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Evening Star, Issue 25523, 29 June 1945, Page 4

Appreciation of the prompt action of the City Council traffic department in sending an official to destroy painlessly a kitten which had been badly injured when run over by a motor vehicle, was expressed to-day by a local citizen. He said tho hindquarters of the kitten had been crushed by a car in George street, and it was mewing piteously in the gutter. An official was sent immediately in response to a telephone .call, and the animal was put out of its misery. .

A very large meeting at Daunevirke, representative of town and country, passed resolutions (1) protesting against the taking of a census this year, and pledging to do all in it* power to prevent it being taken; (2) viewing with alarm any alteration in the parliamentary representation allowed under the country quota with-* out the electors having an opportunity of recording their views by means of a referendum; (3) protesting against the Government taking over the Bank of New Zealand. The meeting was convened by the Dannevirke Chamber of Commerce, and urged the Associated Chambers to urge that the GovernorGeneral be petitioned to'prevent the Government taking action respecting the Bank, of New Zealand until a referendum of the electors of the Dominion is taken.—Press Association.

" We aro making every endeavour while the weather is fine to get the accumulated coal away from the West Coast as rapidly as possible to places where 1 it is needed," stated the Minister of Supply, Mr Sullivan, in the House yesterday in reply to an urgent question regarding coal supplies for cement manufacturing works. The Minister added that he was hoping that the cement position would improve fairly rapidly. At a sitting of the Otago Land Sales Committee yesterday, three farm properties were reduced by £394 and seven urban properties by £655. During June, seven farm properties were reduced by £782 and 70 urban properties by £6,085. The total number of applications granted during the month was 27 farms and 237 urban properties. Several public bequests have been made under the will of the late Mr Pierce Herbert Power, accountant, of Dunedin. Three debentures of £IOO each have been bequeathed to the St. iMary's Anglican Church, Mornington, for the general purposes of the church. The Salvation Army, Dunedin, the Otago Centre of the St. John Ambulance Association-, and the Otago branch of the New Zealand Red Cross Society will each benefit to the extent of £IOO. The sum of £SO has been left to the Dunedin Amenities Society and also to the Little Sisters of the Poor, Anderson's Bay. Probate has been granted by Mr Justice Kennedy in the following deceased estates:—James Johnston, retired market gardener • Mary McLucas (Otiake), widow; Elizabeth Donald, widow; Amy Penelope Gustafton, widow; James Mcintosh, labourer; Thomas Sanders, retired coal merchant; Edwin Walter Beck, * retired salesman; William Henry Hall, bricklayer ; Margaret Heimore Cook, widow; Margaret Farquhar Dunn (Oamaru), spinster; James Pratt, engineer; Catherine Elizabeth Yorkstoti, retired telegraphist; James Strain Patterson (Milton), retired woollen mill employee; Harriet Wycherley Fisher, spinster; Edward Laley (Sawyers Bay), farmer; Agnes Henderson, married woman; Robert Rutherford, retired grocer; Pierce Herbert Power, accountant. Letters of administration have been granted in the estates of Esther Lawrence and Robert Carhampton Morgan, clerk.

Five cases of scarlet fever, two of tuberculosis, and one of lethargic encephalitis were reported to the Health Department in Otago during the week ended to-day.