Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 19 January 1948, Page 4

Local & General

y ■ — Princess' Coat Princess Elizabeth's wedding 'day "going away" coat, designed by Norman Hartnell, is being reproduced as a "utility" model, and will soon be on sale in London shops for £5. Most favoured colour is likely to be Elizabeth's own "love-in-the-mist" blue, but it will also be sold in other pastel shades. The matching dress is being reprodueed as a non-utility model, and will sell at about £1.1. Opening Of Schools No announcement on the opening date for primary and seco'ndary schools i's likely to "be made before the end of, the month. Reports received yestefday indicate that discussions betw^en the health and education authdrities will be deferred till nearer the usual opening dates.so that developments in the poliomyelitis epidemic can be taken into eonslderation. The deciding authoritles will have little chance to meet till after next week. First In Clothes SenSe The winner of a clothes intelligence test contest conducted throughout "Australia by Associated Newspapers, Ltd., Sydney, has arrived in New.Zealand by flyingj boat to begiri a three weeks' tour of the Domihion. She is Miss Lois Berger, an £8-year-old Melbourne ) girl, a student of dress deisigning at ithe Melbourne Technical College. The prize for the test is the th'ree | weeks' tour of New Zealand, toi gether with an outfit of clothes l and £50 for pocket money. o | Woman's Fortunate Rescue On the verge 'of collapse, an elde.riy woman was carried by a f'.reman from a smoke-filled rooni in a burning house in Pukenui Road, Epsom, on Friday.V She wa's Mrs. I. Wallace, . housekeeper, who, with three children, was ^in the dweliing when a neighbour gave the alar'm. The children!/ ^whose, father. is ,Mr. K. F. Falkeiisteii^ : the^ '' ^ oWho'i^ - of the hquse, escaped without difiiculty. The fire liad a sfcrong hold and the brigadesmen were able to save only two rooms. Most cf the furniture was destroyed. Strange Stone Found An unusiial and rather mystifying find has been made by Mr. L. P. Caldwell on the "Te Punga" property belonging to Mrs. E. Caldwell ,in the Pohangina Valley. It is a large pineapple-shaped stone, weighing about 20 pounds, through whieh is a tunnel-like hole of about two and' a-half inches in diameter. The stone is roughly one foot long and ejght inches across. The stone mystified its finders, as no similar Maori weapon or -implement was known to them, nor could books on Maori lore at the Palmerston North library offer any light on it. It was • thought that the object might hu,v.e been fashioned by Morioris many hundreds of years ago. The loeality in which it was discovered is not rich In Maori relics. x ,• Old Car's Performance Four young men, whose ages ranged round 18 years, who left Christchurch about a fortnight ago in a 1918 model car, passed through Gore last week on theii* homeward journey after a remarkably troublefree ti'ip. Their tour took them through Alexandra, Cromwell, Wanaka, *and over the Crown Range to Queenstown. Some difficulty was expected in reaching the highest point on, the range and two of the party got out of the car, which then topped the pinch "without trouble, Arriving at Queenstown, they heard of the hazard's presented by the Skippers Road. Undaunted, they set out on this trip, aecomplishing it without mishap. They then, went to Invercargill, including the Hollyford Valley in their ' itinerary. They have experlenced, neither punc- ; tur.es nor engine trouble.