LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

May be Rationed. The possibility that further rationing might include such commodities as butter and cheese, was mentioned by the Prime Minister (Mr Fraser) at a ceremony at the Palmerston North Hospital on Saturday. Mr Fraser was referring to the war situation and stated that the people might have to make many more sacrifices and do without many things 'they had never thought., would be scarce —such as butter and cheese. Alleged Forgery. Further charges arising out of alleged irregularities in army acquittance rolls were heard in the Magistrates’ Court, Dunedin, yesterday, when James Richard Edmond, aged 48, and Allan Gibb, were respectively charged with having obtained £3 10s 6d and £3 Os 3d by false pretences and with having committed forgery by appending fictitious signatures to acquittance rolls. Both men pleaded not guilty and were committed to the Supreme Court for trial. Bail, self £lOO, and one surety of £lOO, was allowed. Miller Trust Fund. Under the will of the late Mr W. Barrington Miller, Gisborne, a trust fund which, it is estimated, will amount to approximately £45,000 has been established for the purpose of assisting promising boys in the Gisborne and East Coast district to receive a higher education. Some time before his death, Mr Miller had taken steps to create the trust and had transferred assets valued at £lO,OOO to the Public Trustee for this purpose. His will provides that the residue of his estate, after allowing for legacies and annuities, shall accrue to the educational trust, bringing the total value Ip £45,000. Drive for Toothpaste Tubes. The drive for toothpaste tubes, shaving soap tubes and all other collapsible tube containers brings home to the public once again the unpalatable truth that the world supply of this vital metal still remains in enemy hands. The average annual tonnage of tin consumed in tubes is 60 tons. The public may be inclined to think that the value of one tube is trifling. It requires single tubes to make the aggregate, and tin is precious. There are two ways of reclamation: (a) The voluntary way, and most shops are now providing receptacles in which people are requested to deposit all used tubes in their possession, and to adopt the practice always of depositing at least one used tube before they buy a new tube. The second method (b) is by way of further irksome legislation, insisting that the customer must present one used tube before he can purchase one new tube. Tn the circumstances, knowing the great scarcity and the widespread usefulness of tin as a war material, the public should not be slow to show the authorities that when it’s a real war effort there are no regulations needed.

Increased Prices; “The requirements for the Chemistry and Home Science laboratories have been drastically reduced on account of high prices,” stated the Acting-Princi-pal, Mr F. J. Gair, at last night’s meeting of the Wairarapa College Board of Governors. An order for equipment and chemicals which now cost £7O used to cost about £3O. Some things had trebled in price. It was unfortunate to have to buy at present, said Mr Gair, but the equipment was essential.