LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 17 May 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

VVether Scjiedujes Up Id Thg Npw Zealand IVEeat Prpducers' Poard advises that ^yetfier schedules in the Nprth. ahcl South; Islands will he increased by id p.er ib as frqnn Mqnday. Tfte increase is account.ed fqr fey the inqrpas.ed wool growth. A Museqm Beqpest The ' Hawke's Bay museum, Napier has received a vahiable bequest from the estate of 'Mr. Russell Dqncan^ Napier, which' will have the effect of placing' lt on a p^r witlf the Hocke'ri Library in' Dunedin. ' A cpllection of more" thah 800 pooks collected over the'past 50 yeafs has beeh given. The'y deal in. the m.ath with New Zealand,' as well as explqration in ' 4ntarctica and tfte Pacific. ■ ... . Vessel for J-Force Relief 1 The Minister oi' Defence an^ nounced tonight that His Majesty's traiisport Dunera has 'been allocated by the Directqr. of Sea Transport, Londop, fpr the relief qf 'JForce perso'nnei in /Japan. The Vessel is pxpected to arfiVe at Kp-re abopt J'unp,' 1947., 'Tfie reliefy which will involve two lifts ,'frdm ^ipah and onp Yrom Ney? Yealand, is pxpecjted to be compl'eted by the1 middle qf August. Plural of 'Octopus,'■ ' What'is the px'ural of "octopus"? asked Dr. S. ' MuSgrqve, professor of English at Auckland University College, durihg an address co the Auckland Cfedi'tmen's Club. The professor sq,id that he had overheard. tWo men arguing tibout i't at a cficket ' match, witp one insisting that "octopodes" was the o'nly acceptable plural. "S.aV 'octopuses' if you like,1" said Professor Musgrove, "but never 'octppodes.' ' That' would be only correct pedant'ry." Pfvil Ayiation By the 'Internqtional Air Services Licensing Emiergency Regulations gazetted this week, effect is giveh co New Zealand's adherence to the agreement and .cohvention signed at the international ' conference on civil aviation in Ch'icago' in November, 1944. ' Under the agreemehf member States are pbliged to'appl^, as rapiply as pqssible in thpif national civil aviatiPri pracfices fhe general recqmmendgfipps ' made at Chicago and' the regulations gazetced this week are 'mqdo tbr tbip purpose. Alleged Car Theft in Sydney A young man, aged 30, of Palmerston Norch, whq broke b34l in Aqstralia last ye'ar when he wss > charged with .steahng a car, was rehianded to appear at Wellingtqn on May 22, by Messrs E. G. Bennetf and H. Greenwood, J.P.'s, in' the Magistrate's Court at Palmerston North yesterday. Accused, yfhose name was suppressed, was charged with sfealing, on November 8,' 1946, at Sydiiey, N.S.W;j a motor car, the property of Jaihes Leo Kenny. Senior Detective O. Power asked dhat accused be remanded to appear at Wellington in readiness for an applicatio'n' fo'r extradition by the Aiistralian authorities.' Child Empties Letter Box A small boy in Anderson's Bay (Dunedin) emptied • a neighbourL hood letter box and disposed of cheques totalling more than £40(]. The owners of the box Were two contractors, whq. were expecting cheques for £204 and £269 respectivel'y. The 'apparerife non-arrival of the mailTed'to ari inyestigatiop, and the sear'ch 'led 'to 'a boy aged fqijr years. Tpe bpy admiftgd that he hkd taken all the mkii from the box. He had, he said, "read" one of the letters, and finding it uninterestipg, t.QS§ed * it ' a\ya^ He had opened the next epvelopp and again foiind nothing qf intprest, arid he had co'ntinued through thp Collection, throwing a'way all qf thp letters after he had inspectbd therp. So far, the cheque'for £204 hds befen foun'd, but the other eheque, tbgether with a letter conta'ihing a tpinbif suhi for ariother ihemlief' of the family and kny other mkil th'at might 'haive b'eep'fn the bok'rfehqikihs wHe'rever the hoyleft it," ' '

! - *k *ii 'Uv -yk" Liftle Infiere§t * Tjqbugh the tyiastqrtpp L^hds Trust' fijfis jnade 'ayailable for' "educatiqp^,r and gengy^l puyposes |p tbe towp pver' the -past §ix years, littje' 'ipteresk wa§ §hqjvn }n tbg g'unugi iffggting week. Qply i^pgops gtt^flpd. Thjs chairpy^b, Mr. ft. |?agp, ma$8 an appeal for bequests ,pf- anythi'ng Of any amouht to -further the work qf ' th'e " 'ti ttfefc, ' whipif ' Ti'ad s'uff feVea heavll'y ih* the 19'42 gaYthqua'k^/ '