Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 13 February 1948, Page 4

Local & General

Short Court Session Of • the fourteeh c,ases set aside for hearing in the Magistrate's Court, Levin, this morning, only six. Were heard. The court rose at 10.30 a.m., half an hour after its commencement. This is . one' of the shortest sessions in Levin for some time. / / Agricultural Statistics The sub-enuinerator of agricultural and pastoral statistifcs has now. completed tlle issue of the annual forms to local farmers and land . holders. Early completion of thO forms and their return to the sub-enumerator at the Levin Police . Station, is urged. Should anyone hajve difficulty in conipleting the iplormation requirT ed, the forms ma/ be talcen to the police station,, wh'ere every assistance will be afforded. | "Apposite Gift" When Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, received a gift of food from Bulls, New Zealand, the British Ministry of Food referred to it as "so lapposite a gift."1' Thanking the (Bulls Town Board, the town clerk ( of Cowes said the gift needed a Ipersonal acknowledgment as well ;as the usual letter to the New Zea- , land Red Cross Society. The case of food arrived at Cowes just in itime to be added to a collection Igiven to the town's old and needy.

I Voieanoes Active ' A remarkable display of activity ; 'was witnessed by a large numberj | of people from the lake front at (Taupo on Tuesday afternoon when; both Mount Ruapdhu and Ngauru- : hoe were seen clearly. Between 3 o'clock .and 4 o'clock both appeared to be in violent eruption. Between ' | 5 o'clock and 6' o'clock the activity of both was spectacular, and though at 6 o'clock Ruapehu became. quieter, Ngauruhoe became more active than it has been for some years. Santlbank Disappears The lighthouse k'eeper at Farewell Spit reported yesterday that there was no sign of any further development in connection with the 'distul'bance in the water some two miles off the spit, which occurred on Monday afternoon. The colour of the water was back to normal and no sign of any sandbank was to ha seen at low tide yesterday. However, a large number of mussels were cast up on the beach during the night, which seems to confirm -that a disturbance of the seabed did take place. The lighthouse- tender Matai is to take soun-dings in th-e area in the course of-the next few days. The Avon's Willows Confirmation of , a^p . Item ' in a Christchurch " newspaper r.ecently, •in which the willows on the banks of the Avon were. said to have grown from • cuttings taken from trees over Napolepn's grave at St. Helena, is given -in documents in possession of the-> Canterbury Pilgrims' and Early Settlers' Association, In them it., is stated that Francis Le Lievre, who arrived at /ikaroa in the whaler Nile in 1837 had taken some cuttings from willow trees over Napoleon's grave and had planted .them in a tin'. While his ship was in Akaroa he quarrelled withr spme members of the crew and hid in the bush where Balguerie Street is now. He planted the cuttihgs there. He returned to Akaroa with other French settlers in 1840, and found' the willow had grown into a big tree. When the Christchurch Citv Council decided to plant the banksSL \ f \MaJor Richard Wilson' ana u ot the councillors went to Akaroa, and. each cut 12 slips off the willow. These were the flrst willow^ -"'cntpu hv the Avon.