LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 7 October 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Licensing Report The Licensing Commi'ssion report will be debated in the House of Representatives tomorrow and Thursday afternoons and the Control of Prices Bill tomorrow aaid Thursday evenings. Weather Affects Fat Lambs Fat. lambs in the Gisborne district have been held back by dry and cold weather and exhibits in the agricultural and pastoral show this month are not expected to reach the standard of past years. The growth of.feed has also been retarded by the, weather. It is expected, howeVjer, that lambs will make up the leeway in the month remaining befpje the start of the district fat l^mb competition for export. Fewer Wild Horses "Brumbies," , * the wild horses which 50 years ago roamed the scrub and tussockland of the North Island's centrai plateau in their tens of thousands. are slowly disappearing. With large areas of their former foraging grounds now covered with exotic pine plantations, the last surviving mobs have been forced into open farming country to feed ,and there the settlers' rifles are gradually claiming them. Evasion of Regulations "New Zealanders are fast becoming by their acquiesence in these abuses a race of spineless wonders," said Mr. Ken Melvdn, Dominion president of the 2nd N.Z.E.F. Association, at the official openings of, the club's rooms of the Invercargill branch of the association. He was neferring "to what he described as sinful evasions of the building regulations while 20,000 Kiwis were still waiting to obtain houses and thus take the first real step on the road to rehabilitation. "Honeymoon Hotel" Hamilton could be advertised throughout New Zealand as .the "honeymoon town," it was stated in a report presented at a meeting of the board of control of the Auckland Provincial Public Relations Office. More honeymoon oouples stayed at Hamilton at some time during their honeymoon than at any other New Zealand town, added the report. "I know that 4 there have been 34 honeymoon couples staying at a single hotel in Hamilton at one time," said Mr. H. J. Kelliher, who, joined in the general iaughter that followed. Aid For Britain Meeting Information coming to hand showed that there was a very great need for even more to be done i* supplying food to the United Kingdom, said the Mayor, Mr. H. B Burdekin, _ at yesterday's meeting of the Levin Rotary Club, in giving a reminder of the public meeting on Wednesday night to discuss aid for Britain. Any effort undertaken as a result of the meeting would be in addition to what was already being done, added Mr. Burdekin. The idea was to increase the supplies of food going forward during the coming British winter. N Food For Broughton A further 51 parcels of food for its adopted town, Broughton, England, have been dispatched by the R.S.A., Levin, this week. It is ex- > pected that they .will reach the addressees before Christmas, and for this reason a special treat in the formof a few cigarettes, packed ; in airtight tins, have beeri' includ- : ed in each parcel. Letters of ap- : preciation have been flowing in .to the food parcel committee from ' previous recipients, all of whom are ■ returned seryicemen. All express ; gratitude at the action of the ' Dominion in rememibering those in Britain in such a practical way.