LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 25 September 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

j Fpotball Team Fined | " A fine 'of 5s was imposed on | Wanderefs juniors by the' manage1 ment committee of the Horo- ! whenua Rugby Union, at this week's meeting, for failing to advise that they were unable tq | field a team last Saturday. ! United Nations Meeting s A meeting of the Levin branch * council of the United Nations AssoI ciation is being held at 8 Q'clpck 1 tonight in the Borough Chambers. •j Officers will be elected and consid2 eration given to the1 constitution of | the branch. | Careful, Stamp Coljtectors " I A fellow collector. offers a word | of warning to those who are 1 addressing covers in readiness for ! the new Health stamps which will j be issued on October 1. The design 2 this year is vertical,. SO' be sure to | commence your address well down | on the envelope to leave ample | space at the top'for the stamps. ' | Early Settlers' Keunion i Yncreasing interest is being I shown ih the early settlers' reUnion | tq be held in Levin on October 11. 1 The committee met recently and 2 satisfactory progress was reported | with the arrangements. There is | eyery indication that the reunion | will surpass other previous func- ! tions of this nature: " Many visitors I are expected from outside districts, 1 ranging from Auckland in the | north to Christchurch in the south. 2 Fire Engine Held Up ' A traffic officer prevented an I Auckland fire engine from driving | through traffic lights and delayed = the engine for two minutes. The ? incident was mentioned at a meeti ing of the Auckland Metropolitan I Fire Board when the regulations, !- whereby the driver of a fire engine commits a breaoh 'if he proceeds against traffic lights, was described 1 as "too ridiculous for words." The ! board will request the Minister of iTransport to amend the regulations. Posted Explosives 2 Trevor Camerqn Shute, rooftiler, S aged 23, pleaded guilty befqre Jus" | tices in the Wellington Magistrate's l Court to a charge under the postal I regulations of posting explosives I through the mail. Evidence was i ' given that while in Taumarunui two years ago, Shute had undertaken to send a friend two packets of a certain brand of .22 cartridges. In Mareh he saw some of the ! ammunition and sent two packets I to his friend. Shute was remanded | to the Supreme Couft'for sentence. | Bail was allowed at £50. | Post Office Development I The mechanisation of all the J larger post office savings banks in I New Zealand has begun with a ! change-over of the Rotorua afid I Gisborne savings bank offiees from | the hand-posting o.f ledger transi actions to a system of machine | posting, according to the" Post1 master-General, Mr. Hackett. The ! Minister states that ' the new sy§tem will not directly affect the depositor, except that withdrawals | will be effected a little more quickly | and details of interest credited on S *March 31 each year will be availj able earlier than imthe "past. ' f Drled Bananas From Fiji | The first shipnient' of £-3000' 2 worth of dried banafias is to comq ! to New Zealand next month, when | a new factory near Suya starts pro2 ducing. The factory will start = with treating 20,000 bahanas a day, 1 but will be capable qf 60,000 a day j at the height of the season. Under 2 the process 12 tq 15 bananas wil'i J be reduced to half a ppund weight. j Banana powder will also be prd- : duced and other tropical fruits ar(e I to be treated. The firm has taken | over the area previqiisly ocqupied | by the New Zealand army camp'at 1 Samabula and will employ 60 to 65 I people. It will sell its products jn i the United States, Canada and Australia. \