LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 26 September 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Queensland Stamp Issue Three stamps of aenominations i 2£d, 3£d and ls will be issued in [..Australia on October 14 to commemorate the centenary of the exploration of Central Queensland by Sir Thomas Mitchell. Large Shark Caught Reported to be the largest landed at Onehunga for many years, a shark, believed to be a mako, and measuring 10ft. 8in. in length, was caught on Saturday night. The tail measured 2ft. 8in. across and the fins were 2ft. long. Music Exam Successes At the rudiments examinations conducted in July by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, Bruce P. Lind, a pupil of Miss Fitzherbert, gained a pass in stage three. The following, all pupils of Mr. C. H. Olds, were successful in obtaining a pass in stage one: Lois Dittmer, Pamela E. Franklin and Leslie Wong Shee. flighly Exaggerated Private advice received in Feilding from friends in Melbourne | reveal that reports of the floods in t the Manawatu last month pub- | Iished in the Australian papers jwere highly coloured. In the case l of the flood at Feilding, the Meli bourne Herald announced that the ; town was inundated to a depth of j ten feet and householders had been evacuated. j One Commonsense Minister The president of the New Zealand Pig Breeders' Association, Mr. G. M. Whitelock, yesterday reported | to a meeting of the association i exeeutive that he had met the New South Wales Minister of Agriculture, Hon. E. H. Graham, and had ! founcl him a commonsense, practiI cal farmer who knew his job. A jmember: Could we not arrange an I exchange of Ministers of Agricul- ! ture with New South Wales, say for ; a couple of years? i Magpie and Rat . | A motorist on the highway near I Himatangi yesterday noticed a j magpie swooping down and attack- | ing what appeared to be a chicken. j Alighting from his car, armed with i a rifle, the motorist made his way j across the paddock with the inten- | tion of disposing of the magpie.. ! The bird fiew away as he approached and the motorist discovered in the grass a rat which had been severely nipped by the bird, so to end its misery, he shot it. Jobs in Australia j "Any former serviceman who ! has ambitions to go to Australia in | search of a job is urged to think ! twice about it," states the R.S.A. jReview. "The N.Z.R.S.A. liaison I officer in Sydney (Mr. C. R. Stanley) has had several requests for I assistance from New Zealand serj vicemen who ftnd themselves jstranded in Australia after a vain j search for a job." The Review j warns members against going to ! Australia unless they have a job to go to or unless they have enough money to maintain them while they are over there and enough to pay their fare back to New Zeaiand when, and if, they can get a passage.