Grants for Reserves

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 17 October 1942, Page 4

Grants for Reserves

Grant* of £' in ouch for tli<- IVluru*. (1 Onamalutu and Ngnkula. and of £5 ; for li.c: r.;ike Roloiti r< ei v< made by the Marlborough Automobile ; A ociation 1 w eel 11 open t. tin “Express”) Sinidar amounts were: granted by the Association la: t \cai. Depart mental employees •Many new Government depot t--mcnls have been created as a insult j «-i' the war. and the president of the Dunedin Manufacturers’ Association. . j Air J. C. 11. Somerville. at the annual j I expressed the opinion that, they had j not been limited in personnel as they j j might have been. The people ; huuld j I see to it that alter the war special 1 j and necessary departments lor war- | J time must not be allowed to develop j functions during peace time, said Mr j Somerville, who added that at the . present time one person m every ; four, excluding the armed forces, was 1 employed by the Government. Honest Racegoer Through mistaking a £I ticket for ; a £5 one when paying out on a horse j that paid over £l3 for a place at, Wingatui on Saturday, a clerk m the , totalisator found himself wondering, j j when he came to balance up, liow he | was going to meet a shortage of approximately £53 (states the “Otago Daily Times”). A search through the crowd failed to disclose anyone who appeared to have more money than he wanted, and he returned to the totalisator building just in time to I discover that lie had found an honest i man. An elderly investor had come in to tell the proprietor tljat he had ! received what is known in sporting parlance as “over half a century” . more than he was entitled to receive. That I lower Language* • Gifts of flowers to the girl friend , when one calls is evidently an Ameri- . can custom that has been brought overseas as naturally as the language and almost as unconscious- j Iv. “They won't go anywhere unless ; they have sent flowers.” said a Wei - , lington lady florist. “Or course, with ’ the i ortage of men everywhere, flow - ' ers are not being produced as profuse- ’ Iv. or jn many eases, in such excellent 1 condition as in peacetime. The Ame- » rican men know that, but they always order something. Often they leave the choice to us. As flowers with them 1 just naturally seem to go with the best 5 seats, orders for 10s are quite com- - mon.” The visitors seemed to miss the long-stemmed roses so popular in the United States, but if the sprays were ) dainty as well as scented, they were in- ■ variably satisfied. 1 Less Cake Made A large supplier of block cake in ’ Auckland states that his distribution to ■ all customers as from this week nas . been reduced by 30 per cent. Already , many of the shops which sell this firm’s products have been rationed in sweets 1 and ice cream, and it was likely, said '■ the manufacturer, that shopkeepers ■ with such limited stocks v'ouid observe , short hours, closing at about 4 o’clock. The chief shortage in ingredients for cake-making is sugar. Removal of Clubhouse “Our dealings with the Army in this ' connection would make a good page in comic literature, said Mr C. T. Asch- : man, chairman of the Waimakariri River Trust, at its meeting when reference to the Harewood golf course property was made in the finance committee’s report. "It was the must inefficient bit of work we have ever had to deal with.” added the chairman. Mr Aschman said that when the golf course was given up the clubhouse came to the trust. It stood vacant until a member of the trust, Mr W. F. McArthur, made arrangements for it to be rented. When two Army officers he met found that the house was going to be let they told him to wash the whole thing out. as the Army would take the ver. Five or six wet the trust-vfc rote to the Army and received a reply that the whole thing was a figment of the imagination. The house was then advertised for sale for removal and a tender was accepted The tenderer was half-way through the removal of the nouse when Army otficers arrived and put a guard on it. and told him he could not take it away, notwithstanding the fact that he was under contract to the trust. He was even offered a sum of money for the house. “We were resigned to our fate.”

said Mr Aschman. "but a week ;ater v.e got notice that the Army did not want the house and we could have it.” Mr McArthur said the house had been used every week-end for officers’ headquarters. Mr Aschman: That can't be right, because the Minister told us in his letter that it was used on only one occasion. The Minister can’t be wrong. Mr Aschman stated after the meeting that the Army had since allowed the tenderer to remove the house.