Local & General

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5279, 16 December 1946, Page 4

Local & General

To-day's Weather Forecast The Government Meteorologist has issued the following weather report and forecast: — Situation: An anti-cyelone is* centred west of Auckland, with a ridge o-f high pressure to the east. Forecast for Rotorua to midnight: Moderate variable winds. Weather fair to fine and temperatures warm. The large (group of sunspQts reported last week is now showing signs of going across the centre of the sun's disc, and can be seen by the na'ked eye, if properly protected. Disturbances such as storms and aurorae may occur about Decemher •19. Scrub Fire in Eruera Street • ,A scrub fire which broke out near the rubbish tip in Eruera Street was responsible for the fire call at 5.8 p.m. yesterday. With.two deliveries of hose, the flames were extinguished by the brigade and no damage was done. Navy NofC Short jf Recruits The impression that the Navy is having difficulty in finding recruits was quashed by 'Commodore G. Faullt.ner, Chief of the Naval StafF, spealcing at a servicemen's function. The Navy was receiving' as .many recruits as it could absorb. Becauss of the shortage of general manpewer, the public thoug*ht this would mean lack of recruits, but this was nonsense. Bus Plunges Over Bank While returning to Rotorua last night, a' special Road Services bus from Te Puke, driven by Mr. G. Barker, ran off the highway at the iritersection of the Tauranga and Whakatane roads, and pluuged several feet down an embankment on the righthand side, to become submerged in several feet of water. The driver was not injured, and it appeared on casual inspecticn that little structural damage had been done to the vehicle. German Brutality in Yugoslavia Stories of the never-ending struggle of medical science against almost hopeless odds 'in the shocldng aftermath of German occupation in Yugoslavia have been brought back to London by the New Zealand plastic surgeon, Dr. John Barron, who recently returned from a term of duty as chief of the United Nations' Relief and Reha'bilitation Administration's plastic surgery unit in Belgrade, states, 'New Zealand News. Dr. Barron said that some 10,00-0 war casualties would pass. througii Belgrade hospi(tals 1 tihis year, Dim|bless people were to be seen everywhere in the streets. Saddest of all -sights that he saw was that of from 400 to 500' blinded children, some armless and legless as wel'l, of whom many were deliberately maimed and blinded by the Germans when they were under five years of age. Malnutritiofi and an increase in tuberculosis have aggravated their plight.