LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 22 July 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Farmer's Death Mr. James Norris, aged 39, a married farmer, oi Poriti, while working in a sawmill at Maungatapere, had his clothing caught in a revolving shaft and suffered injuries to the scalp and fractured his mine. He died in the Whangarei Hospital. Arbor Dav in Levin Arbor Day is to be observed this year on August 6. At a meeting rdsr evening the Levin Borough Council , decided on carrying out planting to fill gaps where trees planted in previpus years have died out. This is to be done in co_njunction with the Levin and_ District Beaudfying Society. False Income Returns Admitting making false returns of income for 1943, 1944, 1945 and 1946, the firm of Deares, Ltd., New Plymouth, was convicted by Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., and fined £50 on each chargeiwith costs £5 13s 6d. The omissions from the returns which should have been 'ihcluded totalled £4716. ; "■ A New Record Last year the Manawatu Coopera ive Dairy Coy., Ltd., made a payment of 26.02d per lb. of butterfat which was' acclaimed as the. best recorded in the history of ihe company, but this year beats the 1946 figure, as 26.9175d per lb. of butrerfat will be paid, representing .8975d over last year. Injured by Timber Fall While loading timber on a lorry at The Totara on Saturday, Benjamin Champion, employed by Craddocks Transport Limited, received a broken leg and serious ihjuries to his back when timber fell from skids on top of him. He was removed to ihe Buller Hospital where the full extent of his back injuries has hot yet been determined. Jaycees at Borough Meeting Six- members of the civic affairs group of the Levin J.unior Qhamr ber of. Commerce attendqd the ] Levin''-Borhugh i^6.#iciljs J^dnthly : meeting last5 'evehifi^'as/ dbSerVers of the proceedings. The Mayor, Mr. H. B. Burdekin, welcomed them and expressed pleasure at the fact that they were taking an interest in the civic affairs of the borough. Chiid Burned to Death. Bruce Hansen, the two-year-old j son of Mr. J. Hansen, a taxi driver, ' of Kaitaia, was burned to death on Sunday. He and others were playing in a hayshed after breakfast. At. nine o'clock-two of the children, aged 3 and 4, ran to their father to say that the hayshed was on fire and that Bruce was inside. Heat and smoke prevented a rescue. The ■shed was practiGally destroyed. Damage by Parakeets Damage which, if allowed to prcceed unchecked, might seriously affect regeneration of the kauri is being caused in the Waiakere Ranges' by the rosella parakeet, which is eating kauri seeds. The Auckland: City .Council parks department's caretaker ■ at Cascade Kauri Park has observed birds tearing kauri cones apart to get at the seeds, and because of the increase in the birds in the bush a serious view is being taken of their activities. New Poultry Blood Two huncired and fifty hen's eggs from some of the feathered aristocracy of Australia accompanied Mr. J. C. Jamieson, a senior member of the poultry farm staff of Massey Agricultural College, on his return by air from a buying trip to Australia in quest of fresh blood. Mr. Jamieson visited two Australian poultry shows and 23 of the leading poultry breeders. The bulk of the v eggs came from well-known stud breeders, the breeds and numbers being: White Leghorns 79, Black Orpingtons 65, Rhode Island Reds 30, Brown Leghorns * 30, Welsummers 15, Black Minorcas 10, knconas 15. 1