OVER £700 RAISED

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24879, 28 April 1944, Page 4

OVER £7OO RAISED

FILM AT CIVIC THEATRE PATRIOTIC FUNDS BENEFIT The sum of £7lO was raised for patriotic purposes at the New Zealand premiere of Irving Berlin's film "This is the Army," at the Civic Theatre last night. All profits realised by the management last night are being handed to the New Zealand Patriotic Funds and all of the receipts of the producers, Warner Brothers, from tiie film are being devoted to the American Army Emergency Relief Fund. In America this film has raised more than 7.000.000 dollars and many thousands of pounds have been received by the forces in Great Britain as a result of the screening there. Before the screening last night four searchlights, mounted on two mobile searchlight units of the New Zealand Army, swept across the sky and a 58piece American Army Band played outside the theatre. An excerpt from the play "Journey's Rtid" was presented on the stage by Captain Jack Rhine, former Hollywood stage and radio actor, and StaffSergeant Jack Parsons, a returned soldier from the Middle East, who is well known in Auckland repertory circles. FISH AND GAME SPORTSMEN'S INTERESTS MEETING OF SOCIETY (0.C.) HAMILTON, Thursday The deterioration of fishing in the Waikato streams through lack of restocking was referred to by members of the Auckland Acclimatisation _ Society at the annual meeting in Hamilton tonight. It was pointed out by the president, Mr. F. E. McKenzie, and the president of the Hamilton Acclimatisation Club, Mr. C. W. Pepperell, that every consideration should be given by the incoming council to the question of reopening the society's hatchery, which was situated between Arapuni and Put arum. Mr. Pepperell said that it would be detrimental to allow the hatchery to rot from disuse. If it was set up in operation immediately with all the money which had been accumulated by the society during the past three years, when the next breeding season _ came the society would be in a position to release small fish which would be big enough t-o be cntight within the next two or three years. The speaker also made reference to the menace of eels, with which, the Waikato River was thickly populated and which were the cause of much destruction among the smaller trout. Some method of reducing their numbers as much as possible was immediatelv desirable. A member's suggestion that the -society should pay fishermen at slack periods of the whitebait season for the eels they caught was endorsed by the meeting. A recommendation from Mr. Pepperell to the incoming council that the question of the reopening of the hatchery should be considered and, pending this reopening, some practical steps toward the extermination of eels should be taken, was unanimously supported. "I have learned with regret of the inexplicable increase in the demand for shooting licences this season," said the president. TTe stated that _as the society had not estimated this increase to be any more than 10 per cent a shortage of cartridges had arisen which there wn< no menus of overcoming. The election of officers resulted as follows: —Four officers to the society, Messrs. A. A. McLean, C. W. Pepperell, C. Scott and Father F. E. Quinn; .supernumerary members. Messrs. O. F.. Arr.hey, 0.8. E., and E. CI. Turhott: auditors. W. .J A Thomson and Company. ILLEGAL BUILDING (0.C.) DAROAVILLE. Thursday The Dargaville Borough Council has ordered a railway employee, residing in a department house, who erected a garage in woou without having a permit, thus breaking the hv-laws, which provide for a brick structure in that area, to remove the garage within six months.