Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 11 March 1948, Page 4

Local & General

Favoured Family A member of a Palmerston North family whose ages over the last ; five generations have averaged j exactly 100, Captain Johri Evans, of j Palmerston North, entered his 98th | year on Sunday. Captain Evans, | who is the city's oldest resjdent, is a j retired sea captain, and visite'd ' every important poit in the world during .35 years.attPOa.- " «j f , Vision . Wluch .Matei'ialise^ An unusual, drgam "oy ;a Palmers- j ton. North woman wds \ • lipcanhily fnlfUled. Recently shi^ dreahit tridt an aeroplane With! 'tWo • oceupants made a forced lan^ing 'dh a f arm : near Woodville, wlidre she and 'her family live'd three. yeais ago. It'was j learned yester^ay that , the ' same j night a Tigei" llioth .aircfdf t piloted | by ;a member" of 11 the Dannevirke f Aero Club 'had ekperienced enginej trouble and. landed on the farm. j The plane * took off- again after! repairs. , ' " ' I Good Toheroa Season | Waitarere Beach has provided I unusually rich rewards for toheroa i jdiggers this year, ' tlie toheroas j jbeing not.onlymore plentifnl than j I in the average year, but also con- i siderably larger ih size. One Pal- I i merston North party of fiye per- 1 ' sons visit'ed the beach lagt Sunday j land in 10 minutes' 'digging had I secured its full quota of 100 | toheroas. Only one of the toheroas | dug had to be returned to the j saiid because it was undersize, and j those taken were of an average I jlength of about 4i inches. j i Record Health Stamp Saies j ! The biggest saies ever recorded for any postal district in New Zealand were made in the health stamp. campaign in the Wellington district which con?luded at the en'd of last month. This was announced by the Cliief Postinaster (Mr. F. J. Smith) yesterday. The flgures, nearly double thoSe of the previous year, are £16,676 -for the whole district, divided into £13.313 for the city and suburbs arid JE3363 for the Wellington di.st4ct area (which inclu-des Hutt yaljey), TJjis is very satisfactory indeed, said Mr. Smith. Railcar Services Advice that ins'ufficient railcars are available to institute additional seryi.ces between Palmerston North and Wellington has been received from the Railways Department by the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce in reply to the chamber's request that ' extra services be run direct between the two cities. The . chamber has decided to send a further letter ■ to the 'department urging that a railcar service be run on the ydays when there is no Limite.d express, so that on any week day businessmen may leave Palmerston North for Wellington in the morning and return in the evening on an express service. Land Fpr Sub-Statmn The settingr apart of.an arpa of approximatejy. thre.e acres of Crjown land at Longburn for the purpose of a site for the .new electricity substatjon to be .constructed there is notified ip the latest iss'ue of the New Zealand Gazette. Jt was learne'd from the engjneer to the Manawatu-Oroua Ele.ctrie Power Board (Mr. T. D.onaldson) that the Longburn sub-station wguld be secondary to the new sub-station which wa§ being erected at Bunnythorpe. it is being designed to take the electricity load of part-of Palmerston North cfty arid the southern portion of the ManawatuOroua Power Board^ area. it will be bUilt to take a maximum load of approximately 2,0,000 kilovolt. The presept consumption of the HanrioWfl&"OFOri^ a-rea • is about 12,000 kihypft ampere, Work on the buUding wiip commence when , materjals are avaifable.