LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 31 December 1947, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

w Record Births, . . j Births iri Masterton for. 1947 totalied 127; a record for all time. Neiv Year Hblidays . Therfe will be ild issufe of "The ' 1 Shroniclfe" tbhidrrow (Nfew Yfe&r's Day) or on Friday..(January.2). The paper will bfe piibhsMd dri satiirday and the office will be opeh fi'otn 1 8.30 to 11.30 a.m.on that day. Skeleton In Sand A skeletoh disfeoyered in the sahd near the Kafiotahi Gap, four miles from Waiuku, is believed possibly to be that of Mr. Hector McDougall, aged about 25, of Waiuku, Who disappearfea /several years agd. A pathologist; T>rV W'alt fer Gilmoury arid detectives have ifeft for Waiuku. - j' Ptiblic Trust Business Estates to the value of £605,080 wfere reportevi and accepted for adilliriistratioh by the Public Trustee during the month- of November, 1947. The total valiie of estates i and funds under administration by j the Public Trustee ' on March 31, j 1947, was £66,833,004 and the ne\V i business for the eight months ended. NoveiXiber. 30 was £5,316,960.. Grants of administraton made by ihe Court in favour of the Public Triistee numbered 201 for the month. During the month 483 neW wills dppoihting the Public Trustee executor were prepared on be-' half of testators and lodged forl safe custovdy; ' afid 4§D ekisting wills ' were revised to provide for changes desired by testators. The total number of^. wills now heid in the Public Ttust Office dri behdlf of living persons is 138,331. TEfat Sdrt df . Tape* Hunting shrimps among the pools left b.mong the receding tide at Plimmerton a little boy noticed a pidde of Coldiii'ed paper wedged between a couple of beach stones. He had seen something resembling that sort of paper before and mdtheritafily fdrg'dt all aboiit the shrimps to retrieve.a ppuhd note! This find amorig the flotsam and jetsam by i^hd vdry yoiithful beachcdmber enhanced his Christmas holiday . THeft of >GiasS6& The Invercargill LicCnsing Trust has authorised Mr. E. B. Barnett; secrgtdry-manager, to employ private detectives to try 'to detect theft of glasses in any. of the trust's establishments. Mr. Barnett said the riMeSsity fpr this had been cause'd by the .difficiilty of obtaining giassds. At present the breakages and ldssfes of glasses in bne of the triist's non-accomiriodation hotels dur'ihg the four mdnths' period, totalied 172 ddzeh.' Hdliday BdWling The cdnibined ' bowling clubs' rinks toiirhameht to be held iri Levin tdmdfrbw and on Friday ebmmdnCes oii the Levin Club's grebn at 9 a.m. Sharp. In order that ari early stdrt may be made, the following skips are asked to he gt the green with their teams by 8.45 a.hi. tomqrr'd,w,:— Mackay, Irvirig, Campbeil, Partbii, Sharp, wenhahi, Bowater, Meads, Larigelah and Larseii. SheaHhg Recdrd The alihbst unihtbi;riipted ruri Shear.ing gangs havd had this sedsori; because of cqhtinued favouraple weather cohditibhs, has resulted in d hdgh stahdard of shddring ih many.pafts df HdWkd's £a#: This is refleetbd iri the rbcord set hy amhed in the Norse^ ^od. distrlct. With a board of sik shearCrSj" 1801^hedp, all ewes, wete put thrbtigh jft the nine-hour ddV, bclipsing the* record for the statidri S1 }lK ^^t"bdard sahg hy aimost io6 heaa.