NEWS OF THE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 152, 26 December 1945, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

WEATHER FORECAST

Forecast to 5 p.m. Thursday:— Fresh southerly winds. Weather cloudy with further passing showers tonight and tomorrow morning, but fair by tomorrow afternoon. Cool temperatures.

Further outlook, fair. New moon, January 4. Temperature at 9.30 a.m., 48 degrees. Rainfall for 24 hours to 9.30' a.m., 0.16 in. m , -,-, ,o High water: Today, 11.13 p.m.; tomorrow, 11.32 a.m. I Sun sets today, 7.56 p.m.; rises toI morrow, 4.47 a.m., sets 7.57 p.m. Fast Trip To London. [ The Shaw Savill vessel Denbighshire arrived in London on Sunday after a 29-day trip from Lyttelton via Cape Horn "and the Cape Verde Islands. Considering the route, the voyage was a particularly fast one on which the Denbighshire would have had to maintain at least 17 knots. Bucket Stolen. While a dairy-farmer near Bulls was milking recently a man in a small truck was seen to call at the farmer's house in order apparently to obtain water for his truck. After filling the radiator, he put the bucket he had used on his truck and calmly drove off. Buckets of this type are both scarce and costly nowadays and have, at last, qualified as an article worth stealing. Sales Tax Keturns. Sales tax receipts for September amounted to £1,208,462, a decrease of £12,419 below the total for August, but an increase of £14,919 as compared with September of last year. The aggregate receipts from sales tax for the nine months ended in September was £10,135,549, as compared with £10 102,914 and £9,075,308 in siniilar periods of 1944 and 1943 respectively. Licensed Motor Vehicles. The number of motor vehicles licensed at the end of September was 289,599, as compared with 275,383 at the same date in 1944. Motor-cars included in the foregoing totals numbered 192,624 (167,660 private cars and 24,964 business cars) in September, 1945. and 189,571 (165,939 private cars and 23,632 business cars) in September, 1944. Not As A Hole. At a meeting of a rural district council a deputation of farmers asked to be received. They wished to complain about the state of the main road just outside the village. They found, however, that their arguments did not receive a very good reception. In fact, the members of the council objected with emphasis and much noise. "Look here," said the chairman, "the road is fairly good as a whole." "Yes/ replied the spokesman of the party, "but we want to use it as a road." Danger Of Hot Pools. The necessity for safeguarding access to hot pools in the native villages of Rotorua was stressed by the coroner, Mr. W. L. Richards, at the inquest into the death of Elaine Mitchell, aged three, who died in hospital following a fall into a pool at Ohinemutu, states a Rotorua correspondent. Mr. Richards said it was gratifying to know that that pool had been immediately barricaded. An urgent necessity still existed, however, for a survey of those areas in the pas. so that barriers could be set up to prevent similar tragedies in future. Forged Bank-notes. Forged Bank of England notes of all high denominations have appeared in New Zealand, according to advice received by the Treasury Department from the Chief Cashier of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Government Departments have been warned and instructions issued that Bank of England notes of a higher denomination than £1 should not be accepted under any circumstances. Precautions have been taken in New Zealand for some time regarding the cashing of Bank of England notes, as it has long been known that forged notes were circulating in great quantity on the Continent. Steps have been taken in England to meet the position, and it was stated in October that £5 notes would be replaced by a new type of note.