Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 5 March 1948, Page 4

Local & General

i R6ad Accidents | oWith 12 lives Jost in February, j the total deaths from road 'acci- ! • dents this yea-r rose to 27, an.j increase of five over the corres- ! ponding period .of last year. Mr. j Hackett, anhouncing this, said that ' of the 12 f atali'ties -last month, five.i . rwere drivets of motor-vehicles, : four pedestr-ians, itwo passengers, and one.a motor-cyclist. ; Record Catch Of Fish ' . i Although during her voyage gale | force north-west winds, continually ; T swept the afea, o$f Cape Campbell,-! the 500-tQn trawler. Maimai berthed at Wellington .yesterday morning with approximately 70,0001b, of fish in her holds.* .The haul is consid- ' ered likely tp be. a record one for Lhre'e days' operation. A porpoige, estimated to weigh over 1501b. was caught in a net, at Cape Campbell. ,

SpeciaLP,etroi t^cbhses "No motorist wno has a vital need for petrol for essential purposes should ,.pe nnable to obtain supplies," said. the Oil Fuel Controller, Mr. G. L. Laurenson, this week, when complaints about delays in the issue of special petrol licenses were referred to him. It was reporte'd to him that many motorists were being forced to use lnost of their coupons while waiting for' replies from his office to applications for special licenses. R.'S.A. and Communists "That Communiscs be b^rred from membership of the Returned , Services AssociatiOn," is a notice of : . motion which will be consi-dered at ! the anntial meeting of the Christ- : church Returned Services' Associa- : , tion shortly. Another notice recom- ' mends that the "president of thej Christchurch association. should j attend the annual Dominion con- !• . ference of; the association, as a| delegate' with all a delegate's privi- I | leges. Infant Blood Tralnsfusion The RH operation was nothing new in New Zealand, said a Hawke's Bay doetor this week, com•menting on the Auckland report that two children had their blood 'Changed at birth. .A similar operation was performed s.ome time a,go on two infants of Hastings patents who were born with an anti-RH factor in their' blood In each instance the babies' lives Were saved by transfusions a few hours after birth from people of the RHnegative group. Himatangi Beach Read A reply to representations made by the Manawatu- AutVnnobile Association regarding the tar sealing of tpe Himatangi beach road has heen received from Mr. F. Langbeih, chairman of the Main Highways JBoard. 'Mr. Langbein a'dvise'd the association that the "ooard had been unable to 'recoihmend the declaration of the rpad .as a main hlgh--way. in view of this intimation it appeans unlikely that any tar sealing work will be imdertaken on the road. Starring Aunt Daisy Wellington's famous radio persqnality, Aunt Daisy, will soon be widely know-n to audiences thrbughout New Zealand as '.a him ■star. The script has already been written for a New Zealand-made documentary fllm in which she will star. Domestic science will be the ■sabject of the 20-minute f ea ture which will be made ■ in the Auckland studios oi Neul'ine Films,. and ' 'coloured by a special process in Melbourne. Appropriately - enougll, the title will be Goo'd Mornina Everybody. -