LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 12 April 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Service Gratuities Satisfaction regarding the statement of the Minister of Defence (Hon. F. Jones) in conneqtion with thc calculation pf the war service gratiiity payable to those in receipt pf pensions under the t$43 War Pensions Act h.as been expressed by the Dominipn vice-president of the R.S.A. (L/Er. O. O. Bell) . Representatives of the Dominion executive committee, who had served in the 1939-45 war, recently diseussed this nuestioii with the Minister of Finance (Hon. Walter Nash) and tlieir reeommendatipn embodied in plause four of the Minister's st^ejrnent has been adopted. I Pahiatua Road Blocked In the early hours of yesterday morning a large siip came down on the Aokautere-pahiatua Road about 11 miles from Pahiatua. The road was completely blocked for 20 yards and it is estimated that some- 1000 cubic yards will have tp be shifted before traffic will be enabled to pass. Mr. L. Pickering, Kairanga County engineer, stated last evening that a bulldpzer had been jjroppred and work would commence pn clearing the road this .morning. Although it | would have taken two weeks to I clear the road by hand. it was hoD^d i to have the rqad usuable again in j three or fpur days, Mr. Pickering ! said. Even when the road was ; cleared it was possible that a fur- ; ther slip would come down, but this i was not considered likely, although the banking was greasy backedThe road should be olear for the Easter traffic. ! Car Overturns I When a Union Airways liner ' returned to Ohristchchnrch on 1 Wednesday after the pilot had been advised that a landing at Taieri was ' impossible becguse pf the weather, ; the passengers were transferred to j three cars which left for Dunedin at \ 3.20 p.m. About 16 miles from Duni edm, one car left the road and Qyey- ! turned. One qf the pgS5eng§Vs j suffered head injuries. He is Mr. ' Emanuel Pullen, agod 47, a resident i of Auckland.' The mjured nian was J admitted to hospital at 11 o'clock, ! and his injuries were later reported ; not to be seriqus. Spme of the pgs- ) sengers in the othe.r cars righted I the overturned vehicle and vacated I their own cars to enable the shaken 1 passengers to be brought to Dunedin more quickly. A taxi frnm Dunedin was later sent out for the ; party, which had remained with the ! car involved in the accident. It was I after midnight when they reached 1 the city. The passengers, who were j tp have left Dunedin hY airlinpf yesI terday morning, travelled nprth by I car at midnight. j Information Dismissed A ruiing of interest to dance hall | and cabaret promo.ters was given in a reserved decision by Mr. P. H. Levien, S.M., at Auckland yesterday morning concernipg charges against the Civic Theatre Ltd., of keeping the Civic Winter Gardens Cabaret open on a Sunday for transacting business, and against the mangger of the Civic Cabaret, Hector Colin Olsen, of working at his calling in the view of a public place on a Sunday. The prosecution admitted that the Auckland City Council gave the company authority to continue dancing till 1 a.m. on Sundays, pro:vided nobody was admitted after 11.45 on Saturdays, but the police ■held that the council had no right fto over-ride Statute Law, by giving ,perniission to open after midnight. Dismissing the information the Magistrate said . that he could not find anything to support the contention that when a dance was going pn and nobody was getfing in, that place shpuld be deemed to be open.