LOCAL AND GENERAL
Patriotic Cattle Drive.
Realisations from cattle sold at Stortford Lodge in aid of the Napier fund for the £1,000,000 appeal amounted to £1307 but it is expected that when the' proceeds of stock unsold at auction come to hand the total will be about £l5OO from this source. Acknowleagments in the Napier fund, which do not include the amount from the stock drive, now amount to £3376.
Youths Sent to Gaol. For assaulting a warder at the Borstal institution in Invercargill before making their escape, Manuel Poihipi and George William Chase, both aged 19, were sentenced in the Dunedin Supreme Court yesterday to fifteen months’ reformative detention. The warder was struck with a lead bar wrapped in a handkerchief and was dragged into a cubicle. Profit Sharing.
A recommendation that profit-shar-ing in industry and commerce be investigated, and, if thought practicable, it be made a plank of the platform of the National Party, was unanimously approved at a meeting of the Greymouth branch of the National Party. It was decided that the recommendation be forwarded to the policy committee in Wellington. It was considered that, after firms had provided for a fair return on the capital invested, the remainder of the profits should be distributed among the employees. Police Methods.
The Commission of Inquiry into the conduct of police investigations concluded its sitting in Wellington yesterday. It will present its findings to the Governor-General. The commission comprised Mr Justice Ostler, Mr H. H. Cornish, Solicitor-General, and Mr H. F. O'Leary, K.C., president of the Law Society. As in Palmerston North, where the hearing began, the evidence concerned the case of a young woman, known as Miss X, who was charged after investigations following the finding of the body of a newlyborn infant. Meat Export Industry.
Killings for export at Nev/ Zealand freezing works this season from October 1 to November 30, according to the returns issued by the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, show a total of 449,585 freight carcases. Killings during the first two months of the 1939-40 season were 34,734 freight carcases in excess of this season’s total. Lamb killings were confined almost wholly to the North Island with a total of 156,835 carcases, compared with 361,880 carcases for the same period last season. Wether mutton killings this season have been 1050 carcases compared with 29,028 in the corresponding period of last year; and ewe mutton 3240 carcases compared with 8407. There was a substantial advance in connection with pork.
Joint Advisory Council. The formation of a Post Office Joint Advisory Council was announced last evening by the Postmaster-General, Mr Webb. The council is described as the fountain-head of a series of advisory committees which have been set up to facilitate consultation between the administration and the staff on departmental matters. Of the 12 members on the council, six are nominated by the Director-General, Mr J. G. Young, and six by the Post and Telegraph Employees’ Association and Officers’ Guild. The members of the council are:—Departmental nominees: Messrs J. Madden (chairman), W. M. B. Veitch, T. Paton, P. N. Cryer, J. J. Knight, L. F. Smith. Service nominees: Messrs T. Falconer, O. J. Mullins, C. J. Dorrian, P. T. Berry, J. G. Churchill, A. Halliday.
Gifts Acknowledged. The matron of Sedgley Home acknowledges with thanks receipt of the following gifts:—Cakes, Mesdames L. Hunter, H. M. A. Major, Francis, T. Jordan, S. J. Gill, H. J. Francis and C. W. Rutherford, Miss Pearce; biscuits and shortbread, Women’s Institute, Kahutara; buns, Clark’s Bakery, Mrs Styles; cherries, Mr Tate (Greytown); vegetables, Mr Thorne; tabictennis set, Mr H. Reid; gooseberries, Mr Hallam, Mrs S. L. P. Free; mutton, Mr R. Pilmer, Church of Epiphany Ladies’ Guild; venison, Bob Rankin; bananas, Mr Murdoch; one pair boots and clothing, Mrs J. Ray; jam, Mrs G. Hyde; 10s, Church of the Epiphany Ladies’ Guild; entertainments, Interhouse Girls’ Sports, St Andrew’s Concert, Rotary Club Christmas dinner.
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