NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 20, 19 October 1942, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF

Liberty Loan Additional investments in the Second Liberty Loan include: Messrs. BlundeL Bros., £5000; New Zealand branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign bocietv £2500: T. Coltman, £1000; Boo.s the Chemists (N.Z.), Ltd., £500; Petone Steam Laundry Co.,' £lOO. Farmers’ Disapproval. The Pahiatua central branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union at an executiee meeting last week unanimously passed a motion expressing disapproval of the action of the of Agriculture in retaining a further a per cent, of the proceeds of the wool appraised during the current season.

Auckland Fire Station. , Work on the Auckland Metropolitan Fire Board’s new central station at tae corner of Grey’s Avenue and Cook Street is being considerably delayed because skilled and unskilled labour has been transferred to more essential work. Already nine months under construction, the building may take another six to eight months to complete if the present rate of progress is maintained.

No Tax Exemption. The Advisory Board of the New Zealand Federation of Drapers and Allied Retailers has received from the Minister of Customs advice that he cannot accede to the request that school caps and hats, infants’ bonnets and handkerchiefs should be exempted from the additional 10 per cent, sales tax which was imposed in May. '■

Taxi Licences For Women. "i. A decision to grant taxicab licences to women in cases where -the police offered no objection, hus been made by th>3 Auciland City Council, which recently received four applications from women. A conference of Auckland metropolitan local authorities on September 7 decided that licences should not be issued to women until it had been proved that men were not. available for the work. Patriotic Funds Benefit. Patriotic funds benefited to the extent of about £2OO from a concert held last night, when a visiting servicemen’s band made its first platform appearance m Wellington. Major .J. R. Kirk, on behalf of the British-American Friendship Group, presented the band leader with a special souvenir New Zealand baton, and a group of Wanganui visitors presented the band with a large floral representation of a flag.

Theft from Y.M.C.A. x , In the Magistrates’Court, Wellington, on Saturday, Roy James Embleton, a merchant seaman, aged 29, from an overseas vessel, pleaded guilty to two charges of stealing clothing, total value £6/l</-, from the premises of the Y.M.C.A. in Wellington. He said he was very drunk and remembered nothing till he woke up in jail. He was fined £5 on the first charge and convicted and discharged on the second by Mr. Stout, S.M., who ordered im- ’ mediate payment ol the fine.

Blackout Breach. In the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, on Thursday, Joyce Rose, of 30 Messines Road, Karori, was fined £2 and costs for an offence under the Emergency Lighting Regulations. 'Through an unfortunate transposition of names this conviction, was stated in Friday’s “Dominion to have been entered Mrs. Lex Brocherie, of 'Main Road, Karori. Two charges against Mr. Lex Brocherie under the same regulations, set down for .nearing on Thursday, were, in fact, adjourned to a later date. Cheese Crate Costs. Advice has been received from the New Zealand Dairy Board by the South Auckland Dairy Association that the Price Tribunal had fixed the price limit...for cheese crates at 3/~ a crate, ex Frankton, representing an increase of 7d. over last season’s figure. Mr. A. J. Murdoch, a member of the Dairy Board, informed the association that the highest price paid was 3/11. Dissatisfaction with the increase was expressed by members, who said the association had been informed by a Waikato firm that crates could be supplied at 2/6.

New World Order. “When this war. is ended we must realize that it is on the people themselves that the future of the world will rest,” said Mr.' Nelson Hill, president of the ■Karori Esperanto Society, at a meeting of the society which he attended on Thursday .while on leave, before transferring .to. a. South Island aerodrome. “Thinking people must realize that an international auxiliary or secondary language is a necessity and Esperantists are paving the way to tlie new world order by teaching .and spreading the language that already has behind it the recommendation of the League of Nations and the British Association for the Advancement of Science.”