LOCAL AND GENERAL
Transport Licensing. A sitting of the No 2 Transport Licensing Authority will be held in Masterton on Thursday, September 28. at 2 p.m. The business to come before the authority consists of applications for renewals, amendments and transfers of goods and passenger licences while a number of licences are to be reviewed. Petrol Coupons.
The issue of petrol coupons to private car-owners is proceeding smoothly at the Masterton Post Office. About a thousand cards have already been handed out and further applications are being made daily. Following on the issue of these coupons it has been found necessary to review some of the licences for business people. ■
Family United After 36 Years. After a separation of 36 years from his four sisters and his brother who had not seen him since he and his first wife left this country in 1903 to go farming in South Africa, Mr E. Bartlett, Klipfontein farm, Boksburg, Transvaal, was reunited in Auckland on Sunday. Mr Bar-tlett fought in the South African War, leaving New Zealand with the First Contingent in 1899.
Sheepfarming Commission. Because of the international situation, the Royal Commission to inquire into conditions in the sheepfarming industry finished its Wanganui sitting and returned to Wellington today. The whole of the Wanganui programme has been carried out and the commission has been sitting a week. It was intended that the next sitting should be held in Hamilton, but the work has been suspended in the meantime. The future movements of the commission are not known.
No Fear of Sugar Shortage. . Having cancelled the remaining portion of his holiday plans to return to England, Mr R. M. Rook, a prominent London sugar broker, passed through Auckland on his way back to England. He said there was no need to fear a sugar shortage. Ample supplies were held in all countries of production, said Mr Rook, and the main difficulty in distribution would be caused by transport. Speaking of supplies in England, Mr Rook said he knew that there were ample quantities to last a considerable time.
Class in Tailors' Cutting. A new class in tailors’ cutting, under the instruction of Mr T. F. Young, will begin at the Christchurch Technical College, according to a report made by the principal (Dr D. E. Hansen) at a meeting of the Board of Governors. The response from employees in the trade indicated that it would be possible to start one class for men and another for women, Dr Hansen said. The chairman (Mr T. W. West) said that it had been decided to arrange only the men’s class in the meantime.
Snaring Cats. Complaints were received at the monthly meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Christchurch that in more than one district cats had been caught in traps and snares set for them. In one instance a cat was found dead through the snare tightening up round its waist. The committee decided to instruct its inspectors to keep a sharp look-out for the offenders, and any future ones, and prosecutions would follow wherever sufficient evidence was available.
Small Potato Crop. \. The season, 1938-39 was noteworthy for the smallest total area of potatoes harvested, as well as the smallest aggregate yield obtained since 1916. The average yield an acre,. 4.86 tons, was also one of the lowest on record. On a percentage basis, potatoes of table quality represented 67.3 per cent of the total yield, bnd those described by growers as suitable for seed purposes accounted for 23.2 per cent. The balance of 9.5 per cent represents the proportion rejected as fit only for pig feed, etc. Corresponding percentages for 1937-38 were 68.2, 21.7 and 10.1 respectively.
A War Precaution. The results of the outbreak of war were quickly noticeable when the American Matson liner Mariposa arrived at Auckland from Sydney on her way to San Francisco. On her sides were painted large representations of the Stars and Stripes and another flag had been painted on the tennis deck in plain view from the sky. Before they were permitted to land all members of the crew and all passengers of alien countries who were passing through Auckland were required to have special passes. To issue these, four men were placed at tables in the disembarkation foyer, and a strict watch was kept io see that no one needing a pass went ashore without one. Maori Battalion. Strong objection to a resolution passed at a conference of North Auckland Maori, leaders opposing the sending a Maori force overseas was expressed at a further conference held near Kawakawa. The second conference was more widely representative than the previous one, and had been called primarily to discuss the arrangements for the participation of the Maori race in the Waitangi centennial celebrations. The feeling of the conference was that the Maoris should fight side by side with the pakehas in whatever sphere of the war was assigned to the New Zealand troops. The Maoris should serve as warriors, not as labourers, as the Pioneer Battalion of Maoris was largely used in the last war.
Synthetic Oil Fuels. “Probably no discovery has so completely revolutionised the world in so short a time as the internal combustion engine, and the provision of an adequate supply of fuel for our cars and aeroplanes is probably a sufficient justification for turning our attention to the fuel problem,” said Dx’ H. G. Denham, Professor of Chemistry at Canterbury University College, in an address to the Geographical Association of Canterbury. “Varying estimates have been given as to the life of the oil wells at present in sight, and these estimates rarely exceed 20 years, for one must remember’ that the rate of increase of fuel oil consumption has in recent years beeix stupendous, and is likely to be even greater. Additional supplies, whethex- natural oxsynthetic, are therefore of paramount importance to the civilisation of today. Refined petrol consists of about 85 per cent carbon and 15 per cent hydrogen. Coal is largely built of the same two constituents, but in the proportion of 95 to five. The development of the modern hydrogenation process for obtaining petrol from coal involves so acting upon the coal with hydrogen as to increase this hydrogen ratio to that pertaining in petrol.’
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