LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 9 August 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waterfront Iclle There was no work on Wellington waterfront yesterday. In the morning waterside workers held their stopwork meeting and in the afternoon they attended the funerai of a fellow worker who was killed on Monday. Brilliant Meteor A very bright meteor with a long tail was witnessed at about 8.30 on Tuesday night at Auckland. Appearing in the western sky, the meteor travelled at an angle of 45 degrees and the luminous trail it left behind was still visible when the meteor had disappeared below the horizon. Nest of Lampreys A collection of 42 small lampreys, eel-like fish which prey on salmon, was br'ought to the surface in the scoop of a drag-line working at Flemington, Ashburton. The dredge is believed to have uncovered a nest of young lamnrevs which. after hatchine. usu-

ally live in the mud and gravel as a "nursery" group fox about four years. German Prisoners at Work "They could never have carried out the farming they did, and produced so much, without the assistance of a very large number of German prisoners," said Mr. K. J. Holycake, M.P. for Pahiatua, who has returned after visiting Britain. He said that there had been a great number of prisoners working on farms, and in the main the English farmers seemed reasonably satisfied with the Germans' work on the land. Has Proved of Value "Personally, I feel that the Government's crop subsidy scheme has proved to be of value to the extenl that it has shown to many farmers the desirability of providing a cheap and abundant food supply over a period when supplementary foods in the form of cereals are desperately short and far too costly for pig feeding," said the Supervisor (Mr. L. L. Marsdon) in his report to the executive of the Wellington Distri&t Pig Council at a meeting held an Palmerston North yesterday. Motorist's Apology An apology from the motorist who drove between the speaker and children assembled for the Arbor Day celebrations on Wednesday was received at the annual meeting of the Levin and District Beautifying Society last evening. It was stated that the driver of the car was proceeding to the function and. intended parking before reaching the assembly, but the holes dug at the roadside for the; trees prevented this. There was no alternative but to proceed on, and in' doing so the motorist was unaware that thp function had actually commenced. Ex- Service Bursars Twenty-one ex-servicemen were granted bursaries during the month of June, enabling them to journey overseas under the Rehabilitation Board's overseas bursaries scheme, says a statement from the Rehabilitation Department. This brought the total granted until the end of tliat month to.,387. The bursaries are to a value of £250 a year sterling plus living and other expenses. Of those so far granted 118 have been for studies in post-graduate medicine, the next highest beihg 30 for the doctorate of philosophy. Other subjects, there being 31 in all, range from architecture and town . planning to veterinary science and from nursing to public and local administration. Future Sanatorium Policy Plans for the inclusion of the Wellington hospital district in the scheme of the combined western districts' hospital boards for a west coast tuberculosis sanatorium have been carried a stage further by the appointment of a sub-committee' to confer with representatives of the Wellington Hospital Board, stated the chairman of the committee (Mr. J. A. Nash) last night. It comprises Messrs. Nash (Palmerston North) , T. C. Kincaid (Wanganui) and P. E. Stainton (New Plymouth) . Arrangements have been made for a conference to be held in Palmerston North on August 16, when details will be considered for an agreement under which the Wellington district might be included in the combined western hospital boards' district. .Any proposals at which the conference might arrive will be submitted to the existing Western Districts' Hospital Boards' Joint Sanatorium Committee for approval. The conference will be held in committee.