Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 5 February 1948, Page 4

Local & General

Womail — 'the Htintress " fn days man was regarded as the hunter aiul rvonian, rre|Lk an'd def onceless, as the liunted; in these times it is possible to see ivonian as the huntress, ' ' said Mr. A. 1^1. Otigley in his address to a .■jurh'in the Buprenie €ourt at Palmerston North vesterday. Importation of Pa^fer Applications for lie fences to' ihtport yritin^' and printin»- paper fro'm the Cnited 8tates and Panada will l)e declined, states a memorandum from the Customs Departnient. Jlowever, applications for licences to impbrt writiilg and printina: pa'pers from eOntinental eountries rvill be . eonsitlerdcl togethfeP' with evidence of the availability of supplies. New Zealand Has to tVait Its Turn Hydro-electric eriuip'meiit tirdered for New Zealand had to wait its tuim as althongh not a great 'manv eountries were engaged on hydro-electric developtnent, many others were building electric generating plants of various hinds. There vras a power plant comniittee in Britain decidihg bn priori.ty and the allocation of variods orders. This statenient was made by Cir IJohald Weehs, dcpnty-chai rman of Vickers Limited. Ile added that oue cohcern had orders from fhrefe tb fo'itr years aheacl. , Broo in Production The recent spell of hot dry weather has shown its effefet on dairy production in the liongotea' district, states the Times' correspondent. Figures as produced by the seeretary of the Rongotea Co-op. Dairy Company show a decreasfe of 11 per cent. for January of this year • compared with the same month last ■ year, wliile the mahe for the season to date shows a drop of a little over 2 per cent. It is apparent that farmers are doing their best to keep up product-ioh by tiie feedilig of root Props, and al"fliough the recent rain will freshen pastures to a certain degree, it is felt that only a gbod steadv i all of rain will prfevent a very seripus decline, Trdtifers Have Nsirfo^v Escape Bix trottefs vvhifeli we'i'e returning to Christchurch after taking part in the Nelson Trotling Club 's meeting nafrowly escaped injui'y when a tioat ovefturned On the highway 14 miles from Blenheim. The trotters were Tyrone Power, Typlionic, Leading Man, lialtautika, True Comrade aiicl Bahara Queen The lioat pulled out to the edge of thfe road to'enable a gracler to pass and tlife weight of the vehicle caused the new (illing to suside. It' rolled over on to its side, jambing the exit doors and tlie driver . and the . attendants had to cut aivay the ventiiators to give the liorses all the air possible. The.float was only slightly daniaged and was soon righted with the aid of the grader, and the horse?, whieh were badly 'frightenecl, wei'e unloadecl. They were put in a paddock for the niglrt. VUndseieen Expltides , Wlien Mr. J. uentry was motoring alo'ng the Hntt Road his car was suadenly liilfecl with tlie noise of an exl>losion Iike a pistol shot and his faee wds peppered With stin^ing little niigsiles. He stopped in a matter of inehes and looked round to see who liad shot hihi. Ther-e was no assailant,. but his windsereen had been amazihgly trans formed- intb a slieet of milky glaSs" ahd the middle of it was niiSs'ing; Not entirely inissing, for he was sitting in most of it. Prcsumably a stone frorti ihe' road had hii the glass, caiising it to split into thousands of bctagonal crystals, sOine of whieli flfew into the car, hittilig Mt. Gentry but not feutting llini, wliile tlie others elung otogether still 'in the frame. A tyaflic officer said that" he had nevfer seen anything like ii. The remainder bf the trip was hiade with Mr. G-entry peering through a ghp •ih liis opacjUe seffefen, wOiittfei'ing wlien the rest of it Was goxng to.eome in On hira.