LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 1 June 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

King's Birthday Holiday "The Chronicle" will not be published on Monday (King's Birthiday). Railway Business For the week ending May 31, there was a general increase in all j seetions of railway' business except {in the goods traffie, which dropped i by 30 tons and .can be explained as ' a normal fluctuation. The followjing figures, as supplied by the. t acting-stationmaster (Mr. P. L. !Mitchell)" give a fair indication of j the amount of work handled by the Levin station staff, those for the same period last year being shown in parenthesis: Passengers 1,708 (1,200), livestock 2,444 head (1,322 jhead), goods traffie 73 tons (103. i tons).

Methodist Ladies' Guild j The monthly meeting of St. •John's Methodist Ladies' Guild was, held recently in the Bible Class | ; rooms, Mrs: A. C. Kennerley presid- j 1 ing. The meeting opened with the ; 1 singing of a hymn and a Scripture j ireading by Mrs. Kennerley. It was.j ■! reported that 25 food parcels, j weighing seven pounds each, were ; sent to the eMthodist East End Mis- j is sion, London, by the ladies of the | ; guild and church. The anual eff ort i tto raise funds was fixed for October i ! 22 next. Afternoon tea was served i'ov Mesdames- Vineent and Rawson, j 'for which they were heartily thankj ed. The meeting was closed by Mrs. ! Kennerley with the pronouncing of jthe Benediction. Twenty-Ounce Baby Thrives j The 20oz. Baby, Glenys Edna May i Geoghan, daughter of Mrs. V. Geoghan, of Taupo, who has just turned two years, now weighs 2st 32lb. and is 2 ft 9in tall. Her elder 1 sister, who is 3-|- and was a normal weight at birth, is only 81b heavier. The baby, after being specially j cared for, first by the matron of the Taupo maternity hospital and later | by the Karitane Hospital, Auckland, 1 where she was kept until four i months old, is now a robust, healthy | child. Since returning to her home she has never suffered any illness of any kind and has received only the ordinary food and treatment usually accorded a child of this age. Glenys is a good-tempered child and plays contentedly most of the day on her rocking-horse, of which j she is very fond. It is believed that 'her weight of 20oz. -at birth is a record for New Zealand.

Soil Erosion Films | Four films of vital importance to j all New Zealanders were shown yesterday afternoon to the Horowhenua College students and to the j general public in the evening. The films dealt with the increasing 1 danger of soil erosion and the methods of preventing this imminjent disaster. Two of the films

showed the destitution and poverty j Which is experienced by the farmers on the banks of the Mississippi River in America and the other two the effect of soil erosion in New , Zealand and particularly the Molesjworth Estate, South Island. In | America much was being done to i jpombat erosion and the organisa- ! I tion mainly responsible in the pre- ' vention work is the Tennessee Val- | j ley Authority, which originally i J e-tarted out as an experimental I i solution. The films were shown ; junder the auspices of the Manawatu Catchment Board. No New Cars For Long Time The importance of counteracting the optimistic, wishful thinking of jcar owners that replacemenc oi itheir present vehicl&s wil'l be pos■'sible in the near future is stressed ' in an editorial in Motospees Review> [an Auckland trade journal. As far . as American cars are concerned, it is asserted 1946- will show no im- • provement from the general public point of view. Neither will the public buy new cars in 1947, when the i estimated production will be only 4£-million to supply a priority-user demand of nearly 7i-million. In 1948, one c.itizen in five may be for- . tunate enough to get a new car, and ' in 1949 there will' still be cars for . only one half of the public. In 1950 ; about two out of three would-be • purchasers will get new cars. "Al- ' thoug-h the New Zealand position • may be improved by some supplies f of cars from- Britain, the eold truth I is that most of us will have to nUrse our present cars for at least four ' years-," the editorial concludes. Owing to pressiire on space- the ? weekly cross-word puzzle has been held over this week.