LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 16 May 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

— Trains Delayed Due ■ to the overhead electrie wires coming down • between Paei kakariki and Pukerua Bay about i 6.30 a.m. to-day train schedules Ihave been upset. The northbound ! Field's train, due to leave Levin at i 10.53 a.m. did not depart until 12.57 i p.m. The up New Plymouth I express, which normally passes ! through Levin non-stop at 12.6 | p.m. arrived at 12.42, proeeeding i after a brief stop. j Soap in Britain j In Britain all types of soap are i rationed. Coupon value is allotted , to soaps by weight, and when in Hiquid form, by quantity. The ! ration is four coupons a month, 1 but babies under one year" and cerj tain workers and invalids are ; ailowed more. One coupon will buy i any of the following : 4 oz. bar of j hard soap, 3 oz. bar of toilet soap, -i- pint No. 1 iiquid soap, 6 oz. of soft soap, 3 ozs, of soft soap, 3 ozs. of soap flakes, 6 ozs. of No. 1 soap 1 powder. Manners and Motorists | "A. little less selfishness and a bit : more common courtesy would m,ake even everyday things like shopping j much more pleasant, and things ; like streets so much safer," said ;3ir Patrjck Duff, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in New | Zealand, in an address to univer-jsit-y students in Auckland. "People seem to have got motor-cars and j motor-vans before they have got manners, As for the poor pedesI trians, they are divided up into the ' quick and the dead." I Youth at the Helm i A matter which was the subject I of comment during the round of ! Auckland industries made by the ! Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, last j \veek, was the prominence of young :or relatively young men in execu- ! tive positions in production and ! management, In some cases the I young men have been premoted in | the places of men due for retirej ment who carried on during tne war, Some of the heads of large , concerns who met the Prime Minjister, still in their thirties, have lcontrol of stalf running into many j hundreds.

I Additions to Zoo I A shipment of animals being sent ; | to the Auckland Zoological Park to , ; strengthen the collection of j j exhibits is expected to arrive this j ; month on the Kurow, The ship- j | ment, which is being sent from the i Zoological Gardens, Melboux'ne, | ! consists of a pair of young lions, a j intale jaguar, a pair of maned i geese, a pair of minitor lizards, | | three pairs of Gippsland water lizards and a pair of huana- j cos, which are related to the j Ilamas. This collection is valued at j £100 and is in retum for a young j hippopotamus sent to the Zoologi- j cal Gardens by the Auckland Zoo recently.

Islands Air Service The Royal New Zealand Air Force is providing a regular air link between the Dominion and its island dependencies and other _Paciflc points at approximately weekly Tntervals. Mails are being carried and there are many requests for the transport of civilians. In urgent cases where alternative passages are not available air travel is permitted, the charge being on a mileage basis. The fare schedule has just been revised and from Monday, May 20, civilians able to get passages will be charged the following single fares: Auckland to Rarotonga, approximately £34; to Aitutaki, £36; to Apia, £32 10s; to Tonga, £22 10s; to Suva, £28 10s; to Norfolk Island, £9 iQs.

Levin Doing Its Part Levin is not failing to do its part in the campaign to save food coupons and thus assist the food crisis in Great Britain. There has been a steady demand for the special forms at the Levin Post Office. Reeently it was reported that. the Levin Sehool had saved 2057 meat and nine butter coupons, and now a contribution of 450 meat and 19 butter coupons had been received from tjhe Horowhenua Coilege. Local ehurehes have also made good contributions to the campaign, while other organisations have the matter in hand, It ha§ heen observed that larger famiiies are in a better positjon to save coupons than the smaller ones, but even so they do not constitute the majority of those who have so far made an effort,

Reader Statistics 'Only one reader in five buys his books. Three-quarters are bbrrowed, 49 per cent. from a library, 25 per cent. from other readers. More than half the British pubiicj reads books of some kind, ■ while some 47 per cent. do not. -'Twq-t thirds of all readers read fictioxi and only one per cent. re'ads poetry. Four per ceni- ta.he an interest in books on politics and sppial science, Most readers say that their nekt book will be'of the same type - as the one they are'engaged oh now. These faets, gamered by the Hrit'ish institute of Public Opinion, were published recently in the New Zealand National Reylew,