LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 15 January 1948, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Telephone Direetories v | The new telephone directOries now in proeess of delivery contain new features in that the Feilding seetion is printed on green paper and the Marton seetion on pink paper. This will assist in quiekly I locating these districts. Alien In Land Of Birth Mrs. E. Mansfield, widow of a past secretary of the Palmerston North Hospital Board, h.as returned to New Zealand after 25 years in Atascadero, California, to fiird that she is an alien in the land of her birth. Arriying at Auckland by the A.N.A. Skyma'ster Warana on Tuesday morning for a short holiday in New Zealand, Mrs. Mansfield found that she was required to register- as an alien and report periodically. Allve With Frogs ' V " A party of . .Carterton residents 011 .a fishing expe^ition along the Ruamahunga River near Tuhitarata, in SoutKferp Wairarapa' last weekend, saw the water alive with small frogs up.on whieh fish were feeding. The frogs were making their way in hundreds i fr,om the Ruamahunga Riyer to I Lak-e Te Hopai. Mr. H. L, Renafi says that during his many excur- 1 sions to the Ruamahunga- and Wairarapa Lake he has never before seen so mapy frogs. . The Tattooed Lady Yet another new idea for stockings has been thought- up by , Ameriean manufacturers, who are apparently not ' satisfied i with having produced colour- j ed and scented nylons. The | Ameriean Gotham Hosiery Com- | pany has introduced tattooed stockings. The motif, for instance, a butterfly, is app'lied indelibly toi the ankle of one of a pair of sheer nylon stockings. The design then i appears through the sheer stock- i ings' as if it were tattooed on the j wearer's skin. Traiiiiing- The Children | For the Christmas holidays all J the school children in Mosman j were made honorary. aldermen by I the Mayor (Mr." R. S. Luke) . Their | job has been to lo'ok after the parks, playgrounds, and trees, and I they have taken it very seriously, j says a Sydney columnist who adds: 1 "I wish .the grown-up children j among us would do the same. Instead some of them celebrated Christmas by hacking limbs off the l trees for deaoration. " In Tunstall Avenue, Kensington, near the Australian Golf Club links, they just about ruined the lot." Interest In Compostin«r The Dannevirke * Borough Council's composting enterprise continues to attract the attention of visitors and the old metal pit near the Tapuata Btream, the site of all local activity in municipal com- , posting, is steadily beeoming the Mecca of disciples of the teaching that man should return to the soil what he has taken from it (says the News) . Visitors to the site this week were an Australian mining engineer with widq cattle interests, and an English dobtor, who is see.ing the Dominiofi with a view fo settling here.

Tour On Tandem Paksing through Palmerston North yesterday on the last lap of their journey round the North Island, Jeff and Ned Collings, of Miramar, Wellington, had travelled over 1000 miles on their homemade tandem when they pulled in at the Square to effect .a f ew adjustinents to ■ their machine. Although their original intention had been to tpavel from Wellington to Whangarei and hack, a faulty bac'k wheei raused some trouble and they were obliged to curtail their itinerary when they reached Auckland. Jeff and Ned Collings, aged 19 and 20 years, constructed the" tandem themselves fr-om two ordinary bicycle: frames. It is equipped with gears •and a horn and paintsd In red and white stripes so that it looks similar to a barber's pole,