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Evening Star, Issue 24296, 10 September 1942, Page 4

The (Minister of Civil Defence, Mr Bodkin, explained last night that an amendment to the Lighting Restriction Emergency Regulations which has been gazetted places an obligation upon motorists to observe the motor vehicle lighting restrictions during all hours of darkness or at any time when there is not sufficient daylight to make a person or vehicle clearly visible at 150 feet. Previously the regulations applied from 7 p.m. to 6.30 a.m. only. Another clause in the regulations places the same lighting restrictions on Allied forces in New Zealand as on the New Zealand forces. They shall be subject to the restrictions, except when acting under orders binding upon them. Although up to the present the double murder at Wairoa has proved to bo one of the most baffling crimes in the history of New Zealand, the date has now been established, and this may aid the police inquiries. Several children who visited the hall to attend Sunday school on August 9 were playing about outside, when some, it is stated, entered the hall and went into the kitchen, where they saw Brigadier Annie Smyth sitting in a chair. Becoming alarmed, they ran into the bedroom and escaped through a , window. Other children who entered through tho open window are stated to have seen Miss Rosamond Smyth lying half under the bod. The city organist. Dr V. E. Galway, will give an after-church recital in the Town Hall on Sunday, commencing at 8.15 p.m. Two of the compositions to be presented are being played for the first time at these recitals—namely, ‘ Gavotto from the Oboe Concerto ’ (Handel) and ‘ Hymn Tune Prelude ’ (Vaughan Williams). Other interesting items to bo performed are ‘ Tuba Tune ’ (Norman Cocker), Prelude and Fugue in E minor (Bach), ‘Spring Song ’ (Hollins), Scherzo in F (Haigh). Introduction to Act 5, ‘ Manfred ’ (Reinecke), and Finale in B flat (Wolstenholme). Dr Galway will he assisted by Mr John Ellis, who will_ play Beethoven’s Concerto in G major, the orchestral accompaniment being played on the organ. There will be no charge for admission. The deputy chief engineer of the Ministry, of Home Security, London, Mr C. W. Hamann, who is at present advising the New Zealand Government on technical problems of civil defence, has returned to New Zealand after a flying visit to Australia. The Minister of Civil Defence (Mr Bodkin) said that, after taking part in an interstate conference in Australia, Mr Hamann flew to Darwin to investigate tho effect of the Japanese raids and bombs. Two raids took place while he was in Darwin. All information and advice which could safely he. released would be given by Mr Hamann during his forthcoming visits to the E.P.S. districts. The proposed use of Italian prisoners of war to relieve the labour shortage in New Zealand in the production of vegetables and other foodstuffs was supported by a meeting of Nelson market gardeners. The meeting, which was also attended by members of the Nelson Primary Production Council, representative farmers, and Government departmental officials, also requested tho. Government to make the greatest possible use of labour by the men in conscientious objectors’ camps. Additional contributions received by the Otago Provincial Patriotic Council from tho various zones and sub-zones towards Otago’s £150,000 All Purposes Appeal and the National Patriotic Fund (Board’s levy of £22,175 make the totals (with quotas in parentheses): North Otago, £18,318 13s lOd (£20,695) ; South Otago, £8.774 8s 2d (£18,970); Tnapeka, £-4,519 14s 9d (£6,910); Vincent £4,665 9s lOd (£6,910) ; Maniototo,* £3,130 3s 3d (£3,470) ; Lakes, £3,094 10s 2d (£3,470) ; Dunedm-St. Kilda. £73,656 16s 7d (£84,410); Pal-merston-Waihemo, £1,664 2s lid (£2,555) ; Waikouaiti, £1,222 is 4d (£5,630); Taieri. £3,880 10s 8d (£9,250); Peninsula, £l,OlO 10s 9d (£3,245); Port Chalmers, £1,273 3s (£2,290) ; West Harbour, £920 12s 7d (£1,785); Green Island, £1,337 4s 2d (£2,685) a grand total of £127,463 2s. The additional levy is Otago’s proportion of a further sum of £250,000 required by the National Patriotic Fund Board, due to an increase in the number of prisoners of war, losses in the Libyan campaign, and Japan’s entry into the war. In a review of the weather in August the Dominion Meteorologist states that except for frequent rain in Auckland province, it was a favourable month. Cultivation is well up to schedule and crops continue to make excellent progress. Tho feed position has been very good, tho general standard of the health of stock being maintained throughout the winter. The very wet conditions prevailing on the 26th and 27th on the cast coast of the North Island, however, caused many deaths among newlyborn lambs. Rainfall was in considerable excess over the Auckland province, while more moderate surpluses were received in Hawke’s Bay. Elsewhere rainfall was below normal, with largest percentage deficiencies on low levels between Kaikoura and Dunedin. As in July, mean temperatures were milder than normal throughout New Zealand. Dull conditions in the north restricted tho occurrence of frosts, but in Canterbury and Otago these were very numerous, although mainly light. The chief occasion of snowfall was about the 26th, but the amounts were not excessive and were chiefly in the higher hills. The old Pine Hill School, which has been vacant since the one at Liberton was built six years ago, was completely destroyed by (ire on Friday night last. An old wooden structure built in 1876, it has been used latterly as a church and social ball and also for E.P.S. district headquarters. Owing to the lack of water the fire brigade were unable to arrest the spread of the flames. E.P.S. equipment, a piano, and a small organ were destroyed. Tho building was not insured'. In the Magistrate’s Court this morning before Mr 11. W. Bundle, S.M., judgment by default, together with costs, was entered in tho following cases;—T. W. Dobbie v. V. Slater,_ £3 16s, money dispensed; Brown, Ewing, and Co. Ltd. v. R. F. Rose (Waikaia), £6 9s lid, goods supplied; the South British Insurance Company Ltd. v. L. P- Hogue, £6 19s, premiums. In view of the exipenso involved_ in obtaining probate or letters of administration, the New Zealand Returned Services’ Association states that it has again asked that any pay or allowance to the credit of a deceased serviceman be paid l to the administrator without probate in all cases where the amount involved does not exceed £2OO, providing there is no other estate, reports an Association message from Wellington At present tho amount that may he paid out without probate or letters of administration is limited to £IOO.