In Town And Out

Southland Times, Issue 23183, 26 April 1937, Page 7

In Town And Out

Holiday Today The shops and most of the offices in Invercargill will be closed today, but solicitors’ offices and banks will be open. Today’s holiday is being given in place of the abandoned picnic day holiday. Inquest To Be Held The inquest into the death of Walter Sutton Jones, who was killed when a Fox Moth cabin plane crashed into the surf at Big Bay on December 30 of last year, will be held at the Courthouse by the Coroner (Mr James Ward, J.P.) on Saturday, May 1, at 10 a.m. Shops Entered On Friday night, or jn the early hours of Saturday morning, the Star Stores shop in Mary street was broken into and a quantity of tobacco ana cigarettes taken. The premises of A. C. Millars Ltd. in Mary street were also entered, but nothing was taken. Motor-Car Removed Between 7.50 and 10.55 on Saturday evening, a motor-car, the property of Mr Leslie George Thomson, of Doon street, was removed from the parking area outside the Civic Theatre and its removal was reported to the _ police. The car was found abandoned in Spey street yesterday. Building Society’s Record Year The president of the Southland Building Society (Mr A. S. Froggatt) reports that the society has had a record year. Investing and borrowing shareholders are to be credited with profits at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum. The mortgages total over £2,250,000 and the deposits are £221,233 in excess of those for the previous year. Minister of Lands The Minister of Lands (the Hon. F. Langstone), who is visiting Southland, and his party will leave Gore at eight o’clock this morning. The Minister will visit the Mataura paper mills. He will proceed to Hedgehope in company with Mr J. Hargest, M.P. for Awarua, and will reach Lora Gorge school about 9.30. He will arrive at Forest Hill at 11.15, visit the Tamatea settlement at 12.30 p.m. and arrive at Winton at 1 p.m. Deputations will be heard after lunch. In the afternoon he will visit Otautau and arrive at Riverton at six o’clock. Deputations will be heard after dinner. The Minister will stay the night at Riverton. National Party Policy “Before the next election the National Party is going to have a policy: and it’s going to be a good policy, carefully considered, attractive, appealing, and thoroughly practicable,” said Mr S. G. Holland, M.P., when speaking at the meeting which the Hon. Adam Hamilton addressed in Christchurch. “The policy wants to be something higher, bigger and more noble than a merely negative policy of anti-Labour.” There was applause when Mr Holland said that in the Wellington division alone the party had signed up and received fees from 10,000 new members. There was applause, too, wiien he asserted that the people of New Zealand were not socialistically minded and would not stand for Socialism, and when he assured Mr Hamilton that Christchurch North would “stand by the National Party flag.”

Anglers’ Daily Catch The council of the South Island acclimatization societies decided at its meeting in Christchurch to recommend to the Minister of Marine (the Hon. P. Fraser) that the regulation governing the maximum weight of an angler’s daily catch should be rescinded. The present regulation provides that fishermen shall not take more than 20 pounds weight in fish a day. Mr J. McDonald (South Canterbury) who stated that the remit came from the Waimate Society, said that in some districts where the fish were large the regulation was a definite drawback. In the Waimate district, for instance, if a man caught two eight-pounders he would not be able to catch another fish of that size in the same day. It was mentioned that some of the societies already had local regulations which, instead of fixing a limit weight, stipulated the number of fish which could be taken by an angler. Visits of Theatrical Companies

The Mayor of Invercargill (Mr John Miller) has received a reply from J. C. Williamson, Ltd., who managed the tour of the Russian Ballet, saying that because of shipping difficulties the company was unable to extend its itinerary to Invercargill on this occasion. “We quite appreciate the fact that companies we have sent to Invercargill have always been well supported by the people of your town, and where it is practicable we will continue to send companies to Invercargill,” the letter stated. “The main difficulty these days is in connecting with shipping. In the case of the Russian Ballet tour, we have had to confine the Dunedin season to seven nights only in order to connect with the Awatea, sailing from Wellington on May 4, since there is no other boat sailing from Wellington until May 13 and it would be impossible for us to fill in the intervening time. The Union Company ships usually sailed from Wellington on Fridays, but with the advent of the Awatea the sailings are now on Tuesday, and it is rather difficult for us to incorporate all the towns in the tour.”