LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 November 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Young Woman Accidentaly Shot. While out rabbit shooting with her fiance at Waikari on Saturday, Miss Elsie Howe, aged 20, Christchurch, was accidentally shot and died later in hospital. She took a rifle by the barrel to kill a wounded rabbit with the butt, and the rifle discharged and she was shot in the abdomen. Record Price for Section.

An indication of the strength of the market for building sections around Auckland is the price of £2550 paid for a residential site in Paratai Drive, Orakei, being a record for this ■ suburb. This site was originally purchased from the Crown in 1928 for £1475, and has been three times transferred at advances in price since.

Taxi Driver Robbed. A taxi driver was struck on the head with a beer bottle and robbed in Christchurch in the early hours of Sunday morning He was Mr Jack D. Jones, who was acting-driver for Gold Band Taxis during the week-end. At 2.15 a.m. a man in sailor’s ilniform engaged his taxi. After they had travelled some distance Mr Jones was hit over the head and stunned. His assailant went through Mr Jones’s pockets and robbed him of £2 in notes. Mr Jones, on recovering consciousness, managed to reach a slot telephone and ring his firm. He received severe cuts on the face and head and was treated at hospital. Opening of Term Postponed. The president of Auckland University College, Mr W. H. Cocker, announced that it had been decided to postpone the opening of the college’s first term next year till March 27. The decision was made at the request of the manpower authorities, and it was taken for the purpose of assisting the National Service Department’s scheme to use student workers to further seasonal production. Mr Cocker said the opening date would be about one month later than usual. The three terms would be adjusted accordingly. This would be done by shortening the vacations to enable the required amount of work to be done during the terms.

Work Praised. The work of the interchurch council for public affairs during its two years’ existence was warmly commended in a report to the Anglican General Synod at Auckland yesterday by. the intersessional committee on social problems. A new attitude to the church on the part of civil and national authorities had been created. The influence of the council had been enormously strengthened by the whole-hearted co-operation of the Roman Catholic Church. Negotiations on the problems of youth which the council had conducted with the Government had led to such cooperation between the two bodies that the Government had given an assurance that any scheme introduced would be on lines “acceptable to the churches.” The committee noted with pleasure that both the major political parties had given a promise to set up a commission to inquire into alleged illegalities of the liquor trade.

St. Bride's Convent.

The St. Bride’s Convent will present an entertainment in the St. Patrick’s Hall on Thursday night. The proceeds will be allocated to the Catholic teachers’ library fund. Admission will be by silver coin. Trial of Doctor.

The hearing of the second scries of charges against Dr. George Brownlee Isdale, Ngaruawahia, was begun before Mr Justice Callan and a jury at Auckland yesterday. There were eight counts alleging that accused unlawfully used an instrument or other means to procure miscarriages, and one count alleging conspiracy to unlawfully procure a miscarriage by an instrument or other means.

Broadcast of Church Services.

The limitation of broadcast church services to 65 minutes except on special occasions was approved by a narrow majority when a debate on this question was concluded by the Anglican general synod in Auckland. The Anglican representatives on the central religious advisory committee will be instructed to support the committee in any approach to the National Broadcasting Service with this proposal.

Millions of Insulators. New Zealand was found to .be the only suitable country in the Eastern Group for the manufacture of insulators, and consequently the Dominion had turned out millions of them, which were now doing duty in all parts of the southern hemisphere, said the Commissioner of Supply, Mr F. R. Picot, in an address to the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce. New Zealand, too, undertook the manufacture of barbed wire for the group, and it was a source of great satisfaction when Japan came into the war that New Zealand was able to meet all her own requirements in this essential war material*. 1943 Patriotic Appeal. Returns which have now been completed show that the Wellington Provincial Patriotic District fell short by £10,713 of subscribing its quota in the 1943 patriotic appeal. The Wellington, Taumarunui and Waimarino zones did not reach their allotted quota. The Wairarapa, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Feilding, Levin, Taihapc and Marton zones all oversubscribed their quotas. Among items apportioned to each zone in quota percentages are £6777 subscribed by Public Service employees, £1232 representing military watersiders’ earnings, £682 subscribed by the Combined Banks, and £220 by the Reserve Bank. Snow in Southland. Southland experienced a sudden change in the weather yesterday when snow fell in many parts of the province. Though there was only one very light fall in Invercargill, reports from the country showed that up to seven inches fell in some districts. The weather around Dipton and Lumsden was particularly severe, and snow fell almost continuously throughout the day. At Nightcaps there was about four inches on the ground, and in the central district light falls were reported. Heavy rain in the afternoon made conditions very unpleasant, and in most districts there was little sign of an improvement in the weather.