NEARING GOAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24632, 10 July 1943, Page 6

NEARING GOAL

THE LIBERTY LOAN GREAT RESPONSE MADE £34,606,762 NOW IN HAND (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Friday The £35,000,000 Liberty Loan campaign is now within £393,238. of success. To-day's investments of £2,686,778 —an exceptional day's results--bring the total to £34,606,762, excluding business done by banks and money order offices from 7 till 9 p.m., when tliey opened specially for the convenience of investors. Nelson, the holder of No. 1 liberty flag, sent the total to 9 per cent over its objective, and Wellington is 5 per cent over its quota. Blenheim and Invercargill have also passed their objectives. The Auckland district made a notable advance by lifting the proportion of its realised objective yesterday from 88 to 97 per cent. Total Percent- Balance .Raised ago of Required ,t target £ Nelson . .. 601,786 JOl> Wellington .. 4,610,033 105 Blenheim .. 280/201 103 - Invercargill .. 1,810,697 102 - Dunedin .. 2;i-J4,20!) .98 47,791 I Auckland . . 6,190,31'2 97 224,688 Gisborne . . 436,111 87 60,850 New Plymouth. 010,302 85 169,608 Napier . . . 967,116 80 233,554 ! Wailganui . . 755,260 77 225,740 ! Tirnaru . .. 610,567 74 203,433 Palmerston North 1,058,406 73 880,504 Christchurch .. 2,852,094 60 1,262,906 Oaniaru . - 206,773 68 07,227 G reyniouth .. 300,352 66 158,648 Westport . . 70,007 54 66,903 Hamilton .. 1,025,200 40 1,074,800 Thames . . . 412,706 48 446,294 National Institutions, £9,210,000. DISPLAYS BY THE ARMY CHINESE IN A TANK A notable feature of military displays in the city yesterday was the peregrinations of a Valentine tank which with its transporter was located in Lower Queen Street. Two Chinese merchants who had subscribed £SO each to the Third Liberty Loan were fortunate in being given a ride on,the machine and permitted to inspect its interior. They enjoyed the experience so much that when it was over they doubled their loan investments. Secondary school boys were allowed to show their skill with morse flags as part of the signalling exhibition in Victoria Street West, and many messages passed between the station and another set up on the slope of Albert Park. The anti-aircraft guns further up Queen Street fascinated many youngsters, who greatly enjoyed being allowed to train a light- Bofors gun. BONDS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN MR. BURLEY GIVES £l.lOO (0.C.) HAMILTON. Friday An announcement was made by the Mayor, Mr, M. 1). Oaro, to-day that Mr. F, W. Burley, of Hamilton, had bought £1 bonds for each of the pupils attending the Hamilton High and Hamilton Technical High Schools. The gift is valued at about £llOO. THE GAS SHORTAGE A DIFFICULT WEEK-END GOAL SUPPLY PROBLEM The gas supply in Auckland failed again yesterday between the hours of 5.15 p.m. and 7 p.m. Pressure was low from shortly after two o'clock in the afton-oon. The main difficulty is still the question of coal supplies, and little improvement i> expected over the week-end.

Suggestions made by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce to remedy the gas supply are to receive consideration, according to a telegram received from the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, to whom they were addressed. Mr. Fraser added in his message that everything possible was being done to meet the situation. Earlier this week the chamber sent a telegram to the Prime Minister stressing the serious effects of the gas shortage in Auckland and recommending that, as the primary cause appeared to be the difficulty of working West Const ports; arrangements should be made to supply essential North Island coal requirements by rail to Lyttelton and thence by sea. If insufficient railway rolling stock was available to provide for the extra coal traffic, it was suggested that supplies to the South Island should be temporarily rationed. Investigation was also urged into the possibility of obtaining supplies from Newcastle.

STREET COLLECTION OVER £llOO CONTRIBUTED A street collection made in the city and some suburban areas yesterday met with good response and as a result the reserve fund of the Metropolitan Patriotic Committee will benefit by more than £llsO. The sum of £129 was collected by boys of the Seddon Memorial Technical College and a house-to-house appeal in Mount Albert contributed £lB7. Similar appeals in Devonport and Takapuna yielded £SO and £94. respectively. The amount raised in yesterday's street collection is to be invested in Liberty Bonds. MINIATURES SOLD LIQUOR BOTTLES BRING £195 (0.C.) WELLINGTON, Friday Some spirited bidding was provoked in a Wellington auction mart when a collection of 776 miniature bottles of liqueurs, brandies, -whiskies, gins, cocktails and wines, together with six wall cabinets for their display, was put up for sale. Every sample in the collection was different. Bidding opened at £IOO and rose steadily to £195, equal to a fraction of one penny less than 5s a bottle, at which figure tin; lot was sold to the licensee of a well-known city hotel. These miniatures used to come into the Dominion once or twice a year in case lots as samples, but of late years were imported as a selling line. The purchaser of the collection, a few minutes after the lot had been knocked down to him, refused an offer of £250 for it from a Palrnerston North resident who had arrived too late for the sale. PRICE BREACHES FINES UP TO £2O IMPOSED Fines ranging from £lO to £2O were imposed by Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., yesterday, when six persons or firms were convicted of breaches of Price Tribunal orders. Fines of £2 and £'2 10s were imposed for failure to display price orders prominently. Emanuel Kissin, Limited, was fined £2O for a price breach; George King, Limited, tobacconists, Queen Street, and Haynes Catering Company, Limited, were each fined £ls; Frances Marion Pinker, Queen's Arcade, and Winifred Bertha MacShane, dealers in Indies' underwear, were each fined £lO. David Wilson, storekeeper, of Grcenhithe, and Emanuel K'ssin, Limited, were each fined £2 10s, and Frances Pinker and Winifred MacShane were each fined £2 for failing to display price orders.

FALL ON PAVEMENT Falling on the pavement in Karangahape .Road yesterday, Miss Isohel Grace Hirtzel, single, aged 88, of 12 Liverpool Street, City, suffered concussion. Her condition last night was fairly serious,