Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 30 June 1949, Page 4

Local & General

j Bos Murphy In London. | The New Zealand boxer Bos I Murphy has arrived in London. He | hopes to get a chance 'of regaining 9 the Empire midd-eweight title which he won from Vince Hawkins and lost to Dick Turpin during his previous visit to Britain. • Coates Memorial Church. Steady progresk has been made in the construction. of the Coates Memorial Church at Matakohe, with the result that practically all the brickwork has now been completed. It is expected work on the church will be completed in' about four months' time. Awahuri Dairy Factory. The surplus for deferred payment to suppliers of the Awahuri Dairy Company is' 3fd, according to an announcement by the company yesterday. The total average payout is the highest for 25 years — 27.8286d per 1b of butterfat. Paint Prices Reduced. The Price Tribunal today announeed that prices of locally manufactured paints would be reduced as from July 1, 1949. The. reductions in ex-factory prices were at the average rate of 65 per cent. in respect , of price-ordered paints and an average rate of 8 1-3 per cent. • in respect of non-price-ordere'd paints. These new reductions were in addition to reductions which had been made volntarily by local companies on the occasion of the return of New Zealand exchange to parity with sterj ling.

INo Nylons. "Women who are fortunate enough to have several • pairs of fully-fashioned or nylon stockings will be taking extra care of them during the next few months," says the New Zealand Draper and Allied Retailer. Stockings had not been # imported for some time, and most 1 retailers estimated that the first I stockings to be imported under the • new schedule of licences woul'd not | arrive before December, the journal | adds. | "Cheanest Comanodity." , 5 "Courtesy is the cheapest comI modity in the world; there is a big i demand 0for it, but only a small | supply," Mr. Alan T. Thomas told i the Auckland branch of the N.Z. I Institute of Industrial Manage- [ ment. Telephone manners, he said, ! called for a word of two of advice. I Phones must be answered prompt- [ ly, and it was the "voice with a | smile" which won. Office courtesy I demanded punctuality in attending S to people, treating customers as S guests when they arrived and when I they left. J The Toll Of Time. I The impermanent fame that j springs from political life is ex- [ emplified by the fact that a large ! portrait of -a man who was Premier | " of New Zealand twice in the lifej time of people living today stood [ in the window of an Auckland shop j with another man's- name erroneously attached to it and yet passers-by never noticed the mistake. The portrait, which hundreds of Aucklanders must have glanced at in the last few weeks, was displayed as that of Sir George Grey. It was actually a picture of | Sir Frederick Whitaker, who was Premier from 1863 to 1864 and from 1882 to 1883, Superintendent of the Auckland '' Province from 1865 to 1867, and a power in the political life of the country in the latter half of the century.'