Heavy Frost in Masterton.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1941, Page 4

Heavy Frost in Masterton.

Many water taps and the surface of wet i oads in Masterton were frozen this morning when a frost of 15 7 degrees was registered. Soldier Settlement.

Recommendations on land settlement adopted by the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association conference in Wellington yesterday included the following: “The provision for taking land under the Small Farms Amendment Act, 1940, is a distinct departure from any previous legislation and in its present form is an infringement of the liberties at present enjoyed by the people. In view of this the N.Z.R.S.A. recommends that the provisions of the Lands for Settlement Act, 1925, for acquisition of and compensation for lands be applied when acquiring lands for discharged soldier settlement.”

“Nosing” Shells at Three a Minute. Big shells “nosed” by a new method will soon begin rolling from the Le Tourneau production lines at Toccoa. United States, at the rate of three- a minute. Mr R. G. Le Tourneau, the evangelist-industrialist who developed the machinery, said 155 mm. ammunition is nosed under a pressure of 6,000.000 pounds a square inch. The plant, already working on a defence order from the Army calling for nearly 1,000,000 shells, is expected Io reach production peak in August. The manufacturer has installed two of the new machines, which he hopes will enable him to complete the contract in 13 months. Price of Barley Increased.

The Minister of Agriculture. Mr Barclay, stated at Dunedin yesterday that after negotiations among the department. the chief users of malting barley, and the growers, price's for stook-threshed and stack-threshed barley will be increased for all contract barley in the coming season, the increases representing a rise on last year of 3Ad a bushel for stoolr-threshed and -id for st.'iek-threshed. Contracts for malting barley will be made on three prices for No. 1 grade, and in addition to the differential price between stook and stack-threshed barley a new price for winnowed barley would be established as follows: Can-terbury-Marlborough. 4s 7-ld a bushel: Southland, 4s 9d: Central Otago, 5s l.'.d. Glass Without Silica. Discover-.- ol’ a new kind of glass which is giving American military aviation improved aerial .photographs was announced recently. The glass is made without silica, a fact as strange as steel made without iron. The result is glass which bends light more than has hitherto been possible. Applied to a camera lens, this means that, without reducing speed, the new "eye" will photograph a wider area and at the same time give a sharper picture over lhe entire area. The new glass was perfected a year ago, and kept secret, but the news came out recently in the annual stockholders’ report. Aerial lenses for the Government have been manufactured for the last year.