Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 19 February 1948, Page 4

Local & General

United Nations Evening The Levin branch of the United Nations Association holds its next meeting- on Tuesday, February 24. j 3?wo interesting films will be shown i and Mr. G. A. Ball, M.A., B. Com., i will speak on UNESCO. A light supper will be provide'd and the,| general public is cordially invited to attend. Grant of £125 Recommended The Levin branch of the R.S.A.'s application for a grant' frojn the J. I R. McKenzie Trust towards the j establishment' of its new tyowling green on the section donated oy Mrs. W. Lett came before the exe- i cutive of the N.Z.R.S.A. on Tuesday night. It was decided to recommend that a grant of £125 be made from the trust. t j Beach Access The need for-'better road access to Foxton Beach has again" be'en brought forward by the Manawatu Automohile Association. Flax bands on the present road were considered to be unsuitable. At last riight's meeting of the association Mr. W. H, Brown (chairman) said that the matter was now being considered by the Foxton Harbour Board. • ; ' • ,"BIue Baby" Clinic For N.Z. New Zealand is to have a clinic where "blue baby" and allied operations will be carried out on patients from all parts of the Dominion, said the Minister of Health, Miss Howard, yesterday, when announcing that the Government was to send Mr. G. D. Robb, Aucklahd, a thoracic surgeon, co the United States to study the teqhnique and practice of the "blue baby" operation and other recent developments in heart surgery. ' Car Stolen Twice The, unusual , . experience of .having his .car stolen twice .in the. same evening recently befell a Hastings resident. After leaving .the keys in the vehicle, the owner returned to.find the car gone. ,He' informed the poli'ce and- searched for the vehicle. The car wag foundr •lat'er 4n the eVeriing minus the keys. The owner then disconnected the ignition wires so that the car could not be removed, and set out to procure. a fresh set of keys. When he returned the car had again disappeared. It was later recovered by the police. Distance Signposfs "Perhaps if we were Chinese we might start reading from the bottom up, but I think the majority of motorists -read from the top down," said a member at the meeting of the Manawatu Automobile Association last night during a discussion of the merita of installing distance signposts with the nearest town mentioned- on top and the farthest centre on the bottom. Members generally favoured the views of the North Isl'and Motor Union's sub-committee' on the subject, and it was decided to support its reeommendation that the longest distances be placed on top and the shortest' at 'the bottom. Shop Assistanfs Aititude - A forceful example -of -the attitude of indifferende prevalent among same shop assistants at the present tirne, was illustrated to a customer yesterday in one- of Palmerston North's largest departmental stores.- A customer was waiting for attention at one of the eounters while.' the woman assistant kept up, a flowihg conversation with another assistant busy serving* at another counter. When eventually she took the cpstomer's -a1n'd customer thought that at last she -was to receive some attention, the assistant turned to her colleague and exclaimed: "You can serve this woman.- I'm going off for afternoon tea/' and promptly decamped.