NEWS OF THE DAY

Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 255, 28 October 1942, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Second Liberty Loan Applications received yesterday totalled £4420. The district total is now £59,905. Justices in Uniform Two justices of the peace wearing battledress presided over a sitting of the Auckland Police Court on Saturday morning. The two soldiers on the Bench were Lance-Corporal W. R. Blcnnerhassett and Private A. J. Dixon. Otago Storm Losses Stock losses from Central Otago's week-end snowstorm are iikely to be fairly heavy. On the Maniototo Plain, fr6m which the snow has now disappeared, the losses are between 30 and 40 per cent., and in districts still snowbound they will be heavier. Shortage of Manpower An indication of the effect of Home Guard training on primary production was shown at the parade of a platoon in the Ashburton County recently, when 22 tractors were idle while the drivers were on parade. In an adjoining district, a further IS tractors were idle while their drivers were at a platoon parade In that area. Surprise Catch Probably a record catch with a whitebait net was made by an amateur fisherman at Newton King wharf, New Plymouth. He was trailing the net in the hope of catching herring to use as bait, \t-hen trevalli, one of the big fish he had intended to set a bait for, made its way into the flimsy net. The fish was landed after no little difficulty. P.N. Nursing Division Last evening the weekly meeting of the Palmerston North Nursing Division was held. The following members are to be on duty at the W.W.S.A. meeting on Thursday evening in the Technical School:—MOsdames Brown, O'Connell, Jury and Misses Trainer, Cooke, Kidd and Lancaster. Miss Astwood, a former member, was welcomed back and the evening was devoted to practical work. E.P.S. Responsibilities It lias now been decided that in future trial alarms all those posted for service at the lirst-aid dressing posts will be compelled to sign an attendance book immediately upon arrival at their respective stations, the E.P.S. authorities stated yesterday. This will enable the committee to check up on those who fail in their duty and to renort. to the general committee for the necessary action to be taken under the regulations.

Fined for Trespass A fine of £2 lOs was imposed by Mr. W. F. Stihvell, S.M. on Paul Desire Nestor Verschaffelt, former Public Service commissioner, at Wellington, *or trespassing on the property of ,a farmer at Tawa Flat. It was stated that Verschaffelt called to see a heifer about which there had been a complaint to the effect that a neighbour had ill-treated it. Evidence was given that when asked to leave Verschaffelt used objectionable language. New Zealand’s War Effort

"It was interesting to find a wholesome respect for the job New’ Zealand is doing," said Mr. V. C. Matthew’s, a Christchurch business man, on his return from a tour of Australian cities.

"In all quarters and from all sections of society, I heard nothing but praise for the way in which the Dominion is co-operating in the all-important task of crushing the Axis. This war has evolved a community of Interest that augurs well for our future relations With Australia."

Hotelkeepers’ Duties A warning that the new regulation requiring licensees of hotels to keep a book recording the time and date of sales of liquor to lodgers after hours must be observed was given by Mr. J. Morling, S.M., when dealing with two defendants in the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland. The Magistrate said that there must be no laxity in this regard, and any further breaches of the emergency regulation would be met with heavier penalties. One defendant was lined £1 and costs and the other £3 and costs.

Children’s Reading Orders were sent to England over a year ago for 41,000 children's books, the sum of £IO,OOO having been placed on the Education Department estimates for this purpose. A proportion of the titles have been reported as out of print, stocks having been destroyed in the big London fires of December, 1940. Distribution to the schools was made during March and April last of 12,713 volumes which were available and many are still on the way. These books form part of the scheme of a school library service. Wounded by Rifle Shots An unusual accident occurred at Huntly on Sunday afternoon when Mr. George Peden, aged 32, a miner, and his child, James Peden, aged 22 months, were wounded by a rifle shot. Mr. Peden was wheeling his child In a pushchair along a new road skirting the Hakanoa Lake, Huntly, when shots fired on the other side, nearly a mile away, ricocheted off ] the water. One of the bullets struck Mr. Peden on the leg, inflicting a flesh wound, and the child on the shoulder. Both were admitted to the Waikato Hospital. The condition of neither is serious. ! Boy Drowned A boy w r as drowned while swimming across the Hunua Stream Just above the i falls on Saturday afternoon. He was Albert George Courtenay, a schoolboy ; aged 16, the eldest son of Mrs. E. Courtenay, of Grey Lynn. The youth, who was spending the week-end at a Y.M.C.A. boy's camp at Hunua, had swum across the creek with another lad and on his return he disappeared beneath the surface, although he was «. , fairly strong swimmer. It was stated that the river w’as In flood and there was a strong current. His companion said < that Courtenay did not call out or give | any indication that he was In trouble. ] Big Bequest to R.S.A. Under the will of the late Mr. Andrew Jack, the residue of his estate, sworn at £23.000, is to be established as a trust fund and the income is to be paid to the Dunedin branch of the R.S.A. for the benefit and welfare io life of disabled servicemen and merchant navy men or , their dependants. This residue is estimated at £13,000. In addition, the As- | sociation for the Ross Horae receives , £SOO and the same association for j general purposes £200; the Institute for i the Blind, Auckland, £200; the Early , Settlers' Association, Dunedin, £200; the , Little Sisters of the Poor, Dunedin, £100; j the Methodist Church in the Manakau- . Manawatu area, £lf>o; and the Salvation Army, Dunedin, £SOO. Sued for Union Lew In a civil action brought in the Palmerston North Magistrate's C6urt yesterday by the Wellington Amal- ’ gamated Shop Assistants' Union against G. S. Leighton and P. H. Mummery, for £6 5s arrears of subscriptions due as union members, Mr. H. P. Lawry, S.M.. upheld the contention of counsel for defence (Mr. F. G. Opie) that all the Union had a right to sue for was six months* arrears. The position was that under Its rules, the Union was obliged to purge from its register the names of all members who were six months in arrears with their subscriptions. His Worship gave judgment for 26s plus 10s costs against each defendant, the subscriptions being at the rate oi le a week.