Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 5 July 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Special Meeting. Members of the Horowhenv.a A. and P. Association are reminded o: tfie special genefal lpeetin^ to b_ hel'4 in St. Mary?s HqlJ on Thursdai at 7.30 p.m. The business is important and it is hoped tha-u there wil b,e a large attendance. Merp Blood Doijors. '•"The Auckland' Hospital IJpard, in cpn|unGt'ion 'with . the' St. John Amkulance Association, is getting a good response from the public in its pffort to increase its panel of bloqd donors io 11,000. Last month 359 donors gave blood, 224 malfing tjieir flrst contribution. If' the hospital was to hecbme indeoendent of overseas sujp'plies of plasma and was to piaiqtajn the necessary amourit" of blood for transfusions, it'-'would- have to keep the appeal going for several 'years, said a a^or§,tpry pfffcial. Frightened? ' When gi'rls decided to take up tpaching as a eareer they usualjy avoided post-primary teaphing, saijd Miss C. Robinson, n ■ district vocatjonal guidancei -dnomaiav addrpss to thp J£ar|giqfa*" High School Paren t-Teupher Assbpiatioh. "It's somefcbqng."' about their "teachers which " gives them a fright," | she said. Miss Rphinspn tfiqught | that in their estirpat'ion 'thp'ir own I spcpndary schppl teachers ' liyed on" I tpo high a plaiip and the girl§ j thought tbey pquld no.t possibly I attain the st'andapd they set. J Miners Lift ,Go-Sl6jy. I Miners at the £=frppngman state | mine resumed normal prpbuctipn I yesterday, "bri'nging' ip ari 'end go- ! s'ow aptiqn wliicb caused the lpss 1 qf atoput" 2000 "tpns of coal during | the past' 10 working days. The prfer ! made by the Ministpr of Miiies I that a dispu.e§ commi't|}ee'be set up i tp coh^ider the grievanpp catjsing I the go-slow, was accept.ed by the j linanimous deGision pf the 4,00 mpn 1 ; who attended a mass hieeting pf I the Runanga .State 'Miners' "Unipn j yesterday. Tlie meeting also d.eI cide'd t'e accept a- .condition ef I the effer," that nbrmal prpductipn S be res'tarted. j Champipn GroAylers. \ "Havi'rig drifted ,arpund the werld j with a reaipnable ;amqunt pf pbserI -Vatipn, I can 's^y that we New Zea- | lanjiei's haye a great deal to be thankful fpr. We have many a4I vantages and yvith 'them, resppnj sibilities, hut on re'tuming frqni the Secpnd World War 1' cohcludpb that Ijew Zealanbers, were champipn growlers — ' gr.p^yling abQpt fwp- [ penny-halfpenhy things, and didh't | knpw hpw well qff, they were. I I also found them a piost self-com-placent people." Witli these words the Hpn-pqlonel F. Waite, C.M.G., D.S.Q-bP.B.E.Vcpmmenced his Coni^ memoratipri Day ' * aHdress to t*He pupils of the Feilding Agricultural | High School yesterday morning.