LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 20 December 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Broadcast Talk | Tomorrow night's broadcast talk i at 8.45 p.m. over the national net- I work will be by Rev. Professor j George A. K. Knight. His subject will be "Christmas in Europe." j Crossing Victim Identifxed The woman pedestrian who was killed by the Wellington-New Plymouth express at the Queen Street level crossing yesterday has been } identified as Miss Elena Chilcott ! Wilson, agqd 69, of 127 Cambridge.) Street, Levin. Evidence of identifi- ; •cation was given at an inquest j opened yesterday afternoon before j the district coroner, Mr. J. S. Moir. | It was stated tha,t -Miss Wilson was i stone deaf and poor sighted. The ' inquest was adjourned sine die. I Dairy Workers' New Award The wage rates for various classes i of adult male workers covered by j the New Zealand dairy factories j employees' award. have been increased by 4s 9d per week. Amendments to the aw&Yd made by the r'COurt of ' Arbitfatipn were announced yesterday. The new basic rate for male adult workers is £6 7s , per week. Increases of from ls 8d' to 5s per week have been allowed; for youths covered by the award. j The wage increases dute from j October 1. j Home for Animals . . j The Hawke's Bay Society for the j Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ■ plans to spend £4000 on the pro- 1 vision of a home for animals in i need of special care and humanej treatment. At the annual meetingi of the society the secretary (Mr. H.j E. Edgleyj said that, had not priority been given to more urgent. building, the home would have. been completed. No decision hasj been made concerning a site fori the home. It was reported that the j society's fiiiances are healthy and that the accumulated funds on May 10 totalled £4760. Bt»y Deserter Likes N.Z. The case of a boy aged 16 who deserted his ship at Wellington this month was heard in the Wellington Children's Court. The boy said that he had met people in New Zealand who were 'kind to him and he wished to stay. He had no special reason for deserting but when questioned by Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M., he refused to return to his home in England. The Magis- j trate said that in the boy's own in- | terests he would be committed to j the care of the superintendent of t the Child Welfare Department and ; probably work on a farm. Pamir Becalmed the barque Pamir indicates that j the barque Pamir indxcate that I after a particularly favourable run I which raised hopes that she would arrive in a British port before Christmas she became becalmed e&rly on December 16, 240 miles west of the Scilly Isles, and had been at a standstill for two days when her last report was sent to the London agents on The night of December 17. The Scilly Isles are approximately. 400 miles from the mouth of the Thames, and until she became becalmed the barque had been averaging seven knots an hour, or just short of 170 miles a day. Illness of School Children Tartar emetic, which is widely used for spraying tomatoes, is blamed for the poisoning of 100 Gosford (New South Wales) school children last Friday. The GOvernment analyst (Dr. H. B. Taylor) said that some sweets eaten' by children at the Christmas party at the Gosford primary schodl had been found to contain tartar emetic. The poison, which is usually in the form of white crystals, is mixed with sugar and used for fruit spraying. It is considered that some poisoned sugar was used in making the sweets. Though the children become violently 111 and one was admitted to hospital, there was no permanent injury.