LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 245, 17 October 1942, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

The Regimental Band will play in Seymour Square to-morrow afternoon, commencing at 2.30 o'clock. Restrictions on the use of tin, chromic acid, cadmium, copper, nickel or other salts for any plating purposes are announced. On aocount of the earlier departure from Dunedin of the airliner and the earlier arrival in Wellington, the plane which. has been leaving Blenheim at 12.20 p.m. daily will as from next Monday, leave at 11.55 a.m. Regulations gazetted last night enabie the destruction at the discretion of a, judge, of obsolete records of the Supreme, Ai'bitration a'nd Appeal Ccurts, providing the records are not less than 20 years old. The object of the regulations is to foster waste paper salvage. A price order gazetted last night cstablishes a maximum retail price for 1942 wool packs, whether cf New Zealand or overseas origin, of 7/each, excepti that outside the four centres retailers may ada to the nearest halfpenny freight charges incurred up to a maximum price inland of 7/3.

Three charges of car conversions and one of theft of two necklaces valued at £10 were faced by Stanley Simon Sauer, a soldier, aged 23, in the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, yesterday. Sauer, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on each charge, the terms to be cumulative. Slight disorganisation of rail traffic south of Balclutha followed the derailment of five waggons of a goods train from Invercargill to Dunedin yesterday morning. This occurred at a siding near Clinton. The express from Dunedin was not delayed. The track was damaged for a distance of a mile. At its meeting last night the executive of the Blenheim Farmers' Union decided to send a Christmas parcel to a former executive member, Trooper A. V. Badman, now a prisoner .of war in Italy. "If," said a member humorously, "he speaks up as plainly there as he did here, he may be in a position to appreciate some extra comforts."

Food safes, bowls and buckets are among the principle articles added last week to the list of controlled non-ferrous metal items under the factory emergency regulations. The principal notice, issued last May, brought under control such fabricated goods as architectural metalwork, ornamental fittings, including many items of furniture and builders' hardware. The borough by-law which imposes a £2 licence on multi-horse teams carting farm produce came in for some severe criticism at last night's meeting of the Blenheim branch of the Farmers' Union. "There is no place in the North Island where they impose such a tax on a farmer coming to town wdth. his produce," said Mr W. E. Potter. "When I protested to the Borough Council they didn't have the courtesy to reply." It w^as decided to ask the Council to abolish the charges on farmers carting in produce, especialiy \n view of the petrol and tyre position. For the first time the Army Nursing Service and the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps are now constituted part of the defence forces within the meaning of the Defence Act, 1909. Provision for this is made in an amendment gazetted last night to the Defence Emergency Regulations, 1941. Previously neither of these women's services was a unit of the defence forces within the meaning oi the Act, though the Army nursing service has been established some years. The amendment gazetted defines the terms of service and provides for transfers from the Nursing Service to the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps. The Provineial Executive of the Farmers' Union is to be asked to look into the possibilities of forming a co-operative veterinary assoeiation in Marlborough. There are no veterinarians in the district and the secretary of the Blenheim branch of the Farmers' Union after consulting! Mr G. D. Shand, of the Livestock Department, secured information from! the Morrinsville Assoeiation. This was placed before last night's meet- j ing of the Blenheim branch. The ; Morrinsville Assoeiation has 900 rnembers and covers 65,000 cows. It , has five fully qualified veterinarians ! paid from £550 to £750 per annum. | The cost to the farmers was a leyy of ls 6d per cow, plus 5s -for first visit and 2s 6d subsequently. It was suggested that it might be possible to secure a quality rnan for Marlborough from Australia. The branch decided, as stated, to give all information to the Provineial Executive with a view to its taking action,

Mr J. A. Lee (.Democratic Labour, Grey Lynn) gave notice in the House of Representatives of his intention to ask the Minister for Defence if he would abolish saluting by soldiers when they are off duty. This had been done in Australia, he said, and was even being considered in England. Southern potatoes are now Teaching Auckland and with imported and local supplies retailers are able to cope with the demands of customers. Most shops have lifted the restrictions on the quantity sold to each customer. For the second' time within a few months, Dr Hughes Steele, of Wellington, has had deliberate damage done at his surgery by visiting servicemen. This occurred when a valuable engraved glass panel in the main door of his premises was smashed. This panel was the work of an artist, and is irreplaceable. Dr Steele was rather severely assaulted by intruders about three months ago, and he still suffers from an injury to a hand. While he was upstairs, two servicemen were seen to approach the door, smash the panel with a bottle, and saunter casually down the street. v