In the News

Southland Times, Issue 24834, 28 August 1942, Page 4

In the News

Wool Price Deduction The Wellington Woolbrokers’ Association has been; advised by the Marketing Department of its intention to pay for new season’s wool less a deduction of 10 per cent, instead of the usual 5 per cent, retention money. No official information has been received by wool brokers about why the additional deduction is being made. The 10 per cent, deduction applies to the Wellington crutchings appraisal of 4252 bales which finished on August 12 and the prompt date for which was yesterday. To allow the necessary adjustments to account sales, prompt date has now been extended to September 3. The crutchings submitted at the appraisal were valued on the new schedule, which has added the 15 per cent, increase recently granted by the United Kingdom. —PA. Girls Called Up On Thursday morning 16 Winton girls between the ages of 20 and 22 received advice that their services would be required at the linen flax factory. The girls will be interviewed tomorrow and, if medically fit, 14 will be required to report for duty on Monday morning. The selection has been particularly severe on two businesses, one with a staff of two girls losing both and another with a staff of four losing three. Scotsmen and Seagulls

The fact that he had at one time lived in Southland was mentioned by Mr G. A. Hayden, secretary of the National Patriotic Fund Board, in the course of his address in the Victoria Concert Chamber last night. He said that more than 20 years ago he had come here to work. Before he came south a friend warned him that “only Scotsmen and seagulls could live in Invercargill” Wages and Costs

■‘The Government is working on a plan to stabilize all wages and costs and that, I think, will be a big factor in all our future negotiations.” said the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. J. G. Barclay, after addressing the Electoral Committee of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board at Wellington yesterday. “The more stable we can keep our internal economy at present the better will be our position at the end of the war. If we allowed prices to soar and then fly back, we would not add to our strength. The only men who would benefit would be speculators and those in between the producer and the consumer.”—P.A.

Help for Returned Men A suggestion that a committee should be set up to deal with applications from returned soldiers for assistance to the extent of more than £6 from the Patriotic Fund was approved by the Southland Provincial Patriotic Council at a meeting yesterday. The suggestion was made by Mr W. F. H. Stone, secretary of the Invercargill R.S.A., who is charged with the duty of giving this form of assistance to returned men. The appointment of the committee was left to the executive. Fencing Wire Controlled , The Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. J. G. Barclay, announced yesterday that a control order had been gazetted whereby farmers or other persons requiring supplies of plain fencing wire after August 27 must comply with certain conditions which had been outlined to fields division officers of the Department of Agriculture and to primary production councils. Retailers would be entitled to sell plain fencing wire in quantities not exceeding scwt without authority, but for quantities in excess of this it would be necessary for the intending purchaser-used . to make application on the prescribed form. Applications for farming purposes would be dealt with by district councils of primary production, and for other than farming purposes by fencing materials associations in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. The Minister added that farmers who had been holding wire for defence purposes could now put the wire to its normal use.—P.A. Christmas Dinner for Soldiers “It would be better to, subsidize the Christmas dinner rather than give cigarettes. The men all eat, but they do not all smoke,” said Mr H. C. Gimblett at a meeting of the Southland Provincial Patriotic Council yesterday when the question of what should be done to entertain the men who were likely to be in ,camp in New Zealand at Christmas time was being discussed. Mr G. A. Hayden, secretary of the National Patriotic Fund Board, said it was impossible to say how many men were likely to be in camp at Christmas time, but the indications were that because of the international situation only the normal number of men would be on leave at that time. The council decided to subsidize Christmas dinners for men in local campiE