LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 28 June 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Football Club's Anniversary I At a meeting held last nig'ht iQY I the Athletic Football Club, spme j progressive steps in regard' to the ! club's activities were discussed bji ithe representative ' gathering of : young and old players. It was 1 decided during the evening to hold a reunion at the end of the season to celebrate the club's fifteenth anniversary. | War-Time Visitors j Many vessels of world renown { visited Wellington drtring the yyar, said the chairman of' "the YYellin'g-j-ton Harbour Board (Mr. W. H. Price) in his annual address on Wednesday night. They included |the Acquitania (44,786 tops gross) i which arriyed on four occasions, ! the Empress of Britafn (42,34? |tons), thg Ile de France (43,450 jtons) and the Nieuw 'Amstejrdam I (36,287 tons) . ' j Flood Tragedy j When a young Maori boy was | lying seriously ill at a house at | Opahi in the Kawakawa district last week-end, flood waters surrounded the building and his mother was unable to get in touGh with a doctor. The child, Maru Peepe, aged five months, died' on Monday night, death being due to gastro-enteritis. ?. ■ i>..' t \ex/ ii Wool Research Tour j / I Three New Zealand experts in j wool research will leave shortly for j a short tour of Australia where they j will carry out investiggtions into I the latest developnients. They are ! Dr. P. R. McMa'hon, Canterbury | Agricultural Coiiege, Mr. J. E. Dunj can, Department of Agriculture. ! Wellington, and Mr. E. A. Clarke | Massey pqllege. The men were re- ! commended by the Wool Research j Advisory Committee and the New ; Zealand Wool Board has arranged | the tour. , | Gisborne Line Subsides {■ Rail traffic petween Gisborne and I Wairoa was interrupted again yesterday by a subsidence on the line i between Beach Loop and the Pari.ta I station on the Kopuawhara Vahe17 I section, a goods train being brought | to a standstill over the subsidence land becoming marcwned there j owing to tije poss'iiiity of serioiis ! damage if the tail oi the trqin i" J drawn over j\w affected nortion or tl\e , line Buses were dispqtched ! from Gisbornp to pick up passeni gers by the nprthbound failcar. i r Maorj Befenee IJnit j A decision to recomrpend th~ formation of a Maqri unit in the I Dominion's defencq forces wa'7 j mads" at a conference of Maori j '-eturned seryicemep 'at Waitara" I The ^ecision will be conveved to 1 -he tribes throughoyt New Zealand bv the Chief Maori welfare ofiicer (Mr. R. Royal) , and if they express . complete.' agreement the prqposa1 will be placed before the Minister of Defenee (Mr. Jones) . Pig Irqn Shortage Pig Iron is again in short supph' — so short that althqugh the nex1" hipment canriqt arrive before eigh+ v/eeks hence, the existin^ stocks y/ill last for only- another two to three. states a Dunedin message. "The situation is very critical," the presi-. | dent of the Iromhasters' AssSciaItion stated. "IJnless further sqpnlips can be Qbtamed from. Ausj tralia shortly, the tradp yvill be in a very seriqys position. A guggestion has been made tq the Gqverpjnprh to charter an oyerseas vessel hiit ?s far as I.apr aware notbing has yet transpired." School Transport A remit cqncerning insuranpe cqver in cqnnqctiqn with th'p tranVportatiqn qf scjqoql' chil^rqn 'wa'.s oassed at the annual meeting* of the South Taranaki Primary Schoqls' Association anb will be fqrwarded to the' Dominion Fpderation of the New Zealand Primary Sehopls' Association. The remit stated: "That. the Education Department be requested to arrange a blanket insufancp cover "in respect of accidents to school children being conveyed in private motor-vehicles -to _ school sports inpeting§, pipnics and other' organised school gathermgs qr deptal ciiiiie§."