LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 1 February 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

10, ... The Levin Nursery Play Centre will reopen on Tuesday next at 1.15 p.m. It is available to children from two years of age to school age and the fees are 2s 6d per term for each child. Full information mav be obtained from the secretary, Mrs. R. H. Long. ® Students on Tour The group of twelve past and present students of Victoria College; Wellington, visiting Unitetl States and Canada on a three months' trip, were entertained as guests of the Standard Vacuum Oil Companv at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, where they met repiesentatives of the American and foreign press. The group arnved in United States a week ago and were the guests of the State Department at Washington before going to New York. They will go to Eoston 011 February 3 and thence to Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Detroit, Chicago and Winnipeg in which cities they will visit universites and observe educational methods . Bananas Instead of Oranges Mr. A. Wathey, secretary of the Wellington transport workers' picnic eommittee, stated yesterday that, while it v/as true Ministers were not invited to the recent'picnic, this was not due to any intentional "slight but to the fact that he was extremely . busy at the time owing to the trouble on the waterfront, as well as being fully engaged with all the many details of the organisation of the picnic and making certain that suppliesfor so many people were assured. It was not until 5 p.m. on the day before the picnic that the Minis • ter's reply concerning the nonavailability of oranges was leeeived by him. The Marketing Department did, however, make five cases of bananas available. Ballot for Levin Farm Two land ballots for ex-service-men were held in the offices of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Wellington, yesterday. The' first ballot was for one mixed section in the Ihakara farm settlement at Levin. The applicants were interviewed as to suitability by a committee consisting of the Commissioner of Crown Lands and representatives from the State Advances Corporation and Rehabilitation Department, at the conclusion of which the ballot* was held. The successful applicant, out of a total of 33, was Mr. C. M. H. Thevenard, of "Brent Knoll," Sandon R.D., Feilding. The other ballot was for a sheep property on Te Maipi farm settlement near Masterton. There. were 45 applicants who were also interviewed by a committee The successful applicant was Mr. T. M. Jenkinson, of Martinborough. Britain Wants Apples "The demand in Britain for apples is terrific and the need is urgent, and I do not think it' is right for the people in Wellington, who do not know the position over there, to eut down our quota for England," said Mr. J. H. Park'er, assistant manager of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers' Federation, in acdressing orchardists in Hastings. Mr. Pa-rker, who recently :.eturned from abroad, said that one of the things not gener'ally' realised was Ihat Britain 's food diet wkas monotonous, and one of the most acceptable changes wouid be apples. "England has always taken about a third of our crop, and even though our erop this season is light we should still le't them have that ^mount," said Mr. Parker. "They want the fruit, they need it, and they are prepared to pay for it, and we should let them have it," he said.

Supplies of Tea There seemed to be a gener«l impression that the prices of tea would rise considerably on the Indian and Ceylon rnarl ets • but there was no expectation that supplies would be more freely available this year, said the Minister of Supply, Hon. D. G. Sullivan, when commenting on the London cab.a, which stated that the International Food Couneil would cease recom mending tea would n6 longer be a ^eserved commodity, The information in the cable, said Mr. Sullivan, was in accord with offlcial advices but the results could not be forecast with certainty.