£15,000 MARK IS PASSED

Southland Times, Issue 24211, 22 August 1940, Page 8

£15,000 MARK IS PASSED

Progress Of Fighter Aeroplane Fund

£6OOO STILL TO BE RAISED The Southland Fighter Aeroplane Fund passed the £15,000 mark yesterday. Only another £6OOO has to be raised before the province will be able to present the British Government with a sum of money sufficient to buy two new fighter aeroplanes for the Royal Air Force. The position of the three funds is now as follows:— £ Provincial Fund 9965 Southland Tinies Fund 3766 Eastern District Fund 1342 TOTAL TO DATE 15,073 The Southland Wrestling Association has decided to make a donation of £lO/10/- to the fund. Contributions for the fund may be sent to the provincial patriotic treasurer, the town clerk (Invercargill), or to the editor of The Southland Times. To avoid confusion, all subscriptions should be plainly marked “Southland Fighter Aeroplane Fund.” SOUTHLAND TIMES FUND The following subscriptions were received at The Southland Times office yesterday:

TOTAL TO DATE 3765 15 8 OTHER DONATIONS The following additional donations have been received by the provincial patriotic treasurer and by the committee:

Otatara Patriotic Committee— D. W. Gordon £5, Miss H. Ewart £l/1/-, Mrs Bowie £l, A. Williams £l, Mr and Mrs Blomfield 10/-, Mrs J. R. Harvey 10/-, F. Colvin 10/-, J. Paskell 10/-, W. Ackers 10/-, J. F. Wishart 10/-, C. A. Price 5/-, A. Howell 5/-, 303 5/-, P. 5/-, A.P. 5/-, W. Hall 3/-,

EASTERN SOUTHLAND LIST Additional contributions to the Southland Fighter Plane Fund are acknowledged by the secretary of the Gore Returned Soldiers’ Association (Mr G. L. Gerken) as follows: £ s d

c MATAURA LIST fl The Mataura Returned Soldiers’ ] Association has received two more con- i. tributions to the fund, representing the ' proceeds of social functions, as follows: * d 1

AUCTION OF GOODS AND PRODUCE The offer of William Todd and Company, Limited, auctioneers, tc sell articles and produce free of commission for the benefit of the fund, has been accepted by many persons who find this a convenient way to make a donation and yesterday afternoon the goods on hand were sold at the Rialto. They realized £37/1/3. In addition to quantities of cheese, potatoes and other produce, a wide variety of articles including a tray, brass bowls, watches, gold rings and brooches and books were sold by the auctioneer, Mr W. S. Todd. There was an attendance of about 200 persons and keen interest was displayed in the sale. ■Goods sold and the prices they brought were as follows: — Tray 1/6; brass bowl 8/6; brass vase 4/-; cruet 3/-; 11 vases 3/6; cake-stand 2/-; watch 3/-; watch 2/-; gold ring 5/-; gold brooch 2/-; mirror 1/-; clock 1/-; six volumes of books 9/-; 60 bags toffee £l/10/6; two dressed fowls 11/-; luggage carrier 5/-; baby’s car seat 2/6; grinding stand 5/-; 76Jlb of cheese (in amounts of 4 to s|lb) £2/10/3; tray 1/6; piano £9; four bags potatoes at 6/- each; 13 bags at 5/- each; 10 bags ryecom at 17/- each, nine at 15/-; one box of carrots 3/-; one box parsnips 4/-; one fishing rod 6/—; two pups 3/-. GROWTH OF AUCKLAND FUND AUCKLAND, August 21. The fund opened by the New Zealand Herald only five days ago to pro-

vide aeroplanes for the Royal Air Force as a tribute to their magnificent work, already exceeds £lO,OOO.

£ s d ALREADY ACKNOWLEDGED 3711 17 8 Loyal Orange Lodge, Wyndham No. 101 10 0 0 Clifden girls’ and boys’ basketball 2 7 0 Mr and Mrs T. D. Pearce 10 0 0 R. McGill 5 0 0 W. McNay (Woodlands) 5 0 0 Miss M. B. Pilcher 0 10 0 Miss P. B. Pilcher 1 1 0 P. E. Deegan 15 0 0 Mrs Hill (Yarrow street) 5 0 0

