LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 22 October 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

I Infectious Diseases j Thirteen cases of infectious dis- > eases were reported in the Welling- ! fcon-Hawke's Bay health district [ tiuring the past week. They were: ; Scarlet fever three, diphtheria ! three, tuberculosis six, erysipelas i one. No deaths were notified. Princess on Stamp An Australian postage stamp of , one penny denom'ination, depicting ! ohe Lkeness of Her Royal Highness, ! Princess Elizabeth, will be placed on j sale on Thursday, November 20, ; 1947, and will replace the existing one penny value which bear's a por- | trait of Her Majesty, the Queen. i Plenty of Kick Left j When questiong. from the audience were invited following Mr. Randolph Churchill's address to j more than 1000" persons in the I Opera House, Palmerston North, ! last night, someOne in the dress circle asked whether the speaker could tell the people of the state of the health of Mr. Churchill's illustrious father, Mr. Winston Churchill. "I am pleased to be able to -say that he is 73 years young, and we think he still has another 20 years of kick left in him." The comment was met with applause. | No Defeatism in Britain "Britain is right on the ball in the export drive and in all walks of life accent is on work," said Mr. j W. C. Debenham, Christchurch, who returned by air yesterday from i a business visit to Britain, ' the Continent, and the United States. There was no spirit of defeatism anywhere in Britain and management and workers were doing their . utmost to rid the nation of its : present difficulties. As an engineer, ; Mr. Debenham was greatly impressj ed with the plans. for trade devel!opment in the engineering indus- ! try. | Eels Cause Concern j Officers of the Fisheries Research 1 Council, Wellington, are to visit Southland next month to investii gate the number of eels in the rivers of the province. It is stated that the investigation will be welcomed by anglers, as eels are an enemy of trout. In recent years i they have been- kept in check by I securing supplies for a canning factory at Bluff, which supplied a i big orden for canned eels received from Unrra. This canning has now ceased, and Southland anglers are afraid that one result will be a j marked increase in eels. United Nations Day United Nations Day — next Friday, October 24 — will not be specially observed by the United Nations Association and its afflliated bodies, as they celebrated on June 26 the anniversary ..of the signing of the charter. October 24, 1945, was the day the charter came ifito force with formal ratification by Russia and Poland, so it has almost as much historical association as Charter Day itself. Fifty nations signed the charter at San Francisco on June 26, 1945, 49 days after Germany's surrender. Altogether, the organisations include more than four-fifths of the world's inhabitants. Maori Pa as Reserves By deciding to-ask the New Plymouth High Schools' Board who owns the property on 'which one of the pas is situated and on what terms it would transfer the land to the scouncil, the New Plymouth Borough Council has carried a | scheme. to acquire and restore i three Maori pas near New Ply- j mouth. A feature of the new | reserve will be its glow-worm caves, and to preserve these the engineer was instructed that, as soon as the council acquires title to the area, gates be erected. The glow-worms are reported to be thick, and if protected will be a great attraction.