LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 7 June 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

. ♦ — — Good Example "It is a pity that mora people cannot manage to do that,"' commented His Honour Mr. Justice Christie at a sitting of the Supreme Court at Palmerston North. His Honour's remark was prompted by the announcement by c.ounsel that the parties in a divorce action had come to'gether again. Application was accordingly made for the proceedings to be withdrawn. Recovering Rapidly The patient in the Wellington Public Hosnital, Mr. Leslie Whitehead, aged 30, whose heart was recently ..lifted out and submitted to an opdration of the utmost delicacy, smoked a cigarette with a reporter in the Hospital Y.M.C.A. room, Wellington, on Thursday. Mr. Whitehead has reached the stage of • convalescence and he -is permitted to spend. the weekends at home with his wife and their two children. Post-Holes to Grder Those many.'farmers and others who have had, to dig post-holes innumerable m,ay now sit back on their spades and watch a mechanical post-hole^digge^ do the job in less than a mlnute. Fifteen secondsvwas -all tfy'e tfme occupi'ed "by a huge augey ,in making a posthole at a farmUdrairiage machinery demonstration at Massey College yesterday. afternoon. *The hole was . nine inches across and about 30 inches deep, and alongside was made another with an 18inch diameter. Record Killings. Although the. season has been slightly shorter than usual there has been a recqrd kill for freezing purppses in Otago and Southland this ' year. The figures for the local works are approximately the same as those for recent years, but the Southland statistics are well up. Good weights and qualities have come forward throughout the season. It is expected that the Burnside works will close down some time during the week ending on June 20 for export killing. Oil From Eels A South Island firm which has been canning eels for "export has undertaken the' extraction of oil from eels. An eel contains 17 per cent. by weight of oil, which has a valuable content of vitamins A and D. The oil Is extracted by a 1 cooking process. It can be used as a substitute for whale oil, which at the moment fetches the high price of £90 per ton. It has been estimated that" approximately 500 tons of eels migrate annually from Lake Ellesmere, where the plant is situated.

Rehabilitation Loans Rehabilitation loans to the value of £1,131,626 were authorised during April, as compared with £1,342,175 during the previous month of March. The April authorisations bring the curreiit total up to £36,843,272. The items in this total are given as follows: — For the purchase or establishmen't of farms £14,500,650, for the purchase of homes £9,233,905, for the erection of homes £8,360,021, for the purchase or establishment of b'usinesses £2,718,581, interest free furniture loans £1,941,822, interest free tools-of-trade loans £33,790 ahd miscellaneous purposes £52,503. Schoolgirl Injui'ed A schoolgirl, Beverley Margaret Anderson ,aged eight years, received injuries which necessitated her removal to the Palmerston North Hospital when the 'cycle she was riding was invojved in an accident With a motor car outside the home of her parents on the KairangaBunnythorpe highway at 3.30 p.m. yesterday. The girl was just about to turn off the road into the drive of her parents' .residence when the accident occurred. The bicycle was not extensively damaged, .but the girl was tossed high into the air. She received a deep cut in her back and suffered from abrasions and br'uises. Her condition last night was reported to be satisfactory. The car wns driven by Mr. H. J. Christmas of Palmerston North. . ,