LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 February 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Street Days. 1 Wellington is sure of one thing—its street collection days. During a discussion on money-raising at tlje Provincial Patriotic Council’s monthly meeting yesterday, the Mayor, Mr Hislop, said that every available day for two years to come was booked in Wellington. An Objectionable Practice. An objectionable practice that was indulged in by some visitors to the Wellington Public Library was mentioned by Mr J. McCrae at a meeting of the Wellington City Council. Some persons, he said, had a habit of writing on the margins of books that were taken from the library, expressing views that were opposed to those of the authors. He suggested that a warning should be placed in the library that such offenders would be prosecuted. The chairman of the library committee, Mr E. J. Smith, said that concern was caused not only by this practice, but by the fact that many items were cut out of the books. It was difficult to detect the offenders, but the matter would be brought before the acting librarian. Sauerkraut For Troops, Contrary to the policy of serving cows with cabbages at Te Horo, the Government vegetable farm at Grovetown, Marlborough, is supplying “drumheads” by the ton for turning into sauerkraut. The cabbages, according to the Marlborough Express, are for American soldiers, and will be processed in Christchurch, put up in cans and shipped to stations in the Pacific war zone under the lease-lend arrangement. Marlborough was the nearest locality from which sufficiently large quantities of cabbages could be procured. They are being delivered in five-ton consignments. These cabbages are the pride of those responsible for the 50-acre garden’s production output. Recently two of them, stripped of all surplus leaves, tipped the scales at 221 b., and it is claimed that better ones than these have since matured. Delivery of Groceries. It is the intention of the Government immediately to relax restrictions on grocery deliveries, according to advice received by the secretary of the New Zealand Master Grocers’ Federation, Mr R. M. Barker, from the Minister of Transport, Mr O’Brien. Following representations over a considerable period by the federation, the Minister said the whole position in regard to zoning deliveries had been reviewed, as it had been represented that the restrictions had caused undue hardship to the public in some cases. While in most parts of the Dominion there will be only one retail delivery of groceries a week, there will be no minimum restriction on the size or weight of parcels in thgt delivery. Instructions to this effect, states the Minister, have been given to local controllers of oil fuel, and $n examination is being made of the various zoning sphemes already gazetted with a view to amending them.