LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 10 March 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

: — Big Betting at Timaru The totalisator investments at ; the Timaru Trotting nueeting on Saturday amounted to. £46,850, com-pa-red with £37,912 10s last year, arid ; a new high level for1 the cl-ub- has been reached. Boy Dies from Pig Bite A child was operated on in the Waikato Hospital after he had been severely bitten on the nose by a domesticpig at his home, and his death occurred. He was Trevor Vickers, aged three years-, a son of Mr. A. Vickers, of Maungatautari. Substantial Bequests Miss Matilda. L.. Cowan, of Inveri cargill, who, d-ied last November, •left bequests totalling more than £4000-, mainly to various organisa'tions connected with the Presbyterian Church, . and £250 to the Forest and Bird Proteetion Society^ The estate wa§„ sworn for probate purposes at'less than £13,000. Visit tcv Maoris To 'meet the Maoris in their own communities and inspect a number of land development schemes-, the Prime Minister is to leave next Saturday on an.intensive tour covering most of the North Island. He will ■visit. a number of land development schemes on thd East Coast, in Waikato- and in North Auckland. At Mahia he is to inspect a. carved; house, one of the old'est in New Zealand, which is being restoredi with Governmdnt assistance. Mail Jettisoned About lOOlbs. of newspaper and parcel mails addressed to- service personnel care of N.Z.A.P.O. 381 (Fijf) were lost on Februa-ry 2-2 when three bags , of seeond-cl'ass mail had to- be jettisoned- from the conveying plane-. Announcing ohis, Hon. F. Haekett said! the mails lost comprised postings.' from:-: all parts -of New Zea-l'and- reeeived in--Auckland between noon -on Febjju-. ary 17 and approximately 4 p.m." on February 21. » Airmen for Japan Afrer a l'ong period of training at ihe Central Fighter School' at Ohakea, replacem-ents* for No. £4 R.N.Z-.A.F. S'quadron in Japan are now ready to proceed owerseas.. Half of the- replacements- have alreadly l:eft on flnal leave. and, under the command- " of J>q.uadfon.-Leader D. St. George, B.F'.C'., wilE embark. for Japan in approximately two weeks' time. The other half of the repiaeement unit is shortly to go on final leave. Retail Fruit Prices' In order to.> assist the industry, the Go-vernment has. decMed. to allaw an inerease of one haif-penny per pound in the, r'efail prices of apples and pears," said the- Miniater of Marketing. (Mr. Culien) last week. He added} thaf the Government had eonsidered a req.uest made by the New Zealand Fruitgrowers-' Federation, on behal'f of apple and! -pear growers, for- an increased' return for the 1947 season. The effect of this inerease, the whole1 ©f which was to go tothe grower, should make it possible, subject to seasonable and crop eonditions, for net paymen-fs effected through the Fruit Marketing Counetl to- be increased1 by approximately Is per case orer 1946 season realisatrons. '