LOCAL AND GENERAL
Sale of Army Vehicles. Eighty-one used Army vehicles were sold in Dunedin on Wednesday and realised £25,000. The buyers were transport operators, coal merchants and farmers. Children’s Party. The St. Matthews Collegiate School Parents’ Association will hold its annual children's plain and fancy dress party in the St. Matthew's School assembly hall on Saturday afternoon, commencing at 1.30 o’clock. Co-operative Ownership. The Dominion conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union in Wellington yesterday adopted a resolution “that an endeavour be made to bring about the adoption of co-operative ownership and control in industry wherever such system is operable, as the only apparent alternative to bureaucratic nationalisation; and that to this end contact with organised labour be made and the possibility of its affiliation discussed.” .... ...A—CLIP Farmers and Politics. “That this conference views with concern the attitude of the Government, and of the Minister’ of Agriculture in particular toward farmers’ problems generally.” This resolution was adopted by the Dominion conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union in Wellington, after a long discussion in committee, by 40 votes to 20. After another long discussion which was not open to the Press two resolutions calling for political action were rejected by the conference, one of them by a very narrow majority.
Legislation by Order-in-Council. An emphatic protest against what it termed the rapidly increasing practice of passing legislation by Order-in-Council was made by resolution of the Dominion conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union in Wellington yesterday. The resolution urged that the Farmers’ Union do all in its power to get an Act of Parliament passed, whereby all regulations passed by Order-in-Council must be brought up before Parliament for discussion within six months, and confirmed within nine months; all such orders to lapse if not confirmed, and not to be renewed either in the original form or in an amended form by a further Order-in-Council; and in any case no regulation to be passed before the industries concerned have been consulted.
Sick and Wounded Service Men. The latest batch of sick and wounded to arrive in New Zealand—a total of GBo—included men who received their wounds in the momentous period starting with the great break-through at El Alamein and finishing in Tunisia. Many were wounded in the break-through on the flank of the Mareth Line and they, with others who were subsequently wounded and returned to New Zealand aboard the same ship were flown back to a base hospital by transport plane or air ambulance. This is the largest number of sick and wounded to return at the one time during this war. The Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, Cabinet Ministers, members of Parliament and Mr Goosman, M.P., representing the Leader of the Opposition, welcomed the men at an official reception.
Thief Sent to Gaol. * Described as a deserter from the Army, Robert Wark Johnston, aged 23, admitted in the Magistrates’ Court, Dunedin, yesterday, the theft of 3000 cigarettes and other articles from a room in a hotel used as a distribution centre for visiting American marines and wag sentenced to a month's hard labour. Shortage of Farm Labour. Pointing out that it was merely drawing attention to the fact that the country could not have both maximum production and take away men from the land for soldiering, the Dominion conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union in Wellington last night decided to direct the attention of the authorities to the fact that unless more consideration was paid to securing an adequate supply of farm labour, then production must decline. War Time Prices. A notice published in last night's Gazette over the signature of the Government Statistician, Mr J. W. Butcher, states that the war-time price index as at June 15, 1943 (on base, December 15, 1942: 1000) was 1000. This figure, he says, indicates that after seasonal adjustment has been made in respect of certain commodities the prices of which are subject to seasonal movement, the general level of prices of commodities, etc., included in the index was the same at June 15 as at December 15 of last year.
Theft of Local Body Funds. Robert Stanley Hanna, a middleaged married man, pleaded guilty before justices of the peace at Cambridge yesterday, to four charges of theft from Cambridge district local bodies, the total involved being £222 9s. A Government auditor said the thefts were not clever ones. Full restitution haff been made. In a signed statement Hanna said financial difficulties caused him to misappropriate the money. He was committed to the Supreme Court, Hamilton, for sentence, bail in two sureties of £25, accused to report to the police daily.
New Zealand Sheepowners’ Federation At the annual meeting in Wellington yesterday of the New Zealand Sheepowners’ Federation it was resolved to make representations with a view to ensuring adequate supplies of sheep-shears and shearing-machine parts for the coming season, as great inconvenience and loss had been caused through shortages last season. Provision for additional supplies of sugar for jam-making for shearers, musterers and other seasonal farm workers is to be asked for. It was suggested that the position might possibly be met by instructions to district controllers to meet cases which were considered to be reasonable. Need for the retention of garde I high-country musterers, shearers and other specialised rural workers was stressed, and representations are to be made that such workers should be retained in the country, with a view to their being released from military duties for the period necessary to carry out seasonal work, subject to recall if an emergency should arise. In view of the alarming increase in the number of rabbits reported from various districts it was resolved to approach the department for an increase in supplies of poison and some assistance, if possible, with respect to labour for rabbiting.
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