Thought For To-day.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 29, 3 January 1944, Page 4

Thought For To-day.

You were born with all that the great have had, with your equipment they all began. Get hold of yourself and say: “I Can.”—Selected. Wellington’s Sunshine. Hours of bright sunshine in AVcllington last month totalled 313.2, only half-an-hour less than the December record of 313.7 hours established in 1934. The average for December is 227.5 hours and the total for the month last year was 246 hours.

Unusual Charge, Before Messrs N. Blackmore and R. B. Robertson, J.P.’s, in the Magistrate’s Court, to-day. Douglas George Waters, a freezing worker, was fined £1 for being intoxicated while in charge of a bicycle. He pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant Boniscli represented the police. Defaulter Escapes. On Thursday night, a military defaulter from the Shannon detention camp escaped and so far has evaded capture. His name is Leonard James Flewellyn, labourer, and his home address is Victor Street, Avondale, Auckland. He is 25 years of age, but looks vounger; is single, sft 7in in height, weighs 10 stone, has medium fair hair, and was wearing Borstal grey trousers and a khaki denim coat when ho escaped. Grass Fire at Paraparaumu.

Through the efforts of a willing band of helpers with stirrup pumps and wet sacks, a large grass fire on the sand-hills adjacent to the Majestic Hotel at Paraparaumu Beach, yesterday afternoon, was extinguished before it could seriously threaten any of the adjacent houses. The men worked for over an hour. Fortunately, the wind was from the northwest. A south-westerly breeze would have confronted the fire-lighters with a heavy task in saving the houses which front the seashore just to the north of the burned area. Auckland Sales Tax Return. Reflecting the heavy sales of goods from wholesalers, manufacturers, and others to retailers during November the sales tax collected in Auckland for December was a record ior any month. The collection, amounting to £122,222, was considerably higher than the previous record monthly return of £111,807 obtained in May, 1940, and the amount of £107, 900 collected in December. 1942. For the whole of 1943, however, the sales tax collections were only £1539 greater than they were in 1942. The 1943 figure was £1,225,994 and the 1942 figure £1,224,405.