LOCAL AND GENERAL

Chronicle (Levin), 16 January 1948, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Cepietery Maintenapce ■A. grant of £35 annuahy towards the maintenance of the Levin Cemetery was apprpved at the monthly rpeeting of the Horowhenua County Council on Wednesday. The deoision foliowed the repeipt of a letter 'from fhe Levin Borongh Council, asking for the assistance 0: the county in this matter. Hiegai Taking OJ Soil It was about time an example was. rnade of-som.ebody, commented Cr. D K. Guy at Wednesday's meeting of the Horowhenua Cou'nty Council, in referring to, the fact that soii had beeri removed frQm the si'de of Xawiu Road without the permission of the eouncil's engineer. The council decided that the engineer, Mr. W. H. Fraser, should investigate the matter and take action if necessary. Wrapping Of Bread Formal notih'cafion." that the wrapping of bread was now compulsory thro.ughout ' New 'Zealarid was received at a meeting of the Horowhenua County Council on Wednesday from the district medical officer of health, Palmerston North, Dr. T. Q. Lonie. Members commented tha.t in most cases bread was still not heing wrapped, as with the present cost of paper retailers coul'd not alford to do it. Is This a Record? A r.esident of. Longburn, an enthusiastic gardener, has accepted the challenge thrown out by a Dannevirke .grower, whose cultivafcion of a. s.faik of rhubarb, weighing 10 ounces was reported yesterday. The Longburn challenger has grown a speefmen which exceeds the proportions of the Dannevirke sxhibit in all but length. The stalk is 21'inches long, four and a-half inches in circumference, is an inch and a-c/uarter . through at the thickest part, and weighs no less than 1,4| ounces. t Experiments on Cows Scientists at the Cambridge Agricultural Research Station, Engiand, regularly made beef cows give birth ro twins, instead of singie caives, by " injecting. them with an extr-aet of the pituitary gland of the horse, say§ tlie Inter- ; nationai Federation "of Agricultural prodncers. They also induced heifers to. give miik without calving by- implanting the drug kaown as .s.tilboestrol under the skin. The heifers yiel'ded up to 141 lb, of miik a week. and bred normally after tlie period of induced iaetation was over. Infantile Paralysis Research All data colleeted about cases of infantile paralysis, gathered by inspectors of the Health Department and by the hospitals to which the patients are admitted, are now b,eing sent to the virus research officer of the Bepartment of Health, Dr. S. M. Riehardson, who is working on infantile paralysis research at the Medfcal School of the Upiversify of Otago. A special pew inquiry form to be filled in by the parents. of any children who contract poliomyelitis has been prepared by the Department of Health. Open-Air Picture SIiqws Probably tlie flrst civilian openair picture theatre in New Zealand i§ now operating at Paihia, in the Bay of isiands. The theatre is o'n the slopes at- the back of the township, with the project'ors housed in a small shed at the top of the- Slope near- natiye feush, and the screep on • a; large h.oarding lower dqwn. Woqden seats on the slopes are prov-ided,"'. and wooden fences, on the sides "give shelter from the wind, The' old picture •theatre at Paihia was, destroyed by fire about nine months ago and, as the ownerg have not been able to gef, a permit for rebuilding, the open-afr theatre was set up for tlie entertalhinent of summer visitors. • V