LOCAL AND GENERAL
Alleged Theft of Gold. The metallurgist who is charged with the theft of 36500 z. of alluvial gold, valued at £31,496, from Arahura Gold Dredging, Ltd., Leo Edward Moreland, aged 41, was remanded again by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday. The remand, which was on the application of the police, was till September 15. An Uncanny Experience. Mr L. S. Drake, chief traffic officer, Wellington, when visiting the city council’s garage in Chaffers Street yesterday morning, heard a fairly loud crashing noise. A window, untouched by anyone, had cracked and broken, there were new cracks in the brickwork of the garage, and the bitumen pavement outside was cracked right across. “Evidently there had been tension in that part of the building following the earthquake,” said Mr Drake. “Then something below ground collapsed. It was a weird sensation.” Price of New Potatoes. A price order covering the sale and purchase of new potatoes has been issued by the Price Tribunal on the recommendation of the Minister of Industries and Commerce. An announcement to this effect was made yesterday by the Minister of Marketing, Mr Barclay. The new order, which became operative yesterday, fixed the prices to be paid to growers for new potatoes grown in the North Island or in the Nelson Province at £35 a ton minimum and £42 10s a ton maximum, f.o.r. South Island. For new potatoes grown in the remainder of the South Island, the minimum price is £4O a ton and the maximum £47 10s. Provision is also made in the Order for the fixation of intermediary margins with a maximum retail price of 7d a lb for potatoes grown in the North Island and in Nelson, and 7jd a lb covering potatoes grown in the remainder of the South Island. Shop Assistants' Award. A new award for shop assistants has been made by the Court of Arbitration for two years from September 7. It covers the Taranaki, Wellington, Nelson, Marlborough, Westland, Canterbury, Otago and Southland industrial districts. A dissenting opinion was recorded by the employees’ representative on the Court, Mr A. L. Monteith. According to a memorandum by the president of the Court, Mr Justice Tyndall the employers’ representative on the Court, Mr W. Cecil Prime, was not in full agreement with the rates of wages fixed, but recorded no formal dissent. The wages of shop assistants under this award had been increased in further recognition of the fact that these workers were called on to work 44 hours a week, spread over five and a half days. The nominal rates for male assistants had, in most cases, been increased by 7s 6d a week for seniors and by amounts varying from Is to 7s 6d a week for juniors. The rates for female assistants had been increased by 10s a week for seniors, and by amounts varying from Is to 7s 6d a week for juniors.
Earthquake in Masterton. A sharp earthquake was felt in Masterton shortly before 10 o’clock last night. Building Remits. no building permits, other than emergency ones allowing temporary earthquake repairs, were issued by the Masterton Borough Council last month. One permit was issued by the Masterton County Council for a value of £lOOO. Home Guardsman Sent to Gaol. A Home Guardsman who was said to have worn an expeditionary force uniform was charged in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, with the theft at Christchurch of a military overcoat valued at £3 10s, the property of the New Zealand Government. He was Thomas McNeil, aged 31, motor-driver, and he pleaded guilty to the charge. Detective-Ser-geant W. McLennan, prosecuting, said that accused had stolen the coat from a party at the Riccarton racecourse, and at the time of his arrest he was wearing the field service uniform and colour patches of the N.Z.E.F., which he was not entitled to do. “He is only in the Home Guard, and he has a bad list,” Detective-Sergeant McLennan concluded. The Magistrate, Mr J. L. Stout, imposed a sentence of a month’s imprisonment. Education System. The possibility of raising the schoolleaving age, together with the possible introduction of the accrediting system for university entrance, were outlined by the Director of Education, Dr C. E. Beeby, when the 1942 conference of the New Zealand Vocational Guidance Association opened at Canterbury College. The matter would not rest merely with the solving of these two major problems, said Dr Beeby, but such a step would bring in its ■ wake a host of other problems equally urgent. Such changes would be not merely administrative, but would involve the whole direction and scope of education. The fact that only about one-sixteenth of the children leaving primary schools completed a university course was a possible indication that too much post-primary activity might be governed by the needs of this small minority. Egg Prices Cheaper. The Wellington Egg Marketing Committee and the Internal Marketing Division, working in conjunction with the Price Tribunal, announce a decrease in the wholesale price of eggs. The new prices, now effective, are as follows, with previous prices shown in parentheses:—Heavy, Is 10|d (2s l|d); standard, Is Bid (Is llid); medium, Is 7-td (Is 91d); pullet, Is 54d (Is 6.1 d); large duck, Is BJd (Is Hid); small duck, Is 7jd (Is 91d). Authorised receiving depots will pay Is 7d a dozen for ungraded eggs. Retailers are entitled to make additions as follows to their net cost into store: —Net cost less than Is 61 d, addition 2d; net cost, not less than Is 6id, and not more than Is llgd, addition 2|d; net cost not less than 2s, and not more than 2s 4d addition 3d; net cost 2s 4jd or more, addition 3Jd. Some retailers may also have stocks bought the previous week, to which prices then obtaining still apply. I
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