LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 15 July 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

First Lambs Killed The first lambs of the season were slaughtered at the Levin Abattoir this morning. They were two frorii Mr. K. R. Moody's property at Koputaroa. One weighed 41 lbs. and the other 36 lbs. Clergyman's Long "Sit" Original li'nes are being fofipwed by some members of the clergy jn the Waikato Diocese in .their efforts to raise -their share .of .the £20,000 coming-of-age appeal. On a day appointed, for insiance, the vicar of Waihi recently sat at his ehurch gate from morning till night to receive riioney from pass.ers-by When he ended his long "sit" he had received £186 in donations. Young Man Ubarged A sequel -to the .afieged assgult on a young worpan h.n a lonely atreiph. of ro.ad n.ear,,, crofton, hetweep. (Bulls ' and Marton, pp . B&tip:day ' evening, wa? the appearance in the Magistrate's .Cppr-c at Marton, yesterday, of Andrew Barbpur Allen, a labourer, aged 26,- a.t present employed on the .qonstructiqh works at Lake Alicp, charged whh assault and intent to eommit rape. On . the application .of the police accused was mnanded to appear at Bulls on Thursday. Expensive Drink "Tlie most' expensive plaee you can find to have a' drink of beer is near a dance hal.l," said Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., in -the Police Co.urt in Auckland to a soldier who admitted a charge of drtnkhig liquor near a nity cabaret. The : soiclier aaid he was leaving for UJapan with J -Foroe and was given i a boutle of beer io drink by a friend I at the dance. "You .can buy champagne for what it is going to cost, you for your drink," addqd the MagisLrate. Re fined the soldier £3. 2000 Miles Detour 'Because of ari employees' strike at Ros'e Bay .^ymgboat the i American baritohe' -John "'Gharles-^ i Thomas is travelling more than | 2000 miles out .of liis way to reach ; New Zealand. Ke aims to reach j Wellington still in time to ,o.R.en his I New Zealand season" on Wednesday J hight. Mr. Thomas and manager I and a.ccompanist left by Pan American airliner for Fiji, where hey will transfer to a southbound^ Skymaster of Australian National| Airways which Is travelling from Vancouver to Auckland. Jam for Britaia Five thousana cases of tinned j jam, part of a consignment of gift food for Britain, was being loaded aboard the Blue Star ship Australia Star in Wellington yesterday. She will sail on-Thursday for London. The fruit is part of a £75,000 purchase of gift food for Britain made some time ago by the Naticnal Patriotic Fund Board. Other foods bought were pgcon, ~heese and dried appfes. The mc-ney for the purchgse was coliected in street day appeals over -a long period by the board. Several shipments of bacon have already gone, 550 cases in the Ruahine and 334 cases in the Sydney Star. Fertiliser for Grass Some misconception. has arisen about the fertiliser allocation for new grass f?rjhe 1.9.47-48 season, said the Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Cullen) yesterday.' ' Farmersi in some • districts had bonfused tlie. ration for new grass with the topdressing allocation. The position1 was that the allocation for sowing down new grass was 3cwt of super or its ..eqifiyalent in the Nor-th, Island and 2cwt. in the South Island, whereas the topdressi'ngallocation was ,67.8 per cent.'.of 'the annual average usage in base years. This made ,the faffher's'itop-.dress-ing ration for 1947-48 qne-tSird greater .than the' allowance in 194647. The allocgtion for ,new grass was in gddition "fb\^de- topdressing ration.