LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 3 August 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Museum Ilandcd Eack The last section of the R.N.Z.A.F. movecl out of the Dominion Museum, Wellington, yesterday, to new accommodation at Shelly Bay. The evacuation of the Museum has been proceeding steadily for the past few weeks and with the departure oi the historical records section, the Public Works Department can now start to restore the building. Air Mail Closing Time Mails connecting with the air mails from Palmerston North close at Levin as follows, advises the postmaster (Mr. L. A. Whitham) : — Auckland, Hamilton, Thames districts: Mondays to Saturdays, 7.33 a.m. Gisborne and Napier: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays only, 7.30 a.m. Wellington and South Island: Mondays to Fridays only, 4' p.m. Selected for Championships Running with the Presbyterian Harriers in Wellington, John, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Goodwin, of Levin, has again,, had a notable success. On Saturday last he was second in the Webb; Cup and fourth in the senior championship of six miles. He is one of the six seniors selected to represent his team in the provincial championships az Wellington to-dayj, Penalty for Negligence Investigation of" the accounts of an Army clothing stoke ha •the -W-eH lington area r'iin for the sole purpose of selling articles- of clothing to officers showed a deficiency in either cash or goods of £400 17s 6d, stated the annual report of the Controller and Auditor-General (Mr. J. P. Rutherford) presented to Parliament. No satisfactory explanation was fortheoming, the report continued, %nd a court of inquiry found thas.e concerned in running the storel guilty of negligence. In the chcumstances, the Minister of Defence had withheld payment of gratuities.

Less Rain This Year The total rainfall in Levin during July was 4.28 inches, compared with 3.45 inches for the same period last year. There was no rain on the first 10 days of the month. Only three very light frosts were experienced, whereas there is normally a • heavy one each ' day, during July. " The rain fall for the first seven months of the year ended July 31 was 25.64 inches, very much less than for the same portion of laft year when it was 3^.21 inches. The seasons seem to be'far from usual this year, and with some fruit tre^s reported to be in bloom it might he a sign that this district will miss a winter of any severity altogether. JPenny Causes Death "One in a minion" was the description given this morning by Dr. J. S. Hudson, deputy-superin-tendent of the Green Lane Hospital, when referring to a case in which John Kenneth North, aged seven years, recently died some nine months after swallowing a pumy which the X-ray examinations faiied to reveal, although the penny was lodged m the boy's 1 bronchial tubes. Dr. Hudson saicl no biame was attachable to Ihe X- ! ray department. He added that a complete X-ray should have been ordered from the fnouth down, but because there had been no symptoms to indicate that a penny was lodged in the gullet, it was understandable that insiructions had not been given.