In the News

Southland Times, Issue 24820, 12 August 1942, Page 4

In the News

Eai-ly Fat Lambs

Less than two months after Southland freezing works ceased killing fat lambs the first of the new season’s lambs have appeared on the local market. At the Lomeville stock sale yesterday two prime spring lambs were . offered. This is believed to be a record for Southland. They met keen competition and sold at 45/9 each. The lambs were Dorset Horn breed and were raised by Mr A. C. Gray, of Wallacetown. Sheep judges at the sale yesterday expressed the opinion that the heavier of the two lambs would kill at about 451 b dressed weight. The Dorset Horn breed matures remarkably early. The lambs were bom last April to ewes which were exhibited in the last show season with lambs at foot and which are due to lamb again next November. They are thus producing two crops of lambs in a season and maturing them at substantial weights. Public Apathy “What do you consider is the chief sin of our New Zealand people?” asked a leading citizen of Wellington of the Rev. L. A. North. “It is that they have ceased to think,” he claimed before Mr North could reply. When addressing the Southland Presbytery recently Mr North went on to say that “this meant, apathy in our people. No people could go on being apathetic. Sooner or later some religious drive must come. The churches believe that a return to the living, practical, dynamic of the Christian faith could meet the need of our people. The Christian Order, it was hoped ,would forestall some inferior or maybe totalitarian order which might destroy our freedom and all that we stood for in this war. Let us take a warning from the fate of other peoples who had ceased to think.” Soldiers’ Claims

An increase in the work of the war claims section of the Social Security Department was indicated by an officer of the department when supporting a number of departmental appeals at Wellington against military service. He revealed that in 1939 the number of claims totalled 912; in 1941 they had increased to 5700. “When a soldier is discharged from the Army,” he _ explained, “he becomes our responsibility, with relation both to pensions and treatment.” —P.A. Buildings and Earthquakes The recent earthquake had demonstrated the need for the enforcement of the comprehensive modem building code, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan said at Wellington yesterday; An expert examination had shown that buildings erected according to the latest knowledge of earthquake resistant construction had stood the shocks well. “Additional legislative authority may be necessary,” he said, “to secure effective enforcement of the standard code of building by-laws. It looks as if mandatory application of the standard "building code throughout the Dominion offers the only adequate means of affording protection against loss of life and property resulting from earthquakes.”—P.A. Saving Society “For too long the Church has been interested mainly in organization, numbers, and individual salvation. If Christians are to do more than slightly stir the surface of our national life they must look from personal holiness to the community. They must be alive to the need of their fellows in every department of life and must apply to community problems answers based upon the teaching of the Christian gospel. Let us put our belief in personal salvation first, but be sure we go on to apply our faith to the saving of our society as well.” These remarks prefaced the Rev. L. A. North’s recent address to the Southland Presbytery. Appeal Against Ban

An order issued by the AttorneyGeneral, the Hon. H. G. R. Mason, on May 12 prohibiting Mr John-Hogan, editor and publisher of the periodical Democracy, from publishing or being concerned in the publication of any periodical in New Zealand for three months will expire today, August 12. Mr Hogan stated on Monday that he had recently asked the Attorney-General what his position would.be after that date and had received' the following reply:— “The period of three months was fixed for the prohibition simply because it was expected that, if you were not returning to Australia, you would be in military or other national service. There is certainly no idea of permitting your continuance of journalism in this country, and unless it appears that your energies are engaged in other channels the prohibition will be reimposed. Mr Hogan stated that his solicitors had communicated with the AttorneyGeneral, requesting that the intention expressed in the above letter be fulfilled immediately and a fresh order issued to take effect from August 12, so that appeals could be lodged simultaneously against both the existing prohibition and the succeeding one.