The Kaikoura Star And COUNTY GAZETTE and RECORDER MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1944. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Kaikoura Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 65, 21 August 1944, Page 2

The Kaikoura Star And COUNTY GAZETTE and RECORDER MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1944. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Mangamaunu Maori Tribal Comwill conduct a dance at the Hapuku Hall on Saturday, in connection with the war effort.

United States heavy bombers have raided the docks at Takao, an important Japanese base in Formosa. Three freighters were sunk between Formosa and the China coast.

A new wireless relay station has been opened in Colombo to provide an alternative route for transmission of messages from London to Australia when the direct beA.ni between London and Australia is unworkable.

An expert says the average motorist is lucky if he can get 13 miles to the gallon of gasoline. He’s luckier than that if he can get a gallon to get 13 mjles, too. In view of the measures already taken by Switzerland to reduce Swiss exports to Axis Europe, particularly war mjaterial, Britain and the United States have informed Switzerland that the current facilities through the blockade shall continue. An official announcement to this effect was made in London on August 15. * 4 The fall of Germany would permit the United States to boost production to the 1939 level and still maintain the munitions output needed to conquer Japan,” said the United States Production Chief (Mr Donald Nelson) at a press conference. Mr Nelson estimated that about 40 per cent, of the present munitions production would be terminated after Hitler’s collapse.