Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 2 March 1948, Page 4

Local & General

Seddon Railway Disaster Technicai members of the board of inquiry appointed to. inyestigate the deraiiment of .the PictonChristchurch express between Seddon and Blind River on Wednesday last will visit the locality on Thursday morping to examine the derailed locomotive and leading carriage and carry out an inspection of the track at the scene of the deraiiment. The date on which public j sittings of the board will start will [ be apnounced later. j Cricketer's Catch j A particularly fine striped marlin I weighing 3551bs. was landed after a [ 45-minute- struggle by the wellknown Auckland cricket adminis-a trator, Mr. F. E. Wimble, while deep sea ' fishing oif Mayor Island this week. Mr. Wimble was fishing from the launch Galatea in coftipany'with Dr. R.. Aitcheson, Wairoa, and Mr. Ct Ellison, Dannevirke, who eaught fish weighing 258- and 245lbs. respectively. . » Dull Party? ; "I cannot understand why you should stay at the house when all the liquor was finished; it would be ! a very dull party, I should think," commented- Mr. Salmon, S.M., in ' the Magistrates' Court today ) to Tahu- Abraham, charged with aiding and abetting in the supply of liquor to a native. Abraham pleaded not guiltv. He was oonvieted and finea £2, with costs 10s. ■ Eight o'ther ■ Maoris who pleaded guilty on a similar charge were fined a like amount.

Lea^ Year Bii'thdays Celebrating their nineteenth and twelfth birthdays respectively, two ! residents of the Auckland district observed a long-standing custom when they met for a party. Both were born on February 29, Mr. Pavitt 80 years ago and Mr. Minague 52. . Their last four-yearly party was also attended by the late Mr. E. W. Alison; of Takapuna, who was then . 92. «,At another party held then the guests were three small children born at the same nursing home in.1940, whoohad to wait until they were nearly of versary or their birth. At least "13 babies were born in Auckland on February 29, 1944, and their first birthdays fell on Sunday. Where Is This Place? American newspapers are carrying quarter page advertisements, | dominated by a map- pf the North Island of New Zealand, about the film "Green Dolphin Street." . The map is labelled in places with 'saies comment." Near Palmerston North one Mapri is shown stabbing another,- with the explanation Warfare,. Savage tribes in uprismg." At Lake Taupo a cloud of dust and debris is accompanjed with the words "Earthquake. Most amazing scenes ever filmed," Opposite Manukua Heads is shown a small island decofated by a smgle coconut palm and a new ^?01\^and captioned ."Romanee. The channel Islands - where two sisters loved a handsome adventurer." "Art Unions" Continuing it$ battle ^gainst the misuse of the term "art union " the Auckland Society of Arts has written to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr. Parry, pointing out the history of art unions on the Gontine|it and in England, where the term was never used except to connote a union of artists for the purpose pf digposing of works of art It is surely unseemly that custom or eonveh|ence should be invoked as a ground for. perpetuatjng an error born of the squeamish temSL ?L ?n(? - ^SUflfttora," states the . society «i its letter. ^swggestihg that when legislation js bemg framed in the near future in respect of gammg generally opportunity should be taken to differentiate between lottenes, raffles and art unions.