Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 1 March 1948, Page 4

Local & General

That Income Tax! There has been no last mmute rush on the part of the pubiic pay income tax demands, reports the Levin postmaster, Mr. n.. v. Morgan. All business during the past week has remained at a normal level. Vitai Statistics Onl'y nine. pirths have been recqrded for the mpnth pf February as against '22 for the same period last year. Tiiere were five marriagps. . comparpd with six last year, while there were five deaths during February. 1948, and three during February, 1947. Fiameless Wlatch ' Envisaged as being qupaple qf starting a revolption in the saf ety match industry, a new match protfucing heat but no light wqs demonstrated in Canada recently. Developed during .war-time by Canadian S'cientists, the match" looks the same as any other, except for a slightly lai'gef Jihead. It must be struck on the bax on which it is packeci aiid thpugh there is no flame, intense ? he^t- generated? py the head ighites any surface it touches. As it has po flame it cannot be blown out by the wind. Otago Stamps Nearly 1,000,000 stamps of the Otago c'entennial issue were sold at the Dunedin and suburpan post oflices on Monday, the first day on which they were available for purchase. The total vulup of the stamps boiight was £1-1,496 19s 6d, of which sum £6907 'was taken at the Chief Post Office. Though I figures are not yet available for the | later saies, there h^s been no | appredable slac.kening in the de- i ! mand and advice from the Chief 1 Post Office stated that the numper of purchasers and the size of their orders were quite unexpected. Entry To Pubiic Life She had been "exceedingly shy, qmet gnd studious" when she was 18 years old, but had wanted to do some social work, .sqid the Minister of Health (Miss M. B. Howard) when she openeed the new nurses' home at the Essex Hospital (Christchurch) . "My entry into pubiic life started here," shq .said, .."I knew',a girHvho had- a'baby here. She had no friends, so I used to visit her. I was earning 7s 6d a, week at the time and I used t'o take her little things from time to time. That was my entry into social life." Gorse Not A Weed A Moutere farmer, who gavp evidence before the Royal Commission on the Sheep Industry ' q,t ' Nelson recently, told member^ tliat he be4 [ieved that gorse was buflding up the fertility o'f the soil iri' his district fqr the receptioii of grqsses that.would come later. '*So you don't look on gorse as a weed?" asked a member of the •ommission. "Far from it," sai'4 the wifness. "In fact it's the best thing we've got. The Cawthron Institu'te has released a bug that is killing , gorse, but gorse see^s twice in a year and fortunately for us the bug doesn't get one crop pf seedlings." T*— ' ' 111 ■ '".'■I '>"ni