LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bookmaker Fined £lOO. “Defendant has five previous convictions, and on the last four occasions was fined the maximum penalty of £lOO. I cannot fine him less on this occasion,” said Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., at Wanganui yesterday, when Peter Augustus Healey, tobacconist, admitted keeping his premises in Guyton Street, Wanganui, as a common gaming-house. He was fined £lOO ,with costs 10s.

Vegetables for Armed Forces. From 1800 acres of land State farms are now supplying over 3,000,0001 b. of vegetables a month to the armed forces of New Zealand and the Allies. This achievement has been accomplished in just over six months after the War Cabinet’s decision to establish a services vegetable production scheme, and the Minister of Education, Mr Barclay, who was entrusted with the administration of the work, said in an interview last evening that the objective set in June had been more than fully realised both in the quantity and variety of production. Meat Production.

The official figures of killings for the present season at the Dominion s freezing works from October 1 till January 2, as issued by the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, show that lamb killings now total 1,930,314 carcases, this being a decrease of 601,130 carcases compared with the killings to January 3 last season. Wether mutton killings are 37,189 carcases, and ewe mutton killings 73,826 carcases, compared with 104,849 and 47,368 carcases, respectively, last season. Frozen beef production has reached 44,166 quarters compared with 30,985 quarters last season. Porker killings total 8,517 carcases, a decrease of 22,068, whilst baconers total 35,638 carcases, a decrease of 70,160. Come Back to Life.

Officially reported dead nearly a year ago, Corporal Jack Denvir, 2nd N.Z.E.F., and formerly of Christchurch, has come back to life in dramatic fashion. A cabled message from London reported that Denvir had made ai broadcast over a secret radio station operated by Yugoslav patriots. In the cablegram his name was spent Denver, but the other particulars and his unit numbers are correct. “I have never believed my son was dead, and always thought he had managed to escape,” said his mother, Mrs J. Denvir, 205 Salisbury Street, Chrstchurch, yesterday. “We have heard nothing of him for more than a year. On May 9 we got a cablefrom from Germany saying he had died there in a prisoner-of-war camp. About the same date his wife got a cable saying Jack had died in Italy. That confusion left a doubt in my mind, and both his wife and I were certain that he was still alive.”

Property Market. There is a good demand in Master-■ ton at the present time for residential and small farm properties. Quite a number of houses have changed ownership recently at prices ranging from about £6OO to £2OOO. It is almost impossible to get houses to rent. Theie does not appear to be any inquiry foi larger farm properties. Shoplifters Sent to Gaol. Two Hastings women, Mildred Baker and Eunice Maria Miles, appeared before Mr J. Miller, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Napier, yesterday, on six charges of shoplifting. The amount involed in Baker’s case was £l2 Is lid, and in Miles’s case £3 in respect of a Hastings charge, and £l4 19s 3d at Napier. Detective-Sergeant Mills said that accused came to Napier on January 13 and did a'tour of the shops. When articles were discovered to be missing from a shop the police were notified. Detective Reed and witness located Baker and Mills on the Marine Parade. They were carrying two attache cases and three shopping bags, and looked as if they were out on a shop-lifting expedition. Both accused were sentenced to one month’s imprisonment on the first charges and ordered to come up for sentence on the other charges within six months, if called on. Taste of Listeners. Mr N. C. Tritton, 8.8. C. official, concluding his New Zealand visit, said at Auckland yesterday that he found the Dominion people preferred rugged voices rather than polished, and iy<ed their news straight —not wrapped up with explanations and excuses. He was agreeably surprised, he said, at the amount of direct shortwave listening. He thought the towns were well served by radio, and could pick .up more programmes than the people of Britain. Mr Tritton received hundreds of letters which he has not yet analysed, but the joke was against him when one family switched him off because they could not bear to hear an Englishman imitating New Zealanders. But he is an Australian. Mr Tritton is returning in April for at least a month to complete his investigations into Dominion listening, and hopes “to do something scientific regarding tastes and habits of the listening public.”