LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 28 May 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

i Plunket Builtling Fund ' The president and conimittee of the Manakau sub-branch of the Plunket Society wish to acknowledge the following donations to the ! buildiiig fund: — Mr. Noel Oole, ! Auckland, £15; John Corry, £1; (Howard Harvey and Sons, £1 ls; F. 'Howard and Son, £2 2s; Kingsways, { Ltd., £2; George Cooper, £1; Camj eron Bros., 10s 6d; Mrs. Mitchell, !j 10s; Gregg and Oo., goods. | School Improvements | At a meeting of the Levin School ! Committee last evening, the liead- ! master (Mr. H. F. McClune) re- | ported that the furnaces had been i repaired and broken windows re1 placed. Considerable improvement i had been made by marking out the j basketball courts with road j paint.. When done with whitewash, | the outlines had . had to be done i approximately once every three I weeks, but the present ™ markings ; were expected to last for several , years. ! Levin School Roll j The attendance at the Levin i Primary School yesterday, when work resuined after the two weeks ; holiday, was 576. This is a fair roll Inumber for the time of the year, ;and compares favourably with the | same period last year. Inter-school ! tournaments are going to be held on Friday, June 7, and teams from j Paraparaumu to Foxton _ will be j competing. The seven-a-side footi ball games are to be played on 1 Rugby Park and the basketball I competitions on the school gromids.

Infectious Diseases | Once case of cerebro-spinal men- ! ingitis was reported in the Welling- » ton-Hawke's Bay district by the | Health Department in the past ' week. This case proved fatal. The . ! district health officer (Dr. T. C. | | Lonie ) stated that it had occurred j 1 in a rural "area. There was a total of ; 29 cases of notifiable infectious dis- ! ! eases reported, of which nine were ; ! scarlet fever, ten diptheria, three ; j j tnberculosis, three ' poliomyelitis, 1 l one puerperal fever, one malaria j I and one dysentery. Death resultedj | from a case of pulmonary tubercu- | losis. Timber Price Increase j I Following negotiations with the' j Price Tribunal and . the Govern- j Iment, the West' Coast Sawmillers' ; ( Association has been granted a i ! price increase of one shiliing per , I 100 superficial feet. Coast sawmiljlers did not obtain an increase | i earlier when the "industry in other i parts of the Dominion was grant- ! ed higher prices hut 'representai tions were made to the Goveiiimeat to have the case for this proun.ee re-opened. After some timo the request was acceded to. The increase of a shiliing agreed upon oy the Government is less than a third of the increase sought. ■ Sbepherd Swept Off Horse Attempting to cross the flooded Waihau Stream at Mangaroa,, East ! Coast, on-Saturday, a young man jwas washed from his horse and is presumed to have been drowned. The victim was James Henry Wiiliams, aged 25 years, single, employed as a shepherd. His home address is Gisborne. Mr. Williams was last seen at 10 a.m. when he essayed a crossing of the stream on horseback. He appeared to be making good progress when the surge of the flooded stream rolled him off his horse and he was not sighted again. A police search for the body was without success.

Motorist Warned A further warning to motorists that they must obey the by-law regarding pedestrian crossings in the city and sufcurbs was issued by Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Auckland Police Court, when he dealt with eight offenders who had failed to give way at pedestrian crossings and two who had overtaken vehicles which had stopped at crossings. "I have spoken about this matter hefore," said the Magistrate. "Fines for this class of offence have been heavy, but they will have to be made heavier. Pedestrian crossings are _ safety zones for people to pass in and motorists must give way. Auckland is getting a bad reputation for this type of offence. The standard of driving of commercial vehicles is rapidly deteriorating and some drivers are becoming an absolute pest." One offender was fined £10, another £7 10s, and the remainder, j £5 each.