LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 7 December 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Not Protected bik "If it is an industry then it is certainly not a protected one," said • Mr. A. M. Goulding, S.M., during the hearing of a case in the Magistrate's Court, Levin, yesterday, when bookmaking was referred to as an industry. Masterton Hotels After 38 years as a "clry" district1 Masterton, which carri'ed restoration in the local option poll last week, is now entitled under the Licensing Act to a maximum of 22 hotel licenses. Masterton had 16 toar licenses before no-license was carried on November 17, 1908. Youth Killed in Smash When the car he was driving ran off the road at Te Rehunga, near Dannevirke, last night, Russel Joseph Johnston, aged 17, of 150 Albert Street, Palmerston Nortli, was killed and three other youths in the car were slightly injured. They were: Stanley Joseph Moser, of 107 College Street, Athol George Payne, of 62 Russell Street, and Harry Owen Bamett, of 35 Queen Street, all of Palmerston North. I Englishwoman's Tribute i Writing from Truro, Cornwall, an j Engiishwoman who spent hve years lin New Zealand before the Second I World War "expresses regret that j there were few opportunities of i meeting New Zealand servicemen lin that part of England during the | war. "We lived in New Zealand for 1 five memorable years," she adds, ! "and we still recall with great ! affection your beautiful country 'and its great-hearted people." Large Sharks Caught ! Artracted by garbage being | dumped from the refuse disposal jvessel, two large ground sharks, i measuring over 9ft from nose to I tail, were hooked and landed on the northern side of Rangitoto. • Sharks of this kind are fairly common in the Hauraki Gulf during the , summer months, and severai of ithem, in addition to other kinds of Ifish, are seen cruising about the | vessel when she is dumping refuse. 1 Woman Bigamist Gaoled "In my opinion if the Court did j not impose imprisonment it would ; be weakly giving way to leniency Ibecause you are a woman," said I Mr. Justice Callan in the Auckland Supreme Court when sentencing j Viola Muriel Smith, aged 32, to two | months' imprisonment for bigamy j which she admitted. His Honour ;said the woman's conduct was very j irresponsible. She grossly deceived j one mah. j Protest at Loss of Kauris A special meeting oi the Whangarei Forest and Bird Society strongly criticised the felling of kauris in Waipoua forest and unanimously passed the following [resolution: — "That the Government | be asked to halt the felling and logging of timber in the Waipoua I forest f orthwith and set up a i special commission including Ibotanists, zoologists, biologists and j foresters, to consider the whole jquestion regarding the advisability of reserving the complete area as a | national park. j Too Much Racing J The "continuea round of racing lon Saturdays" was having a very | bad effect on sport, said Mr. A. R. Blank, chairman of the Canterbuiy Council of Sport, at a recent council meeting. "We've certainly had a'welter of it — eight Saturdays running," said Mr. Blank. "It's a very scrious thing. Young men are being encouraged to have £2 on both ways when they might be on the cricket field bowling a couple of wrong 'uns. I 'think it encourages young men to go to the races instcad of playing healthy games. It is certainly making it difficult for quite a number of sports." Policy Needed Commenting on immigration, Mr.. L. H. Warner, London manager for J. Illott, Ltd., said in an interview in Dunedin, that unless this country amoved quickly and formulated a definite policy it was difficult to forecast how New Zealand would obtain the right type of person — the demobilised man and woman. . Intending emigrants to the Dominion had been told that it would be 1-8 months at -least before they would be able to (feave Britain, and by that time their attityde that "distant fields were greenest" would have been changed by the processes of rehabilitation, and «they would have sunk their ,prospects in their own land. If they were brought to New Zealand there would be no • houses for them, Mr. Warner said. There were plenty of avenues of employment for them in Britain, but the desire for a change of scene and occupation after the hectic experience of war service refiected a psychological reaction.