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Evening Star, Issue 24482, 17 April 1943, Page 4

The Medical Officer of Health (Dr T. McKibbin) advises that there have been no fresh cases of infantile paralysis notified in Otago since yesterday. The Taieri County Council decided yesterdav to erect a Hzht at the corner of Emmerson and Thoreau streets, Concord.

As there appears to be some uncertainty in the public mind with respect to the holidays to be observed at Easter, the secretary of the Otago Employers' Association (Mr A. S. Cookson) has explained that retail shops in general will be closed on Friday, Saturday, and Monday, and will reopen at the usual hour on Tuesday morning. Easter Saturday is not a holiday under the bakers' award, and bakers' shops will therefore observe the usual Saturday hours. Because of a special provision in the butchers' award, these shops will be closed on Tuesday as well. The usual late shopping night will be observed on the Thursday before Easter.

With the £.'3,000 now to be donated to 1943 All Purposes Appeal, Messrs Ross and Glendiiiing will have contributed a total of £9,000. The money will be allocated at the discretion of the directors, and will be apportioned amongst the company's various branches throughout New Zealand to cover the year endino: January, 1944, Otago's quota being £7OO.

With onlv 14 days' estimated supply of water for the City of Auckland remaining in the dams ill the Waitakeres, new sources of supply are being urgently brought into use to augment the flow, hake Pupuke, a standby source on the North Shore, has again been tapped to deliver 1,000,000 gallons a day, and Henderson Creek is being connected with the citv mains so that 500,000 gallons a day can be secured. Western Springs, 'which has been a standby source for many vears, has been supplying 1.000,000 gallons a day in the last three weeks. The mayor, Mr J. A. C. AUum. said yesterday that large industrial consumers had been asked to assist the position by strict economies, and all domestic users must, cut down their consumption, as otherwise they might have to go short before long. Between 7.30 and 11.30 p.m. last night a house in Mailer street, Mornington, was entered by means of an unlocked window during the absence of the occupants. A wardrobe was forced open and a substantial sum of money stolen. The detectives have the matter in hand. A number of houses in this locality have been broken into recently while the occupiers have been absent. Replying to the statement of the Dominion executive of the Returned Services' Association that no offer or request for co-operation had beeii received, Mr E. h. Thwaites, Dominion president of the Second N.Z.E.F. Association, stated last night that in September, 1941, he made the offer to the Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin branches as well as the Dominion president. The Second N.Z.E.F. Association was at all times willing to cooperate, but even now the statement of the Dominion executive of the R.S.A. did not indicate a similar desire on the part of that body. From the start of the war until the Second N.Z.E.F. Association was formed, not one change had been made in the antiquated regulations govering returned men, said Mr Thwaites. Since it commenced operations many injustices had been ameliorated, but the niajor task was still ahead, and the Second N.Z.E.F. Association again made an offer of the fullest cooperation with the hope that it would be seized upon by the elder brother as readily as it had been by the many branches of the R.S.A.—Auckland Association message.

Four charges of indecent assault on a male were brought against David Francis Bremner, a waterside worker, aged 51, in the Police Court yesterday afternoon: After evidence had been taken the accused pleaded not guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial, bail being allowed in the accused's own recognisances of £IOO and one surety of £IOO. Mr H. J. Dixon, S.M., was on the bench. A decision to ask the Government to tighten up the inspection of all dairy herds in the Dominion Was made by the Dominion Council of the Pluuket Society to-day. Members also decided to ask the Government to make compulsory tuberculin testing of dairy herds, diseased animals to be destroyed immediately and adequate compensation paid the owners. The Government would also be asked to introduce immediately measures to improve the standard of cleanliness of milk coming from farms and to enforce the existing regulations governing the sale of pasteurised milk. —Christchurch Association message.

A very old coin—an 1825 half-crown —came to light the other day in Port Chalmers. Mr G. W. Varcoe, who purchased a house in Constitution street, an old residencce which needed considerable remodelling, was engaged in this work when the half-crown was discovered between the walls of one of the rooms. The coin was brown with age, but when cleaned it was found to be in a remarkably well-preserved state. Mr Justice Kennedy has granted probate in the following estates:— Mary Stevenson, widow, Dunedin; George Robert Helm, pensioner, Ranfurly; Bessie Favell, music teacher, Dunedin; Helen Kay, widow, Dunedin; Annie Pullar, widow, Hinahina; Mary Lachlan Passmore, artist, Dunedin; John Scott Thomson, cordial manufacturer, Dunedin; John Tweedie Kelly, vetired school teacher, Dunedin; Pleasance Johnstone, married woman, Dunedin. Letters of • administration were granted in the estates of William Ewart, miner, Cromwell; William John McMurray, railway employee, Dunedin; James Inglis Cairns, labourer, Oamaru; John Gibb Lindsay, carpenter, Dunedin. A special meeting of the Otago Hospital Board was called yesterday afternoon to poniirm the estimates of the amount of expenditure for all purposes and of the receipts of the board for the year 1943-44. A summary of the estimates shows that this year levy maintenance has been set down at £59.790 8s 10d (previous year £57.449 10s 9d); levy capital, £20,000 (£15.000); subsidy maintenance. £55.209 8s 4d (£61.398'14s 9d); subsidy capital. £20,000 (£15,000). The _rate of subsidy on maintenance levies this year is 19s 6d in the £. Last year it was 21s 4d in the £.

"No statement can ,be made by Cabinet until the Budget is introduced next month in relation to the request that the amount payable from the Social Security Fund will be increased from 6s to 9s. per bed." This reply was made bv the chairman of the Otago Hospital Board (Mr J. W. Dove)'to Dr Newlands, who raised the question at yesterday afternoon's special meeting called to consider the estimates. Mr Dove added that, according to a statement attributed to the Prime Minister, they were not going to receive anything from the Social Security Fund, or an increased subsidy, or an increase in the levy for capital expenditure. Mr Eraser had apparently been very explicit on the subject. At the Mosiiel Court v yesterday, Beatrice Lilian Barth. of Dunedin, for failing to keep her motor vehicle as far as practicable to the left of roadway, was fined 10s and costs (10s). Lyall Hamilton Strachan. of East Taieri, for having no warrant of fitness for his motor van. was fined 10s and court costs (10s). Michael Stephens Hackett, of Momona, for failing to renew his radio receiving license, was fined 5s and court costs (12s). A mean theft is reported from Mosgiel. Access to the home of'Mr and Mrs Barn was obtained through a small window.- while Mrs Barn was absent in hospital, and a quantity of jam, tea, linen, underclothing, and. apples was removed;. The Railway' Department advertises in this issue train arrangements in connection with Easter holidays. Manchester Unity members will find pariiculars of lodge meetings for the coming week advertised in these columns.