LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 1 December 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Rabbit Pest A national organisation , to administer the control of rabbits was needed, said the controller of the wild life division of the Department of Internal Affairs, Mr. F. C. Yerex, in evidence before the Royal CommiSsion of the Sheepfarming Industry in Wellington. "First to be eliminated will have i to be the professional trapper who ! has a vested interest in the sur- | vival of the pest and who has the runholder in his grip just as i securely as the rabbits -are held in j his traps. A killing policy has to ! be destructive rather than com- j mercial," he said. Two-Way Radio Used Successful . , conversations have been held by two-way radio between Taupo and Wellington and the chief traffic insp'ector in Wel- ! lington, Mr. J. E. Aingworth, said' on Saturday that he was very pleased with the results of' the experiments for transmitting messages between patrol cars. The range has been extended from 15 miles to 200 miles since the experiments began. During this perio'd a motor-cyclist, travelling at 90 m.p.h., who had escaped from one patrol car was- apprehended by another car some miles down the road. The second car had been warned of the speedster. Ordination of Clergy Seven ordinations were performed in the Cathe'dral Church of St. Paul yesterday morning by the Bishop of Wellington, the Right Rev. R. H. Owen. It was his lordship's first 'act of ordination. The candidates, who were presented by the Archdeacon of Wellington, the Ven. E. J. Rich, numbered two for admission to the priesthood and five as deacons. Those or'dained priests were the Rev. W. P. B. Gamlen, of Marton, and the Rev. R. W. Culpitt, of Petone. Both will return to their former parishes. Students ordained deacons,. and the parishes to which they have been appointed are: Mr. K. Elliott, All Saints', Palmerston North; Mr. H.-G. Boniface, Wadestown and Northland, Wellington; ton; Mr. R. Keith, St. James', Lower Hutt; Mr. P. E. Sutton, Christchurch, Wanganui; and Mr. E. C. Barber, Pahiatua.