Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 8 March 1948, Page 4

Local & General

Parcels For Britain ' ' ! The vessel, Port ' Philip "ffom Wellington'' carrymg. 16.81 P pafc'els (weight 179,6771b) 'a.rrivfed in -the Uaniteed' JCmgdohi pn Mareh 1,- This represents postihgs i roni : "Dfe'c'eth- [ ber 23 to Jahiiary 22!frohi th'e. We'llington distfict""and ! SQufherh- hstlf of the North* Island 'and th4 ' Gisborne and Nelson districts. •' ' Fire Relief Fund, In England ' ' t'When the news of your fire disaster ,at Ballantyne's store in I November /teached/me,' 'L;ppbhed a relief fuhd;L,'r,M'ptl0f^f. E.1 J. Slinn, the Maypr of Chi*istchurch, Hamp- | shire, ih a lettier1 ' to Mrs. G. H, Watts, Christchurch, recently. "I am hoping to send jiWt pve'r £30 in the course bf a week of two. Tt is not much/but it niay, at anj) rate, serve to show some" appr,eciation bf what ymi in New -Zeaiand haye | done ahB. are doing fof us here/' ; | Footwear Conference ! j - Seventy delegates from all parts j of New Zealand will attend the ! annual conference of the New Zealand Footwear Manufacturers' Federation which opened today at Rotorua. It will continue for three | days. Mr. S. L. H. E'dwaras, of ; Auckland, is Dominion president. The Government's interest will be shown- by representation of th6 Department of Industries and Commerce and the Department -of Scientifie and Industrial Research. Youthful Ilikers " A youthful quartet of hikers, the eldest a boy of 11 and the youngest a baby in a p.ush-chair, caused i •their par.ents much anxiety when i they embarked on an unannounced ! trip yester'day. They set out from | their home in, 'Taita ,at 8 a.m. and; no.thing f urther. - was heard of>i>hiem/ till they arrived at their grandmother's home in Brooklyn, a distance of about 16 miles, at 4.30 p.m., in an texhausted and hungry state. Thefr fa-ther, Mr. A. Hill, notified the police when they had not returned by lunch-time from what he expected to be a short walk.

Land-Marks For Sale The Foxton ' wharf and goods shed are to be sold by the Foxton Harbour Board. Decj§ion to this effect was made by the board at its nieeting this week after an inspection of the bld property had been made by memberg. The Ma4n.e Department had previously indicated that tliere was nothing to stop the board reaiising on these assets, so it wag deeided tp Wll immediately, The wbarf has been m the possegsion of the board smce 1917. Befor'e. the board eontrolled the wharf it was owned by the Railwayg Department, who buiit it eariier 4n the century. Bullet Fired TJirougJi Window While sitting ifi- a room in their home in Hastings Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dunlop were alarmed by the discharge of. a firearm close to the house. A bullet penetrated the window and narrowly missed one of the occupants. Subsequently a 46-year-old man was arrested by Detective-Sergeant H. E, Campin and appeare^ in the" Hastings Police Court on Saturday morning, The man; whose nanje was suppressed, was charged with havihg by night with intent to intiimdate Harold Dunlop discharged a ^2 rjffe, thus alarming Dunlop in the house. In remanding defepdant until March 16 the Beneh directed that he should be examined by a psychiatrist. • v