LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 31 July 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Youth on Theft Charge Charged with breaking and entering and theft, Anthony David Geor, 19, pleaded guilty in the Magistrates' Court, Napier, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Geor, an apprentice fitter employed by the Vulcan Foundry Co., was alleged to have stolen on July 11, an electric motor and a petrol motor valued at £40. Masterton Licensing The Bill setting.up the Masterton Liquor Trust will come before the House of Representatives shortly, perhaps before the Budget, which ' is due on Thursday week, August 7. The Bill will lay down the method of electing the members of the Trust Board. . Unlike the members of the Invercargill Trust, who are nominated by local bodies, members of the- Masterton Board will be appcinted by direct vote. Meat Board Jubilfee The silver jubilee of the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board occurs this year. To mark the occasion the board has-set out a review of its history in its 25th annual report to be presented to the annual meeting of delegates constituting the eiectoral committee, which will be held in Wellington on August 28 and 29. This year the producers' representatives due to retire are Messrs. G. H. Grigg (who is chairman), F. C. Johnstone and W. W. Mulholland. All offer themselves for re-election. Juvenile Law Enforcers "Motorists have learnt to know and respect us," said a member of •the school traffic patrol on duty outside the Levin School yesterday, when asked how motorists reacted jto his enforcement of the traffic jlaws. Neatly dressed in white ! coats and army-style forage caps, j the patrol supervises the passage ! of children across the pedestrian 1 crossing with an authoritative air. |"The motorists seldom ignore our Isignals," he said. "If they do we | remember the number and report ' it to the proper authority. We are ,trained to observe and remember jcar numbers. We never forget." Bank Buys Building To make provision for a branch lOffice, the Union Bank of Australia jLtd. has recently purchased jHorne's Building, on the corner of ] Vulcan Lane and High Street, I Auckland, for £24,000. Consent to I the purchase from the Guardian I Trust and Executors Company of iNew Zealand, Ltd., administrators in the estate of the late Mr. W. A. Horne, the original owner, was | given by the Auckland Urban Land i Saies Committee. The value of the i building was assessed privately at | £17,169 and the land at £10,125, a total of £27,294. The Crown valuation was stated to be not less than tiie purcliase price.