NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 35, 5 November 1942, Page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF

Apple Scarcity. The rationing of apples has resulted m Auckland shops being completely bare. Three thousand cases are distributed weekly, compared with the normal 9000. New ‘supplies from Hawke’s Bay should reach Auckland today. Retailers there have been limiting sales to a pound a customer. —P.A. A Cold Day. Reaching a minimum of 40 degrees, tile temperature in AVellingtou yesterday was the lowest recorded since the same love, ivas reached on October, 13 last. A strong southerly' wind blew in squally fashion and brought a number of heavy hailstorms. Chain Letters Again. . Chain letters have again appeared m New Zealand, the latest example being olte purporting to carry the “good luck of London.” It would seem that some people cannot be brought to realize tne senseless, and sometimes harmful, nature of the practice of assisting their circulation. Jewellery Stolen. , 'Twice committed to tfee care ot tne State and each time having absconded, Eileen Elfrida Craft, domestic, aged IS. was sentenced to a Borstal institution for two years when she appeared before Mr. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrates Court, ’Well'ington, yesterday. She pleaded g'-iiR? to stealing jewellery at Christchurch valued at £l7/10/-. Midnight Earthquake. . At exactly midnight on Tuesday ni o i'‘ a short, sharp earthquake was felt by some people in 'Wellington. Its st ,to? e ’ r { was placed at three on the. Rossi-lt ore scale, and the data available is consistent with its being an aftermath of the Masterton earthquakes. A shock of ,s tre “°t three on the Rossi-Forel scale is very feeble, felt by several persons lest, but strong enough for its duration and direction to be appreciable.

Bigamy Admitted. A plea of guilty to a charge of biganiy was entered in the Magistrates Court, Wellin-ton. yesterday by i a seaman, D'inief Leitch,‘ aged 30, and he was committed bv Mr. Stout. S.M.. to the Supreme Court tor sentence, bail being allowed. Evidence was given that accused was married in Glasgow and that in June last year he went through a form of marriage 'in Wellington. This was nine months after lie had left his wife in bcotland.

Would Prefer Jail. . “1 would rather go to jail than go back. I could not stand it,” said a young woman appellant to the M elltngton Mauower Industrial Commit co yesterday when appealing against the decision of the district manpower officer refusing h< r .remission to terminate, her employment with a boot manufacturing firm. Appellant, who is at present employed in a Government office, formerly a machinist with the item. She said her health was such that she coulu. not return to iter former occupation, which she claimet. was very noisy.

Bvo members of the National Ba'rtv have ‘agreed to their names going to it'ballot io select a candidate for Kuearton in the next g<’ r »eMl sitting member, Mr. H. 8. 8. Kyle, haling declared his independence. J hey are Major A. R. Alexander and Mr- J- IWatts. Major Alexander is now attendin'- a staff course in the North Island. He served in the last war, aud. in tm* war.'he was in Fiji for 12 months In civil life he was manager of the Addington Timber Company. Mr. Matts, baa practised iu Christchurch as a barrister and solicitor for the last 12 years.