LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 25 September 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

iBancl Music in Garclens The Levin Municipal Band will render a programme .of music in the' Public Gardens on Sunday next (weather permitting) commencing at 2.30 .p.m. • Jfnquiry L;kely It is und-ersjtood that a commissipn is about .to be s,et ,up to con-' sider surplus lands connected with purchases frorp the Maoris b.efore New Zealand b'ecame a colony. S.ir Micjhael Myers, K.C., has been mentio.ned as the -pf.obable chairman. Maori Escapes fro.m Gaol Crawling through a hole in the top .of his cell in the early hours of yesferday piorning Geo'rge Ahitahi Du,ncaB, alias Car.lson, aged 27, a half caste Maori labourer, escaped from .the Opotiki lock-up. Duncan was ' being held pending sentence on charges of forgery and fafse pre.tences. It is b.elieved the escapee may b.e working south. L^idy Galway .Guilel The Levin -branch of the Lady /Galway Guild has for sale one | "Popular" model Overbeck's reju-v- | enator, complete with attachments, i for £5. A new battery will be proi vided and the set can be seen at Mr. C. S. Keedwell's pharmacy. The j -branch also has a number of tins suitable for packing articles for | ov.erseas, and these are available at the A.N.A. Rooms. j Rate Payments Slow I The Levin Borough rates this ! y.ear -tatai £15,361 4s 10d ahd up to 11 an. today only £6,875 6s 2d of J that amo.unt had been paid- The ' .total is made ,up of £45,100 8s 6d on l.all land in the borough, excluding [•borough-owhed pxoperty, apd £260 !-16s 4d from ithe rating on StateI pwned hauses. The final d.ay fof ! payment is next Monday, Septemjiber 30, and the borough staff expect I that by 4 ,p.m. .on that day well ovdr j £14,0.00 will have been paid in. I-Co.w Charges Motor .Car I When a Shorthorn cow ran amok jnear Mangateretere, flawke's Bay, it pursued thr.ee cyclists and two | pedestrians ' and charged a car at; i'a reckless pace. The cyclists hast-| j'ily left the r.oaclway for the saiety) I of a paddock, the pedestriansi j rushed hehind a tree, and the .car' driv.er quickly slipped into reverse and tried to back out ,of the situation. The cow thryst a horn through a door panel, however, and badly frightened the .occupants. it jthen became quiet and was led away. Butllet in -Leg for 30 Years Nnknown to Mr. H. Bennett, a post office employee at Napier, he has been .carrying a Turkish bull&t in his thigh for the past 30 years. In landlng on Gallipoli, Mr. Bennett received a seyere leg wound, but -it was thought at the time that the bullet had passed right through the limb. Suffe,ring from rheumatism -last week, Mr. B.ennett underwent 'an X-ray 'examina-tion, and the bullet was reveafed. The bullet had not caused him any trouble, said Mr." pennett, and tiil now ha had been unaware of its presence. Ile was quite satisfied to leave -it where it was. Quarantine of .Cattfe The Australian Red P.oll Cattle Br.eeders' Assooiation at a aneeting at -the Melbourne -Royal Show decided to ask the New Zealand Society to bxing pr.essure to bear on the New Zealand Gov.ernmant to .establish a quarantine station in New -Zealand and allo.w the clirect importation of .cattle to New Zealand from Austrailia. A,t ,present cattle from AustraMa ar.e required to spend six months in Tasmania before .entering -New Zealand. It was stated 'that the reason for .this was -.that now New Zealand feared the introduction of disease into Canterbury, j.eo.pardising the lamb .expor.t trade. Old Meeting - houses With the passipg of -the .years much has been fo'st pertaining to the history of the -m,any mqetinghouses erected by the -various trfbes thronghout New Zeafand. In some cases .onfy the n'a.mes recalled. y.aluabfe work was .perfarmed by Mr. W- J- PhilLipps, -the ©Qminio.n Museuni's ethndlog-ist, .and sp.eofaliS(t jin the held of carying, in tecording, as -far as possibfe, the houses of ' the East ,Coast. No-w he is engaged ,on $. sunilar yyark x elating to the West Co.ast. With the obpect in view pf obtaining as many photogyaphs pf contemporary buildings as possible, and at the same time adding to the Dominion Museum's -serfes ,of photographs of historic value, Mr. Phillipps has been visiting the Auckland and Waikato districts. The r es'ult .of his visit was that many points were elucidated, and the photographic! , collebjtion .consfdetably -increased.