LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 18 June 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Welfare of Maori Race Official concern for the welfare of the Maori race was reflected iri a statement from a authoritative source that the Government intends to spend £50,000 on a comprehensive development scheme at Auckland's Maori village at Orakei. The proposals were revealed by the Prime Minister in recent discussions with Princess te Puea Herangi and trade unionists. iWany Building Permits During the .month of May the ! Levin Borough Council issued 18 I permits valued at £30,832 for new t private dwellings and one permit of la value of £1800 for anorher new J pudding. Five permits were issued ; for alterations and additions, the j value of which was £2387. The !Mayor (Mr. H. B. Burdekinj, at the I council's monthiy meeting last | evening, remarked on the large inumber of permits for new dwell- ; ings. i Lightning Damages Trae j With a conciiosion rhat severely I rocked the tea kiosk in the reserve, | lightning struck and considerably i aamaged trees in a pine piantaQon : at "Waitarere Beach recently. It j was stated that the lightning fiash ! struck in two places simuitaneousiy. I The first ripped a strip of bark I from the top to the bottom Qf a 50jfoot tree, deeply scoring the trunk; { the second appeared to hit between ■i two other trees about a chain away, | scbring trpnks in a zig-zag pattern ! aii the way down, and stripping oil 1 the lower branches. J Missetl Their Discounts Application for the remission pf ! £1 ls and £1 4s 3d on gas accounts, | representing discounts not allowed ! owing to late payment, were receiv- ; ed from two consumers at last i night's meeting of the Levin Borj ough Council. The town clerk (Mr. 1 H. n. Jenkins) advised that nf each j case it was the first time the appliicants haa been late, but the Audit Ofiice was tightening up and the ! discount could only be refunded by | resolution of the council. The remissions were' granted, but it was emphasised that this could not b'e taken as a precedent. Coupons Surrendered Figures supplied by the Levin Posf Office show that the voluntary saving of food coupons is continp- | ing satisfactorily! Coupons are be- j ing handed in daily, more in' the : nature of a steady stream, rather j than in an occasional surrender of large quantities. -The" enormous dift'erence in the numbers of meat and butter coupons saved giye a very good idea as to where the greater sacrifiee is possible. Butter coupons saved to date total 285, an equivalent of 142 lbs of butter; meat coupons total 10,265, representing meat to the value of £128 6s 3d. ' Kilfed by Railcar A fatality occurred near Roto- 1 j nianu at 5.41 o'clock yesterday.j morning when an unidentified man | - was struck and killed by the Christ-church-Greymouth railcar. Death i was instantaneous, the victim | receiving multiple injuries. The ! man was walking between the rails ; with his back to the railcar. He was first noticed - after the car ' had turned a bend. Apparently he was oblivious to the light and the horn of the vehicle, for he did not turn and the slowihg railcar struck him j in the back, tossing him into the [ air. It is understood that he was i unknown in the district, and tne circumstances lead to the impression that he was elcierly and pos.sibly deaf.

Weather ahfT Jtadio Four young British radar experts, a youthful rpathematician with an Oxford B.A. degrpe and an Apstralian meteorplogist, arrived in Wellington in thq Rqahine from London. They have been" sent her,e at the request of the New Zealand Government to assist in conducting very ipiportant investigations into meteorolpgical conditipns as they affect radio and radar communications at high freqqencies; They wj.ll be in the Dorpinion about ,12 to 18 mQpths and their investigations are expected to have important resqlts in 'the pse of radar and the radio direction of self-propelled missiles. The party will be statipped at Ashburton and thgy haye brought fiye tons qf radar equipment with them.

Patients in Hospital At yesterdav's rueeting pf the Palmerston North Npspital Bpayd, thft medical suoerjutendeut, Mr. .j, TI. North, repprted as follows fpr the Palmerston1 North Ifqspit al : Daily cepiipied uumher pf beds, 336.^7; patients adpijtied durihg May, 479; patients disch'argpd dqring Mgy, 444; died durihg' Mny, 20. Puring May the fqjjqwing nu'njber pf jnfgptio'us disease cases wprp admjtted: Sparlet feyer 9, diphfheria 2, -infantile paralysjs 2, pieningjtis 3; erysipela.s j.. Nirths dhring May were as fpilo\ys : Pajnierstpn "North Materhity Hofue, 26; Foxton Materniy TJprne, 5; Otaki Maternify Hpme, 6.