May, 8: The great news for which the world has awaited-the unconditional surrender of Germany to the three major Allies-was announced by Mr Churchill in a broadcast from London early this morning.
May, 10: Seven thousand people assembled in the Octagon and the surrounding streets at 1 o'clock yesterday to take part in the civic thanksgiving service to mark the end of the war in Europe.
SEP 9: War came to London in earnest to-night, when the Luftwaffe launched the most violent and numerically strongest assault so far in the war.
SEP 8: LONDON: Messages from Berlin admit that the R.A.F. raid last night was the most severe, the noisiest, and the most spectacular since the outbreak of war.
JUN 19: AUCKLAND: The 13,415-ton Canadian-Australasian liner Niagara, veteran ship of the Pacific trade, was sunk as the result of striking a mine off the coast in the early hours of the morning.
BALCLUTHA: The assertion that the sheep farmers of New Zealand were today in a desperate plight was made by the Dominion president of the Farmers' Union (Mr W. W. Mulholland) when addressing the Farmers' Union conference at Balclutha yesterday.
July, 27: Completely isolated by road and rail and faced with a serious shortage of fresh foodstuffs and milk. Dunedin found itself in an unprecedented predicament yesterday morning and, with no apparent abatement in the fury of the elements, city residents are now facing a possible siege of some days' duration.
September 2: The Foreign Office Spokesman in Warsaw stated:"The Germans started military action shortly after 7 a.m. at different points of the frontier. This is undoubtedly German aggression against Poland, and military action is now developing."
Timaru: With a view to minimising or preventing the evil of abortion, the Federation of New Zealand Justices of the Peace decided at the annual conference at Timaru yesterday to urge the Government to amend the Social Security Act to provide three months ante-natal treatment and maintenance in an approved home for unmarried women and deserted wives and the adoption at birth of the child by the State, subject to the consent of the mother, the future arrangements for the child's maintenance to be made without publicity to the mother.
WELLINGTON: A clause empower-ing the Minister of Finance to arrange with the Royal Mint for the issue of a special silver and copper coinage for New Zealand forms one of the most important provisions of the Finance Bill (No. 4) which was introduced into the House of Representatives this evening.
March, 13: Unless there is a violent reaction it seems probable that Germany will shortly be under a dictatorship of the National Socialists.
September, 25: It would seem that another minor gold rush is pending in the Matakanui district, where payable wash has just been discovered by a syndicate of six. Lately there has been a general scurry for claims and pegging has been carried out far and wide on all sides of the site of old Mount Morgan Sluicing Company's claim, and it is reported that interest in the locality is quickening every day.
March, 13: It is now many weeks since air-commodore Sir Charles Kingsford Smith crossed the Tasman Sea in his equally well-known monoplane, the Southern Cross, but the fact that interest in his achievements has not waned to any extent was shown by the enthusiastic reception which he and his crew received when they arrived at the Taieri aerodrome yesterday morning from Invercargill.
AUG 13: AMSTERDAM: August 11. Although unable to punch his hardest owing to a fear of breaking his badly damaged left hand, New Zealand's Edward (Ted) Morgan triumphantly won the Olympic Welterweight Championship.
SEP 12: The arrival of the Southern Cross at Sockburn at 9.23 yesterday morning marks the final stage of Squadron-leader Kingsford Smith's epochal fight from Oakland (California) of close on 9000 nautical miles and bridges the Tasman Sea for the first time in the industry of aviation.
APR 9: LONDON: Seeing across the Atlantic is an accomplished fact.
PARIS, May 22: Captain Charles Lindbergh had a tremendous reception at Le Bourget, where he landed at 10.22 last night, and was greeted with wild cheering, which the enormous crowd kept up for 20 minutes.
November 7: How many people feel any the worse this morning for the hour's sleep lost on Saturday night, or was it an hour of Sabbath leisure that was thrown away by the advancing of the clock one hour?
March 17: "Hail to the Throne!". On Wednesday night Dunedin had but a fleeting glance of her distinguished visitor, the representative of the Throne, the Duke of York, and her welcome to his Royal Highness was of necessity of brief duration.
June 9: Though to many it will come as a fantastic tale dating from the early days of New Zealand's history, there is every reason to believe that in certain parts of Southland's back country, and possibly towards the Otago district, there are stills producing illicit "moonshine" whisky in comparatively large quantities for sale in Invercargill and the surrounding districts.
