LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 8 April 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Sunflower Seed for Poultry Owing to the s.earcity of fowl feed, many people at Swanson, Auckland, are growing sunflowers to replace wheat. The seeds are relished by poultry. Stone from Holy City . A block of white stone quarned deep, u'nder the oldest part of the city of . Jerusalem, will find a prominent place in the Maori memorial church to be efected at Moteo, Hawke's JBay, When Captain Manu Benhett, a son of the Rt. Rev. F. A. gennett, Bishop of Aotearoa, was given the stone the old Ifeeper of the quarry said that from this site more than 3000 years ago blocks were hewn for the Temple of Solomon. Late Honey Season • "According to the latest reports, this year the honey season is fully one month later, than usualbeeause of unseasonable weather in spring," says .Consumer. .News, -issued by the -Economic InfOrmation Service. ,"It is' yet too early to anticipate tfce final yield, but ihe honey crops generally are of average yield throughout New Zealand, except in Wairarapa, Hawke's Bay and Otago, where the crops will be ligjit."

Union Airways ' After twelve years of outstandingly efficient service, Union Airways is being voluntarily wound up. The services it operated have been absorbed by the National Airways Corporation, which was established by Act of Parliament passed in 1945. Although Union' Airways will cease to exist as an entity, its name and its work in the development of air tlansport in the Dominion will always be associited with aviati-on progress ifi thi country. Toc H Fellowship A proposal that a fellowship of youth, rrtade up of lads from all classes and opinions should be set up in New Zealand, waS "made "by Jhe Rev. Gilbert Williams, Adminisorative Padre at Toc'H Headquarters, Londcn, in a broadcast address last night. Mr. Williams, who has reeenuy concluded a tour of AUs.ralia and New Zealand, suggested 0hat, with such a fellowship, lads could be encouraged to study the needs of local communities and be better able to perform jobs of service for the benefit of all ranks' of society. British Flood Fund A public subscription list which will enable persons and organisations to make contributions to the fund conducted by the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Bracewell Smith, for flood relief in, Britain, has been opened by the Mayor of Auckland, Mr. Allum. When giving the Mayor authority to open ihe fund, the City Council decided. to contribute about £2000, which is to be received as a refund from ■ the emergenc'y precautions service. The Mayor -has decided to make a personal contribution of £100. Mount Egmont Tragedy Falling about 600 feet over hard .snow on the east slopes of Mount Egmont about 2.30 p.m. on Sun^ day, Graeme Adams, aged 17 years, sbn, of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Adams, of Eltham, received ■ head injuries from which he later d'ied. He was admitted in an.; unconscious state to the Stratford Hospital and his death occurred late . on Sunday night. Addms and his brother, K. Adams, aged about 20, were descending the mountain and were on the southerh side of the east ridge, at about 6500' feet, when the accident occurred. It is understood that the younger brother had a stick upon which he tripped, falling down into the Maunganui snowfields. The slope is one of the steepest on East Egmont and is 1 1 covered at present with tiard snow, with a film of ice.