LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 5 August 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

School Holidays . The Levin Primary School will close for the second term holidays on Friday, August 22, and re-open on Mond'ay, September 8. Record Gate Receipts Gate receipts for the Ranfurly shield game on Saturd'ay totall&d £2322— a New Zealand record for an inter-provincial Rugby match. The attendance of.21,000 was also a ■ record for Rugby Park. Gift to Leper Mission ' The net income from the £9000 ■ estate of Mr. Andrew Black, fetired .i farmer, is to be paid in perpetuify to the Mission of ,the Lepers, subject.to certain life- interfests. The estate will be handled by the Public Trustee, with the ministers of the Methodist and Presbyterian churches at Wairoa' as advisory trustees. ' ■.' ... . Record Rabbit, Siciri i*rice Rabbit skins reache.d the record price of .six shillings each at an Ofago auction last w.eek. The peak { prices were realised ,by hrst winter I blacks and first and second winter Idoes. The blacks rose to 35 ld a ipound. Of- an offering of 65 tons, I there were only three bales (15491b) . of first winter does, five I bales (25641b) of seeonds and 1061b of blacks. A Belated Biscovery, Until he came to, Hastings this week to buy a shirf and ivofking . trousfers, an old station hand fforii a re-mote inland district had not encountered rati'onirig. After the [goods had been wrapped, the man (pas'sed over Ihe required moriey and was nonplussed when the ishophand asked for cOupohs. ffe ..had no ration book- and professed he had never heard of such things. 'The man had- always drawn hi's (rations from the station cookhouse, killed his own meat and bought 1 butter from a farmer. He had not j attempted to purchase new clothes . in hve years. A ]\iilIioii 1VooI-packs A million wool-packs will be available for the comirig season, accofdlng to a. stafement by the New Zealand Wool Board, so no j repetitio'h of Iasf year's acute iFhoftage is expected. From Ihdi'a 800,000 packs.will be imported, in additicn .to 200J000 made from fl'ax in New Zealand since the war. The new Baddeley shuttleless loom, j which has already b,een the.. sub- ! lecf of f eports from the internafional Wool Secretariat in London, may inerease trie manufacture of wool-packs locally.. 'f'he Wooi Board is making inquiries, Newspririt indtfstry Commenting on the newspflht made in Au'stfalfan millri from New Zealand pirie pulp, Mr. V. C. Rapson, inspectUf-ih-cKafge of the engiiieering divisiori of the S'tate Forestry Sefvice, wh'o fias feturhed from Australia, by air after attend- : !ng the trials, said big improveriienfs in the quality of the paper produced could be expected if.the paper was produced commerciaiLy In New Zealand. . Mr. Rapson said that though . tlie •' paper-making ;riiachinery did not . ex-ist in New Zealand and was difficuit to obtain overseas, he hoped it would in a • few years be possibie for New Zealand to produce sufficieftt gdodi quality newsprint for its own requirements.