NEWS IN BRIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24632, 13 June 1941, Page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF

The proceeds from the drive held by the Invercargill Waste Materials Committee have now been received. The iron, sacking and lead realised £24 18s 8d and the brass and copper £39 6s 9d. making a total of £64 5s sd. A safe was stolen from the Salvation Army headquarters at Hawthorn, Melbourne, recently. When found a few suburbs away it had been blown open and £B4 stolen. For Soldiers' Parcels, Grays, of Milton, can supply a wide range of suitable goods, including one-pound tins of butter... As a result of a slip which occurred during the heavy rain last Wednesday night, about 50 yards of the county water race, which supplies water to the township of Blackball, was damaged, making it unusable for about two weeks. A substantial amount has been add'-d to the Southland Provincial Patriotic Fund through the efforts of the Woodlands Patriotic Committee, which has recently forwarded £339 3s 2d to the treasurer of the provincial fund. This brings Woodlands’ total contribution to £634 18s 3d. " Whisky is the life of man ” u it’s bought from Crossan’s Waterloo Hotel, Caversham —only the best kept... A total of 341,481 radio licences in New Zealand on April 30, compared with 328,174 on the same date last year, is reported by the Post and Telegraph Department, Auckland. with a total of 114,693 receiving sets, ranked second to Wellington, which had 115,883. Canterbury had 63,014 and Otago 45.678. An old Auckland resident. Mr John George, of Onehunga, celebrated his ninety-sixth birthday last Thursday. Mr George’s parents arrived in New Zealand 100 years ago, and as a youth, he served in the Maori Wars, and took part in guarding the blockhouse at Onehunga. See the new season s Mantles Frocks. Coats Hats and Knitweai All the new styles and colours and at unbeatable prices Cal) early many cannot be replaced Youi inspection invited Moseiel’ Di—A V flipvnp and Co

After many dismal days of cold, wet weather, with heavy rain and constantly overcast skies, the weather in Invercargill on Monday was fine and sunny. Although five degrees of frost were recorded. the effect of the chill was alleviated by the sight of the sun. which has been almost a stranger in Invercargill skies for some time. Saturday was the first anniversary of the death of the New Zealand pilot “ Cobber ’’ Kane, the war’s first air ace. After bringing down more than 40 German machines, he was killed in a flying accident. Acting Squadron Leader Edgar Kain was aged 21, and entered the Royal Air Force in 1936.

Grandism (4449): Glovin, a fine substitute for Rum. at much less than half the price; 6s bottle. Try a bottle, and a nip hot at bedtime... Criticism of the fares charged to soldiers travelling in New Zealand on leave was expressed at a meeting of the executive and Finance Sub-committee of the Auckland Metropolitan Patriotic Committee. A motion to press for a reduction of 50 per cent on ordinary fares was carried “ I have named my Spitfire “ The City of New Plymouth,” says Sergeant Pilot R j. Bullen. son of Mr and Mrs F. R. S. Bullen. of New Plymouth, in a letter relating to the New Zealand squadron of Spitfires. More than 20 per cent, of its membership were with the armed forces, stated the annual report of the New Zealand Bank Officers’ Guild at the annual conference in Wellington last week. The report gave the figures as at March 31, showing that 542 bank officers were on active service in New Zealand or overseas, with a further 121 in the territorial forces. Up to the present six guild members had made the supreme sacrifice. Have you seen the three-in-one bins for storing flour, bread, and sugar? These are showing at Dickinson Mytton’s showroom 204 Crawford street, nearly opposite Otago Farmers’ Co-0p... “ Far from slackening because of the war, the demand for State houses in Auckland and Wellington has increased." said the Minister of Housing, Mr H. T. Armstrong, at Auckland last week. Just how dependent some men are on their wives was illustrated in Timaru on Saturday night. A citizen recently shifted Into a new house, and his wife had taken a holidav to recuperate after the hard work of the shift. The husband was sitting in front of the fire enjoying a read when the gas commenced to fail. Hurriedly he rang for an expert to locate the trouble. which took about a minute to find. “ Put a shilling in the meter,” he remarked, doing his best to control his feelings.