"SPLENDID EFFORT"

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24633, 12 July 1943, Page 2

"SPLENDID EFFORT"

COMMENT BY MR. NASH TRIBUTE TO ORGANISATION (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Sunday "It is a splendid effort, worthy of New Zealand, worthy of the cause for which we are lighting," said the Minister of Finance, the Hon. \Y. Nash, to-night, iu «iiving the Libertv Loan figures There had never been more widespread interest in a war loan, he continued. The organisation had been magnificent and the enthusiasm, energy nm 1 goodwill unparalleled. The final figures would lie announced by the Prime Minister, the IH. Hon, I'. Kraser, on Wednesday or Thursday ain I they might be M 9.000.000 by that time.

MESSAGE FROM BRITAIN H FARTY CONGRATULATIONS ,p..\.) WELLINGTON. Sunday The Chancellor of the Exchequer in Britain. Sir Kingsley Wood, has cabled to the Minister of Finance, the Hon. \V Nash, as follows: —"I have followed rhe progress of the Liberty Loan with keen interest, and congratulate you mo.-t heartily on the magnificent result, which shows the determination of the people of New Zealand to devote il! their resources to the common cause and to speed the path of the United Nations' victory." NOTABLE CONTRIBUTION A LINK WITH LIDICE A New Zealand challenge to the Nazis who razed the village of Lidice, in Czechoslovakia, last year is reflected in a notable contribution to Auckland s share of the Third Liberty Loan. Residents of the small community of Pulioi. near Warkworth, some of whose ancestor-' came from Lidice, have subscribed £2156 10s. I'ulioi was settled 80 years ago by pioneers from Bohemia. In commenting upon the amount raised tor the loan a correspondent, in a letter to the editor of the 11 KitAl.i>, states that: his own parents were among those who came From Lidice. The harsh rule and conditions of the time caused his people to migrate, he states. HOUSE DESTROYED DAMAGES AGAINST COUNCIL (0.C.1 WELT,INC.TON, Saturday The collapse of the crib retaining wall in Beach Road. Pukerua Bay. which destroyed a house and deposited a large quantity of debris on its site, was not caused by an act of God, but by faulty foutidal ions. This was the decision Mr. Justice Smith and the two assessors sitting with him in the Supreme Court, Wellington. arrived at unanimously at the conclusion of the hearing yesterday for the owner of the property in her claim against I he 11 utt County Council, which constr.ucted the wall. Claimant was Mrs, Daisy Omega Crabb, Wellington. The total claim was for £ 1050. The Conn awarded Mrs. Crabbe C 101 If) as compensation for the destruction of the house. £250 for destruction of the contents, and CSO for loss of use of flic house. Fmbodied in the Court's award was an agreement between the parlies t hat the County Council remove the debris and restore the land to its previous condition within three months. Claimant was allowed 150 guineas costs. STEAMER lIINEMOA NOTABLE CAREER TO END (().('.) (II KIKTCHURCH. Snliirdny A tier at least 50 years ol active sen ice t lie Government steamer 11 iliemoa is about lo end her career. Offered by the Navy Department lor breaking np. she iias been acquired by a salvage company. The llineinoa is actually 67 years old but for a number of years she lay idle at Wellington, and later at Stewart Island. With her clipper bow and raking masts and funnel, she was for many years the pride of those who sailed in her. The llineinoa arrived in Now Zealand i'n 187(3, having heen ordered in the previous year under Sir Julius Vogel's £10,000,000 public works loan. Her builders were Scott and Company, Greenock. It was the IJinemoa which rescued the crew of the barque Spirit of the Dawn, which went ashore on Antipodes Island in 1893. Twelve years later she rescued the crew of the French ship Anjou, which had been stranded on Auckland Island, and two years later she discovered the crew of the Dundonald on Auckland Island after the men had succeeded in making the perilous crossing from Disappointment Island, on which the Duudonald was wrecked*