8 . THE SOUTHLAND TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1940,, ’ SHORT SITTING CHILDREN SEEKING HAVEN IN THE DOMINIONS OF HOUSE Ufa 11 Barrage Of Urgent mwff n -i • 1 Questions ■u mH ■2 -JI SECRET SESSION TO BE HELD TODAY !■ .■■..ar...... fc\ > / ' A (From Our Parliamentary Reporter) > ; -.v ; - « , , z. „ I Vr 'A-L-,- V Lk ;.»?. - .. A Sei \ -U ’ ftB 1.1 it < WELLINGTON, August 21. Parliament resumed this afternoon after an adjournment of almost three weeks, and although the sitting lasted only from 2.30 p.m. until 5.20 p.m. a number of interesting matters was brought forward. The sitting opened with a barrage of /en small children who are coming to the Dominions from England, as guest children, for Jhe duration of th PUBLIC HEALTH LATE NEWS NAZIS ANXIOUS AUSTRALIANS TO £15,000 MARK IS urgent questions on various matters, mostly directed against the Minister of IN N.Z. FOR OUIET HOLD ELECTION PASSED Finance (the Hon. W. Nash) and then departmental reports which had been made ready during the adjournment were presented. Two of the washing-up Bills of the session, the Reserves and Other Lands Provisions Of Act GREECE BLAMES ITALY DESIRE FOR TALKS September 21 Fixed Progress Of Fighter Disposal Bill and the Local Legislation Bill, were next introduced and the Extended IN BALKANS As Date Aeroplane Fund Thames Borough Commissioner Amendment Bill and the Health Amendment — Bill appeared later in the day. The Carriage by Air Bill was also introduced. OBLIGATIONS OF LOCAL Sinking Of Cruiser PRESSURE APPLIED ON TROOPS OVERSEAS TO £6000 STILL TO BE Friday. The ministerial replies to questions AUTHORITIES By Submarine ITALIANS V 1 lb RAISED were considered by the members during ■" 1 1 ■ — ■ ■ - part of the afternoon. Tomorrow members will meet in secret session. (From Our Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, August 21. The provisions for the protection of the public health in New Zealand are considerably extended by an amendment to the Health Act which was introduced in the Elouse of Representatives today. Important provisions in the Bill are the obligations placed on local auTORPEDO FRAGMENT SHOWS ORIGIN (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) ATHENS, August 21. ANTI-GREECE CAMPAIGN (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received August 21, 6.30 p.m.) The Southland Fighter Aeroplane Fund passed the £15,000 mark yesterday. Only another £6000 has to be raised before the province will be able to present the British Government with a sum of money sufficient to buy two new fighter aeroplanes for the Royal Air Force. The position of the three funds is now as follows:— £ Provincial Fund 9965 Southland Times Fund 3766 Eastern District Fund 1342 INCREASED COST OF PRODUCTION RESTRAINED (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received August 21, 8.15 p.m.) LONDON, August 21. CANBERRA, August 21. The Prime Minister (Mr R. G. Menzies) announced today that the Federal election for the Senate and House of Representatives will be held on September 21. Nominations day is SeptemEFFECT OF RISE IN thorities to provide sanitary works and quarantine for aircraft, and the power to introduce regulations to give greater control over drain laying and other (Received August 22, 2 a.m.) A torpedo fragment removed from the torpedoed Greek cruiser Helle bore the The Belgrade correspondent of The Daily Mail says that Germany is reported to have ordered Hungary to go The House of Representatives will dissolve not later than next Monday. Complete arrangements have been WAGES matters, better control over infectious words “Turin 1930,” revealing that the on with the Turnu-Severin talks at all made to enable Australian overseas COMPENSATION WANTED FOR FARMERS diseases and special provisions as to pulmonary tuberculosis. The clause dealing with the obligations of local authorities to provide sanitary works provides that the obligation to comply with any requisition issued by the Board of Health submarine was Italian. ITALIAN BLOCKADE Italy has announced an intensification of her blockade of British territory and has warned, all neutral govcosts. The Germans, it is believed, are so anxious to maintain quiet in the Balkans that they have influenced the Italians to confine their anti-Greece campaign to the newspapers and the troops to record their votes. The election campaign will be one of the shortest on record and will be mostly confined to the newspapers and TOTAL TO DATE 15,073 The Southland Wrestling Association has decided to make a donation of £10/10/- to the fund. Contributions for the fund may be sent to the provincial patriotic (From Our Parliamentary Rep l ter) WELLINGTON, August 21. An urgent question was addressed to the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser) in the House of Representatives this afternoon by Mr S. G. Holland (Nat., Christchurch North), who shall not be limited by absence of legislative authority. Local authorities shall be deemed to have the power to carry out such work in accordance with the requisition. While any regulations are in force ; prescribing the qualifications required by sanitary inspectors no such inspectors can be appointed unless there is ernments to keep their ships away from radio. treasurer, the town clerk (Inverthe Italian war zone comprising an extensive area around the shores of British possessions and protectorates in the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, British colonial coasts in Africa and also the coast of Egypt. Three factors which are stated to be influencing Berlin are:— (1) The failure of the air offensive against Britain. (2) The late Balkan harvest. (3) Axis suspicion of Russia regard- ■ c , ■ .