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Evening Star, Issue 24325, 14 October 1942, Page 2

A very successful flower show was held a few days ago at Mosgiel School. There were over 500 entries, and the net proceeds amounted to £l4 18s, which, the rector (Mr Kaye) reported, had been paid into the committee’s account. Messrs Cousins and Frew acted as judges. The chairman of the School Committee (Mr Boyd) expressed thunks on behalf of the committee at last night's meeting to the rector and staff, and the judges and to all who had assisted. The rector intimated that it was hoped to hold a similar function next autumn. A suggestion that because of “ a substantial improvement in the petrol position,” serious consideration should be given to releasing petrol coupon No. 20 for use during the Labour Day weekend to enable workers to derive as much benefit as possible from the holiday and to keep their cars in hotter running order, lias been made bv the executive of the South Island Motor Union to the Minister of Supolv. Mr Sullivan. A letter to the Minister states that the suggestion has arisen since the Government declared Labour Day a public holiday.

Arrangements have been completed between the Boy Scouts’ Association and the National Council for the Reclamation of Waste whereby a Do-minion-wide drive for waste rubber is to be made on all householders by all sections of the Scout movement. While local waste authorities will still accept waste rubber, the responsibility for the collection of it in populated areas where there are Scout troops bus been delegated to and accepted by the association. It is desired that commissioners or scooters in each locality should make contact with the local waste board and ascertain what receiving points are available, and where these are considered inadequate or insufficient the commissioners, in conjunction with the local authorities, should arrange suitable receiving depots. It is intended to canvass every house in every populated locality where a troop exists. The association’s aim and responsibility is to get as much rubber as possible and to deliver it to the depots of the waste authorities. A meeting of representatives of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce, the “ Awake New Zealand ” Campaign, and tho Returned Services’ Association was held in Hamilton to discuss tllo statement issued by the New Zealand Newspaper Proprietors’ Association about the censorship regulations and restrictions. Tho chairman, Mr A. M Bisley, said many people had been greatly impressed by the statement, and considablo concern was felt about the way in which censorship was applied to information which had little or no relation to the war, and which would bo of benefit to tho public. A resolution was passed supporting the newspaper proprietors’ protest, and asking the bodies represented to discuss the position. The Automobile Association (Otago) recently approached the City Council asking for a review of tho present method of head-on angle parking against the kerb with the possibility of substituting the rear-on method. Since making the request the association had written to the Wellington sister body asking its opinion of the rear-on method. At a meeting of the executive of the association held last night the Wellington reply was considered. The rear-ou method had been tried there, but the head-on rule hadl proved the most satisfactory. Backing into the kerb had been found to offer many difficulties, tho most serious being the trouble many drivers experienced in backing into the space available. This had resulted in interference to traffic and the occupying of too much space. These disclosures caused the meeting to decide to withdraw its request to the,, council and to support tho present regulations. “ It is pleasing to know that tho chocolate arrived safely, and that it has evidently gone to a good place,” said the chairman, Mr P, W. Breen, at last night’s meeting of the executive of the Automobile Association (Otago). He made tho remark following the reading of a letter from the Mayor of Southampton, Mr Thomas A. Ponsford, in which acknowledgment was made of a gift of chocolate (to the value of £25) forwarded .by the association for distribution among children in the devastated areas of the city. Mr Ponsford, after expressing thanks for tho gift, stated that he would consider it a privilege to present the chocolate to the children. Despite the ignominy to which the Nazis subject him, the Parisian’s humour lias lost none of its astringency. When it comes to wit, it is the French rapier to the German rubber truncheon every time. The following story, now going the rounds in Paris, has been sent to tho 8.8. C. by a listener there:— The Auteui! police station was telephoned at 9.15 ono evening tby a man who asked for the chief inspector. Would he, the caller asked, come at once to a certain spot where a Jew had just killed a German and was eating his brains. But the inspector said it was impossible. He couldn’t do anything about it! “Why?” was the astonished retort. “ Well, there are three reasons. Germans have no brains; Jews don’t eat pork; at 9.15 everyone is too busy listening to the 8.8. C. any way.” For tho second time within a few months (states a Wellington Association message) Dr Hughes Steele, of Wellington, has had deliberate damage done at his surgeyy by visiting servicemen. This occurred last night, when a valuable engraved glass, panel in the main door of the premises was smashed. This panel was tho work of an artist,and is irreplaceable. Dr Steele was rather severely assaulted by intruders about three months ago, and still suffers from an injury to bis hand. Last night, while ho was upstairs, two servicemen were seen to approach the door, smash tho panel with a bottle, and saunter casually down the street. An Association message from Invercargill states that a strong protest to the Government and tho Meat Producers’ Board against tho proposed transfer of the Ocean Beach and Kaiapoi freezing works or a ipart interest therein to any overseas company was made at a representative meeting of Southland farmers to-day. A complaint was made that the fanners had not been kept informed of the negotiations and that Southland or Dominion interests had not had an opportunity of negotiating as prospective purchasers. The meeting deputed a committee of four to frame a resolution embodying the sentiments expressed at the meeting, and also authorised it to get into touch with tho Dominion Executive of the Farmers’ Union and the North Canterbury Executive, with a view to a united' protest for presentation to the meeting of the Meat Board in Wellington to-morrow. Mr G. T. Boyd (chairman) presided at last night’s meeting of the Mosgiol District High School Committee. The application of the Mosgiol P.W.M.U. for the use of the school grounds for tho annual garden fete was granted. Tho Department of Health notified that iss 31. I. 3lahonoy had been appointed to the dental clinic, as the present nurse had many more children on her roll- than one nurse could handle. Accounts totalling £4 11s ,’kl were passed for payment. The secretary ivas instructed to make fresh application for a supplementary grant for the school. It was decided to pay the usual fee to tho Taicri Tennis Club to permit pupils playing on tin* courts on one day each week. Permission was granted to the Home Guard to install an electric light in a school building, all responsibility to bo taken by the applicants. A good story is told by a member of a field ambulance in Egypt. “ 1 was sitting yarning to a Gorman prisoner who spoke excellent English, having been many years in America,” bo writes “ A few yards away sat a Maori-on his own, and as the German could not understand a white New Zealander with a brown one, I called the 3taori over. Tbe conversation got round to the treatment of prisoners, and tho German remarked that he had boon in the Light Panzer Division for throe years. Hori looked at him and said, quite taken aback: ‘Three years 1 By korrv. time yon were caught!’” The soldier mentions that on tho way from Syria to Egypt the foree camped ono night in the desert, and in the j morning ho found an 3Sin snake, do- I serihed as a horned viper, sharing Ins blankets with him.

In South Africa, wattle farmers ax'o making paper pulp from wattle timber on a commercial scale. The pulp is going to paper-making mills in the Union. A paper pulp company was floated among wattle growers, and Hie plant is largely South African-built. Experiments have also been successfully carried out towards producing alpbaeellnlnse from wattle timber; this is used in the production of explosives, artificial silks, prints, etc. At 11.5 this morning the City Brigade attended to a chimney fire in Goodall street, Caversham.