LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Record Price for Tomatoes. On Monday a case of hothouse tomatoes from Christchurch was sold in an Invercargill auction mart and brought the record price of 5s 9d per lb. Last year the first lot of tomatoes brought 4s 9d per lb, which was a record up to that time. New Zealand Oranges. Record prices were received for Keri Keri oranges auctioned on the Christchurch market yesterday. One broker sold 27 bushel cases from 38s to 41s. The fruit sold was of the Mediterranean Sweet variety, and, according to the broker, was a credit to the grower. Retailers eagerly pounced on the opportunity of securing New Zealandgrown '■ oranges, as they had been suffering from short supplies for a long time. The last overseas shipment was received 10 days ago from South Australia, but it was a small consignment and arrived in a “wasty” condition, necessitating repacking. Women Police. Handicaps under which the detective staffs of the major cities have been working, particularly when investigating offences against women and girls, are likely to be somewhat lessened by the addition, to their ranks of the new women police, who have now completed their training. Three of the women will be stationed at Wellington and will commence their duties next week. “I expect that these women will be a very valuable adjunct to the police services in general,”- said the Commissioner of Police (Mr D. J. Cummings) yesterday. “They are a very fine' type, both mentally and physically, and-they have been coached for four months in a great variety of subjects, including physical training and such branches of law and regulations considered necessary to enable them to carry out the duties they will be called upon to perform:” i Praise for New Zealanders. ‘'The German is a beast, and should be eliminated,” writes Rear-Admiral I. G. Glennie in a letter received recently by the secretary of the Canterbury branch of the Navy League. “Crete was a hectic affair, and the New Zealand troops emerged with very high marks, their discipline, morale and fighting powers being grand. I managed to talk to a lot of them, and they were delighted to meet someone who knew their own country.” Before his promotion to commodore in command of the New Zealand Division of the Royal. Navy, Rear-Admiral Glennie was for some time in command of H.M.S. Achilfe on the New Zealand station. The letter quoted was in reply to a message sent by the committee of the league to convey appreciation of the wonderful work done by the force under the command of RearAdmiral Glennie in so successfully tackling the German attempt to reinforce their airborne troops in Crete 'from the sea.