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Evening Star, Issue 23679, 12 September 1940, Page 8

With school bands and cadets parading the streets to-morrow as part of the Queen Carnival scheme to raise funds for the rehabilitation of returned soldiers, the city should present a lively scene. There will be many ticket and badge sellers, too, active throughout the day, while after 5.30 p.m. the commercial travellers will take over the task of coaxing the nimble shillings from the pockets of citizens. At the Strand Theatre to-morrow, the Army Queen Committee is holding another community sing, and an effort will be made to make the return therefrom a record one

Last evening the National Reserve Battalion held a very successful parade at the Kensington Drill Hall, the men being addressed by General Young, officer commanding the Home Guard forces. There was also a large number of tt£w recruits to the Battalion, ■who were medically examined, 54 passing the tests required. This addition to the strength of the battalion is another step towards building up its full quota.

The first of the 10 rail-cars ordered in England, a Vulcan Diesel-driven car, is now on a ship in New Zealand waters, and will be discharged at Lyttelton in a day or two. It will be first used on the Christchurch-Greymouth-Hokitika run, to replace the present four-wheeled cars and to give better facilities for the large number of passengers offering on this run. It is fitting (savs the Christchurch ‘ Press ’) that the first of the modern imported rail-cars should he used on the West Coast route, on which the car service was inaugurated in New Zealand on August 5,193 G. The new cars are bogey-wheeled and seat up to 60 passengers.

“ England is working and fighting for her very life —it is up to us to do likewise here,” said Mr G. J. VV • Cooper, in the course of an address to the directors, shareholders, and staff of F. Cooper Ltd., wholesale seed growers, Wellington. “ Those who are not fighting now or preparing to defend this part or other parts of the Empire,” he added, “ must work and produce to the maximum, and thus allow others to be released for essentia! duty. Anyone who does not do so is just falling down on his mates. 1 think I see signs that many of us in New Zealand have been taking the war far too complacently. The Germans are making no such mistake. They are working desperately for Victory. It will be only by the same means that they can be defeated, and the harder wo' can mako it now the quicker it will be over.” At 3.59 p.m. yesterday the City Fire Brigade was called out to a dwelling at 175 Queen street, where a fire caused by a defective fireplace resulted in a mantelshelf being slightly damaged. The Uoslyn Brigade, at 4.16 p.m. answered an automatic false alarm to the Boslyn Mills, and at 8.45 p.m. the Central Station received a call to a chimney firo in Cargill road. A married woman, Clare Alma Lee, was charged at the Police Court this morning with the theft, at Tomahawk, of £3O in money, the property of Alexander I,anclretli. On the application of Senior-sergeant Vaughan the accused was remanded in appear on September 18. Bail was allowed in one suricty of £‘J5.

A letter of congratulation to the society on the way in which it lias cleaned up the hawk menace in the province was received by the Hawke’s Bay Acclimatisation Society from a poultry farmer. The farmer stated that before the society took on the job of destroying hawks there were thousands Hying about the district, but now there was a decided decrease in the number to bo seen. This bad saved the lives of hundreds of fowls and ducks, which meant a great deal, particularly in time of war. Recent newspaper articles regarding the shortage of wrapping papers have produced at least one immediate and practical response (says the ‘ Southland News’). Early last week a resident of the Mokotua district purchased from an Invercargill firm several pieces of furniture which wore wrapped in a considerable quantity of heavy paper. Having got the furniture home and unpacked he noticed a paragraph in his newspaper about the difficulty firms are experiencing in getting supplies of paper. Thereupon he salvaged the paper off the furniture, made it into a neat package, and on his next trip to town returned it to the furnishers. “ That may seem a small thing,” remarked the manager of the business to a reporter, “ but I can assure you it was appreciated. If everyone did the same we should be saved a great deal of trouble. Packing furniture takes a considerable quantity of paper, and it is a real problem to get enough of the right kind. It is hoped that others will follow this good example.”

Prices for prime heave cattle acre from parity to 10s a head cheaper than last sale rates at the Burnside market yesterday, with medium bullocks, cows, and heifers £1 to £1 5s lower. Outside competition kept the market lirm until the close of the auction. Extra prime heavy bullocks made to £26 17s 6d, prime heavy £2l 2s 6d to £23 2s 6d, medium from £ls 12s 6d to £lB 17s 6d, light from £ll 2s 6d; extra prime cows and heifers made to £l7 2s 6d, prime from £l3 2s 6d to £ls 7s 6d, medium from £lO 2s 6d to £ll 12s 6d, light from £7 17s 6d. There were more wethers than owes penned in the sheep entry, with the result that they receded Is Gd to 2s Gd a head, while ewes sold at last sale rates. Hoggets met with a keen sale. Outside competition resulted in values remaining on an even basis throughout. Extra prime heavy wethers made to 50s, prime heavy from 42s to 45s 9d, medium from 335.t0 375, light down to 275; extra prime heavy ewes to 42s Gd, prime heavy 36s to 39s 9d, medium from 30s to 33s Gd, light down to 2Gs.

No information is yet available as to when the fourth reinforcements of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force will be called up to enter the mobilisation camps for training. This will, of course, depend on the duration of the measles epidemic, which affected the military camps as well as a section of the civil population.

Hot and smoking after its 24 hours-steam-curing, the first giant pipe to be cast in the Public Works Department's pipe factory at Surrey Hijls was stripped of its moulds yesterday afternoon (says, the ‘ Press ’). _ A small party of departmental engineers and visitors watched with interest the consummation of months of planning and organisation for an engineering undertaking that ranks with the biggest of its kind in the world. Here will be produced pipes for the giant siphons which will carry the Rangitata diversion race under, through, or over various obstacles in its codrse, and pipes for the penstock of the Highbank hydro-electric power station. The first casting, carried out after some delay on Tuesday, was pronounced a complete success by Mr T. G. Beck, district engineer to the Public Works Department, after ho had made an examination of the stripped pipe. Mr Beck qualified this by saving that experience gained in this first casting would enable improvements to he made in subsequent units. “We could be well satisfied with this standard, hut the pipes will get bettor, not worse,” he added.

The restrictions imposed on the use of water in Sydney because of prolonged di;y weather were mentioned by Mr E. W. Sharp, New Zealand manager for a firm of caterers to the aerated water industry, who has returned after a business visit. Guests in the hotels, lie said, were advised by notices posted in their rooms not to waste water, and the newspapers carried warnings almost every day. Rain in the catchment area, about 30 miles from the city, had been negligible for almost the past six years. Temperatures were at New Zealand summer levels during most of his visit, and everyone was wearing light clothing. Petrol resellers have not taken too kindly to the imposition of a “ cash-ou-delivery ” basis on petrol sales, and some have declared their intention of passing on the system to their entire clientele. This means that commercial enterprises that have been running private accounts with these particular resellers will have to pay cash when obtaining petrol. One retailer expressed regret to the ‘ Star ’ this morning that such a step had to be taken, but the attitude of the oil companies had left him no alternative, he explained.