LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 3 June 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ladies' Golf , _ Lady .mempers of the Levin Golf Club will play a Staoleford bogev match tomorrow afternoon. The "draw takes place at the ciubhouse at 1.15 p.m, sharp. Power Allocation Decreased Allocation of power for the Horowhenua Board will be decreased this week by 2000 unitp daily. This is brought about by the method in which power rationing is barried out, namely on consumption for the same period over the past three years. Despite the faet that the board last we?k retained its restrictions, it was still above its quota. Motor-Cyclist Ijnjured When his motor-ey.cle ran ofi the road at Ohau on Saturday afternoon Donald Charles Williahi McAl'lister, 32, of 42 Munro Street, Wadestown, received a comppund fracture of the -upper' right arai. The acpident pccurred just south of the Ohau Store and at the time McAllister was « travelling porth.wards. Affer recpiving mecfical attention he, was conveyed to the Palmerston North Hospital. • t fe.I /• A Tanker's End The most spect,aeuiar sinking of its kind in New. -Zealand waters for many years will mark the end of the former naval oil tanker, Nucula, which- is being scrapped at Auckland in eomplianee with the regulations for the disposal of former 'tankers. "The Nucula will be towed " to sea beyond the 160 fathom mark,. and the 4000-ton ship will then beysent io the bottom. She will be the largest vessel scuttled in New Zealand waters for many years, "Let There Be Light" "The only thing I have against Mr. Monk is his horrible practise of turniiig off the lights eyery night at 7 p.m, Possibly, being a good farmer he 'likeg to turn in early, and as an equally good husband likes to PUt out the lights befbre going to sieep." When making this remark at a complimentary social to Mr. G. A> Monk, chairman of the * Horowhenua Power Board and CQunty Council, the Mqyor of Otaki, Mr. C, F. Atmore, added that at least he had never heard any adverse criticism of Mr. Monk. "A public man need never WQrry if he makes a mistake. Someone • will pick it up for him. If there is no criticism then he can infer that he has made mo mjstakes." ■ Painfully Funjiy r;, 4 "I pearly dipd lanjghing" is a frequent commendatioo ■ on an enjoyable comedy, a/nd city cinerrjas, in advertising their programmes, often prediet how a faree will affect their patrons, says the Christchurch Star-Sun. One woman will have cause to heed these predictions. in future, for her cine'ma visit 'was marred by a painful accident. Enjoying a comedy in one of the theatres, she was laughing hagpily along' with the r'est of the audi'ence — until she dislocated her jaw. The doorkeeper summoned a taxi, and the woman was taken to the outpatients' department at the Christchurch Public Hospital fqr treatment. Ruapehij Veyy Active A dense, billowlng tnass Of steain, smoke, and" ashj shot frqm Mourft Ruapehu - on Saturday afternoon, in one of the bsst dispiays of voicanic actfvity seen fof sonre time. Visiipility fronr . the Taumarunui distript ' was excellent and silhouetted against a winter 'a sky, the mushrooming column prompted ob.servers to liken it "tq jllustrations Qf the Bikini atom bbmb explqsipn. Soaring to a Height of about 12,900 feet, the cloud hung . in the still cold mr bofo.re dissipating. For some tjme after the iast of Ihe Steanj had drifted to njeet the main mass above it, a dark smear of ash could be sen ' faling on tp the snow-covered - ihountain, The eruption was slearly visible to climbers qn Mount Eginpnt, though the peak of Ruapehu was not distinguishable.