LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 29 December 1947, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Heavy Petrol Demand With the holiday. demand fairly hteavy, some 'garages- are beginning now to put out their "No Petrol" i signs. The piajority of garages have ! just sufficient to ration out to cusI tomers till the end of the quota j period. Fresh suppljes will be avail- ! able on January 1. f | Memories Of Scott ! Memories of the Scott Antarctic | expedition of 1910-13 are revived by I a striking tableau which has been placed in the exhibit case just inside the main door of the Canterbury Museum. The tableau is of flve men and a sledge, four of the men wearing skis and pulling the sledge along by harness and the fifth man guiding the sledge. Full Passenger List Carrying a full passenger com- | plement, the Wahine arrived at Wellington yesterday, berthing at 4.20. The ship had been delaye'd when she returnd to Sydney to put off a sick man, and was not expected until later last night, but made up time on the journey. Passengers said that -the trip had been a fairly cairn one most of the way. Philatelist's Discovery A Te Awamutu philatelist recently went into a stamp 'dealer's shop in Hamilton and saw an envelope posted by his great-uncle to his great-great-grandfather, the late Mr. Thomas Scott, of Bromsgrove, England, on May 13, 1863. The envelope bore two full-face Queen Victoria 2d stamps and was bought by the Hamilton dealer from Hami ers, of London, auctioneers of [ stamps. The envelope now has a ! greater value to its new owner than I it would have to the average col- [ lector. I Shops Reopen ' [ The majority of retail shops in | Levin reopened today, but business I was fairly slack throughout the | morning and early afternoon. Many [ shops took the opportunity of reI decorating their windows and I cleaning up in preparation for the | New Year rush. Grocers reporte'd I little activity and in spite of the i fact that butchers and bakers have j been closed during the past few ! days there was no great rush to rei new household stocks. Quite a few | late shoppers were purchasing for 1 those friends and acquaintances I they had overlopked. 5 New Zealand Trawlers ■ Two New Zealanders recently | employed in the organisation sponJ sored by Unrra for the re-estab-I Lishment of the Chinese fishing inj . dustry have retumed to Auckland. [ They are Mr. R. Heath, engineer, I and Mr. D. C. Munro, fishing capj tain. The New Zealand-built traw- [ Lers which were sent to China had l been extremely successful in their j .operations, said Mr. Heath. The j boats had operated from Keelung I (Formosa) and Chinese crews had I gradually been trained to replace | the original New Zealand crews. At l present there were only two Euroi pean seamen on the trawlers and i they woul'd probably be leaving ► China soon.