LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 10 November 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

I Remembrance Day I Remembrance Day was eom1 memorated in the churches of I Levin yesterday. The two minutes' | silence was observed at 11 a.m. and ? in some cases special servees were J conducted. S Pedestrian Injured I While walking along the Carter- | ton-Masterton highway, near | Carterton, on Friday night I Geoffrey Bernard Daysh, farmS hand, aged 19, of Carrington, was ' I struck by a motor-cycle. He receiv- I ! ed a fracture of both legs and was j i admitted to the Masterton Hospi- ! j tal. i Honey Consumption | Consumption of honey in New ! Zealand last year aver'aged 4.61b. a I head of population, said Mr. T. | Winter, senior apiary instructor for ! the Dominion, at a bee-keepers' | I field day in Hastings on Saturday. ! j This was the highest of any coun- j ? try in the world. ; j Art Union Winner j | The winner of the first prize of j' J £2000 in the "Lucky at Last" art i union was Mr. A. W. Switalla, a i I well-known farm manager of the ! 1 Davin Estate, Oaonui. He is single 1 and an ex-servceman of the First I World War. His selection "Black t j Streak" as a nom-de-plume was 1 I prompted by the name of a race- 1 | horse he backed earlier on the day I he bought the art union ticket.

■ Aid to Britain Meeting | A special aid to Britain meeting I will be held in the Council ChamI bers at 7.30 p.m. tonight. Arrange- | ments will be made for the collec1 tion of funds by means of a street i day and a stock drive. Mr. B. V. I j Cooksley, who recently travelled to ! Britain in his offlcial capacity of I president of Federated Farmers to I 1 attend the first international con- | jference of farmers, will be present I and give a brief talk on his experL 1 ences. 2 ! "Idiotic Delay" I Pointing out that there had I been three mon£hs'> delay in bring- j | ing the charge, . defehce counsel, ! I Mr. J. W. G. ' Tili, in a case of I alleged failure to dip lights, said j in the Stratford Court that it was , I "high time the wheels of I I the Transport Department were I I streamlined." The Magistrate, Mr. ! I Woodward, said it was not the i I fault of the inspector as these j i cases had to be referred to Wel- !

I lington. He thought, however, that | referring a case like the one before i the- Court to Wellington was l adiotic. 1 Lodge's Afjpreciation 2 At the quarterly meeting of 1 Loyal Ruataniwha Lodge of Past I Grands, Manchester Oddfellows, I held in Waipukurau, congratula1 tions and thanks were extended to I Bro. E. A. V. Waite, P.D.G.M., * Lconcerning his 30 years' service as I Tsecretary of Loyal Ruahine Lodge. I It was mentioned that he had 1 missed only one meeting in that 2 period and this was because of ill- ! ness. On his retirement from pubI lic life after some 35 years' ser- £ vice, Bro. A. C. Holms, P.P.G.M. ! was appreciatively referred to, an [ appropriate minute being placed j on record. | Record Haul of Fish [ Her decl^s filled with a catch of ! fish that was too large for her holds, the trawler Maimai arrived from waters south of Cape Campbell on Friday with what is considered a New Zealand record catch for four days' .trawling — 975 cases, or nearly 100,000 pounds of fish. "I have never experienced j anything like it," said the skipj per, Captain D. Carndo. "I have ! been trawling for 18 years in the I North Sea and on the New Zealand j coast, but we struck the biggest • shoal of fish I have ever heard [ about. A good take for one trawl I is about 40001b. of fish in a net. : For 48 hours from 6 p.m. Tuesday ! we were hauling the net in every I three hours filled each time with I 10,000 pounds of fish throughout > the daylight hours.