LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 9 July 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

I Meteor Visible in Daylight I A brilliant meteor, travelling in j a southerly direction, was noticed j by people in and near Wellington I -hortly before 11 a.m, yesterday. j Mr. I. L. Thomsen, the director of j Ihe Carter Observatory, remarked that meteors visible in daylight are j rare phenomena. The meteor was also seen from Levin. It was accompanied by a hissing noise. The Milford Track I The Milford Track, leading from I the head of Lake Te Anau to Mil- | ford Sound, is to be repaired in ! time for the next holiday season. 'Eight men from Invercargill are to | commence the work during this I week. The track has been closed during the war. It was a favourite i vv'alk, as it passes through some of ; the finest mountain scenery in New Zealand.

; Haka as Safety Vent From the Maori chieftainess Waikanga Ipene boys in their teens in Darlinghurst and King's Cross, Sydney, are learning to dance the haka. This is part of a scheme by welfare organisations to keep youths out of mischief and off the : streets. "I am" convinced that i delinquency in children can be i preventea by teaching them to let | off steam with native dances, which are, after all, designed for ! this purpose," said the organiser of ! the Community Centre at .which. ; the hakas are practised. Western Districts Sanatorium i A deputation from the Western Kospitals District Joint Sanatorium Committee waited upon the Wellington Hospital Board in Wellington to-day to lay before the latter board proposals for joining the committee in/its scheme for a new sanatorium. _ The discussions were held in committee and no statement has been released for publication. It is understood that the question will not be considered ' by the- Wellington Hospital Board until its next full meeting. Held Up Suspect Quick thinking and acting by a householder resulted in the arrest of a young man suspected of house-breaking at the week-end Mr. Ronald Charles White,. of Gilgit Road, Epsom, heard the sound of breaking glass in a neighbour's house, which?-- wa&; yaea.nL and. ; investigated, flashjng, a.' toj.;ch . on' a' man who ran awaysi- Ilater he toured the district in- a car . and held up the suspect with •- ari air. pistol until the police arrived. It was stated that the police found in the suspect's possession a bottle of | chloroform, cottonwool, a rubber | truncheon lined with steel, skel- ! eton keys and pieces of wire. i More Births and Marriages j Statistics supplied by the regis- ! trar (Mr. H. J-. Henderson) show j an enorinous increase in the num1 ber of births and marriages for the i ux months of this year over the figures for the same period last year. The number of deaths shows no increase. The figures are I as follows with those for last year j in parenthesis: — Births: Maori 13 1 (13?, European 95 (64). Deaths: ! Maori 4 (5), European 32 (35). Marriage notices: 44 (24). Marriages by the registrar, 8 (5). The increase in births and marriages is undoubtedly due to the return of large numbers of servicemen from ! overseas. • ■ Cause of Cement Shortage "There is plenty- of cement, but the problem is shipping to get it from Takaka in the South Island to Wellington in the North Island-" said Mr. W. Bodell, in a talk to the Levin Rotary Club yesterday. "The position is improving, but it is | slow." Mr. Bodell explained that ore-war there were nine boats which the cement company could call on for transport, but during the war the Marine Department bad allowed these vessels to func\icn without overhaul. To-day seven of those boats had been taken for overhaul, which occupied anything up to five months for each, and it was only as they returned would the cement situation impi*ove. Such of the cahTe news ln this issue as is headed, has appeared in the London "Times" and is sent to this paper by special permission. It should be understogd that the opinjons are not those of "The . rimes" unless expressly stated to be to.