LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 10 April 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Football on Saturday The Athletic Football Club will commence its season on Saturday next with games against outside clubs 'who will ' visit Levin for the day. The seniors will play Hui Mai (Sanson), while the juniors and third grade team will try conolursions with their opposites in the Poneke Club (Wellington) . Red Cross Work The annual pieeting of the Levin branch pf the Red Cross-. Society takes place on. April 15, Of particular interest will be the yigit of the Director-General of Red Cross V.A.D's:, -Misjr-H. Crook, who will speak on th^peacertirnP work of the lR,ed QroMV ' Members of all women's orga'nisations are given a cordial inyitatipn to . attehd the rneeting.' Bust of Cantam- Cook The DOfninidaav Mu'seum= in'Wellingtori noxfc>h#&>in its possessio'n a marble *bust . t df ; > Captain J ames Cook,- the.'famdus navigator. The gift has- been- imade ;by Mr. A. C. Carter, .who-twas. welhknown in London as an^hrt .critic, through the HigA Cornmissioner, Mr. Jordan. The bustris the work ?of the eighteenth century sculptor, Bacon, and representsothe mariner in the costume of the period, with. the addition of a, feathered cloak. One Lamp in Demand The scene was an auctioneer's mart in Wanganui, and the lot offered to anf 'fnterested bench of bidders was a -"table lamp of the type popular - upwards of half a century ago. There was a time, .not so long ago, when a farmer might have offered a ; couple of shillings for this lamp, but that was in the days before the power "cuts." The opening bid ■ was 10s, and keen rivalry resulted in animated bidding till the hammer fell at £2 12s, And it was npt a farmer who bought the lamp. Vital StatisticsThe vital statistics recorded at Levin for the first quarter of the year show slight increaseg in the number of births and deaths. The figures supplied by the registrar, Mr. H. J. Henderson, are as follows, those for the same period in 1946 being given in parentheses: Births 59 (54) , deaths 19 (17) and marriages 21 (227. The statistics for the month pf Marph were as follows; with thpse fpr tlie corresponding month. Qf 1946 in parentheses: Births *20 (27), deaths 8 (3) and marriages 6 (6). Open Car for Sfate Occasions The Department of Internal Affairs is embarrassed because it has no touring type motor-car, even of ancient vintage. The absence of thjs .facility was particularly : f elt when Lord Bledislpe expressed a ydsh' that. he and Lady Bledisloe be : dpiven through and around the city in an open 'motorcar. This laOk ' of motor vehicle hospitality is to be rectified, and before Field-Marshall Viscount Montgomery viAits the Dominion, the Department1 of Internal Affairs will have a seqondrrto-none modern touring ca'r specially imported from abroad. - Candles for North Jsiand There are indications of a grpwing export trade in candles from Christchurch' to1, the North Island, particplarly Auckland. Candles are virtually unprocui'able in Auckland, and nQrtherners with fripndg |n the sopth have writtpn' asking fpr gurchases tQ be made at Qhristehui?ch. says the Btar-Sun, At oqe pf the suburban post offfees a lypinun ppsted a package tbat niust have ppntained • spypral dpgpn candles, and inqpiries prodviced the infprniation "that several more big paek-, ages of candles had - been posted frpm the sapie offfqe. Also in demand fpr the North Island are petrol pr ipethylatpd ' spirits , cookers.