LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 4 February 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Scout Picture Benefit Tickets for Judy Garland's popular • film, "Thousands Cheer," are ibeing quickly sold by the Levin scouts in aid of the fund to send [three of their numb'er to the world jamboree in France next August. By courtesy of the management of the Regent Theatre, screenings have been arranged by the Levin Rotary Club for the afternoon and evening of Wednesday, February 26. i Woman's Loss of Memory | The mystery of Mrs. J. W. CampI bell, of Romanhapa, who disappear- ' ea from the maoernity annexe of the Balclutha Hospital on January 21, was solved on Friday night about 11 o'clock when she walked into the hospital, still in the night attire in which she left. Mrs. Campbell could give no expxanation of where she had been, cvidently having, suft'ered 'from loss of memory. Band Display Arranged Eight bands with nearly 200 bandsmen will stage a display at the Levin Park Domain next Sunday afternoon to assist the Levin Boys' Band. Among the visiting bands will be the Palmerston North City Silver. which will be seen in the quickstep, hymn test and selection it will render at the championships. in March next. All the bands will march from the Levin Public Library to the domain, moving olf at 2 p.m. at two-minute intervals. Fire at Freezing Works Fire, which, but for the efficiency with which it was fought, might have had serious consequences, broke out at the Makarewa freezing works on Saturday night. Engines were brought from invercargill to help queneh the blaze. There was no damage to anv machinery and 'operations will not be affected. Arrangements have been made to send sheep to the Mataura works in the meantim?. There will be a slight reduction in killing but it is not expected - that his will be serious. No estimate is yet made of the extent of the damage. Successful Author Mr. James Bertram, a former New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, and writer on Far Eastern affairs, has received word that his latest book, "Shadow of a War," will be published this year in London by Viqtor Gollancz and in New York by John Day. Two earlier works "Crisis in China" and "North China Front" were likewise publlshed in England and America.j "Shadow of a War" was written in Auckland last year when its , author returned from an official ' visit to Japan' with the N'Jw Zealand delegation to the Far Eastern Commission and includes a first hand impression of General MacArthur's occupation poliey Mr. Bertram, who was a prisoner of war in the hands of the. Japanese for nearly four years, describes his new book as a "personal history in the Far East from 1939 to 1946, with a special New Zealand slant to it because it was written here."*s Gamin" Laws The official inquiry into gaming methods in New. Zealand begins this week. The Royal Commission on racing &nd gaming is to hcld its first public session in Parliament Buildings on Wednesday. moming, after sitting privately toaay. The commission consists of Mr. Justice Finlay, Mr. W. H. Freemxn, S.M.. and Mr. J. W. Heenan. Und^rSecretary of Internal Affairs. The order of reference is open, and the whole operation of the Gaming Act will be considered. E/idence will be taken from all interests who wish to give it, and the Raeing and Trotting Conferences and the churches will be represented b'v * counsel.