LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 15 April 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Sinking of the Titanic Yesuerday was the 34th anniversary of the Titanic disaster. Then the largest ship. afioat, ' the White Star liner Tit.anic was sunk when she crashed into an icebprg in the North Atlantic on April 14, 1912, while on her maiden voyage from Britain to. the United States. jplfteen hundred lives were lost. Larnbs Not for Slaughter In regard to the repojt appearing in "The Chronicle" on Saturday, it uas now been advised (that the 540 ewe labs bought at 'the Feilding sale on Friday for 22s ld by freezing interests, are not to be slaughDered as was re^orted on Saturday. .It has been learned c.hat the lambs have been resold to an East Coast j station for 23s 6d. j No Land Girls for Victory Parade At the request of members of the i Women's Land Service in the Manawatu, the Mayor (Mr. A. E. jMansford) commumcated with the j Minister for Defenoe (Hon. F. ' Jones) to ascertain if any land girls | were being included in the New : Zealand contingent for the Victory ! Parade in London to which inquiry : the Minister replied that it was not ! proposed to send representatives of this service. ! Three Kings Expedition ! When the PuDlic Works Pepart- ; ment ketch New Qolden Hind sailed ji'rom Auckland . last week she car- ' ried a party of hunters and. bptantists. The party will be landed at ! the Three Kings Islands, where j they will earry out research work I on plant and ahtmal life and wage iwar on the large numbers of goats j which are ravaging ma,ny rare i planr specimens. The Gojden Hind j is to proceed to, Raoul Island and af ter her return to . Auckland will make a special trip to the Three J Kings to bring back the party. Who Pays the Rates? The Minister of Works (Mr. ISemple) is to be requested by the | Makara County Council to bring s before Gabinet the effect of the in- , cidence of county rates resulting ' from the Crown compul&ory taking ij a large area of rateable land in the «l Porirua-Titahi Ray area. It is { pointed out that in the normal fj course years will elapse between the !' acquisition of this area and the oct! cupation of State ho.uses by ten1 ants, and that unless special provision is made by th,e Government 'I the general county and hospital | board rates earried by this. land will jl be unloaded on the rest of the jj county mean while. This, it is I stated, is contrary to the ethics of ) stabilisation and does not appear I to be adequately covered by the j present provisions „ of the Rating | and Public Works Act. ( Whirlwind in Taranaki j Uprooting 12 or more 30-year-ola 'l pine trees and leaving them a twisted, tangled mass, a whirlwind created havoc on Mr. W. E. Bell's .farm at Pungarehu during a series of storms that swept across parts i of Taranaki, ^accompanied by thunder and lightning and excepj tionaliv heavy rain last week. Three big maerocarpas were earried ) several feet from their original I positions. A pig house 18ft long disajppeared from the farm, the only trace found being a few floorboards and sheets of iron. It was I last seen by a neighb.our flying 1 through the air about 200 feet from the grouhd. The roof was ripped Ifrom a cowshed on Mr. L. Schicker's property and was earried from 400 to 500 yards. Several trees oh Mr. W. A. Corbett's farm were uproo.ted | and a pigsty on a Cape Road propertv disappeared. ;j The changes time brings! Halfa century ago no one with any pre- } tensions to respectability would ! have dreamt of smoking in the : street, and few elubs or private houses possessed smoke-rooms. To--day as many pipes and cigarettes are smoked out of doors as indoors, and every club and every large pri- . vate residenee rejoices in its smokeroom. But public taste is more fastidious than of old in the choice of tobacco, and the best brands now command the largest sale. This. is espeeially noticeable in New Z,e.aland, where "toasted" has b.ecome so highly popular. Go where you will, you'll find the five famous foasted brands, Cut Plug No. 10 (B.ullshead), Nayy Cut No. 3. (Rull-. dog), Cavendish, Riverhead Gold; aird Desert Gold on sale; also tailbr-mades. "Once a smoker always a smoker," it is said, and it's no less true than once a. smoker of toasted always a smoker of to.asted, For there's nothing to compare wit.h it for flavour and bouquet, al§0 for purity and harmlessnes.s. Thetoasting eliminates the nicotine!