LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 22 June 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Season's First Lambs What must be the very first lambs of the season in this district were born at the farm of Mr. W. A. Strode-Penny, Waitarere Road, a few days ago. They are Southdowns, and so far four have been born, Chikl Sickness Prevalent The usual annual epidemic " of children's minor sickness seems to be well under way in Levin. Numerous cases of raumps, measles and a few of scarl'et fever have occurred in the past few »days. The headi master of the Levin School, Mr. ti. j F. McClune, said yesterday that j although the situation could not yet ; be called an epidfemic, it showed :j signs of becoming one. At presi ent there were 12 absent from the I school with mumps, 10 with measles land two with scarlet fever. ; Baseballers' Dance |j The grand tournabout dance : sponsored hy the baseballers proved ■a great success and a very enjoy- ' able evening to ali who attended. I The hall was filled to capacity, anu : it was the opinion that such a | crowd had not been seen in Levin for some time. Buscs from Otaki j and Shannon with paeked crowds | added to the garety of the evening. i The two grand prizes for the evenjing were won by Miss Davidson, of i Weraroa, and Mr. A. Fletcher, of I Levin. Excellent music was rend- | ered throughout by Mel Creighton's jorchestra from Palmerston Nofth'.' "1 ! Power Equipment Arrives j The last qonsignment of United I States military equipment from Manus Island whieh has been purchased by the New Zealand Gdvernment for the Public Works Department, has arrived at Wellington by United States tank landing craft. The ship carried approximately 1000 tons of equipment mainly bulldozers and graders which will be distributed throughout the eountry. The commander of the ship said only a small shipment of United States machinery j remained on Guam for delivery to New Zealand. Auckland Power Cuts Most parts of Auckland were without power for half an hour last night when cuts were imposed by ! the Auckland Power Board between : 5. p.m. and 6 p.m., in an effort to I reduce consumption. There- - was j little interferenee with industry | and the main eff ect fell on hot | water serviees and lighting, heating | and cooking appliances of suburban I homes. "The consumption of | power has been creeping up and jthese cuts are necessary to keep us I within our quota," said the general ; manager of -the Power Board, Mr. j R. H. Bartley. He added that in j these cuts an effort had been made | to spare industry. Red Cross Finances j "I know of no other organisation ! in which headquarters demands 13s out of every £1 from its branches," said Mr. A. P Postlewaite in moving a resoiution at the, annual meeting of the Auckland Centre of the Red Cross Society, that delegates shQuldi I be instructed to protest strongly against the hi'gh levies made on the Centre. The resoiution was carried wtih .only a few dissentients. Out of the 7s in every £1 which was all that Dominidn Headquarters allowed the Centre, it was becoming I impossible to carry on, said Mr. Postlewaite. Only a street day had , saved the Auckland Centre's finances this year.

Massey Booked Up to 1948 "Tb nfy mind one - of the healthiest signs we have in our agrieultural orbit to-d'ay is that the deniand for ' agrieultural education is far greater than ever before, and unfortunatel'y far greater than our abrlity to supply,*" declared Mr. R. A- Candy, chairman of the Board of Governors, at the Massey College 'graduation eeremony in Palmerston North last evening. "Unless considerable additiopal facilities are made availabl'e during 1947, we are aiready fuily booked "to our capacity for the year 1948. During this year more than &90 students will have gohe through the institution attending courses for one term or. more, apart from all the othe^s who have, or will attend short courses of various dimensions. Compare this with T6& students for courses of similar dimensions for the year 1936 — just ten, years, ago." I