Grocers' Predicament.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 141, 15 May 1940, Page 6

Grocers' Predicament.

Because of the scarcity and high prices of wrapping paper and string, the Wellington Master Grocers Association have, appealed to housewives to co-operate with them in conserving supplies of those two articles Fine cotton twine has risen to the sensational price of 3s per lib reel. A Spectacular Explosion.

Providing a spectacular display, 20 tons of explosives were fired at Portland (Whangarei) the other day. The blast was estimated to bring down between 200.000 and 300,000 tons of rock. Although not the largest that has been fired at the quarry, the blast was one of the largest fired ill the Southern Hemisphere. Army Chaplains. The following chaplains have been appointed to 'third Echelon _ camps, ltev. O. J. Palmer, of Kawakawa, Bov. J. W. McKenzie, of Epsom, Rev.’ Father J. Henley, of Upper Hutt, all to go to Papakura; ltev. lv. J. Watson, of Christchurch, and Rev. F. G. Brown, of Mount Eden, to go to Trentham; and ltev. F. 0. Dawson, of Inglewood, ltev. S. H. Buck, of Ricton, and Rev. J.. S. Strang, of Fail-lie, to go Burnham. Faulty System.

The system which compelled school teachers and headmasters to transfer in order to gain promotion was criticised by the M.P. for Hawke’s Bay, Mr E. L. Cullen, at a gathering in Wairoa which farewelled the headmaster of Wairoa District High School, Mr E. E. C. Boves, who lias been appointed headmaster of Napier Intermediate School. It would be preferable if a system could be introduced whereby a" teacher who was doing such good work in a school could be retained in that school and. receive his promotion there. Registered Fishing Boats. Conditions have been changed considerably in the' fishing industry by the Industrial Efficiency Regulations. Every individual fisherman must now be licensed by the Bureau of Industry, and must be passed by it before he can secure the Marine Department’s license. In effect he must either obliterate the marks from his boat, or be licensed by both authorities. The new regulation provides that masters or owners of fishing boats who do not renew the license for their boats shall within one month from the date of expiry of the license remove from the boat all registered fishing-boat marks or numbers.

Teaching Children to Hate. In Thuringia (Germany), where the schools first succumbed to Nazism, there circulates a small niontlily paper for schoolchildren called Homeland. A recent issue contains a violent diatribe against Britain. “England’s history,” it is stated, “is a chain of acts of force and breaches of faith, her leaders have always been robbers and pirates. Canada, India and Australia were stolen from the French. New Zealand was conquered by simply butchering the natives. Without any semblance of right Malta, Cyprus and Aden were confiscated; Burma and Ireland were crushed, tortured and driven to desperation. Wherever we look there stare at us the pyramids' of skulls of exterminated peoples; wherever we listen we hear the lamentations of nations under a yoke, their freedom murdered.”

Opening of Session. A Gazette Extraordinary summons members of the General Assembly to “appear for tlie dispatch of business” at Parliament Buildings at 2.30 p.m. on Thursday, June 13. Mr Lee and Mr Barnard. A resolution calling on Mr J. A. Lee, M.P., and Hon. W. E. Barnard, AI.P., to resign their scats in Parliament on the ground that they no longer possess the confidence of the party has been passed by the Hamilton branch of the Labour Party. Small Town’s Example. Between 80 and 90 per cent, of the townspeople of Inglewood have agreed to give 6d a week for patriotic purposes, of which a quota yet to be determined will be given to assist that branch of the lied Cross Society to carry on its operations. Journey Intercepted. Because of an engine failure on tlie Itimutaka incline late yesterday afternoon, passengers by the Woodville train, scheduled to reach Wellington at 5.44 p.m., were transhipped to a fleet of buses at Feathcrston, and taken to Wellington by road. Debris In River. Tlie engineer (Mr H. V. Bond) reported to the Manawatu County Council yesterday that during the flood over last week a considerable amount of debris and materials from river protection works became caught on the piles of the Manawatu lliver bridge at Shannon. This has since been cleared. New Dental Training School. In the presence of Ministers of the Crown, representatives of the dental profession, oflicers of the Health. Department and of the division of Dental Hygiene of the Department, the new Wellington Dental Clinic and Dominion Training School for dental nurses was opened by Lady Galway yesterday. “For Victory.” “What are we fighting and working for?” These arresting words head a poster which was contained in a case of goods received in Wanganui recently. The answer to the question, in equally large type, is given further down the poster. It is contained in two words, reminiscent of Mr Churchill’s remarks in the House of Commons—- “ For Victory.” Butterfish Depleted.

There has been a serious depletion of the stocks of butterfish, said the Inspector of Fisheries (Mr A. E. Helford) yesterday, and in the endeavour to conserve them regulations now provide that nets used to catch them must have not more than a four-inch mesh, while the fish taken must not be less than 13 inches from nose to end of fail. Damaged Railv/ay Bridge. Except for a slight speed restriction, normal conditions for traffic were resumed, last evening, at the Longburn railway bridge, which was damaged on Sunday by the displacement of a logging tractor on a goods train on Sunday morning. The accumulation of goods "traffic in the Palmerston North railway yards has now been reduced to normal proportions. Unique Service. “1 think that in New Zealand we are unique in that we carry on the school dental service with nursesj instead of dentists, as in other parts of the world,” said the Minister of Health (Hon. H. T. Armstrong) at the opening of the new Wellington Dental Clinic and Dominion Training School yesterday. “The nurses have been used in New Zealand with remarkable success.” Fatal Shot Wound. Admitted to the Thames Hospital on, Thursday suffering from a severe head wßund received when he was out shooting with four other youths near Paeroa. Colin Bayly, aged 18, son of Mr and Mrs Owen Bayly. of Epsom, Auckland, died in hospital. While he was out shooting with two cousins and two other boys one of the guns discharged. and Bayly received the full charge in the side of his head. Hitler’s Balloon. An original view _of the order of things that Hitler is trying to force upon the civilised world was given by Very Rev. J. Lawson Robinson, B.A. (Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand), when lie spoke at Stratford. He likened .Hitler to the small hov with the rubber balloon, who, thrilled with its inflated glory, continued to blow it up until it burst. Such would happen to Hitler’s programme. F.ducation For Democracy. While on the one hand the youth of Nazi Germany were taught from their earliest years what Nazism meant and what the State demanded of them, on the other hand the children of the democracies seemed to have very little idea of what democracy implied, said Professor R. M. Algie in an address to the Napier Rotary Club. “Our Prime Minister told us the other day that we are fighting for Western civilisation,” he said. “Go home and ask your children what Western civilisation means. They will not be able to toll von: 1 believe it to be three things —Christian ethics, the rule of law, and the right to discover the truth and speak it.”

Banks and Breweries. Banks and breweries were briefly mentioned by' the Minister of Health and Housing (Hon. H. T. Armstrong) during the course of a political address in Auckland. “AVe took over the Central Bank, and we have made some use of it,” he said. “I hope that the time will come when we will own all the hanks. Before we have completed our programme banking will not be a very' profitable enterprise.” AVhen an interjector asked: “AVhat about tlie breweries ” the Atinister said that if the Government had not taken over breweries it had to be remembered that the State was receiving 2s a gallon from their production. “I think that a better proposition than taking them over,” he added. “If we owned them, I do not think we would make 2s a gallon. You fellows would all want cheaper beer.”