Local And General

Chronicle (Levin), 7 November 1949, Page 4

Local And General

Thrown Bv Wooden Horse. Awapuni jockey J. Garth found a merry-go-round steed a difficult mount at Palmerston North's Royal Show on Saturday. He fell and was admitted to hospital with mild concussion. His condition was later reported as satisfactory. it is improbable that an "inquiry" will be held. State Owned. When the National candidate for Otahuhu, Mr. F. L. A. Gotz, mentioned at a meeting that he was irying to find a house* near Otahuhu for an evicted couple he was told of a vacant house in Wiri, a few hilles from Otahuhu. "It has been vacant for three years," said a member of the j audience, "but it is owned by the > Government." ! Retailing Scholarship. ' The New Zealand College of I Retailing is this year offering a | trip to Australia and employment in an Australian store as a scholarship for competition among store employees. The college, which is conducted under the auspices of the New Zealand Retailers' Federation, will provide the cost of the trip and three to six months' training in a leading I Sydney store. [ Patata Shortage. j The shortage of potatoes in t Auckland is expected to be eased [ next week, when supplies will I arrive from Pukekohe and other i country districts. Until the j marketing of the South Island I crop begins in late February or j March it is possible that supplies | will not be plentiful. Main reason I for the current shortage is the I light South Island crop. The [ South Island is the Dominion's | chief source of supply.

I Help For Jellicoe Huts. | I>efinite advances in the camI paign being conducted by Mr. | Granville-Smith, of Glen Oroua, | to provide Jellicoe rnemorial huts I at Foxton for di&abled or convalesI cent ex-servicemen, have been j made m the last two days. The I C.M. Ross Company has donated | the furniture needed for the bedl room of N6. 1 hut, while the sum | of £51 was raised at the Royal | Show in Palmerston North as the ! result of appeals for financial asi sistance. This will ensure a good I start being made on construction ! of the first Jellicoe hut.

i Rehabilitation Loans. 1 Rehabilitation loans worth i £67,792,417 had been authorised for | 84,202 ex-servicemen and women I by the end of September.. In Sep- | tember itself 1224 loans were | authorised valued at £1,055,336. I Loans have been for farms, busif nesses, houses, furniture, tools of i trade and other miscellaneous | purposes. Loans to purchase farms ! were increased to 6192, which inI volved finance wbrth £26,046,337. | This includes 866 ex-servicemen \ settled on Crown lands. There | were 80 farm loans authorised I during the month.

i Hawke's Bay Power. ] Rationing of power consumption | over the whole Hawke's Bay Elec1 tric Power Board area and Napier j is ineseapable. Indications are ! that there will have to be at least ! a 10 per cent, reduction made by I all' consumers except the freezing | works, hospitals, milking sheds ! and wharves, which will have a | 5 per cent. reduction. The intro- | duction of individual rationing is 1 likely to take place in the near I future. These were the main fea- | tures of.the conference of repre- | sentatives of the power board and J the Napier 'Borough Council in ■ Hastings.