IN THE NEWS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 437, 19 May 1937, Page 4

IN THE NEWS.

MEMORIAL FUND. The Governor-General, Viscount Galway, has given £3O to the King George V. Memorial Fund. . CORONATION COMMEMORATION. Messrs. A. Wander, Ltd., manufacturers of Ovaltine, have adopted a somewhat, novel, yet practical, plan of commemorating the Coronation. Every employee in their organisation is being given an extra week's salary. SCOUTMASTERS’ CONFERENCE. A a meeting of the South Taranaki Boy Scouts' Association, held at S'.ritford last night, it was decided to hold 'a conference of scoutmasters a 1 Hawera next month. Scoutmasters Thompson (Stratford) and. Blackman (Elilia.m) were appointed to make arrangements. LICENSING TAXIS. In spite of a recent recommendation hy the special committee of investigation- that the licensing of taxis at Auckland be vested in the Auckland Transport Board, the general supervision of taxi services will still be done by. the City Council. This was made clear by the Minister of Transport, Hon. R. Semple, in his replies to deputations from the Auckland City Council and taxi companies yesterday PRICE OF BUTTER BOXES. An indication that before long rimn butter boxes would be introduced to replace the present white pine containers for export was given by Hon. W. Lee Martin, Minister of Agriculture, in answering criticism at Auckland about the price of boxes expressed at the annual conference of Auckland provincial branches of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. WORK AT HOMER TUNNEL. Work at the Homer tunnel has been abandoned for the winter, states » a Press Association message from Invercargill. A considerable number of men have already been withdrawn from the Homer camp and it is expected the remainder will be trans-' ferred to other work within two or three weeks. The'authorities are not at present in a position to state when the work will be resumed but it is certain that construction of the tunnel will not be proceeded with again until all danger of avalanches at the mouth of the tunnel has passed.

bibles in dunedin hotels. While there ere Bibles in the bedrooms of many of the hotels through, out New Zealand, Dunedin i s the only ci y in which those Bibles have the appearance of being used. That was one of the comments made recently to Mr J. W. Pollard, director of the South Island Travel Association, by visitors from overseas. * PLUNKET AND MALES. | W 1 h an air of concern, the Mi.iyor, Mr J. W. McMillan, inquired at the meeting of the Stratford Plunket Soc.e.j yesterday as to the propriety of mere mal s being present during an- address on Plunket affairs The President, Mrs A. O. Hugo, hastened to set .such fears at rest and a sl te-d them to remi.in, A full report of the meet.ng i s published on page 3. AERODROME A TOWN NECESSITY i A prophesy that those towns that are not provided wi t aero’romes wi ! be practically "off the map" in the near future was made in Wairca by the Minister jO f Defence, Hon. F. Jon. s, when he was annroaehed by a deputation, which sought Government ass stance f or Ihe f^-.niatioll <)f an aerodrome there. An. aerodrome, ne thought, was essentia! for a < ,wn like Wairoa,