LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 31 May 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Fost Office Holidays On King's birthday the Levin Post Office money order and savihgs bank branch and the telegraph branch will both be closed all day. No mails will be received or despatched, while there will be no delivery of correspondence. The telephone exchange will be open as usual. Secret of Success "One of the secrets of success of people like General Eishenower, Field Marshal Montgomery, Lord Louis Mountbatten, and such great commanders, is their own personality," said Air Vice Marshal Sir Keith Park, K.C.B., during the i course of an address to the officers | at Ohakea. "They always make I their men feel that they serve with them, not under them," he added. Further Rationing TJrged After a long discussion on food rationing the R.S.A. at its annual conference in Wellington decided | that the Government be requested j to institute further compulsory ! rationing immediately in order to j provide as much food as possible ! for export consistent with rational i health requirements, and that the Dominion executive committee coni sult with labour, production and ! shipping authorities with a view to J over coming any difficulties from ! these directions. | U.S. Memorial Service I A tribute was paid. to the memory ! of United States servicemen buried j in Auckland, at the annual mem- ! orial service held in the American | Forces sections of Waikumete ceme- ! tery yesterday morning. The Auck- ! land service was attended by repre1 sentatives of the Consular Corps, j clergy, United States and New Zea- ! land armed forces, and other civic | and military organisations. Many j New Zealand friends of the buried j servicemen were present and some J laid flowers and wreaths against ! the small white cross'es that marked the graves. Number Plates for Service Vehicles. . Three sets of regulations revoking war-time emergency provisions in connection with the annual licensing of motor vehicles and providihg for a return to peace-time 'licensing conditions, are contained | in last night's Gazette. The outI line of the Government's intention j to revert to pre-war licensing 1 requirements, has been announced | previously, but one interesting point contained in to-night's regulations is that ih. future vehicles owned by th,e three armed services 1 will carry number plates just as any i ordinary vehicle.

j Meaning of Word "Political" ! Many people had no clear idea I | of what the word "political" meant, j ] said Mr. H. J. McLeavey, in his j i presidential address to the inter- j provincial conference of Federated j Farmers in Wanganui. It had been suggested that Federated Farmers | .was not a political organisation. However, as most of the questions it would have to deal with would be political. It had to be a political body. Politics were the life-blood of the federation, he said, and if they attempted to avoid politics then they would have to avoid dealing with matters of vital concern to farmers. Rack Country Hospitality The hospitality of the backcountry settlers is well known, and further ample evidence of it was provided during the events following the announcement that the party of nine school-boy tr-ampers in the Kaweka Ranges was overdue. In the Kuripapango district, searchers and the missing party when it arrived safely three days overdue were generously provided with hot meals. . However, it seems that the settlers in the surrounding country were also preI pared for an emergency, and at least one station had prepared to cater for the whole of the missing party should it be led by one of the Rover Scout searching parties out of the high country in the direction of the station. When the boys were found two Scouts made a call at a station on their way out of the hill country to let the settlers know that all was well. On their arrival they were greeted with a huge repast, suffieient for 14 weary and famished trampers. Even the hearty appetites of those two Scouts could not do justice to the task with which the thoughtful settlers had confronted fhem.