LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 14 May 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Infectious Diseases Eleven cases of notifiablc infectious diseases were reported by the Department of'Heaith in the Wellington — Hawke's . Bay district,. ivhich includes Horowhenua, during the past week. Of these, four cases were scarlet fever, four diptheria, two tuberculosis and one poliomyelitis. There were three deaths, one each from tuberculosis, tetanus and poliomyelitis. N'ew Inter-Islaiid Ferry Boat For service between the North and South ISlands, the 6900-ton liner Hinemoa is being lauliched this month from the Barfow Shipyards of the Vickefs Armstrong Company, for the Union Steamship Company. One of the first peacetime liners launched in Britain since the war, the Hinemoa will have luxuriously appointed sleeping accommodation. High Death Age During the course of his address to the parishioners. of St. Mary's AngliCan Church, at their annual meeting last evening, the Rev. G. B. Stote-Blandy remafked on the high average age at which the death of those rfecorded in the parish bufial register occufred. The averagfe age of those who had' passed away in the previous year had b'een 68 years, whefeas in other districts the figure was usually in the vicinity of 56. Finfe Lfead §et With daiiy reports from overseas stressing the alarming food situation in Great Britaifi and Europe, there has been ari increasing public clamour for a curtailment of the comparativelyji^vish scale on which catering is carf ied Out at social functions, and the feeling has . grown that refreshments should be on an austerity scale, thus assisting the emergency famine campaign at present in progress. in this the Levin junior branch of the National Party has set a fine lead by deciding that the supper at its vacation dance on Thursday evening should be of the coffee and biscuit tvoe.

>)ne Year Ago j A warning that a Hard struggle ; still lay ahead of the British ! peoples and that there was still j much to be dohe both in Euro*pe ! and in the Pacific was given by Mr. Churchill in his broadcast address i from London a year ago vesterday. i Meanwhile heavy strikes against i air bases in souunern Japan were 1 1 being resumed by Allied carrier- ! borne aircraft, and a task force. of ! about 600 aircraft was attacking I airfjelds on Kyushu from dawn to dusk in order to.tyy and bfeak the jstalemate on Okinawa. An Ameri- ! can aifman at this tirrie reportfed I that he had notic'ed a "group of | small, . white, unmann'ed and pf o- ! pellorless 'planes 12 to 16 feet long," hying in formation With Japanese bombers. Auction Produce Boycotted j Open war between the growers I and retailers of fruit and produce ' in Auckland, was declared yesterday when the growers levied charges for cases and sacks in which the supplies were oifered for sale at .city markets. A meeting of about 250 fruiterers and greengrocers unanimously refused to pay the charges and refuSed to bid for supplies. The result was a deadloek at the auctions and nearlv all the fruit and vegetables offdfed remained uiisold. Mr. C. C. King, sfecretary of the Auckland Friiit and Vegetable Retdilbrs' Asso'ciation, said produce brbkdrs had rfebeived instruetioris from thfe market gardeners' organisation £lnd also the Fruit Marketing Cbuncil to ifnpose a seheduie of charges .for cases and other cohtainers. The charges were on a reduced scale 'compared with those which were discontinued at the ehd of April. Yesterday'B produce is hoW hei'd in the markets with the retaiifers going away eiiipty hanaed. Of ihterest to the farming, section in thfe "Chrbhibie's" district iS the announbement that Mr. J. E. Hall's farin machinery business ih Levin has beetL taken over by two returned sefvicehaeh (MbsSrs. J. H. Lines and R. A. Collins) and Will.iti future ruh uhder the Style of "Farin Servibes." . The buSinesS is an bld established one and it is the.iiitentiori of Messrs. LirieS and Coilihs tb give the farming boihmunity a first class servicb in bonnectibn With the agencies . advertised in this isStie. The prbpfietdfs have both taken up tJei'hianaiient i'esideiice ih Levin, j