LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 17 November 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Egg in Miniature I Laid by either a White or Brown Leghorn hen, a miniature egg, j smaller even . than a threepenny j piece, has been found in a nest j among live other normal eggs by a I New Plymouth resident. All hens I were producing .regularly, and ap^ j peared to be iri good health, said ; the owner. [ 22,884 Golfers in New Zealand ! "The number of players reprej sented by the 286 clubs affiliated to i the New Zealand Golf Association ! is 22,884," said the president, Mr. I W. A. Kiely, at the* association's j annual meeting in New Plymouth. "These consist of 14,174 men and I 8710 women. Two-thirds are ip the j North Island." i St. Mary's Sale of Work, j At the recent sale of work conI ducted by St. Mary's Guild a short ! but entertainipg programme of | items was presented. It was as j follows: "Punch and Judy," a clever ! interpretation by Ferris CarringI ton; recitations, Hartland Bull and I Barry Walker; and Highland danc- ; ing, Misses Jack and King. During j the evening orchestral numbers j were supplied by Messrs H. L. j Jenkins (piano), J. W. Hayfield ! (violin) and G. R. Lester (cornet). | Leper Settlement Fashions j The women on Makogai Island of j different races, numbering in all j over 200, dearly love needlework ! and they have a great aptitude for | hand work and are clever designj ers. Mrs. C. J. Austin, wife of the ! medical superintendent, was quite | pleased with the new dress made j by herself, and wore it at a showmg ■ of movie pictures. One of the i young women patients must have ! got busy with her needle before the ! next picture night for she herself was then wearing the exact replica of Mrs.' Austin's frock. Red Cross.Mqeting • . , At rheNhsMi-ipdntlllk'jmeeting of the Levin Red' Cros's Society ,arrangements were made for niemr bers to provide afternoon tea at the Levin Horticultural Society's summer flower show in the Regent Hall tomorrow. Members will also provide a produce stall, the proceeds of which will provide funds fqr more food parcels for Britaip. The local centre continues to send parcels from time to time. Several members will visit the Palmerston North Hospital early this month to distribute Christmas gifts to patients in the tuberculosis ward. Prisoners Sentenced Prisoners were sentenced by Mr. Justice Blair in the supreme court at Gisborne today. Arlen Laneeford Priestley, a Maori, received two and a half years' hard labour for theft, the Judge stating that prisoner was getting near the stage when he might be declared an habitual criminal. Rangi Maria Pomoiwi, a Maori, was admitted to probation for 12 months for receiving a stolen cow. Mei Pohaikura Ngatai, a Maori, was sentenced two years' reformative de-* ' tention for breaking and catering; with intent to commit a crime. A further chapter of Betty Macdonald's own story, "The Egg and I," heads the impyessive list of ; apiusing stories featured in the- : November "Australian Journal." Rex Grayson, Samuel W. Taylor, and Evelyn Swaner sustain the - light-hearted yein with well-tol'd tales of dauntless detectives, a designing widow, and the dark deeds in the attic, well-balanced by the first instalment of WUUam E. Barrett's "The Mountain Route,"' ' an exciting story of one man's indomitable fight against long ,odds. Such popular writers as Rui Chestor and J. II. Prell ad'd to the many reasons why "The Australian ! Journal is still foremost fQr fic- : tion, but not to the facWcome i war, come peace — that the price remains at sixpence.