LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 16 July 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

College Football Rongotai College first fifteen beat Horowhenua College 11 — 9 in the annual match at Kilbirnie Park yesterday. The second flfteens' match was, won by Horowhenua, 5 — 0. Damage to Telephone Lines The Wanganui Education Board yesterday considered a request from the Oroua Downs School Committee that the board meet the cost (£12 6s 2d) of repairing damage to telephone lines caused when a tree was accidentally felled across them by a working bee. The board agreed to "foot the bill." Forced Landing A privately owned Avro Anson plane, on a ftight from Wellington to Westport, made a forced landing in a paddock at Murchison. - The machine was damaged but neither j of the two ' occupants, Messrs. L. ' Gatehouse (pilat). and T) Revell, of Wellington-, was injured. Nature Tricks'1Nature Mild and' bright weather in Sydney has tricked, plants into flower-j ing and birds into' building nests in early anticipation of spring. The I eurator of the Botanic Gardens 1 reports that Sydonia and Spiraea are in flower j and that buds of many plants and shrubs are swell- . ing earlier than usual. Starlings and other birds haye been found with eggs and young anes. Gaol for Theft A ; freezing works employee, James Te Matia Smith, single, aged 25, who admitted stealing a wristlet watch from a fellow worker at Tomoana on July 9, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment by ' Mr. Miller, S.M. in the Hastings Maglstrate Court, yesterday. The police said that Smith had several previous convlctions for theft, , assault and disorderly behaviour. The magistrate said Smith had already been given the benefits of ■ probation. * Norfolk Island Rumonrs There were persistent rumours on Norfolk •Island,. that New Zealand . wanted./'" cdhtrol the: island, said the Administrator, JVEr. A. Wilson, who is now in Sydney i for a routine conference with 1 Exterpal Territories Department officials. He had no official knowledge of such a mqve, he said, hut if it came about, it would have a yery hostile reception from the islanders. He said Mr. Chifley should make a statement clarifying Australia's stand in the matter. Car's Crash Into Pole A small car being driven at speed along Queen's Drive, Lyall Bay, on Monday night with a police night patrol car hot in pursuit, crashed into a telegraph pole while attempting to ■ negotiate a corner and was badly wrecked. The, car, which is believed to have been converted, hit the kerb on approaching the corner and overturned against the pole, bringing down the overhead wires. The driver was extricated by cutting through ihe fio.or baards and taken to hospital in ari unconscious condition. . ,