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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 26 January 1939, Page 6

McKay’s Spend to Save Sale! Ladies’ Locknit Blouses with short sleeves, 'deal for wear with slacks. Excellent buying 5/11, Sale Price 3/11.* In this issue the Railway Department advertises the running of special race trains to the Nelson Trotting Club’s meeting at Richmond on Saturday and Wednesday. 28th January and Ist February. and also the altered running of the Glenhope and Belgrove train services on Wednesday, Ist February, <n which day special picnic excursion trains will be leaving Nelson for the country. McKay’s Spend to Save Sale! Ladies’ Cotton Slacks, fast washing colours, S.W. and Wms. only, in Green, Saxe and Red. 10/6 for 6/11.* Next month many of the women’s organisations, which have been in recess, will be resuming their regular meetings and activities, and amongst them will be the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Members and friends are reminded that the union meets in the W.C.T.U Hall, Collingwood Btreet, on the second Tuesday in each month. McKay's Spend to Save Sale! Ladies’ Ensembles, smartly cut in novelty silk crepes, Finger length and full length coats. W. W.X. and 0.5., 59/6 to 3£ gns Sale Price 39/6.* The Nelson Master Grocers' Association notify by advertisement that in future shops in the city and suburbs win be closed -at 8 o’clock on Friday nights McKay's Spend to Save Sale! Ladies’ Silk and Cotton Vests, round neck style. Peach. Blue. 2/11 for 1/6 * Attention is drawn to the advertisement regarding the opening of Trinity Sunday School for the year. It has been decided to meet in the mornings at 10 50. and a start will be made next Sunday, 29th January. It is hoped that all former scholars will be present, and newcomers will be made very welcome. McKay’s Spend to Save Sale! Ladies’ Locknit Bloomers, good cut and pastel shades, S.W. and Wms., 2/11 for 1/11.*

Fifty-five Years of Service The Rev. A. C. Lawry, who was recently invited to continue his ministry at the Bryndwr Methodist Church, ih the St. Albans circuit, Christchurch, for another year, will in April. 1940. complete 55 years in the service of the Methodist Church of New Zealand. Mr Lawry*s first appointment as a probationer in 1885 was to the St. Albans circuit. • Luring of Stoats A method of luring stoats into the open and so making it possible to destroy them was described by a member of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society when ways of exterminating the pests were being discussed. He said that by rubbing a wet cord on the outside of a bottle a sound imitative of native birds was produced The stoats invariably responded to the mimicry employed and came out into the open. S.S. Waimca On her way from Westport to Terakohe last evening, the Anchor Company’s vessel Waimca met with a slight mishap in the vicinity of Separation Point. After discharging her cargo of coal at Terakohe the vessel is proceeding on to Nelson for examination. Social Security Charge In reply to an inquiry from a New Plymouth resident regarding payment of the Social Security charge of Is in £1 on income other than salary or wages, Mr J. M Parks, Commissioner of Taxps, has written clarifying the position. “I have to advise.” he states, "that under the provisions of section 120 (1) of the Social Security Act, 1938. the charge of Is in £1 will be payable on income other than salary or wages derived during the year ending 31st March, 1939, and subsequent years.” The section of the Act referred to states: “The charge imposed by this part of this Act in respect of income other than salary or wages (not being income to which the provisions of section 118 hereof apply) shall be due and payable by equal instalments on the first day of the months of May. August, November and February in the year following the financial year for which such income was derived (the first instalment being due on the first day of May. 1939. in respect of income derived for the financial year ending 31st March immediately preceding).” Caterpillar’s Depredations The approximate identity of a caterpillar which is generally believed to have wrought considerable damage in the Mackenzie Country and other highcountry tussock areas has now been established. This information was given to the Dunedin “Star” by Mr F. R. Callaghan, chief executive officer of the Plant Research Bureau, Wellington, in an interview. The bureau, he said, was about to launch an extensive campaign into the study of grasslands and their deterioration. To further this aim a special officer had been appointed to study grass insects. Mr R. D. Dick, a former student of Lincoln College, had been selected to fill this position. The caterpillar, Mr Callaghan said, had been identified as one of a species of leucania. There were about three dozen different kinds of leucania. and which particular variety the one attacking the tussock in the Mackenzie was had not been definitely established. Not much as yet was known of its habits or of the range of the country it infested. It seemed certain, however, that its depredations were much more noticeable in the high sheep country, which was subject to spells of very dry weather, as were the Mackenzie Country and Central Otago. Elsewhere Its activities were not nearly so noticeable.