LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 8 October 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Successful Season Ends The weekly training night last evening brought the Levin Boxing and Physical Culture Club's season to a close until April next. The club was revived this winter after a war recess and soon attracted a large membership. Great enthusiasm for the work was shown by members and the result has been a very successful season. Two boxing tournaments were held, augmenting the club's funds and placing it in a strong financial position. Soap Not Being Rationed Rumours have been current in some metropolitan areas that soap is to be rationed concurrently with the issue of the new ration hook and that provision for soap rationing has been made in these new books whicli will be available at the end of the month, stated Mr. A. J. Costelloe, Food and Rationing Confcroller, yesterday. There was no truth in such statements. The layout of the new ration book was substantially the same as that of the present book. Bobby Calves and Skins An emphatie protest against Government compulsion on the bobby calf industry to subsidise the price of calf skins to the local market, was made at the annual meeting of the Federation of Taranaki Co-operative Dairy Factories yesterday. The meeting also asked the central bobby calf executive to take up the matter again with the Government. 'A meeting for that purpose, said the acting chairman of the Dairy Board, Mr. A". Linton, would be heid tomorrow.- • -Speakers' complained bitterly at the hold-up in paying out calf cheques to farmers, but when it was explained that this ,was in prpcess of adjustment, no action was taken. Extremism Coildemned "I would like all to look forward to a time when private and public enterprise can co-operate for the pubiic good," stated Mr. F. M. Lockwood in his presidential address to the Wellington Manufacturers' Association. "Unfortunately, there is a tendency to extremism, and there is an endeavoui- made by certain sections of the community to benefit themselves at J the expense of other members of j the public. Moderation of extrem- ! ists' views of any type and an outlawing and the creation of class consciousness and antagonism in jthe community are two of the | greatest needs of our time, and can jbe possibly the greatest factors in. j assisting increased production, our ! most urgent need," ' . I Hemlock Weed I Both the State, which enacted laws against noxious weeds, including hemlock, and the Borough Gouncil, which was supposed to administer the law, were to blame, jsaid the Hawera district Coroner, ! Mr. W. A. Grant, when he held an inquest concerning the death of Lynette Bessie Dymond, aged four: and a-half years. Mr. Grant returned a verdict that the child had died on September 10 as the result of asphyxia, caused by eating an excessive amount of hemlock. The Coroner said he had inspected the backyard of a State house in Dixon Street and found hemlock growing there. The weed was also prolific in a uorough sec-' tion over the fence of the house,1 and was in other backyards in the area. The State and the borough had set a bad example, and should rid the tawn of this potential danger to life. Reconstruction Starts A building permit to the value of £448,000 has been issued by the Kairanga County Council for the r.econstruction work at the Longburn Freezing Works. It is understood that this permit covers only the first phase of a very ext.ensive ; rebuilding programme. The Works' Manager (Mr." W. E. Wilson) in an' interview yes.terday said it still was, not possible to give any indication! of the total amount to be expended ' on the project because the full plans' had not yet been eompleted. Inquiri.es made yesterday indicated that the preliminary work on the site was Considerably behind schedule pwing tp the adverse weather conditions experienced recently. The work jn hand is concerned with the laying of the foundations for the new buildings,, and the reinforcin'g steel is not yet; in. . The aecess road has been' in, such a poor state that even' the! bulldozer has been stuck in the! mud. " ' ,