LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 22 May 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

National Sayings Quatas Last week 234 place>s, including all the principal eezi4re§, attamed j iheir National Savings quotas, and i all djstricts again succeeded in .1 reaching their district objeetives. | In the Greymouth, Nelson, Oamaru Land Westport postal districts all j places obtained their indi-vidual I quotas. v j j Nationailist for Otaki ! At the annual meeting of the [Levin Branch- of tht New Zealand i Nationalist Party,- held last even- ; ing, Mr. D. 'P. Todd -said that Mr. j B. V. Cooksley, who was at present I representing the New Zealand Fed- ; er'ated Farmers at the Interna^ I tional Agricultural Pfoducers' -Coni ference in London, might ,be (asked . 011 his return in July or August to stand as Nationalist candidate for I the Otaki electorate. Dairy Industry and Meat Board I Claiming that the dairy industry j provided about one-third of the | meat production > of the -Dominion, ; the annual conference o.f the Auckland Province of the Farmers' Union decided to urge that the industry be propor.tionately repre- : sented on the Meat Board. It maintained that two of the five members should be from the Dairy j Industry kistead of one nominated j by the Dairy Board as at pr.es- 1 ent. Hospital Jucyy Jumps For the 1946 — 47 ye.ar the horough ! will be called upon to chntribuie j £2962 14s 2d to the capi.tal and j maintehance expenditure of the > 'Palmerston Nortp Bpspital Board : as compared with £4610 ;3.s for 194546, an incr.ease of £13.52 lls :2d. Tnis was disclo.sed in a letter receiv.ed by j the 'Levin Borough Council at its meeting on Monday rnght from the j board. The result will b.e a shaip rise in the hospital rate for the borough.

Power Position Precarions That the power situ.ati.on was in ; this district most precarious was stressed • to-day by tlie managlngsecretary of the Horowhen.ua j Power Board, Mr. R. A. ;Fr.ederik- ' son, who urge.d that consumers eflect greater economies if .cut-offs were to .be avoide.d. ;He sajd that ihe board's allocation f.or the week, which commenced to-d,ay, was the same as for the two previous weeks during which it had only just managed to keep -within -the limit. This had been possible only because of Gie moderate -temper'atures and the judicious handling of tlie oontrol'led loa-d, but the moment ther.e was a c'old snap the allocation .would be exceeded and cut-offs would tokiow umess consumers made voluntary savings. Borough Business Grows As midnight struck on Monday and the Levin Borough Council reaclied the end of ;the agenda tor its monthly meeting by hefomng consideration oi sever-al mat$eiis until June '1, some members -voiced ; the view that the business had j increasad to such an extent that it 1 might be adyisable to institute forunightly jnstead of monthly jjnoetings.,. It was poinbed out that j for soine months past the meetJ ings had lasted .until the bewiteh- | ing hour and even 1-ater, and that some of the business set down was. ! at times held o-ver. The Mayor (Mr. H. B. Burdekin) said he. would giye the suggestion .considexation. Two important matters deferred at Monday's meeting were consideration of reports by the town clerk (Mr. H. L. J.enkins) on Horowhen-ua Lake and Cr. F. B. Parher on tne development of Playford Park ,as -a motor camp. / Ajvkwnrd! A "helieve it er no.t-" type of excuse by a parent for non-a|btend=r ance at school was mentioned at -a meeting of the lOtago Education' Board when it was stated that tne school attendamoe .officer' r.eported the following .excuse .as "having ibeen r.ecei-ved by a Dunedin headmaster : "Please ex-cuse — — from being absent from school yesterday. -She had to get her hair permed ;at an awkward timo. Hoping you will oblige." 'The child "in ,question, it was stated, was T2 years of ■age. The chairman said that *he -thougnt that the attent.ioh of teachers should be called to the necessity for closer scrutiny of the so-c.alled •excuses. In the c.ase stated the excuse was cert,ainly .not a valid one. If it was nec.essary fgr jthe girl to have her hair permed it should haye .-been dope out -of sehooj hQUts. The (chahsn9h'5 .s,u(gv gpstion w.as agreed tp, • '