LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 11 May 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Skeleton Found i| .Recognition by a dentist of a sefe of false teeth in the skull, identifies . a skeleton found on the banks ofl '.he Manawatu River near Foxton! as that of Mr. Ryan, a Bainesse farmer, who was reported missingl about two and a-hal-f years ago. | Frime Minister as Smoker f "While I have given up smoking!] long ago, I sympathise wi-th people? co-day over the present shortage," said the Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser,j at , an Auckland city factory. "I tried every kind of smoke while I 1 was at school," said Mr. Fraser with a smile. "FinalTy, I reached the J heights of smoking a eigar without j ilL-effects-, and I gave it up, feeling that I could go no higher." Maxrri Seats The commanding ofhcer of the! Maori Battalion,. Lieutenant-Colonei ; J. C. Henare, D.S.O., has been pro- j posed as the National Pdrty's candi- | i date for the Northern Maori elec- 1 ! torate. Colonel Henare has not yet ! j indicated his acceptanee, but it is j . understood that his nomination, to- i ; gether with. several others, will be ! ' eonsidered shortly at a meeting of ! | Maori leaders in North Auckland. j Seizing An Opportunity ! When the Prime Minister (Mr. j ; Fraser) was inspecting a small pot- j ; tery works at New Lynn on Tuesday, j ,.he was keenly interes-ted in watch- ! ' ing a young man moulding a clay j | vase with his hands. Before he left, j ! Mr. Fraser was presented with two j ivases by the senior partner of tne! ; firm. No sooner had the Prime Min- 1 1 ister finished expressing- his thanks.; 1 than the partnef; with a broad ; smile, asked, "Now what about a ; permit for some lacquer, Mr. j Fraser?" |

Extra Butter Kation Through a printing delay,. cards of coupons for the speeial two oumces a week of butter ailowanee for people over 70' years of age and expectant mothers, will not be available at post offlces until May 20. The Rationing Controller advises that appMants- should. not. go to post offi'ces for their cards until after that date. By the time the cards are ' available only one week of the new ration period will have expired so that the delay will not prevent applicants from getting. all the butter they are entitled to. Response to Rat Week "Terrific" was the description given by the Auckland City Council's chief sanitary inspector, Mr. H. Paull, to the response of the public to the annual campaign against rats being carried out in the" city and suburbs •,,this; week-. So far 900,000 poisoW-baits 'had beeh distributed, he added,. and it appeared certain that the objectiwe' of supplying citizens with over 1,000,000 baits would be attained. A pleasing feature of the present campaign, said Mr. Paull, was that the demand for baits by people in the outer suburbs was much. greater than it was last year. Canteen Fund and R.S.A. ^ Allegations that Star Chamber methods were used by the Dominion executive of the Returned Services Association and that the association's attitude to the "amalgamation" of the Canteen Board funds was a glaring example of this, were made by a member at the annual meeting of" the Dunedin branch. On his motion it was decided to instruct the delegates to the annual. conference of the Dominion Couneil that while the matter of amalgamatkm. could be eonsidered, they should oppose any further action until such time as the New Zea-land membership had been consulted. Cruel Method of Destructhm An instance of a- particularl'y cruel form of va-ndalism has been revealed by the discovery of a dead1 penguin at Cape Sanders. The bird was seen on the beach 10 days ago by a local farmer, who notieed that it had been ringed by Mr. L. E. Richdale, the author of several publications dealing with the habitsof penguins. On another visit to the beach the farmer found the bird with a bullet wound. ih the throat and a cord round its neck. The discovery of the cord suggests that, in killing the penguin, someone with a perverted i'dea of what consti'tute'S sport had adoped a technique which is known to have been used on previous oc'casions when these' bl'rds have been destroyed. This consissts of attaching a length of cord to the neck of the bird, which,. after swim--ming under water in an efiort to escape; is forced to c'dfne to the' surface, enabling "pot" shots to be t-aken at it.