LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 16 April 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Plaster Makers Back at Work The strike of .35 men at the sole plastermaking f actory, Victor Plascers, Ltd., which, if. , continued; would have seriously affected building activity througho.ut Nev/ Zealand, has endqd, The workers will resume to comply with a decision of the Minister of Labour to appomt a tribu'na! under the Strikes. and .LockQuts Emergency Re'gulations "as, soon as they return to work. j . Feet on Tram Seat" When two yOtmg men at Auck-, land refused^ to"take- their feet' ofL a tram seat \toien, the tram was at the city end of Mount Eden Road, the conductor got off the tram and refused to travel furfcher. Twa inspeetors failed to persuade the men to take their feet from ther.seat so the police had to be calle'd in. and the men forcibly remoy.ed. The incident caused a delay of about 25 minutes and held up 12 trams. More Squatting; With the Abql Tasman House in .Berhampore .(Wellington) now f ■ ull • with six . ' f amilies, squatters have turned 'their eyes in the direction of one o'f Wellington 's most desirable . suburbs. On Sunday night a thdn and his wife, with their two young children, moved into a house 'in Kelburn, which waS formerly ' occupied by the general-managbr of the Kelburn and 'Karori Tramway Company. Previously they had been living in a. si'ngle room. They said yesterday that they expected to be joined shortly'' by two more f amilies. Pickpockets at Races Pickpockets ■ on Ellerslie racecourse took £400 from unwary punters in the first two days of the Easter racing carnival. This is the first time in 10 years that pickpockets have operated so successfully at Ellerslie. Wallets from hip pockets were the "dippers" greatest source of revenue. The police view is that the pickpockets were slick operators from overseas. One punter lost £220 and others from £1«5' to £60. One wallet was taken frosn an inside coat pbcket. Norwegian Without Permit A 22-year-old Norwegian student, Johan Bonneive, who, it was stated, served in the Norwegian. underground ^laring the German occupation, pleaded guilty in the .Christchurch ' Magistrate's dourt to entering New Zealand without a permit. He' was remahded. to April 29 to enkble' negotiations to be made to obtain a temporary permit pending the arrival of a ship in which he will be deported. Bonneive was studying at Oslo University, said coiinsel, and having a desire tb see the world he joined an o'il tanker for New Zealand where he' left the ship. Injured When Horse Fell Wlten the horse he was ridinfe fell abb'ut- half a mile from the homestead at - Tokomaru Valley Road on Friday/Mr. S. H. Roberts was thrown heavily. Fortupateiy he was able to walk to the house from whence he was remoYed .to the Palmerston North Hospital. Suffering from. extensive multiple injuries, including a cut on the head and acq.ompanied by such severe swelling ' that he is unable' to 'see, the hospital authorities stated on TueSday morning that Mr. Robert's conditibn shOwed a slight improvement.