LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 30 May 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Pullet's Large Eggs Two eggs, one weighing 6oz and the other 5|oz. have been laid by a pullet in its first laying season at a poultry farm at Te Rapa, Hamiloui i. iij.e standard for a lirst-grade egg is 2oz. AucklancVs Milk Shortage MiiK rationing in a mild formj may be necessary in Auckland next ! week as a result of the steady sea- . sonal decline in the supply, i uccentuated by the effects of the prolonged droughts during the .summer. Waikaremoana Level Higher a nse of over a foot and a-Mlf has taken place in the level of Lake Waikaremoana as a result of rain which fell over the latter part of iast week. The level is now 2007.3ft., compared with 2005.6ft._.on Thursday. The weather had become fine by the week-end, and little furmer rise is expected. No change has taken place in the level of Lake Taupo, which still remains at 1172.3ft.

Tart Retort | The antagonism and rivalry j between the northern and southern ' States of America is slow to die. A j returned Auckland Kiwi who spent j some time in New York records a j conversation between two young j women, one of whom refetred to j the alleged ignorance of the south- i ern girls. She had gone to some length when the woman from the south said: "I am a southerner, and perhaps what you say about our ignorance is right, for I was 17 before I knew that 'Dam Yankee' was two words and not one."

Petrol After Hours After hearing representations in! committee from Mr. C. R. Edmonds, of Wellington, on behalf of the New Zealand Motor Retail Trade Association, advocating an emergency register system for saies of petrol after normal trading hours, the I Council of the North Island Motor CJnion, at its quarterly meeting in Palmerston North yesterday, passed the following resolution: "That this union considers the sale of petrol as an essehtial service, and it favours an increase in price for after-hour trading in preference to j an opening fee, as an alternative to j an emergency issue register."