Local And General

Chronicle (Levin), 19 September 1949, Page 4

Local And General

— r* ; ' Health Stamp Issue. The 21st issue of health' stahips will begin on Monday, October 3. The saies objective is £100,000. Money raised ■ from the sale of these stamps IS spettt wholly bn the Children whb a'ttehd the health camps, whieh afe aided by the Rifig Gbofge V Meinofial Fund. Motor Rohd To Mt, Ruapfehui A promlse to sufvey the ^oUte for a motor road from Ohakune up Mt. Ruapehu was given by the Minister of Wofks (Mr. Semple) to a deputation from Ohakune interests which waited oh him at Parliament Buildings. Mr. Semple added that uhtil the -sutvey was completed he wduld not giyen any definite date for starting the,. job. He realis'ed the road shoul'd be I built froih the "natlohal point of : view. ! Maori Infant Struefe- By Bus. . ' struck by a passing passenger I bus. as he ran out from behind the I rear of a parked truck, , David ; Tonga Williams, aged, three years, ! of Ratana Pa, receive-d mifibr inI iuries and was admit'ted to the I Palmerston North Hpspital. The ! a'ccident occurred ' ;at 3.40 p.m. I yesterday about . a quarter of a I mile north of Bunnythorpe on the ■ main highway to -Feilding. The ! driver of the bus was. Francis Wilj liam Mitchell. ^ , ! Maori Rolls. ' i There were how 31,091. persons ' onrolled oh the fdur Maori ,elecI toral rolls., said ihe , Bfime Minis- ! ter (Mr*. -Fraser). In thd Bouse of ; Representatives. • The, Northem I roll had 7921 iiames, • Westefn I 10,406, Eastern 11,506 and South^ [ etn 1252. The foliS'Md closPd oh ! June 20. Thirty thbusand votad ! in the Maori dtebtorates at the ast General- Election. .Mr. Bodkiri '(Natiohal,, Centrai Otago) They ! wo.n't be ayailafele: torr scrutiny and putgih'g. Hlegal Dentistry. .. "The cloaking Of impropfcr practices on the part of dental mechanics by dentists" was referred to by Mr. L. P. Leary, counsel for the Auckland brahoh of the NeW Zealhh'd Bental AssOciation, during the hearing of prosecutionis. Meohanics wishing to cover their illegal actiVlties wefe approaching dentists and offering them fees to "receive" patients for whom work would then be done by mechanics, he -alleged. It was a serious offence and one Very difflcult to detect, he added. Youlig Journeymen. - Uhdef the territs 'of the -award a youth, aged 15, would be a journeyman presser and entitled to £7 3s 8d a week, if the olaim theh before the Arbitfation Court, in Christchurch subceeded, eveh if the youth was too yoilng to become an apprentice, said a wi'tness. He was replying to question's by counsel for a defendant comi pany against which a claim was beihg made for an alleged breach of an award. It had bee'n stated , that apprent'ices to the bTahch 'of the tailoring trade concerned in the dispute' had to he 16. Fruit Research In N.Z. Fruit research has made good .progress in New Zealand since it was begun by the Bepartment of Scientific and Industrial Research , ih 1938. Last October the work Was brought under the unified control. of a iiew hranch, the Fruit Research Statlon-, with headquarters at Havelock North. The statioh how has research centreS at Oratia, Havelock North, Appleby. (Nelson) ahd Earnscleugh (Ot'ago). New equipment is beihg-' installed to make a wider prograinme of work. possible. The ihtfoductioh of heW Varieties Of fruit is an impbrtafit p&ti of "the station's work, and several exotic ; speeies have recehtly .feeen reieased i tjq .Dominloii growers. h.