NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 265, 7 August 1942, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

Taxation Payments. , _ ■ A notice .published m last night s Gazette notifies that land tax is payable on September 30, and that income tax will be payable on February 11, 1940. Coastal Road Blocked Again. The Automobile Association (Melliagton) advised last night that the main road has been blocked by further material coming down on the site of a recent slip, at Pukerua Bay. It is expected that the road will not be open for traffic today. The old road over Paekakanki Hill is still open. A Compulsory Stop. . Hitherto the Town Hall, in Lower Cuba Street, has been an "on request stopping place for Wellington tramcars. In view of the altered service, which cuts out Manners Street and diverts all cars (save from Brooklyn and Aro Street) into Jervois Quay, the tramways authorities have agreed to make the Town Hall (Mercer Street end) a compulsory stop. Essential Undertakings. The Public Service has been declared an essential industry. Similar declarations have been issued in regard to the manufacture of tobacco and the redrying of tobocco leaf, the operations of bakeries of all pastrycook establishments, and the operations of ail concerns coming within the scope of the New Zealand (except Westland) plumbers and gastitters’ award. Should Lime be Rationed? A suggestion that agricultural June should be rationed on the same basis as phosphatic fertilizers was discussed by the Auckland District Council of Primary Production. A representative of the industry who was present said his firm was only now commencing to deliver orders for May of this year, and it had sufficient orders in hand to take all output up to the end of next April, -the matter was deferred in order to obtain fuller information. Second Bigamy Charge. Making his second appearance within 16 months for bigamy, Horace Basil Wiggins, aged 33, appealed to Mr. Justice Fair in the Supreme Court, Auckland, to impose a fine so that he might save the money invested by the girl concerned in his boot-repairing business at Birkenhead. He was unable to get a man to carry on in his absence. Mr. Justice 1! air said the capital invested iu the business could not be large, and sentenced accused to six months’ imprisonment.—P.A. Electrical Inspections. . By an amendment to the electrical supply regulations gazetted last night, the statutory requirement of inspection of consumers’ installations every five, years has been modified to meet war conditions. The customary inspection will continue to be made in shops, offices and factories in congested areas, but in other areas where the risk of accidents through electrical faults are less the inspection has been relaxed to an extent that it may be made at any time before April 1, 1945. Blankets for Fire-Watchers. . It is now possible to provide a limited supply of blankets for fire-watchers, but in view of the great scarcity, it is desired to confine the issue to necessitous cases, stated the Wellington Fire Protection Organizer, Mr. V. E. Hampson-linda e. Building organizers are invited to .make applications stating the number of beds for which blankets are required, but in all cases it is urged that, applications only be made where. a definite necessity exists. It is appreciated that some hie watchers have been inconvenienced to a decree much greater than the average, and it will be possible orate to some extent conditions in tin respect. £lO a Week Tempting. «, f i,f lPl i An admission that he would be saUsffiffi if he got HO a week in the Ilira Rob-Roy Avery, bakers driver, who said he was a Communist, and appealed More the Wellington Armed Fmxes Appeal Board yesterday against military service on every ground except status, was followed by the dismissal of the -ppeal. Appellant said he had put up with all the hardships he wanted between 1932 and 1935, when be had existed on •>4/- a week He considered he had done his share for the Armed Forces then ••Why shouldn’t I get the same in the Army as I do m civil lite, he asked. Mr 0 O Bell, Crown representative: It von’ ”0t £lO a week in the Army, wou d yon be satisfied?” Appellant: ‘I should ” .Mr. Bell: "Then you are prepared to fight in some circumstances .- \ppellant: "Yes. in some circumstances. Mr Bell: "That brings you within the scope of the regulations. The appeal must be dismissed.” ___