News of the Day

Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1942, Page 2

News of the Day

Dcllvery of Milk, "It is a lot harder delivering milk under the zoning scheme than before," said an appellant in a case heard by the

Armed Forces Appeal Board at Christchurch. "You are on the go the whole time, and there is no relief. Ihe appellant, who had a round of 50 gallons, added that he started work at 4.30 a.m. and finished at 9.45 a.m.

New York Meeting. Among New Zealanders who featured last night in a New York radio station's broadcast beamed on the Antipodes was Sergeant Cliff Walker, an airman whose address was given as Eltham. When thq programme compere, Miss Nola Luxford, also a New Zealander, leamed that Sergeant Walker came from Taranaki she announced that she would make arrangements for him to meet Miss May Lander, formerly of Ohangai, a singer who went abroad to further her career and is now Eit New York. Promotion of Employment. Expenditure under employment promotion schemes during the year ended March last was £1,288,432, a reduction of £1,124,354, according to the report of the controller of employment. The number employed on all schemes on April 4 last was 2413, against 7520 at the same date last year. "The very substantial reduction is a direct outcome of the acute labour shortage in all fields of industry brought about by war conditions, which have increased the general acceptability to employers of those types of men whom they would not engage in normal times," said the controller.

Plg Meat Production. A recommendation that no porker plgs should be killed under a minimum weight of 1001b from August 1 to March 31 was carried by the Taranaki District Pig Council at Stratford yesterday. This was in response to a circular advocating the production of more pig-meat, particularly at the moment, by increasing baconer and porker weights, and by mating sows earlier so that the litters could be fattened before the need to use winter feed arose. Members considered it was a better proposition, if an immediate production increase were desired, to do that than to raise the maximum weights. £20,000 Lost in Greece. The loss of money when the New Zealand troops were serving iji Greece last year is referred to in the annual report of the Controller and Auditor-General "In the course of the campaign in Greece," states the report, "some of the New Zealand field cashiers were made prisoner by the enemy, and it became necessary to reconstruct records lost there and in Crete. This reconstruction has proceeded as far as possible, and the results have been audited. The monetary loss ascertained to date, which it will be necessary to write off as representing cash unaccounted for or destroyed to prevent its falling into enemy hands, amounts to approximately £20,000." The dainty pram and cot rugs showing at Scanlan's Melbourne Corner, New Plymouth, are proving very popular sellers. Mad( of soft fluffy teddy-bear cloth, they are in suitable shades of ivory, pink and blue, and each is trimmed with an animal rrotif. Prices: Cot size, 23 x 33, at 26/6, ar.d pram size, 23 x 29, at 24/6.*