LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 8 February 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Milk Goes Down Drain When a lorry collecting milk ran off the road at Taikorea on Thursday evening, four tons of milk went down a drain. The lorry was damaged to the extent that it will be off the road for a day or two. The , driver, Mr. Clark, escaped injury. Windows Scratched Vandals were active in Hamilton during a recent night, when % was discovered that numerous plateglass windows of business premjises had been scratchcd by a dia- : mond cr other glass-cutting imple1 ment. As many as a dozen windows were defaced. Dahlia Siamese Twins From the tuber of a red pom dahlia of last season, a Christchurch resident cut in her garden at St. Albans a Siamese twin — a reddish bloom and a yellow bloom ■ with a centre blotch of red from I two stems conjoined from the tuber jshoot. The dahlia was a hortii cultural novelty. Poisonous Hemlock To enable Aucklanders to identify the poisonous hemlock, displays of the weed are to be exhibited in the windows of chemist shops in the city and suburbs, according to a decision of the Auckland branch of the Chemists' 'Service Guild. Hemlock is growing in profusion on vacant land in Auckland. U.N. Grfaniser The Dominion council of* the United Nations Association, at a recent meeting, appointed Mr. : Anton Vcgt as organiser. The appointment is the first step in a Campaign to interest the man-in-the street in the work of U.N. Mr. Vogt. is well-known as a writer, and was last year lecturcr in. English at the Wellington Teachers' Training College. Bellbirds in Waitakeres For the first time in about 10 years bellbirds have been hearcj near the Auckland City Council's |Huia dam in the Waitakeres. The birds were f ormerly plentiful in the area but died out. Permission was ireccivcd from the Internal Affairs {Department about 12 years ago to ibring some bellbirds from Great Barrier Island to re-establish the species in the Waitakeres, but they were heard for only a year or two 'afterward. The birds which have been. heard recently have not been seen." Food for Britain Gifts of butcer and meat co.upons in support of the New Zealand Famine Emergency Committee's campaign to make more food available for Britain last week fell to the lowest total since the start of the campaign 42 weeks ago. The week's cpntribution of 2421 butter coupons and 84,669 meat coupons represented only one coupon for each five households in the Dominion. Last week Oamaru made the biggest contribution on a population basis, followed by Nelson and Christchurch, the latter contributing the largest number of coupons for the Dominion. One Passenger Only Despite the fact that berths to Sydney are difficult to obtain, only one booking was received for ihe Danish motor ship Selandia which was to sail from Auckland on Thursday afternoon. The reason for this is that the fare is £42 for the single trip. To travel by flyingboat to Sydney costs £30 and the first-class fare in the Wd-iganelia was £20 plus tax. The East Asiat-ic Steamship Co., which owns ihe Selandia, is not yet a member "of the New' Zealand Conference, a committee of .lines trading to ihe Dominion, and dntil membcrship is granted it does no.t.intend to compete with established lin'es. ' Fares have accordingly b,een placed atiove competition leve'l.— Auckland Star.