LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

No Publication Tomorrow. The “Times-Age” will not be published tomorrow, New Year's Day. New Year Services. The Rev. D. McNeur will conduct New Year services on Sunday at Rangitumau at 1.30 p.m., and Kopuaranga at 2.45 p.m. i Frost at Christmas.

The unusual phenomenon of a sharp frost on Christmas Day occurred at KowaiJßush, North Canterbury. Potato and bean crops were ruined, and many flower gardens also suffered.

Night in Open. Caught by a heavy fog while out tramping in the bush near Otaki on Tuesday, three young men and a girl, all of Island Bay, spent a wet, cold and uncomfortable night and were unable to find their way back to the road till 11.30 a.m. yesterday. Members of the narty were: Ronald Smith, Gwen Smith (his sister), Nick Todoski and Noel Halversen. Mr Smith is aged about 21 years and the others are about 17 years.

Lyttelton Fire Insurances. Principal insurances on premises and contents affected by the Lyttelton fire are as follows: —Rhind’s Grain Store (Railways Department), £4000; 500,000 grain sacks (Wheat Committee), £30,000 spread over several offices. Lyt telton Hotel (Ballins’ Breweries, Ltd.), £2OOO. Furniture and stock (D. McDonald), £BOO. Shoo and dwelling (R. Tredennick), £3OO. Two shops with dwellings (A. D. Hamilton), £9OO. Furniture (Mrs T. Phillipson), £2OO.

Ignorance of City Children. 1 New Zealanders have often laughed at anecdotes concerning London children’s ignorance of covzs and sheep, but the same ignorance is fairly common among Auckland children, according to Mr N. G. Gribble, director of the Youth Centre, who mentioned the case of a boy who announced that he did not like cows’ milk; he liked city milk. He had no idea that city milk came from cows. Many Auckland children did not know where bacon came from. The Grocer of Tomorrow.

A prediction that the grocer of the future will be vastly different from the groce of today is made in an editorial article in the “New Zealand Grocers’ Review,” which states that it will have to be recognised that the trade consists of something more than selling goods. A greater knowledge of the goods handled, and specially of their food values, will become essential In’the light of recent developments, the trade is likely to become a profession for which special training will be required.

Communist Cali to Work. “In 1943 the work of the people on every front must be intensified,” says the Communist Party of New Zealand, Wellington district, in a New Year message. “Particularly is this necessary on the production front. The Communist Party calls on the workers in industry to break all records in production in the first six months of the New Year. For the achievement of our objective—the defeat of Fascism—co-operation and unity among every section of the people must be fostered. Nowhere can the workers do so much as on the job, in the factory or workshop. There the cooperation between the worker and the employer must be developed to the highest point. There the joint production committees can be formed and employers co-operate in eliminating waste and increasing efficiency. The production of the material things that mean the defeat of Fascism is the responsibility of the workers.”