LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 12 November 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

■ . . I Son's Gift Wins £25,000 \ "I didn't know what to give her," | said 17i-year-old Eric Judson, of | Hawera, ip explaming why he had J bought his mother, Mrs, A. W. J Judson, of Camberweil Road, I Hawera, a ticket in an Australian I lottery on the Melbourne Cup. The I birthday ticket won Mrs. Judson ! £25,000." This is the story behind I the report that a Hawera woman | had won a big prize in an overse'as 1 consultation. I N Z.'s Loyal Address ! A loyal address to Their MajesI ties expressfng the gepse of great I satisfaction with which "'the people I of New Zealand contemplated the I approaching marriage of Princess | Elizabeth to Lieutenant Mou'ht1 batten, and an assurance to the 1 Princess that on her wedding day i the people would share hgr joy J and pray for her iong life and con^ I stant happiness, was moved by the I Prime Minister when the House of | Representatives resumed yester- ? day. The address was seconded by j the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. I S. G. Holland. I Popular Health Stamps | It seems that the present Health 1 Stamp, because of the excellence | of its design arnd extent of its i appeal, is the mosjt suecessful yet | issued. This was"'' state'd by an | official of the stamp division of the I General Post Office in announcing I that bulk stocks of the 1947-48 I health stamps held ut the central I distributing store, wero practically | depleted. Only about £24,000 worth I of stamps or 3,000,000 out of a total ! of 11,500,000 were left and when I all the stamps were sold £36,375 | would have been raised for chilI dren's health camps throughout ! the Dominion. j Married Womep Teachers I The provisions relutipg to sick 1 leave for women einployed Tn the 2 publie service,.haye been extended | to enable married wbUieh to have I six months qff in the event of a I ohild, without loss of siqk leave pay I to which they may be entitled. The I provision, which came into force on 1 November 1, is aimed to eneourage 2 married women to remain in the 1 public service. It applies mostly to I teachers in native schopls, mapy I of which are staffed by both hus- ? Ipand and wife and lf the wife 1 continues teaching ufter the birth 2 of a child. It will be an important I . faotor in helping solve accommoi dation difficulties. i Royal Wedding Rrqaclcast 1 The B.B.C. has made extensive i preparations to broadcast an 1 account of the Royal wedding on ! November 20. Twenty-one mic.roi phones will be installed in West- | minster Abbey &rid a special team ! of commentators will desoribe the I marriage ceremony and the pro= | cession from Buckingham P&lace I along the Mall. At the eonclusion ! of the ceremony the register will [ be signed in the chapei of Edward I the Confessor. Several hours after I the wedding the B-B.C. hopes to I broadcast a commentary on the | honeymoon departure Qf the Royal | couple. New Zealand stations will I broadcast the events beginning at i 11 p.m. I Effective Rowling i All out for two in their first I inpings against Pahiatua in the 1 firgt round of the Rush district i ci'icket on Saturday, the Eketahuna Colts created. what must bg nearly 8 a record low score. One of the two f runs was a bye. Irvciuded ip the * phenomenal figures of this innings 1 was the six wicketg for onc run 8 collected 'by E. J. Fi'hny, whicb Iinoluded a "hat-trick." Returiq^ ing the compliment, one of the Eketahuna bowlers, Gray, collected •nine- wickets for 10 runs during Pahiatua's second innings. At the end of the afternoon the scgreboard read: Pahiatua, first inning 3Q, second innings 39; Eketahuna * first innings 2, second innings 27.

Pheumatic Pricgs The . monthly meetings of the Kairanga County Cohncil was startled yesterday when the engin^eer, Mr. L. C. Pickering, referred tq the high cost of tyres at present being charged. Four new pneu« mati.c tyres had been purchased for the council's auto grader and cost more than £196 or almost £5Q each, he said.