon statio'ns have radio-telephone sets and the ' superintendent, Mr. Woolley, said yesterday that at its next annual meeting the Wellirigton• Fire Board would consider the whole question of the future use of radio telephony , ,jn ,lhe brigade.-

Radio Workerjs'. Award I A new word ~"video," appeared | teday in an award issued by the I Arbitration Court 'for radio work- | ers. An officer of 'the National [ Broadcasting Serviee said that [ video frequencies were those conI tained in television signals and | ranged from five or ten cycles to [ over 1,000,000. The North. Island I Electrical Workers' (Radio Section) I Award provides for a minimum | wage of £8 5s a week for' radio I designers, £7 3s 4d for a serviceman | holding a licence, an'd '£6 18s for | radio technicians. % ^ I Survey of N.Z. Coast • Efforts are being made by ■ the 1 Government to charter from the I British Admiralty a speciallyI equippe'd ship to resume the coastal I survey of New Zealand* which was I interrupted by the war. It is com- | mon knowledge that there are 8 errors and omissions in a number I of the charts ' based oh sUrveys I made in the last century. In the 1 scheme to have ' the survey resunied I the New Zeaiahd Naval Board and a the Marine ..Department: are co- | operating, and an official announce1 meiit is expected soon.

I Displaced Persons for N.Z. I The Dominion. OoUncil of Feder- | ate:d Farmers " has reb6.mmended., | the Aid to Britain National' Coun-i 1 Cil "to urge the Goyetnment to coni sider favourably the bringing of | displaced persons from Europe to 1 New Zealand,r ..The matter will be I discussed at u, meeting of the Aid I to Britain organisation. * The 1 decision by . Federated Farmers I recommends that migrants should" • be carefully selected from the disj piaced groups, and that they shoiild I include tural domestic help, for the * |mrpose of assisting in seeufihi I increased production in New Zeai land. .