LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 23 May 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Royal Yisit May be Next Year A London correspondent says the Royal Family's next Dominion visit will be to New Zealand and Australia in the autumn- of 1948, leaving England roughly in August or September— it cannot be earlier. This, at present, is the intention — it is not yet a decision — and it will first be discussed with the respective GovernorsGeneral and Governments. Cheese Factories Shut Down In the past 10 years 24 cheese factories have shut, down in the South Island. Of these 19 were located in Southland, three in Otago, and one each in. Canterbury and Westland'.1 -The indications, reports tll^j 'South Island Dairy Associationp'// are that'" the high cost of 'production which continues to grow 'each year, will force others to give up in the near future. ' , Publisher's Comment "You should have literature of your own and you may have but we have not discovered it yet," said the business . .director of the London publishing house of Cassell and Company Limited (Mr. H. Aubrey Gentry) who is visiting New Zealand. He stated that tlie' ftrm had appoint'ed a literary adviser who had been inStructed to cultivate local talent in New Zealand and Australia. Theatre Queues The practice of Levin theatregoers congregating- outside and across Oxford Street is causing ths police concern. They state that m a night this week, when a film of local interest was being shown, an exceptionally . large queu'e extended almost half-way acrdss the road on the pedestrign cros^. .ng. The progress" of traffic was nnsequently impeded, as the crowd refused to give way to □ncc-ming cars. The police indicate that if the practice continues action will have to be taken to put an end to it. Long Dairy Season Despite the easin'g in electricity ? restrictions announced in the Welington area, the overall position has not improved and eonsumers in the Wanganui-Rangitikei Electric Power Board's district cannot expect similar concessions. Preventing any lifting of restrictions is the mild autumn weather which is keeping more than 1000 dairy water heaters in service. "I had hoped that by this time the milk.ng season would have ended'and we could have disconnected more. han 1000 dairy water heaters," the engineer told atmeeting of the board. "If that could have been done it would have been possible o have eased domestic restrictions." ' i Larrikins Not Tolerdted One month's imprisonment was imposed on John Hargreaves, single, aged 25, of Sandy Hook, Aramoho, at the conclusion of a case in the Wanganui Magistrate's Court, in which he pleaded not guilty before Mr. J. H. Salmon. S.M., to a charge that on May 10 he assaulted John Derek Hicks. Said the m'agistrate: "I have said mfore in Wanganui that there are too many of these; young larridns wandering about and behaving in this fashion. If you take any exception to it you are liable to meet with gross violence. This might be a first offence, but it is a very gross offence. So serious a view do I take of this matter that [ do not propose to deal with it by imposing .a fine. I will teach him a . lesson, and show the young larrikins of Wanganui that it will not be tolerated."