-zAC-:-.-:. ■■ ■ ''' cargill), or to the editor of The Southland Times. To avoid confusion, all subscriptions should be plainly marked “Southland Fighter Aeroplane Fund.” SOUTHLAND TIMES FUND tended making provision for paying to farmers and to the producers of goods proof of qualification. The requirements for the issuing of closing orders in respect of insanitary premises are | slightly amended so that such orders 1 must be served on the occupier and owner, except when the owner is not in the country and has no agent here. In such cases the occupier is to be deemed to be acting for the owner. ITALIAN BASES RAIDED ing the future of Balkan spheres of interest. The following subscriptions were received at The Southland Times office yesterday: £ s d ALREADY ACKNOWLEDGED 3711 17 8 Loyal Orange Lodge, Wyndham No. 101 10 0 0 Clifden girls’ and boys’ basketball 2 7 0 Mr and Mrs T. D. Pearce 10 0 0 R. McGill 5 0 0 that were subject to sale at fixed prices a premium to compensate them for the increased cost of production that would result from the decision of the Court of Arbitration to increase award wages by 5 per cent. The Prime Minister replied that repwere the object of attacks by squadrons of the South African Air Force, says, a message from London. Aerodromes in Abyssinia and Italian Somaliland were raided and a number of direct hits was scored on hangars and other objectives. One of the South African planes failed to return from these raids. HOLIDAY TOURS OF CITY resentations had already been made by producers’ organizations for consideration by the Government. W. McNay (Woodlands) 5 0 0 Miss M. B. Pilcher 0 10 0 Miss P. B. Pilcher 110 OFFENSIVE TRADES INVERCARGILL Y.M.C. A. ARRANGES VISITS Another urgent question relating to the Court’s order was asked by Mr Holland and the Prime Minister in his reply was equally non-committal. The question was whether the Government intended introducing legislation, or making some other provision to increase the incomes of civil servants correspondingly and other persons receiving fixed incomes, pensions and so on to compensate them for the increased cost of living. In his reply the Prime Minister said that railway organizations, the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Employees’ The establishment of any offensive trade within the district of any local authority, or any extension of such trade is prohibited unless the written authority of the local authority and the medical officer of health is given. The control of persons suffering from infectious diseases is extended to persons who are carriers, or suspected carriers of such diseases. The quarantine provisions are to apply to aircraft and to persons and goods carried by aircraft in the same manner in which they apply to shipWOMAN’S CLAIM TO ESTATE k J MR STEVENS the radio, although Mr Menzies hopes to cover as much of Australia as posP. E. Deegan 15 0 0 Mrs Hill (Yarrow street) 5 0 0 PARTY OF 34 PRIMARY SCHOOL BOYS TOTAL TO DATE 3765 15 8 OTHER DONATIONS The following additional donations have been received by the provincial BIGAMOUS MARRIAGE CONTRACTED A holiday programme for 34 primary school boys of one of the classes conducted by the Invercai gill Young Men’s Christian Association has been arranged and is being carried out by the secre- 1 tary of the association, Mr D. Wills. I sible. The former Premier of New South Wales, Mr B. S. B. Stevens, announced that he intends to contest a Lang suburban seat which at present is represented by a Labour Party mempatriotic treasurer and by the committee: £ s d ALREADY ACKNOWLEDGED 9917 4 1 “Little Pakehas’’ 12 8 Mrs and Miss Ryan 10 0 0 F. Young 2 2 0

I. Lock 2/6 12 11 6 Georgeson Brothers’ staff 2 19 2 Fleming and Co. Ltd. 10 0 0 Invercargill Defence Rifle Club 2 2 0 “Anonymous" 1 0 0 R. Shields, sen. 2 0 0 "Brian” (Roslyn Bush) 0 5 0 H. S. Young Ltd. 5 0 0 Well-wisher (350) 0 5 0 Anon. 1 0 0 W. Kelman 5 0 0 W. J. Young 2 2 0 Wilkins Ltd. 2 2 0 Yvonne Beauty Salon 1 0 0 TOTAL TO DATE 9965 3 11 1 —

ALREADY ACKNOWLEDGED 1155 12 11 A. Corbett 1 0 0 Wendonside School 17 6 1 Mr and Mrs J. Sheddan (Heriot) 15 0 Mrs T. L. Macdonald 5 5 0 Mr and Mrs Charles Hammond 10 0 George family (Balfour) 5 0 0 TOTAL 1186 9 0 MATAURA TOTAL 155 7 0 DISTRICT TOTAL 1341 16 0

ALREADY ACKNOWLEDGED 128 12 0 Basketball tournament 16 15 0 Waikana dance 10 0 0 TOTAL 155 7 0