LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 18 June 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gentlemen's Glub for Beach A Gentlemen's Club has been formed at Foxton Beach.- The club has acquired property at the rear of Seabury Avenue. "People are Geting Lazy." "It looks as though people are getting very lazy these days; they want buses to pass their door, ihstead of walking a-quarter of a mile," commented the No. 2 Transport Licensing " Authority, Mr. P. J. Skoglund, at a sitting in Hastings, when dealing with an application for a bus service. Infectious Diseases Sixteen cases of infectious diseases were notified in the Welling-» ton-Hawke's Bay health dist.ri.ct last week. They were: S.carlet fever, 3; diptheria, 2; erysipelas, 2; hydatids, 1; enteric fever, 1; tuberculosis, 4; eclampsia, 3. One death from tuberculosis was reported. Bookmakers Fined A fine of £130 was imposed on a billiard saloon proprietor, Maxwell Gordon Rae, j,tho was convicted by Mr. Miller, S-M:, at Hastings yesterday, on a^ charge of bookmaking. Mark Gordon Hargrave, described as a sma'll operator, was fined £50. Detective-Sergeant H. E. Campin said Rae was in a substantial way of business and had three previous convictions for bookmaking.

Early Settlers Meet At a recent meeti'ng of the Early Settlers' Committee it was decided to resume its activities. The committee had been in reeess since the war and the reunions are to be Jield as previously. Several matters of interest were discussed and the /officers for the ensuing year elected. A further meeting is to be held next month and an invitation is again extended to all the early settlers of Levin to attend, when several matters are to be discussed further. Jute from India The Indian Government has denied a report gttributed to New Zealand alleging th'at india was allocating jiite o'nly to countries sending India food, and asking United Kingdom to release New Zealand from certain food commitments so that she could get Indian iute. An Indian Government oflicial said New Zealand, in common with other countries, , received jute quotas based on prewar imports. Argentina was the only country on a grain for jute basis because Argentina had large quantities of grain for export. Taxation Outlook A gloomy view of the taxation outlook in New Zealand was taken by counsel on both sides of proceedings under the Family Protection Act ~heard in the Supreme Court in Palmerston North yesterday. The point was raised as to whether a beneficiary might derive some further benefit from a monetary legacy should there be a reduction i'n taxation. "With the way things are being carried out in New Zealand at present it would not matter what Government got into power it would be pretty well impossible to reduce .taxation," counsel claimed despQndently.

Huge Whale Caught, After a long, fast chase, whjch ranged from Wellington Head to Terawhiti and jncluded hours of chasing at an average speed of 25 miles an hour. Tory Ghannel whalers caught the second to largest whale in the history of the Te Awaiti whaling station— a blue whale measuring more than 96 ft., in length. The chase began when tb.e whale was -sighte.d off Wellington Head at 8 a.m. When three chasers arrived on the scen'e the whale made for The Brothers Islands and from there to Cape Terawhiti. From Terawhiti 'it returned at great speed and sounding often tq The 'Brothjers then doubling back again with the' chasers still on its tail to Terawhiti, where the kilfwas firially made at 11 o'clock. '