NEWS IN BRIEF

Southland Times, Issue 24826, 19 August 1942, Page 5

NEWS IN BRIEF

CITY PRODUCE SCHEME.—Ploughing operations in preparation for next season’s cropping under the City Council’s produce scheme are now well advanced. A portion of last season’s crop of oats has been threshed and marketed. This portion of the crop yielded 425 sacks, and it is estimated . that the portion that has been retained for cutting into chaff will yield about 25 tons. YOUTH FOUND.— The youth aged 16 years who had been missing from his home in Invercargill since 9.30 o’clock on Sunday morning was located near Kingston yesterday and was returned to his home.

VICTORY ART UNION.— Of 1000 boooks of tickets in the Victory Art Union sent out to Invercargill citizens with a request to purchase them, only about 500 persons have returned the butts and the cash. The committee is anxious that all books should be accounted for as soon as possible. CRIPPLED CHILDREN STREET DAYS— A street day in aid of the funds of the Southland Crippled Children Society is to be held in Invercargill tomorrow. A street day at Riverton recently raised £52/7/2 and a similar effort at Bluff resulted in the collection of £3l/17/6.

RATE COLLECTION.— Yesterday a sum of £1099/11/-. was received in rates at the City Council office. The total amount collected to date is £16,775/1/5, compared with £11,335/3/1 for the corresponding period last year.

MAGAZINES WANTED.— In a recent report the New Zealand Red Cross Commissioner in the Middle East, Major W. G. Tweedy, again asks for magazines, and specially mentions National Geographic, Popular Mechanics and the Wide World. The response, it is stated, has been negligible, so it is hoped that all those interested in the sick and wounded will do their utmost to send any of he above-named publications to their nearest Red Cross depot. The Commissioner is pleased to report the receipt of several letters from the patients in the various hospitals. ALIEN SENTENCED— An enemy alien, Louis Stephen Doczl, a motor engineer, was convicted by Mr H. Stilwell, S.M., at Wellington, on a charge of travelling from Christchurch to Wellington without a permit and was sentenced to three months’ hard labour. On a further charge of using the name F. Steven he elected to trial by jury. —P.A.

SERVICES APPRECIATED—A letter thanking him for his efforts to have the Invercargill Special Rate Empowering Bill passed during the recent session of Parliament has been sent by the City Council to Mr W. M. C. Denham, M.P. The Bill, which was necessary because of recent amalgamations. preserves the system of uniform rating throughout the city.