LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 22 March 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Pia# at HaJf-Mast The flag at the Levin Post Office was fiown at half-niast tQ-day on acco.unt of the death of Hon. F. E. Lark, M-L.C. New Golf Balls A consignment of Epglish golf balls for New Zealand flrrns, is j exp.ected to arrive early next pronth. Stating that the consignment was ! already on its way, a repr.es.entai tive of an Auckland firrn. intfrnated j that informatioh as to its .s.ize, or j the price at whieh the balls would i be sold, was not yet available. I I Switch to Trolley Buses ' ; j The transport committee of the Dunedin City Corporation has now practically conipleted a loan schedule covering the cost of switch- , .over of the city's trolley buses. The 1 pfoject will inv.olve the expenditure of £650,000. With the approval of •the City Co.uncil, the scheme will be placed befor.e the Local Bodies Loan Board .and a poll of ratepayers will then be taken. If it is endorsed, it will result in a preliminary or.der for 70 buses being placed in Britain. The Churchill Cigar | "Mr. Churchill is not such a heavy smoker as some people b.elieve," i said Mr. F. W. Doidge, M.P., in des- | cribing to the Auckland Rotary .Club ; his impressions of the war-time ! Prime Minister of Britain. "Whep I had lunch with; him he made one j cigar last for .the/best . payt of ' tw,o ! hours. He kept a. spir.it lamp before I him, and as he talked he allowed 1 his cigar to go out, then relighted jt ■ from tht lamp every now and then | and had a few more puffs at it." : ifjlo Deflections v I Puring the war years young j women wero dire.cted by rnanI power authorities to many classes j of work to whfch in norrnal eirci umstances, they would not have ! been attracted. ' Deap-s,eated prej j udice was displaypd against direc- ! tion to some places, and a.niong ! tltese were the Palmerston Nortn ! railway r.efreshment roorns. It is i interesting to note, tfierefore, that when tfie_ general controfs were 1 lifted r.ecehfciy not one of the girls i .employed in the refreshment branch exer.cised her right to leave. Ton of Honey Gift As a practical gesture to relieve the food situation in England a ton of honey is to be sent by the residents of New Plymouth and district to Plymouth, England, which ~ sus.tained deyastating - dama^e.: from aerial attacks during the y^w. The gift is being sponsored by"th!e New Plymouth Rotary Club, which is making a donation itself and inviting the p.ubiic to subscribe to a fund for the purpose indicated. The honey has already been obtained and se.t aside, states the pr.esident of the Rotary Club (Mr. M. J. Neville) . The cost of the gift tqgether with freight and other charges will be approximately £120. Maori Memorials Eleyen hundred people, Maori and pakeha, attended a ceremony near Rangiahua on Sunday, when heacb stones ,at the grayes of four Maorjs were unveiled. One headstone wa§ unveiled by a Church of England clergyman, one by a Roman Cat'ho--lic priest, and two by apostles of the Ratana Church. Visitors w.ere pjes^ ent from Taranaki, Gjshorhe, Wan-r ganui, and Wellington. After the ceremony the visitors and guests were p.rovided with a .hot mid-day rneal cooked fn seven hangis. haterin the .afternoon and in the .eyenr ing, matters of interest to Manns m various parts of New Zealand were discussed. Boarding-Houses By-Law In the belief that the Auckland City CounciFs by.-law fixing minh mum requirements for boarding- . houses and apartment houses, is an .oppressive measure, the Amalga^ mated Apartment ,and Boardinghouse Proprietors' Association has instructed -its members not to pay the license fee authorised by the .by!aw. "W.e throw out a challenge fo the coun.cil tp pros.ecnte the ;first pifender under the new by-law'and jf necessar-y w.e will take the .case tp the Supreme Cpurt or ey.en an higher cpurt," said the association's phairman, Mr. G.. y.. j^ijllpnger. Mr. B. p,. Burfpn, .chairaiaij pf the cpnncJLrs hpusing cpminitt.ee, .safd the noiuncil y/.as nojfc fikely to take an arbifrary attltude in enforcpment of the hyhaw m hoj^ing problem was fdlly realised. '