LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 16 November 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Next Synod in Levin At the annual district synod of the Methodist Church, held in Wellington this week, it was decided to meet next year at Levin. Wellington's Bread Improved weather allowed the unloading of flour from the Holmdale and the inter-island express steamer Rangatira yesterdav at Wellington, so that the flour supply crisis has been relieved and the expected shortage for the baking of bread on Monday will not oceur Motor Cyclist Drowned Wallace Barr Paterson, aged 18, of Kumeu, repaired his motor cycle and took it for a trial run. -Yesterday his body was recovered from the Kumeu Stream, which is swollen by recent heavy rain. He had skidded and smashed through a l'ence before drowning in the stream. Increase in Building Pennits During October 20 building per- • mits to the value of £14,298 were issued by the Horowhenua County Council. This showed a substantial increase over the same period last year, when only eight pennits were I issued representing buildings to the i value of £6065. These figures were j contained in the county engineer's ! report which was presented to -yesterday's meeting of the council. Ohau-Muhunoa Water Supply ' With the approach of summer ; difficulty would be experienced in | maintainmg the OhaU-Muhunoa | water supply, said the acting- [ engineer, Mr. W. H. Fraser, when | presenting his report at the monthj ly meeting' of the Horowhenua I County Council yesterday. He sug : gested that steps be taken to investigate the possibility of obtain- , ing a supply from the Levin bor- : ough high pressure system. I Saies of Bulls I Top price of 120 guineas was paid | for a yearling bull at the 19th an- | nual sale of the Southland Jersey 1 Cattle Breeders' Club. The vendor , was Mr. N. Moore, of Tapanui* and ' the buyer Mr. L. Ej Page, of Bay of ; Plenty. Mr. Moore received 85 ; guineas for a yearling bull bought by Messrs Robertsoh Brothers, of i Greytown. Top price of 50 guineas ; for a two-year-old Friesian bull was , paid by Mr. A. Simpson, of Thorn- ; bury, at the Southland A. and P. 1 Association's 14th sale. The vendor | was Mrs. A. Forsyth, of Owaka. ' Immigration Su,pported i Any young man starting in busi- : ness on his own account in New ; Zealand today, on viewing the ; statistics of births and deaths in ; the Dominion over a period of ; years, could well feel alarmed at the probable position in 20 years time, stated Mr. J. Abel, the representative of the Wellington, Taranaki and Westland area on the Dominion executive committee of the New Zealand Returned Services' Association, when addressing mbmbers "of the South Taranaki R.S.A. at Hawera. Mr. Abel said experts had proved that by natural increase the population of New Zealand byl970 could not possibly be more than 2,000,000 and after 1970 it would begin to decrease. The leaders of the country had claimed that a population of at least 5,000.000 was required within the next 10 or 20 years, ahd since this figure could not be attained by natural increase, he considered that there was only one solution — immigration. Scope For Engineers Every section of the community needed engineers to guide them, said the Mayor of Hamilton (Mr. Caro) when opening a conference of northern branches of the New Zealand Institute of Engineers. New Zealand was a small country, with limited resources and population, and he deplored the loss of so much promising material in the engineering world that had been attracted overseas. The scope for them in New Zealahd shouid be enlafged, and the Government shouid give a lead to other emplo'yers. At present engineers' services were too poorly fecognised by comparison with the rewards for other branches of specialist service. He predicted that much of New Zealand's progress in the next half-century Would be shaped by the engineering profession. , . .

Ballot For Hopse Deciding to sell her house at Invercargill to a returned serviceman, an elderly woman resolV6"d that a ballot would be the faire'st method of disposihg of the property. She advertised to that effect and 26 applications were feceiVed. Reh.abilitation loans being not fortheoming in 20 cases, the remaiiling six names went in the ballot and the s'uccessful applican't was a married man living in one ropm. «