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Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1940, Page 4

A reminder is given of the benefit euchre tournament in the Soldiers’ Hall this evening at 8 o’clock.

The Westland Caledonian Society are holding the first Ingleside of the season on Wednesday evening in the Soldiers’ Hall. Members are advised to get their tickets as soon as possible. Non-members wishing to attend should get their invitation from members of the committee.

A Railways Department (locomotive branch) employee, Joseph Terry, 22, single, of Greymouth. was admitted to the Grey Hospital, last evening, suffering from a fracture of the nose and slight concussion. Tt is ' understood that. he received the injuries at Dunollie.

Get your handbag at Addisons. The latest designs in a variety of colours and styles now showing. Also showing a selection of smart woollen scarves in gay colours. —Advt,

For the first time sinco its establishment, the forthcoming annual conference of the West Coast Provincial Branch of the New Zealand Faimen/ Union will be held at Hokitika, on Saturday, may 25. It is expected that tne Dominion President, Mr W. W. Mulholland, will attend the conference, and that all West Coast branches will be represented.

Next Sunday, the first Sunday in May, hag been set apart by the British and Foreign Bible Society as New Zealand Bible Sunday, on which ministers and congregations are invited to give consideration to the world-wide activities of the society. Each year the socie ty, which was founded at the beginning of last century, prints more than 11,000,000 copies and portions of Scrip, ture in more than 700 languages, into which it has had translation made. Its activities ni New Zealand include the distribution of 2000 copies of the New Testament among members of the Ist Echelon of the 2nd New. Zealand Expeditionary Force, and it holds another 9000 ready for distribution.

In this issue appears an intimath n ’from the Commissioner of Taxes that an instalment- of the Registration Fee becomes payable on the Ist May, and that on the same date there also falls due the first instalment of the Social Security charge on income other than salary or wages derived during the year ended 31st March, 1940. ’Payment may be tendered at any moneyorder office. All male and female persons, including Natives, sixteen years of age or over must either pay the registration fee or establish a right to exemption, including persons in receipt of an age benefit from the Social Security fund and who arc not in receipt of any other income, are reminded that they may be held liable for payment of the instalment unless a claim for exemption is completed and presented together with the coupon-book at a money-order office within seven days after the last day for payment of that instalment. Failure to pay renders defaulters liable, on summary conviction, to a fine of £5. Tn addition, a penalty of sixpence per month, with a maximum I penalty of 2s (3d for each instalment I automatically accrues if payment is not made within one month of the due date.

Interest-free loans total £1,699,G1G including £100() from F. Lindsay Ryan of Sydney, for the duration of the war and six months thereafter.

It is understood that from Monday next the air service from Hokitika to Westport will he discontinued, am) that planes will only fly between Westport and Nelson.

The annual meeting of the Hokitika Basketball Association will be held in St. Mary’s Club Room s on Thursday, May 2nd at 6.45 p.m. All players are requested to he present. Business general.—Advt.

Ihe usual wreath of Now Zealand flowers that has for many years been sent by the Navy League, Canterbury, to London to be placed 011 the Nelson monument on Trafalgar Day, October “I, wa s last year sent in a ship which was chased by a submarine in the Atlantic. In recording the incident, the annual report of the league states:— “On the way the ship carrying our wreath was unsuccessfully attacked in the Atlantic by a German submarine. (That Britannia still rules the waves was demonstrated by the wreath being deposited at the foot of Nelson’s Column on due date.”

Tennents advise their registered Optician, Mr J. Mann will be in attendance at their Hokitika branch on Tuesday, May 7th, where he may be consulted on all eye problems. Make your appointment by phoning 83 or calling at the shop.—Advt.

“I do' not see that there is any chance of the rationing of petrol being lifted while the war lasts,” said the Minister for Transport (the HOll. R. Semple) at a meeting of the New Zealand Road Safety Council in' Wellington. New Zealand had been criticised some time ago because it had rationed petrol while Australia had hot. Australia, however, “came a thud,” and its first reduction in jthe ratijoning of petrol was 50 per cent. However, the matter of the supply of petrol was determined' overseas, yind he did not think there was the slightest chance of rationing being lifted while the war lasted.

Outstanding value in winter comforts at Addisons. All wool blankets with attractive new borders; down quilts, flannelette sheets, Pyjama cloths, w.inceyettes. Warm pyjamas for all the family at keenest prices. Buy to-dav.—Advt.

With cargoes for New Zealand and Australian consignees, the German steamers Cassel, Franken, and Stassfurt have been sheltering in the Dutch .East Indies throughout most of the war. Negotiations for the release of theca r goes have reached the stage where the London Chamber of Commerce has advised the;.New Zealand Associated Chamber of -Commerce that a Batavia lawyer lias been instructed to apply to the Courts for orders for deliveries. On the release of cargo, owners are to pay the London chamber 5 per cent, of the c.i.f. value as an adjustable deposit to cover legal expenses. Success had previously attended efforts for the release of several items from the cargo of the Stassfurt-.