LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 14 June 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tailoi's Goo.tl Fortune After many rumours, involving many hidividuals had been disproved, the winner of a £10,000 prize in an Austrahan lottery under the nom-de-plume of "Sleepy Fox" has been revealed as Mr. Lonis Ross.e, taiipr of Dannevirke, states the Dannevirke News. He has been . advised of his good fortune by the agent in Wellington from whom he purchased the ticket. According to the News, a previous report that a Dannevirke railway syndicate had won the prize is without foimdation. Pamir as Training Ship With the object of having the barque Pamir made a training ship for New Zeaiand boys, a deputation headed by the British Sailors' Society and comprising representatives of yachting clubs, the Merchant Service Guild, Sea Scoutys and other organisations is to meet the " tylinister of Marine (Hon. J. O'Brien) on Tuesday. Alternately to the use of the Pamir ,as a training ship the British Sailors' Society will ask for a properly constituted training institiition to be- set up ashore. • 1 Veteran Flving Boat1 The Empire class flyi'ng-b.oat Awarua, one of the two first. tp b.e put into operation by Tasman Empire Airways, : completed its Ilast flight on Thursday afternoon when it arrived at Mechanios' Bay, Auckland, from Sydney. Since its test flight at Rochester, England, in April, 1939, the Awarua has flow'n 8740 hours and 1,400,000 miles. Before being taken over by Tasman Airways it fiew 587 hours for Imperial Airways. During the war the Awarua was engaged on several military missio'ns, during one-. of which it was fired on .by an American airman who mistook it for a Japanese plane. Repeated Thefts Recent reports indicate that thefts of accessories from motor vehicles, particularly spare wheeJLs, have been ver-y prevalent during the past few weeks. The detection of such thefts is, a particularly acute problem as in most cases it is not possible to recognise the stolen grticle even by the owner so that the police have an unenviable job fn trying to, lo.cate stolen accessories. The only solution is prevention rather than detection a'nd the Automobile Association is appealing to motorists to safeguard the position by wherever possible providing adequate lo.cking devices.

■ Househunter's "Strike" A woman with three . young children staged a "sitdown" st.rike in the offlce of the State Advances Corporation, in Auckland on Wednesday afternoon. The woman, who ha,s called at the offlce almost every day lgtely to press her application for a three-bed-room State house, which she said had been lodged for about flve years, announced after her arrival on Wednesday that she wopld nat leave until she h^d obtained some satfsfaction. In spite of three warnings that the police would b.e called, she and the children s.at on a seat for nearly an hour after the office closed. Eventually a constable was sent from the central police station and tactfully advised her to go.

Amateur Cycling Delegates to the .a'nnual meeting of the N.Z. Amateur 'Cycling Association held in Wellington yesterday rej ected a notice of motion to create a new r-ule whereby 110 application for ■reinstatemen.t should be considered from any 'cyclist who had sepeded from the N.Z. A.C.A. or any of its affiliates and who had competed as a professional. The main abjection to the proposal was th.at it was to,o sweeping and would vir-tually debar a 'cyclist frnm following the §port if he happened to. be transferred to a centre where o.nly professional 'cycling exist.ed. The present r-ule gave adequate power to deal with eases o.n their mcrdts. The , follO'Wing championships were allotted: Road, Wellington centre; hard track, Otago; grass. track, Hawke's Bay.