LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 10 February 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

No Sports Tonight On account of the open meeting held on Saturday night, the Levin Combined Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club'svweekly sports fixture tonight has been cancelled. Fisherman Drowned I When he over-balanced and fell | backwards from a fishing trawler into, the Taieri River apout h,alf a mile below Taieri Ferry bridge about 6.30 p.m. on Sat.urday, a fishi erman who could not swim was; drowned. He was James Owen Edgar Palmer, ' aged 19*, of Taieri Mouth. Attempts to recover the body were unsuccessful on Saturday, but two fishing trawlers were used in the seareh yesterday morn- • ing and the body was recovered by grappling hooks. Gift iW Polish Hostel A gift of £1500 to form the nucleus of a fund for a hostel for Polish children in Wellington has been made through the Apostolic Delegate, the Most Rev-. John .jPanico, authorised by his Holiness I the Pope. This announcement was: | made by his Excellency at a recepj tion given in his honour by the jJCatholic Women's League in the ! Assembly Hall at St. Patrick's Col- ! lege, Cambridge Terrace. ! Motor-cycli&ts Injured ! Two Maoris ridfng a motor-cycle | were injured when the macfiine ! left the road near.the Omahu- rub- [ bish dump and sfruck a- fence at \ 7.30 on Saturday night. They were; i Rangi Rowen, injnr'ed right ankl'e, : abrasions, and Nlartin Ropiha, s abrasions, facial injuries, leg : injuries. Both reside at Fernhill. Their injuries ar-e not se.riou;S. With Bowep on the pillion, the motorcycle had just pass,ed a car when it swerved across ihe road, smashedalong the fence and came to rest against a strainer. Both men were taken to the Memorial Hospital. Hotel Broken Into On Friday night the premises of the Clyde Hotel, owned and conducte^ by the Invercargill Lieensing flkust, were entered- by thieves and £20 in silver stolen from a locked drawer of a desk in the manager's ropm. Entrance was gained through the ladies' lavatory where a louvre was smashed. An attempt was also made to smash open the« manager's door but proved futile, so entry was made by the skylight. No eflort was made to open the safe which contained the day's takings and change. The liquor stocks were apparently not touehed. Wool Bales Too Light The Order limiting the weight of wool bales to 4001b. reeently iss.uecl on the instructions of the Prime Minister, has engaged attention jn ! the quarter-ly repo^t of the New Zealand Wool Board. The report states that the board, used evefy means in its poiyer to have the Order suspended, bnt oo.uld only secure a promfse that the position would be examined shou,lh a holdup appear likely. The board maintains that a weight of 4501b is the lowest minimum that is- prs cticable and enforceable from shed'v The Order has further complicated congestion in 'stores and; ea used increased use of wool pack". which •• ar©' in short supply. The outlock for nex-t season's fequiremeiits of wool packs being unsatisfactory, the board has taken the mr tter pp : with the Mi'nistry- of .Supply, both as to lo'cal manufacture and imports. The greatest economy in the use of packs will be necessary.