LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 11 June 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

State Houses in Foxton A plan providing for the subdivision of the area of land between Avenue Road and Norbiton Road to provide for a further 48 State houses was submitted. to the .monthly meetiiig of the Foxton Borough Council this week. The plan was approved. Glass Splinter in Milk Errol Parker, eight-year-son of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Parker, Wanganui East, who was believed to have swallowed a glass splinter while drinking without a straw from a milk faottle, was admitted to the Wanganui Public Hospital for observation. His cpndition was stated to be comfortalDle, Linesman Electrocuted A linesman eriiployed by the Post and Telegraph Department was killed shortly , after 11 o'clock yesterday morning' when working on telegraph lines four miles from Cheviot. He was rMt.- Colin Ernest George Honeybope'; aged about 32, of Cheviot. -.,Mr, Honeybone was stated by the, police to have been winding a telegraph Iine on to a drum when the aecident occurred. The line fiicked -up and touched a power line which crossed higher up. Resuscitative measures failed. Fast Tasman FJigjit Two more Mosquito aircraft for the R.N.Z.A.F. arrived at ohakea yesterday frpm Australia. Assisted by a strong taT wind the planes made fast time across' the Tasman in the hop from Bankstown to Ohakea. The first plane to arrive missed the recqrd by 12 minutes, taking exactly four hours for the trip. The pilot was Squadron-Leader J. Cheeketts, p.S.o., d.f.c. The second piane, piloted by Flight-Lieutenant R, K, Walker, landed 20 minutes later. The record — three hours 48 minutes — was set on a flight from Mascot (Sydney) to Whenuapai, which is a shorter' hop ' than frqm Bankstown to Ohakea. Socks and the ?,ian : Concern about the playing socks of the All Blacks now" in Australia being on the short ■ side was expressed at a meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union this wpek. In the course of a discussion it was leamed that the All ' Blacks had very big legs requiring stockings of ample dimensions. One member reported that st'ock^ ings were now on hand in Wellington that might be better ifitting and they could be sent by air to Aqstralia. The chairman, Mr. S. S. Dean, said he had received a cable from Sydney yesterday morning but there . was no complaint about socks. However, if necessary, the socks could be despatehed immediately. It was face* tiously suggested that hothing should be allowed to stand in the way of the All Blacks "pulling up their socks." Magistrate's Regref. "There has been no suggestion of any fraud, misrepresentation, or concealmept on the part of the plaintiff. He was entirely candid in disclosing the facts. It is therefore; singularly unfdrtunate that the company has seep ftt to insist on its legal rights and to deprive him of a right to indempity which, not without justification, he was confident that he held, It has, however, been frequently pointed out in the courts that hard cases cannot be allowed to make bad law, and, to whatever extent the plaintiff may have the sympathy of the cqurt, the law ih rny view, is clear and he cannot sueceed," said Mr. q, C. Marsack, S.M., when delivering his reserved judgment in Palmerston Nprth yesterday in a Civil elaim by c. M. Canny against the General Aecident Fire and Life Assuraiice Corporation, Ltd., for the sum of £233 gs. It arose out of damage to - plaintiff 's truck in a collision at Foxton. Plaintiff was non-suited.