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Evening Star, Issue 24290, 3 September 1942, Page 4

The Y.M.C.A.’s annual street day is to be held to-morrow. The valuable work in connection with boys, in which the association specialises, is well known, but difficulties which confront the management are many, and these have to bo faced and surmounted.. In addition, the Y.M. building in Moray Place has become a favourite rendezvous for men from local camps, special dormitories having been set up, each to accommodate 50 men, and the charge made is well within the limits of a soldier’s or airman’s pay. Free hot showers and billiards are also provided. Much of the equipment for these services has been provided by the National Patriotic Fund Board andi the Otago Provihcial Council, but the Y.M. looks with confidence for a generous response to its appeal to-morrow, for funds to help carry on the good work. First prize of £IO,OOO in the latest draw of an Australian sweep has come to “ Birt’s Ration,” Wellington, with prizes of £290 to “ H.L.,” Napier, and £250 to “ Mrs R. 8.,” Papanui, Christchurch. Since the war started an allocation of £2,000 has been made by the promoters of the sweep from each consultation fbr the benefit of the Returned Services’ Associations of Australia and New Zealand, and the total of these distributions has now reached £33,000.

The Deputy-Prime Minister (Mr Sullivan) announced last night on behalf of the people of New Zealand that the Government had approved a further grant of £5,000 to the Chinese Red Cross. Mr Sullivan said he had received a letter from Mr Wang Feng, Consul-General for Republican China, expressing deep gratitude to the Government and people of New Zealand for this further magnificent contribution towards the relief of the sufferings which his countrymen were experiencing in the struggle against aggression.

The Dunedin women who are now in the W.A.A.C. camp in Canterbury are apparently very contented with their lot. Army personnel from the local area who have been to the camp since the first draft of women were jKisted there have brought back _ messages which have been voluntarily given showing how greatly the women are enjoying their new 'life. These women, have been issued with battledress. and reports indicate that they look very smart.

Several more witnesses were heard yesterday afternoon in the proceedings in which charges of perjury were brought against two railway employees, Thomas Cosgriff, a porter, and Christopher Arthur Butler, a shunter. The charge arose out of certain evidence given by the two accused in a case in which James Jarrett Adam was changed with having driven a motor car over a railway crossing at Green Island when the line was not clear. Most of the evidence yesterday afternoon was corroborative of that given in the morning. The accused-, for whom Mr C. J. L. White,'.instructed by Mr T. O’Shea, appeared, pleaded not guilty, and the presiding magistrate (Mr H. J. Dixon) committed them to the Supreme Court for trial. Bail was allowed in each case in the accused's own recognisance of £IOO, conditional upon his reporting daily to the police. Lambing is becoming general in Southland, and the season, will be in full swing within the next few days (says the ‘ Southland Times ’). Farmers are entering one of the busiest periods of the year, and will bo busy during the next few weeks tending the young lambs and doing the other seasonal work, which includes tho preparation of ground for the greatly increased areas of crops required this year. Hopes are entertained that the beautifully fine weather of the last few days will continue throughout the lambing period.

The war has done some terrible things to the English language. The Comforts Funds Commissioner told a Queensland meeting that a library had been installed in the Waaafery. Everyone looked puzzled until it was explained that the Waaafery was the new name for quarters occupied by members of the Women’s Australian Auxiliary Air Force —the W.A.A.A.P.s. In the Magistrate’s Court this morning, before Mr H. W. Bundle, 5.M.,. judgment by default, with costs, was given for the plaintiff in the case of the D.I.C. v. O. Rae, on a claim for £4 15s Id, being balance due for goods supplied. The City Brigade was called out at 1.30 this afternoon to a fire which broke out in a haystack in Norwood street, North-east Valley. At 1.10 a.m, a call was received from the Roslyn tram terminus to a grass fire. An automatic false alarm from the factory of Messrs McLeod Bros, caused the ’ brigade to turn out at 11.48 last night. Attention is drawn to an advertisement in this issue regarding restrictions to shipping in the port of Wellington.