National War Savings The figures for National War Savings

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 53, 6 March 1944, Page 4

National War Savings The figures for National War Savings

for the city on Saturday were £3O 10s. Record Rainfall February was a record wet month in. Grey mouth for at least 10 years, the period for which records are retained. The total was 19.67in., rain falling on 22 days, the heaviest daily fall being 5.67 m. on February 2. The nearest approach to the present record was a fall of 3 7.92 inches on 18 days in March, 1938. Manawatu River Rises Everywhere else in the watershed of the Manawatu River there has been plenty of rain except at Tiritea. Yesterday afternoon the river was almost Bft. 6in. above normal while the water was very muddy and carried a fair quantity of debris. At Tiritea, however, the level of the reservoir is creeping up very slowly. Child Falls From Balcony Falling about 5 feet on to a garden from a balcony to which she had avuJ feed in her sleep, Barbara Taylor, 10-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Taylor, Eltharn Hotel, received ■severe injuries. The child was sleeping in the same room as her father, her sister and mother being out, when she suddenly leaped out of bed and, before her father could reach her, climbed out of the open window and ran along the balcony from which she fell. In her fall she struck a corrugated iron fence with such force that she bent one sheet of iron over. Mr. Taylor, who ran to her as soon as she fell, found her standing up and bleeding profusely from a wound in the arm. She was conscious, but was obviously suffering from shock.

War on Rats 1 ‘ Confirmation of the effectiveness of Epsom salts as a bait for rats is given by the manager of a Christchurch x>ic* lure theatre,” said Mr. W. J. Huggins, chief health inspector in the city. He said that the theatre staff left salts spread on paper and four rats were found dead the following morning. Effect of Meat Rationing Two committees to watch the progress and effects of meat rationing on stock supply and production in Taranaki are to be set up at Hawera and New Plymouth, according to advice received by the South Taranaki proyinical executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union from the Dominion secretary, Mr. A. P. O’Shea. The committees will each comprise three members representative of farmers, stock and station agents, and butchers (preferably retailers) in the districts. Milk to Schools Criticised Children in England were more in need of extra food than those in New r Zealand, declared Mr. O. T. Parry, Manaia, when he criticised the practice of distributing milk to primary schools, at the monthly meeting of the youth Taranaki provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union. Mr. Parry moved that the scheme be suspended for the duration of the war. The motion was carried, and the Dominion executive of the union will be advised accordingly. Country children could always get plenty of milk at home, said Mr. Parry, and the milk at jtresent distributed to schools could be put to a much better nse if it were diverted to factories. There was an ample supply of milk in the towns, said the secretary, Mr. E. K. Cameron, so children in town schools would not suffer if the scheme were suspended.