LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 22 February 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Zealanders in Airlines "Practically every New Zealander who wanted a job in civil aviation in England and who went to the trouble to get the neGessary l|censes has been plaeed," said Captain J. Adams, who brought the Lancastrian aircraft City of London into Harewood airport. Quite a few New Zealanders who had served in the recent war, either with the R.A.F. or the R.N.Z.A.F., had taken positions as aircrews with airlines in Great Britain, he said. Butch Plants Arrive Marking the gradual return of the nursery trade to normai, the first consignment of imported plants from Holland since hefoue the war has reaehed a firm of Taranaki nurServmen. The plants are all ornamentals and include rhododendrons, azalea mollis, clematis, conifers' and copper b'eech. Last week six wooden crates, containing about 4000 trees in all, were unpacked by the nursery staff, and when the taSk was completed it was found that not one had been damaged. Gaol for Deserlers Three men who deserted from the Port Halifax on February 2 were sentenced to one month's imprisonment by Mr. Goulding, S.M., in the' Magistrate's Court, Wellington, yesterday. The accused were Charles Alfred » Challis, Thomas Noel Barnes and Ronald Walter Howes, who said they were single men. Two of them stated to the Magistrate that they considered the employment position more seeure here than in the United Kingdom. The Magistrate said he could promise them security .for at least one month. Pines and Gums Damaged In the storm of last weekend, about- 700 piqes and gums were uprooted or brnken off in Mangaroa Forest, a ' reser.ve owned by the Hastings Borough Council. Reporting the damage at yesterday's meeting of the council. .the superintendent of r.eserves, Mr. J. G. -C. MacKenzie. said that of this total approximately 330 were more than eight inches diameter at 20 feet from the base -and should be suitable for milling. Mr. -MacKenzie said that 30 trees in Hastings parkv were destroyed by the storm and \ny others damaged. "The Higher Authority" A boy wearing the uniform of a Christchurch secondary school was. charged in the Magistrate's Court in-that city with driving a motorcar that did not have a warrant of fitness. He explained that hi.c father was away from Christchurch and he did not know that the car did not have a warrant. "Did you have your father's authority to take the car?" 'asked the Magistrate. "Well — yes, sir— 4hat is, I had my mother's permission," -replied ;th-; defendant. "Well, I suppose -that is -he higher authority," -said the Magistrate, amid the laughter of the traffic inspectors. Teachers' Risk of Diphtheria There is a ; danger .to feathers now that the majority of pupils are immunised against diptheria, according to s'tatements made ai the annual meeting of ths Whangarei branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute. Immunisatjon of children was an excellent step, said Mr. H. Mabbett (Hikurangi) , but it did expose teachers tc a definite danger, as a child might now have diptheria and sufferina no more than a sor.e throat stiil attend school. He urged that "any teacher contracting the dlsease in term time or in 'the holfdays within the incubation period should receive leave on f-ull pay without the loss of the regulation sick -leave. It was agreed to forward a remit "to this effect \to the 'annual conference of >the institute.