NEWS OF THE DAY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26636, 5 December 1947, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Ration Coupons Meat coupon No. 5 will expire on Sunday and No. 6 on December 14. No. 7 will become negotiable on December 8, and will expire on December 21. A full row of coupons has the value of 2s Id for adults and Is Id for children, the H coupon being worth lOd and the J coupon 7d. Butter coupons No. 5 to 7 will be available up to December 21, and No. 8 will be current from December 1 until December 31. Each butter coupon entitles the purchaser to Boz. Tea and sugar couDons No. 5 to 8 will be current until December 21. Each sugar coupon entitles the purchaser to 12oz, while the value of each tea coupon is 2oz. An extra 31b of sugar is available until December 31 on production of coupon No. Y 26. A special six-monthly issue of tea coupons is made to persons who have reached the age of 70, and two such coupons, each of Boz, are available for the three-monthly period ending on January 31. Expectant mothers, nursing mothers, and persons who have reached the age of 70 are entitled to an extra Boz of butter a month on production of coupon No. 5. Labour Party Affiliation

A notice cf motion that the Christchurch Stoi’emen's, Packers and Warehouse Employees’ Union disaffiliate from the New Zealand Labour Party was defeated at a meeting members in the Trades Hall this week. No Bread for Five Days

Auckland housewives will have to buy sufficient bread to suffice for five days on Christmas Eve, and again on New Year’s Eve. This arises from a decision of the bakers’ section of the Auckland Drivers’ Union not to make deliveries on either of the Saturdays during the two holiday periods. Development of Rongotai

Little doubt now remains in the minds of those closely concerned in Wellington that the Government will develop Rongotai as the key aerodrome in New Zealand’s internal airways sys-. tern. Reports of the experts have gone forward, and it is believed that a decision will not be long delayed. Nurse’s Rooms at Mosgiel Sketch plans are being prepared for the erection of a district nurse's rooms at Mosgiel and will be submitted to the Health Department for approval. The rooms will be built on land recently acquired by the Otago Hospital Board, and provision will be made for a clinic and waiting room. At present the district nurse at Mosgiel is occupying temporary premises. Hotel Service Praised

“ Hotel service throughout the South Island is excellent,” said Mr L. B. Thomson, 0.8. E., to the Daily Times last night. Mr Thomson, who is touring New Zealand and Australia on behalf of the Canadian Department of Agriculture, said that he had travelled extensively in both Canada and the United States, and nowhere else had he found hotel staffs so courteous or tariffs so reasonable.

Wind Causes Delays The strong north-east wind which ’swept the city yesterday was the source of considerable delay on the waterfront as well as causing annoyance to pedestrians and breaking some telephone wires. At Port Chalmers the Aldington Court was unable to enter the dock due to the force of the gusts, and the waterside workers unloading barrels of bitumen from the Norman Star at Port Chalmers and phosphate fronr the Marabank at Ravensbourne had to cease operations.

Port Chalmers Cottage Hospital Authority has been granted to the Otago Hospital Board to proceed' with the erection of additions to, and the modernisation of, the Port Chalmers Cottage Hospital. Provision has been made for additional staff quarters, a new delivery and sterilising room and other minor alterations in order to bring the building in line with modern obstetrical practice. Work is expected to begin in a few days, and the building will probably be completed in about 12 months’ time. Aircraft Being Repaired

Two of the aircraft which were stranded at Big Bay, South Westland, when Southern Scenic Air Trips, Ltd., was transporting whitebait to Dunedin, are now being overhauled at Harewood by Airwork (N.Z.), Ltd. The company’s Percival Proctor, which was stranded on October 29, was flown to Queenstown last month and later to Harewood. The South Canterbury Aero Club’s Tiger Moth, ZK-ALJ, which was chartered by the company to take in supplies to the whitebait fishermen at Big Bay, and also was stranded, was flown to Timaru last week-end and then to Harewood this week. Parts for the Tiger Moth were flown to Big Bay by the company’s Auster aircraft, which is now back in commission after having been forced down in the Lammerlaw range some time ago, and then repaired at Harewood. Also at Harewood is the second Percival Proctor owned by the company, damaged in a landing at Queenstown.

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