LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 21 March 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

U.N.A. Branches" Following a series of .addresses on the United Natiops Organisations bv the Dominion organiser, Mr. Anton Vogit, branehes of U.N.A. have been set up> jn N&W jPlyx&outh, Eltham, Wanganui, Feilding, Palmerston North, Waipukurau and Wairoa. New groups will be formed soon in Stratford, Marton, Levin,' Pahiatua, Napie# - ;5 and Hastings, where committees, have been formed. i ■ Youth Fined £35 Pleading guilty1 to committing an indecent ac.t at Buckiey, Shannon, yesterday, Ahan Mar.tin Henry Harper, aged 20, sharemilker, was eonvicted and fined £35 by Messrs. J. W. Rimmer . and , M: 4e L- Wright, J's.P., when he". appeared before them in the Levifi Qourt this morning. Sergeant W. Gfainger detailed the offence and said that Constable Watson, of Shannon, had interviewed Harper and he had admitted the offence. English Te.am Praised "I think it was ppvious that the English cricket team was jprimarjly in Australia oh a goodwill tour, "and there is no doubt that it has left a very good impression behind," said Mr. F. W- Gilligan, headmaster of Wanganui ,Gpliegi;atevSchool, on his return ' frorn- Sydheyy . "Th'eynjade theipselyes so - well . liked that many Ahstr4liahs\ .wef.e hoping that they.'vyoufd Win the last Te.st," Mr. Gilligan Ts a'Qormer .captainCbf the Oxford University cricket eleven and a member of a wellknown English crieketing family. A Surprise Restriction In these days of restrictions. when permits must -be obtained from Socialistic bureaucracy to do many things :that the inherent freedom to which New Zealanders were ' long a.ccustomed, did not deny the citizen, it seems rather s.urprising that one should be amazed now when informed of what cannof be done. Yet-ithat was the experjence of a Palmerstoni.an the oitfier day. As rel.ated to a Manawata Standard repres.enta.tiye, he desfred, he said, to have an inscrfption placed an a tombstone on a "relative's gi'ave. To his 5,n>azement the contractor '-infornied* hihi th.gt the' work eould not be undertafeen at once, as a permit was neeessary. C onseryatprium pf Music The need for a'cohseryatorium ih the Donhnion at which young people could advan.ce thefr studies in music and kindred .arts, ' Was stressed by delegates to the first. annual' conference of the New Moaland Competitfon Festiyals ilssocia- ; tion held at Wellington. While delegates expressed appreciation of the Governrnent's difffcuifiies in; establishing a conseryjato.riuni under present conditions, the opinion was, expressed that tpo fng-ny yonng artists were befng foteed oyersea?: to obtafn q-dyanced tnifion.- ft wa?,. d,ecided th^t the ;asi50ci4.tion shopJLd give serious con§ide'r.ation to the ; possibilfty of ^rr^nging scholarshlps through .competition societies to, enable promising ynung anists to attend a .conseryatorium overseas • in the meantirae. ' : Toinqrrow night the Ihakara H.all , coinnhttee wm oondnct g. dance in the Ohau 'flftli, The proceehs are^ 'to go towards eniarging the ihakara; JHall.