LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 11 December 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

School Cricket Match The annual cricket match between Scots College and Horowhenua College, which was to have commenced yesterday, had to be postponed owing • to the sudden change in the weather. In spite of i sodden pitch the game began today. Last night Mr. K. Francis, of Scots College, and the visiting team were the guests of the Horowher.ua College at a dance held in the assembiy hall.. Overflow Entry of Pigs The pig yarding ai, the weekly stock sale in Levin yesterday was oE such large proportions that all pens in the pig section were crammed to capacity. As more pigs arrivc l it was found that it would be ne.-es-sary to use a race in the sheep section, and this, too, was filled. Despite the "overcrowded supply, chere was keen competition throughout and good prices were realised. Two Brothers Run Over Playing in high grass on the roadside at Akina Street, Hastings, .wo small boys were run over by a motor car and injured. They are: Arthur Cash, aged 2£, of 505 Akina Street. and his brother Ivan, aged 4L The former received a broken leg. The other boy was playing with a football and, without bursting, this took the weight of the whecl as it passed over his leg. The driver of the car, Mr. H. Dyson, was pulling into the roadside to uncouple a trailer when the accident occurred. Effect of Fish Diet An example of ihe effect of the unvaried Engii^L diet=was.qiy?.tefl by Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore, G.C.B., D.S.O., at a receptioii in Auckland. Sir Arthur said. his son returned from war service recently to fmd that, because of the stringent me'at rationing, fish had become almost a staple diet at his home. One day, in desperation, he appealed to his ' mother not to give him any more fish, giving the reason that he had qaten so much during the past few months that his stomach was going in and out with the tide. Memorial Iluts for Drovers The members of the Hawke's Bay Drovers' Union who gave their lives m the war will have a unique memorial in the form of three memorial huts. These will be used by drovers in the district. The Hawke's Bav County Council decided at its meetin recently to bear half the costs. The chairman (Mr. R. Harding^ said that the huts would not be a memorial to drovers if the couru'.y were to pay more than half the costs. They will be constructed of concrete, the size , being 12feet by 10 feet. Each hut will have sleeping accommodation for four men. The estimated cost^is £120 each. Ilex Approaching Sydney 'ihe most recent .massage received in New Zealand from the yacht Ilex, now approaching Sydney on her way to participate in the Sydney-llobart yachc race this month, was picked up by an amateur radio station in Dunedin at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon. New Zealand amateurs are finding ic increasingly difficult to read iransmissions from the yacht as she increases her distance from New Zealand. The Ilex then reported herself as approximately 250 miles from Sydney, making three knots oefore a S.S.W. wind of about 23 miles an hour. She plotted her position as 34 degrees 37 minutes south, 155 degrees 13 minutes east. There was a rough sea running at the time, but if the weather does not deteriorate further the Ilex will probably reach Sydney within three days. Pacifist "Bombarded" Recent open-air addresses in Motueka by a group of pacifists have been anything but well received by the people of the borough, says the Nelson correspondent of The Post. The other night a speaker had just started when, in reply to one of many questions, he stated that in the event of an enemy invasion of New Zealand he would do nothihgto resist it. That answer appeared to be the signal for direct action by a section of the audience. An order, "Release safety catches, target in front, fire," was followed by a hail of ancient duck eggs. The luckless speaker was enveloped in an odour which had the effect of dispersing even those few supporters who niight otherwise have remained when the bombardment group departed. Returned serviceir(an in the borough have resented the action of the pacifists in giving their addresses in the vicinity of the .war memorial.