LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 28 December 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

- W* * r * Intoxicated Motorist •Pleading guilty to driving a car on the main highway at Ngaere on Thursday while in a state of intoxication, Francis Moriarty, of Levin, was fined £10 and had his licence suspended for a year by Messrs W. C. Liddell and H. C. North, J.'sP., in the Stratford Court yesterday, states a Press message from New Plymouth. Visiting Preaeher Mr. Eric T. Williams, who will be the preaeher at the Church of Christ on Sunday next, is a graduate of the. College of the Bible, Glen Leith, Dunedin. He has been stationed at West Lynn, Auckland, for three years. All are invited to hear this friend of youth and simple forceful speaker. Mr. and Mrs. Williams and Carroll are staying with Mr. and Mrs. G. Shirley, over the Christmas vacation. Bees Disturb Shunters The usual quietude of the Marton railway station was livened somewhat on Monday afternoon by the visit of a swarm of bees. Shunters had an unenviable task when ; it was necessary to couple two wagons together on which the bees I had settled. They were on the | coupling chains and several brave men backed smartly away, but the wise counsel of a senior member, who had apparently had experience in an apiary, induced the bees to leave their temporary home for that of a benzine box. Work then ! proceeded with its usual efficiency. Drive for Glass A Dominion-wide drive to collect waste glass and broken bottles for the glass works furnaces at Penrose (Auckland) is planned as a nart of emergency measures tp help maintain the supply of bot1 tles in New Zealand in 1947. Plans | have been made to enlist the coI operation of schools, housewives j and industrial users of bottles. When the new school year opens everything will be in readiness for the first big effort ever made to salvage glass on a national scale. Drums will be placed at all schools and children will be encouraged to fill them as rapidly as possible for clearing and transport to national depots. Schools will be encouraged by payments to school funds for school improvements in respect of the glass collected. Pigeons Go Missing* The risks taken by pigeon fanciers in staging long-dis.tance races for homing pigeons has been well demonstrated by the experience of the combined Hastings and Napier clubs recently. Thirty birds were released in Invercargill on a Friday, but up ta the f ollowing Tuesday only one had been officially reported as having returngd. Officials are at a'loss to accoubt i'or the failure of the other 29 birds to complete the distance beeause weather conditions are said to have been favourable over the whole journey. They are also intrigued by the fact that the sole survivor was a bird that was generally regarded as being a "weakling" for such a long distance.