The Christmas Annual.

Otago Witness, Issue 4085, 28 June 1932, Page 45

The Christmas Annual.

For many years the publication of the Otago Witness Annual has been welcomed by a wide circle of readers, and we wish to announce that it will be published as usual in October. The publication will appear on this occasion with the title of the Otago Daily Times and Witness Christmas Annual. It will maintain the high excellence of the past, and will contain a unique collection of photographs of South Island scenery of all descriptions. The photographs have been specially taken for the Annual, and its charnr will be enhanced by the fact that some new fields of scenic beauty will be included. The presentation plate in colour will also be a New Zealand scene and worthy of preservation.

Valuable Legacy to Church The Presbyterian Church of Victoria will benefit to the amount of about £40,000 under the terms of the will of Miss Mary M'Coy, formerly of Swift’s Creek, near Omeo. Miss M'Coy directed that the income from the legacy should be used for maintaining ordained ministers, instead of home missionaries, in small country districts.

Mortgagors Adjustment Commission The Mortgagors Adjustment Commission will hold a sitting in Dunedin commencing this afternoon. It is expected that the business will occupy until Friday. Carrot Crops Attacked A Press Association telegram from Gisborne states that the carrot crops of the district are suffering from the depredations of a green grub, believed to be a recent importation from Australia. The Department of Agriculture asks that the results should be carefully watched, so that the economic significance of the pest can be ascertained.

Qualifications Challenged The qualifications of a sitting member of the Stewart Island County Council to hold his office were questioned in the Magistrate’s Court at Invercargill on Friday, when Herbert Henry Hansen, of Stewart Island, fisherman, was called upon to show cause to Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., why, on the allegations of Edmund Pleasant, of Halfmoon Bay, settler, he should not be ousted from the council. Counsel for the informant said that the application was founded on the ground that Hansen was incapable, under the provisions of the Counties’ Act, 1920, of holding office in that he was not a lawful ratepayer and therefore not on the roll of electors The informant alleged that the defendant, at the time of his election, was not the lawful lessee of lands and that therefore he was not entitled to be on the roll rqf electors and regarded as a lawful elector. After legal argument and some evidence had been heard, the case was ad journed in order that Hansen might decide in the meantime whether he would resign _ or accept a verdict that he must be ousted from the council.