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Evening Star, Issue 24288, 1 September 1942, Page 2

I /■ The r;itioniii.u conimllor. Mr .7. K, Thomas.’ announced last night that the surrender value of ten and sugar coupons tor September would remain unchanged. Under the will of .Miss Sarah Fuller, who died in Christchurch cm Juno 29, the net residuary of the estate, estimated at approximately £5,000, has been bequeathed to the Redemptionist Order, Hawker .street, Wellington, for the purposes of the mission work of the order in .New Zealand. A warning that non-eomplianec with the bicycle tyre and tube control notice which was gazetted on July 23 'may lead to heavy penalties was issued last night by the Minister of Supplv, the Hon. 1). (I. Sullivan. The notice requires a written return from persons possessing any new tyres or tubes, and from persons with such supplies under their control or on order, if they are not affixed to a pedal bicycle. German plunder in Norway has been so extensive that it has now been necessary- to introduce fish rationing in a country which, before the invasion, exported millions, of tons of fish to all parts of the globe. A Norwegian Press bulletin reports that Norwegians in many towns are allowed to buy only twice a week. Lectures on many subjects are delivered in the Italian camp in which Corporal 7). J. "Winter, Inglewood, is a prisoner of war, according to letters to his parents, Mr and Airs A. L. Winter. Writing on March IG, Corporal Winter said: “ The week has passed much as usual. I have listened to lectures on all sorts of subjects, including farming in Norway, whaling, biscuit making, banana growing in Queensland, submarines, the progress of the war, mining, Royal Air Force, and pig farming. There is also a scries of regular lectures on philosophy, economic history", farming, shorthand, and so on. In one lint next door there is a clever Aussie, who tells stories from books as serials’ almost word for word —he lias just finished ‘ Dracula.’ ” The prisoners had been to many good concerts, said the writer, and they played a lot of bridge, five hundred, and cribbngp. “1 have found another chess player,” he added, “ and have made a sot of cardboard men and a board. I have spent the last 24 hours in my bunk carving a little tiki out of a bone wo had in our meal the day before yesterday.” Mr Jesse Jones, United States Secretary of Commerce, reported that private industry is now producing synthetic rubber at the rate of 25,000 tons a year, and that two Government plants with an annual capacity of 30,000 tons are now in production. He estimated the national production capacity at 100.000 tons by the end of this year, 300.000 tons by August, 1943, and 800.000 by the end of 1943. Mr Donald M. Nelson, "War Production Chief, gave an assurance that by 1944 the United States will be producing enough rubber to meet all the military needs of the United Nations and to supply tyres for essential community purposes, such as fire,„ police, and health services, and for necessary civilian travel. Very high wages paid to young people were a cause of the moral .delinquency discussed so much at present, according to the Rev. Lawrence Rogers, who was the speaker at the Christchurch Business A ten’s Club yesterday (reports the ‘Press’). /Ho said that girls of 16 years were far too young to leave homo'to live without supervision in flats and withstand temptation when earning up to £6 a week. He said he thought that the Government was making a grave mistake in taking girls away from their homes to do highlypaid jobs in other towns. “ And behind all this is the fact that there is no religious background to the young people of to-day,” he said. In the published weekly bulletin of the Prisoners of War Inquiry Office on Saturday it was stated that the office requested that next of kin should forward copies only of any letters they might have received from Camp P G. 58, Italy, written in April or at the end of March. This camp number should have been P.G. 52, reports an Association message from Wellington. Building permits issued (by the city building surveyor for tho month of August totalled 44, their value being £10,790. These figures mark a drop on those for the corresponding period last year, when 62 permits were issued, of a value of £91.880. This increase was due largely to the erection of new promises by New Zealand Breweries Ltd. This month’s figures include permits for only two houses, as against six in August last year. Tho gnawing propensities of rats are notorious, as residents in old buildings adjacent to any largo city or seaport can testify. The rodent gnaws not only to force his way into food supplies, but also to keep his teeth down. Demolition works on a certain old building in the city have brought to light a fine example of what a rat can do in the matter of chewing holes. A piece of lead piping, at least a quarter of an inch thick, was chewed through down the length of one side for a distance of about a. foot. The teeth marks were plainly visible on the piping. The fact that a rare bloom, the Himalaya magnolia, is now flourishing in tho Botanic Gardens was mentioned by the mayor (Mr A. 11. Allen) at last night’s meeting of the City Council, and His Worship expressed the opinion that the publish should be made aware of the opportunity to see such a specimen. A similar tree, he added, was showing signs of flowering in Christchurch, hut, so”far as he knew, tins city and Dunedin wore the only places in New Zealand where the plant was to be seen. In the Magistrate’s Court this morning, before Air H. J. Dixon, S.AL, judgment for tho plaintiffs, with costs, was given in the cases of AV. S. Jolly v. Basil Thomas, £9 18s, for cartage, and Cossens and Black Ltd. v. AA’illiam Foote, £BO 5s 9d, amount due under hire purchase agreement. Air Transport and Tonring Automobiles of N.Z. Ltd. proceeded against R. 1). Wallace on a judgment summons. Defendant did not appear, and an order was made for payment of tho amount claimed (£1 lOsl forthwith, with costs (6s), in default two days’ imprisonment.