Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 30 March 1948, Page 4

Local & General

Opposed to Commuiiism. Resolutions against Communism and State aid to private sehools were passed- at the centennial session of the Loyal Grange Instittition of New Zealand at -the weekend. An addreSs of welcome to the King and Queen a'nd Princess Margaret for their visit next year is , to be prepared hy the executive. Chinese Co-operatives' Aims N The Rewi Alley Co-operatives m Ghina were training a middle class of artisans, said Mr. Frank B. Wood, secretary' and treasurer of the Hangchow C:M.S. .Hospital, who was in Timard recently. It was t hope'd, said Mr. Wood, ;that this j class would •brxdge the gap between I peasants and gentry by placing 1 industry on a social basis, neither i of capitalism — ".exploitation by a controlling group," nor of Communism — "the dictatorship of the . proletariat." ~ ' Maori Gathefing •• ' The banks of fhe Waikato River at Nguaruawahia were _ crowded on Saturday for" a Maori regatta under the auspices of King Koroki and Princess Te Puea. The regatta was held on the stretch of water fronted by the terraces of Turangawaewae :Pa. -The purpose was to raise funds for a memorial httilding to; the Maori Battalion. In the aftefrioon' a feature was the race down the rlver of three long war canoes with 'mare than 100 paddlers.

| World Business ToUr A party of 10 American bu'sineSsmen flying thei-r own Constellation plane will arrive in Wellington on ; Friday next on the last leg of a 100-day world tour. The purpose of the trip is "to get first-hand infor- j 1 mation and become acquamted i with businessmen in other lands and for a better understanding and i a chance to discuss the N future; import and export potentialities." . The visitors Will be tendered a luhcheon by the Wellington Chamber 'of Commerce. • ' | "Kiwis" on Tottr - ! "The - Kiwi concert party is ■ the j rage of Melbourne. and the show's j run in that city has been phenomehah" said Mr.. T\ Parsons, an Aucklan'der, who returned' by a chartered Skymaster from Sydney this morning. Now in its second year in Melbour,ne the party was presenting its third show, but its populaiity showed no sign of diminishing. The snow would probabiw go to Sydney after Melbourne, but there was little chance sf it returnin'gvto New Zealand ior some time. ■

World's Day Begins in Fiji "TKe hotel " at- Lambasa, Ftji, ciaims to be the first hotbl in the I world on which the sun shipes each I day," said Mr. H. B. Gibson, a bar- [ rister and solicitor in practice in [ Fiji, in an intefview in Christ- [ :chdrch. ^"The GCeanic Times, the [ new. morning ' ne-Wspap'er in Suva, [ .has already claimed the distinction I oF being-the first newspaper to be [ pubiished in the world each day. [ The island of Vanualevu, of which [ Lambasa is the chief town, .aetually I sits astride the 180th meri'dian, | and it is thtis thd nearest tOWn in [ the .world to1 the? •intefnational date fi line." ' I : Apueal for Fats I "The pbsition is a complete [ laree," said Mh; H. .F. . McElre'a, I cofnmenting on the appeal for fat I at a meeting of the Ashburton I Borough Council last week. FarmI ers - would not save fat until they I obtained a decefit price,- You could i -not ekpect to get a-nything for | nothing. he ad^e'd. A,' disctfssion I about the' appeal for fat for Sri- | tain arose? wheii a request was re1- | ceived from the Town Clerk (Mr, R. I C. Major) asking for contaihers to I be put on- rubbish .earts for the a collection of fat. Mr. K. L. A-ndef-1 . son asked whai happened to the I fat colle'Cted, and the Mayor (Mr. E. I JC. Bp,thurst) replied that the fat * went to the soap works. •: