LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 15 March 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Long Way for a Drink How far 'some Auckianders will go for an alcohplie drink was demonstrated on Tuesday, when the hotels closed .for the licensing committee poll. Two men who met atPonsonby for a . drink and a chat discovered that-the hotel was shut. They decided that they would motor to Otahuhu, a distance of ; nine miles. What was their surprise. to find scores of other cars hastening in that direction, and, on arrival, long lines of parked motorcars and over-erbwded bars. Baby Born onfjTrain Wnile on hey^way to a maternity hospital in Hastings yesterday, a woman passenger.. on the Napier Express gave birth-to a son as the train, was apprpaching Levin. A local dbctor Und the hospital matron were called to the station, and with the ^co-operation of a poliee eonstable and the railway staff the mother ' and child were safely removed :from the train to the Amara Private Hospital, where they were- installed in vthe last vacant bed in the establishment. Plea for Waipoua At the State lpncheon given in his honour, LOrd Blbdisloe appealed to those present to do what they could to save from the woodman's axe and the pulping plant that "great ancestral asset of Waipoua forest."-. He could not say how grievbusly disappointed arborealists would be if that forest were descrated in any wdy. The Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser) interjected that ther'e would be no danger of that. "The arguments 'about the forest are among experts," he said. Souvenir Programme - For the Wellington provincial marching championships, to be held at the Levin Park .Domain next Saturday,;' a souvenir programme has bee'n compiled and was on sale at Shannon today. It oonfcains a resume of marching activities, as well as photos of the teams which will take part. It is intended to sell these prograiiimes house-to-houseih the Horowhenua district, or anyone wishing to obtain Copies may do so from Mr. W. J. Barrat's shop. In his Window is a display of photos of the teams and trophies.'

A.T.C. Weekly Parades The Air Training Corps held its first parade for 1947 on Wednesday night, when Squadron Leader B. L. Watkin, R.N.Z.A.F. Training Officer of the A.T.C. for New Zbaland, ^Va's present. He di'scussed the year's programme and the future of the A.T.C., and also gave a persoiiaf message from the A.T.C. Commandant, Wing Commander K. CW. Trigance, D.F.C. While in the Manawatu, Squadron Leader Watkin inspected the A.T.C. Unit at the Palmerston North BOys' • High School, where barracks We*ek' training was being carried out. The Levin Squadron, • which numb'ers 53, . will hold weekly parades evbry Wednesday at the Dfiil Hall1. Sale of Shooting Stands Strohg protest against the practice of selling shooting stands iri the Wellington and Wairarapa areas was expre&sb'd a:t the meeting of the Wellington Acclihial isatioip Society a'nd the matter will form the subject of a remit to the North Island confe.rChce o'f acclihiatisation societies. The matter afose through a letter from a spo'ftsinan who had sought p'bfmission ifom a land-owner to shbbt on. his property, but h'ad bbeh ihfofmed that the owher had sold his .fights, It was stated in discussion that £12' or ovbr had been char'ged fol* shooting stands..