LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 10 June 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

j One Year Ago ! For the second time in a week J Super-Fortresses from the Mari- ! anas attacked Osaka, Japan's sec- | ond city, said the Guam corresponj dent of the Associated Press a year | ago to-day. Four hundred and [ fifty aircraft joined in the attack, I which lasted for more than three jhours. They- dropped more than ! 2500 tons of bombs, mostly incenj diaries. j Unauthorised Collectors _ The foilowing is a letter received I from Mr. P. J . Twomey, secretary j of the Lepers' Trust Board, Chnstj church:— "I shall be grateful for a nttie space to warn your readers oi persons calling from house to house in different parts of New Zealand allegedly on sbehalf of our leper lund. No one has been authorised to do this. My committee does not permit this means of collecting, and neither do we employ eanvassers." Ex-Servieemen at University ! More than a third of the total nuinuer oi students attendmg Vic- ( Loiia Umversiuy Cohege 'tnis year are ex-servicemen. uf the" 2200 soudenis studymg vanous courses, buo are ex-servicemen who nave .souled down to tiiur soiaies with an energy and enthusiasm whicn nas naa a stimuiating enect on younger students. This is the largest number oi servicemen students wno nave attenaed tne conege in one year. Unusual Funeral Procession An unusual ceremony, probably unique m tne history oi' Wellington yachting, took piaee yesterday afternoon wnen a nurnoer of craft gatnered to give efiect to the last wishes of the iate Mr. Lew Dawson, a memoer of the Heretaunga Boatmg Ciub, that his.ashes be scattered in tne haroour in the vicinicy oi aomes Island. The boats proceeded slowiy to the appointed spot where the yachtman's wishes were solemnly carried out. The liour was ciiosen to coincide with high tide. Neglect to Wear Socks The fact that a milk roundsman had oeen prosecuted oy tne lvnik Councii for negiecting to wear oOcks on duty was commented on ourmg the hearing of a milk rounasmen's uispute in the Aroicration Court at Auckland. Mr. justice Tyndall: We will nave to prosecute the little girls in the .,nops for getting around without stocKings ! f have seen a iot oi ! uhem. r'hen we will have to prosecute the people who wiii noo give . tnem the stocKings.

r C'The Hospital Bogey" j "Tne great noopital bogey was | the main troubie and we did not j ! uiscuss many other remits to any « I cxugnt,'' tne chairman (Cr. M. O. j Grainger) stated au a meeting of Une Woodville County Councii yesI uerday when reporting on the ' Hawke's Bay Counties' Conference. : ihe whole morning was devoted to la discussion on hospital finance, he ! stated. The councii decided to sup- | port the Hawke's Bay conference I and aoide by the decision of the ! New Zealand Counties' Conference | with regard to the levying of hosI pual rates. Later m the meeting, j when members were agreed that the councii could not do anything j else about hospital finance, tne chairman remarked, with a smile, ohat the meeting had better proceed to the next business as the suoject had a depressing efiect. Conlrol of Potatoes The proposal to set up a board to eontrol the growing and marketing of potatoes throughout New Zealand was unanimously supported at a meeting of the Rangitikei Potatoes Growers' Association. The internal Marketing Division had indicated that it would not continue to operate for growers under the present contract system and suggested to the advisory committee that the growers should'work out their own system of marketing. Consideration was now being given to a plam for a potato board, and if this were accepted the GoVernment would be asked to provide legislation to set it up, but it was hardly likely that this could be done in time to allow the board to operate for the coming season. The meeting carried a resolution advocating that the pr.esent contract basis should be r'etained in the meantihie, \