LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 25 June 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Building Petmits Building activity in Levin continues buoyantly. Duri'ng the month of May the Levin Borough Council issued three permits for new dwellings, the total value of them being £4530. For the first two ffionths of the current financial ^ear eight permits, valued in the aggregate at £l2,560, have been issued for new dwellings. In Uddition four permits of a value of £180 have been i&sued for alterations and additions • to existihg buildings. Mail Jettisoned Eighteen bags of mail froin the B.C.O.F. for Australia and New Zealand were ieftisoned on Jurie 18, when an, engine failed ..on an R.A.A.F. Courier over the Halmaheras. The piane, which had just left Mor.otai on the last leg of a four-day trip from Tokio to Darwin, returned safely to Morotai after jettisoning ail, mail, freight and baggage. The mail came from all parts df the B.C.O.F. and was mostly for Australia, although it included one bag of 32 pounds fof New zealand. ' Libfary Books in Derrland The month of May saw an increase of over 300 in the hufriber of books issued from the Levin Public Library when compared with the same period of last year. Issues of books supplied by tLe National Library serVice numbered 420, while 7069 books were issued- from the library's own stock. "Newspapers,are being badly mutilated, especially those that cannot be seen from the cOunter/' commented the acting librarian, Mrs. M. Merritt, in giving this information to the Monday night's meeting of the Levin Borough Council. Heavy Meal Caused Death A verdict of death from heart failure, due to strenuous exertion immediately following a 'heavy meal, was returned by the Coronet (Mr. E. L. Walton) , at an inquest into the death- of Peter Haskett Proudfoot, aged 16, who died during a sparrmg bout in a Gisborne gymnasium on May 27. The evidence showed that while sparring, Proudfoot suddenly reeled and fell before he had beemhit. In his fall the boy struck his head heaviiy on a board nailed to tLe wal-L The doctor who performed the postmortem found undigfestfed food in the stomach. Thef e was no sign of damage to the skull, braih or neck. Shortage of Fish Bec'ause of the ihcreasing shortage of -fish fishermen supplying the Auckland market ure notv going as far as Gisborne and the North Cape, but they are returning with very poor haUls, aCCOrding to a report befofe the' Auckland Hosp'ital Board.- Although the boats a-rfe going further afield the sUpplies are still very pobr and thfee boats recently returned with six, nihe and 40 baskets re'spOctiveiy, after nine days' fishing, ihstead of 109 baskets each, which use'd to be the normal catc'h fdr a period of less than a week. Pe'fmission to fish the west Goast had been deelified. It was ktated that it wbuld probably be hecessaty for the - eompanies to build lafger vesseis to fish in the vicinity of the Kermadecs. iiorses Shot There has been considerable concern during the past week dr two over the de'struction of horses aiid cattle by shddtirig,- both in the Wairakei and Rangitaiki ai'eas. The shooting appears to be by a rifle of small calibre— a .22 it is alleged — ahd though the matter is in the hands of the pdliee it is a diffic'ult proposition tosheet home to those responsible. Two valuable horses owned by Messrs. Graham and Pitiroi, of Wairakei and Taupo respeetively, were destroyed,though the animals were -in a wellfenced paddoek. It is suggested that passing motorists with rifles may be responsible. Similar accidents have happened near Rangitaiki, where cattle have also beeii destroyed by rifle fire.

Btfrdtigli House Le't j A decision to grant a tenaficy of its new hduse on the corne'r of Salisbury and York Streets to the patrdl dfflcer stationed in Levih by the AUtdiriobil'e Associatioh (Wellirigtdn) was readhed at a Meeting "o'f the Levin Borough GoUfidil on Monday hight. The house was originallt bUilt fdr the bbrough efigineet, Who reSigned befofe -it was eoMpieted. The couneii deeided against appdintmg a suceessor to. the engineer ih the meantime, With the resiilt that the hdilse became available -fdr letting. The tenancy Will be fdr a mimmum period of 12 months and thereafter at the pleasure of the council. It Was pdifited out at the Meeting that the . AiitdMqbile Assoc'iati6"n , Would haye had"' to withdraW its patrdl dffider from.. Levin if no acc'offimddation coUld be fouiid. The populaf Sport df indodr bowliiig is to be commenced ih Levin this evening at the Druids' Hall at 7.15 p.m. The first hight Will be ah open * nightj and all interested are ihVited- to take par't free of charge. The Maydr (Mr. H. B. Bhrdekin) will conduct the opening Ger'emdfiy.