LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 2 April 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Good Prices. Realised - A sale of furniture and household effects conducted on Saturday by Mr. E. Tomlinson gave further evidence of the keen demand there is for these items. Among the high prices was a carpet at £40 10s, bedroom suite £53, dining suite £42 and a chesterfield suite £60.

AAvaiting Passage to N.Z. Evidence of the large numbers of Engiishmen who are desirous of including settlement in New Zeaiand as part of their post-war plans, is contamed in a letter received by a Palmerston North. resident from one of the British. repatriates from Kong Kong who spent period of convalescence in the Dominion. Tne writer said that within the. first jweek of arriving back in England J he called at New Zealand House to i apply for a passage to this country. • He was, 6001 on the list of those awaiting passage to New Zealand. English shipping companies predict i that it will be two years before pas- ' senger accommodation will be available for these would-be ; immigrants. Australian Sightseeing „ The early finish of the Test match has given the Australian cricketers extra .time for sight seeing and 1 relaxation. The players had a free day yesterday and left Wellington i for the north to-day. The itinerary | takes them through the Manawatu, j : Hawke's Bay, Taupo, Rotorua and i Waikato areas. The whole journey | will be made by road. The bus I departed from Wellington at 9.15 i to-day and passed through Levin ! about 11.30 a.m. j on its way to . Napier. To-morrojy the tourists will ' traVel to Taupo where they.wiU i spend the night. 't They will v'isit i Wairakei before proceeding to Rotorua, where they will spend the | remainder of Thursday. On Friday ; they will go to Auckland and leave by air for Australia on Saturday. I Levin Gets Its Quota 1 Twenty-one towns were successful ! in obtaining their weekly quota to National Savings in the Palmerston North postal area.last week. This was the final for" the quota year, ; and an analysis of the records i reveals that Palmerston North, Apiti, Dannevirke, Feilding, Kimbolton, Levin, Pahiatua, Pongaroa, Rangiwahia and Weber— ten offices in all — achieved the "possible.V Then came Bulls 46, Halcombe 48, | Rangiotu 46, Weraroa 46, Rongotea 1 45, Woodville 42, Glen Oroua 39, ! Ashhurst 37, Foxton 35, Shannon J 24, Manakau 21, Sanson 20, Toko- , maru 16 and Ohau 13. These figures are considered to be remarkably good, especially when the size of the offices is taken into consideration, and the small population in theii I vicinity. j Dominion's Hotels Outspoken comment on the gen- ■ eral condition of hotels in New Zeaj land was made by Hon. R. Semple, i when he discussed with the Town j Planning Committee of the ChristI church City Council yesterday I morning the advisability of having first.-class hotel accommodation near the proposed new railway station. "Many hotels in this country," said the Minister, "are just booze dens and should be -wiped out. I don't know what the decision of the Licensing Commission will be, but a real reform is needed for there are many hotels in which it is impossible to get a decent bed. Half of them are such pokey little places that you can n early put your hand down the chimney and unlock the door, There is not a decent, modern hotel in the city of Auckland." Overcrowded Classes "A poultry farmer is supposed to allow four square feet for each fowl, and if a farmer builds a pigsty he does not think of building one less than 16 square feet for each pig. These animals that are reared for proflt must be properjy housed; yet there is no definite regulation stating the minimum floor space a child at school should be allowed," said the Dominion president of the New Zealand Edncational Institute (Mr. A. Hanna) in an address to a large body of school teachers at Auckland at the week-end. "The regulation states that the floor space should be approximately 12 square feet. Critics of education should go into the schools and see the teachers struggljng to teach children herded in overcrowded classrooms under conditions that would not be allowed in industryj' A cable to-day from Hollywood announces the death of Noah Beery, Senr., the veteran film actor and a J.brother to Wallace Beeiy.