Warning to Car Converters.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1941, Page 4

Warning to Car Converters.

“I issued a warning the other day that any seamen who come off a ship, it does not matter what ship it is, and interfere with people’s cars, are going to prison,” said Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday, in convicting James Marsh, seaman in an overseas ship in port at Wellington, aged 26, of converting a motor car to his own use. “We are having far too much of this.” His Worship pointed out that such an offender was liable to 12 months’ imprisonment. Accused was sent to gaol for a month. First Flight Covers.

The new Pacific air mail service which will include Suva in its itinerary will be inaugurated early in October, and the first mail will bear a special cachet which will read, "Nev. Zealand-Fiji Air Mail Service. Inaugural Flight, October. 1941," printed in four lines. New Zealand philatelists requiring covers to be posted in Fiji for transmission to New Zealand should forward letters and remittances to the Postmaster. Suva, and should post them not later than the middle of this month.

Income Tax Return Charges. Charges of wilfully making false returns of income for the years 1939 and 1940, which, it was alleged, involved a discrepancy in income of £3OBO, were faced by Albert John Tutton, Rangiora. who appeared before Mr McLachlan. S.M., in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Tutton pleaded not guilty. The magistrate dismissed the charges of wilfully making false re : turns. It was intimated that defendant was willing to plead guilty to the alternative charges of negligence. Tutton was fined £2O and costs on one charge, and ordered to pay costs on the other. Home Spun Wool.

A splendid sample of wool has been spun by Mrs A. C. Gawith, of Longbush, from a fine Romney wool fleece donated by a well-known sheepfarmer of the Masterton district. The wool is cream in colour and of a very soft and pliable nature, and therefore most suitable for the making of garments for the men of the Army and Navy, for which purpose it is being used. The committee which is doing this work of spinning wool would be grateful for donations of black fleece, as it is felt that the mingling of the cream and black wool would greatly improve the garments.