Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 22 July 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Health Day. ' Today is Health Day. It is a day which is being celebrate'd in various ways all over the world. It has been set aside to mark the third anniversary of the signing by 62 nations of the constitution of the United Nations specialised agency, the World Health Organisation. The pufpose of Health Day was to remind peoples of the world i of the organisation's aim — to ensur'e to every human fobing the liigh'est possible "level1 of health, said 'the Mimster' of Health, Miss Howard, in ( a 'stalerpeiyt ■ yesterday. ' Over 1000 Patents a Year, •' Eighty-eight years af ier the first patent ltegislaitlon was- passed in New Zealand the lOOjOOO '.mark in applications for patents was lodged in the Patent Office, according- to the anpual report pf'the Commissioner of Patents! which was tabled in the House.- During; the past-yeay 2469 applications were received in the following brdad classificatiQns : — Mechanycal engineering, 737; electronics, 583;- chemistry, 360; miscellaneous, 273; primary indpstries, 272; hulidihg construction, 244. ' ' ■ ; • . • ( Where Was.The Press? . An obvious -attempt to sway , the audience to the view that the New Zealand' Press' "was giving a, onesided picture, of the ponscrfption issue was made by speakers at the anti-conscription meeting in PalI merston North. The speakers, | Messrs F. Langstone, M.P., J. Hogan, and the chairman (Mr. J. iBennett) stated that, as t'he Press 1 was not present; its only method of 'propaganda was to distrjbute leaflets. The three Press representatives, 'who were sitting in the front seat were well in view of.the speakers. Their presence was made known, however, when they raised Iheir note books.

Christians Awake! By church nolices and notice boards — or by the lack of them— - the impression could so easily be given that the Church' of England was awake or that it was asleep, said the Bishop of Wellington, the Rt. Rev: R. H. Owen, at the opening of the Diocesan Synod. "I Was passing through a ; town recently in which I had preached" three weeks before," he said. "The notice thait !I ^was goi'ng to preach three weeks ago was still on the door of the church. The impression I got was that the- visit of the Bishop had Rut an end to any idea of a sexvice being held in that church again. I want to suggest i;hat the church notice board should not contain the name of a vicar who died 10 years ago, or that anyhow his address should be altered."