NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 21, 20 October 1942, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF

Loan Investments The trustees of ther.AucklaniLSwnnSS Bank hate decided toDnvest £lOO,OOO in the Liberty Loan,' bringing, the total in vested to date ’in ‘ Liberty - Loans up to £300,000.—-P.A. T Tomorr O w a will t (be the 137th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar. Accident Fatality- , . , ' Suffering a dislocated neck when he was involved in a motor-car accident last Thursday, Mr. Ciennell Nelson hay s r ’ town clerk of Opunake, died » U2 'Hawera. Hospital yesterday. He was 36 .'.years of age.—P.A. Seven Sons Accepted. The seven sons of Air., and' Mrs.. James Clothier, Morrinsville. have been accepted for military service and have been nassed [grade one. Three have already seen active service, one has been accepted for the Air Force and three-are' waiting to be called up. Fond of Milk. . , ... American servicemen are good milk drinkers. The consumption of milk brinks in .Wellington has advanced about M) pei cent, since they arrived, and, as the warm weather advances, this.is expected to be still greater. Yesterday in Featherston Street an American hailed a milk cart, purchased a quart bottle of milk, and drank it there and then. Bequests Under Will. . .. . . . Leaving an estate ot £lo,ooo, the late Mr. Charles Henry Owens, retired farmer Auckland, made bequests, totalling £7boo to various institutions, including £lOOO each to the New Zealand Institute for the Blind, Auckland branch of the Blanket Society, Henry Brett Memorial Home for Girls, St. Mary’s Anglican Home, Otahuhu,. and the Community Sunshine Association, Auckland. 1 .A. Strawberry Prospects. Small quantities of strawberries continue to come forward daily at the 4r ac ' land markets, and good quality fralt brin"inhigh, prices. Wholesale rates on Fridav’ranged from 3/10 to 5/10 a chip. Though the -plantings this year were slightly less than last, the beds are looking particularly well, and, in the opinion of a representative of the trade, prospects are for a higher yield a plant. Vocational Centre. Preliminary work is in progress jn c * ,a ' nexion with the construction of the vocational centre, for men and women ot the services on the site of the Brougham Hill Tennis Club’s courts m Lloyd btiect, Wellington. Most of the level area u front where the courts were is t 0 . ™ utilized as a bowling green, and the bwid ing is to be placed on the nsm o „round at the back. In order to prepare the sue for this structure, between 3000 and 400 ■yards of spoil have to be removedand there is only one mechanical digger at a able for the job. At present it seems that it will be six months before the centie is ready for occupation. C ”"“'eta" tta ttat'e ot sootab;. longing to tenants in the city building of which he was caretaker, John Livingstone Fisher, aged 58, was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment in the Magistrates’ Court, Auckland, yesterday. He pleaded guilty. The policeD.®4 l Fisher had been caretaker of the building for 13 years. He admitted stealing goods v lined at over £6O. Fisher was addicted to drink, and he was recently in hospital with alcoholic poisoning. His wite was i I and was not expected to recover, “lort l ately cases of caretakers abusing their r st are extremely rare,” said Mr. Luxfoiffi S.M., “but when they occur it is not n case for leniency. 1 .A. Ten Per Cent Contracts. Contractors employed on ear hquake retuflr jobs in Wellington, big and small, are for the most part working a sehed de on a 10 per cent, basis, This system, which has its drawbacks, is said to lie the only one which, under all the circumstances, could be adopted. Contractors who were available for the work, and that was not many, were not prepared to tender an overall price for any iob, due to the scarcity of labour, the fluctuating cost of it, and the difficulty in getting the material at a stable price over the months the job would take. The 10 per cent, over and above schedule prices is reported to work all right, but gives a considerable amount of extra work both to the principal and the contractor, as everything concerned in the building has to be taken into account. Bowls and Bowls. Bowls, in the mind of the average visiting serviceman, is associated with the boarded bowling alleys of the American cities, where big bowls, half ns large again as those used on New Zealand greens, aiid with a thumb-hole for grip, are used to knock down ninepins at the other end of the roll-down. A couple of servicemen visited the Wellington Bowling Club’s green on the opening day last Saturday. They were tremendously interested in the game, which was quite new to then!, and in the “feel” of the bowls. “Is that real solid earth?” they asked, at the smooth looking green, and when told that it was, they wanted to know how it was possible to get it so level and still keep the grass growing. When they were told that, it was the result of work done day in and out throughout, the winter months, when no games were played, they still thought it was rather wonderful that such 'things could be.