Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 12 March 1948, Page 4

Local & General

! Lady Bowlers' Succcss j A rink from the Levin Ladies I Bowling Club yesterday brought I honours to their club by I the champion of champions £ tournament in Palmerston North yesterday! The rink consisted •of Mesdames Forster, Lacey, C. Walker and Gibson (s) . Farm "Rover" A plaintiff in the Christchurch Supreme- Court was described as having worked on a farm as a rover. Mr. Justice Fleming said it was the first time he had heard ,the word. Mf. G. C. Sandston said ' a rover on'a farm' was the same as a roustabout. "It is slightly' more genteel' than roiistabput," he added.

Aged Maoi'i Chief Dies# > • The' death is announced of one ! of the- great -iMaori- chiefs, Te | Wainui a Rua - Taumata Poihipi, ' J aged 103. ■Poihipi was one of the I outstanding Elders of the Maori I people, with ■ a wonclerful store of 1 knowledge • of; 1 Maori song, lore, ; \ [traditions customs,. ; and, genealogyHe was a keen fpllower of Rugby ! football. and. an .Elder of the Pres- ; byterian Maori Missian, i Ancestors On Request J . . A ■•jScottish Anfestry Society has: ' febsn'Se^-iM in $pinbnrgh • to assist: 1 people fef 'Sfeottfsn 'desceht to track , i down information about ' their J. ancestors, , This . ;was stated ,yester-r , r! 'd#%y Sir- 1 Falcpner • former •' 'Lord Provost of Edinburgh,_ at a Press conference in Wellington'.' . i Anyone desiring information, he J ' sai-d had simply to write to the l| society and would reeeive a form' I ' which, when filled in, would serve | i as a guide to the society in its I = search of the records. i 5 i I Rural Homes In N.Z. | ■ The houses which people in the 1 | , country in Australia live'd in for the 1 I : greater part of their lives , were | I ; shelters, designed mereiy to pro- . | 1 tect them while they made rnoney, ! I j said Mr. F. de Bomford, at Timaru. ; 1 | Mr. de Bomford, who is secretary of •, J t the Tasmanian Potato Marketing j 8 ! Board, is a member of the Tag- : 2 1 manian farmers' touring party. A ; 1 1 pleasing contrast to the Australian ! I j. country dwellings, he- said . was pro- i j fVide'd by rural houses in New ZeaT- 1 j | land. , a j Scouts- Plan Street Day I 1 i F-inal arrangehi-ents for its street j | | day on Tuesday next were made at ] | a nieeting of th^ Levin Boy Scout. | I Committee this J week. Members ! repoited on the promises they had; received * of goods to sell on the i stall. Members of the committee J expressed the hope that .the public would, respond generously to . the appeal as a reeognition of the good j work done by the scouts in assisting.with house-to-house collections for other organisations. Other End "Do you still use the leg rope nowadays?" ihquire'd Mr. Justjc.e Cornish in the Blenheim Supreme | Court when a witness in a case | where a niotorist was charged with negligent driving was relating how she had bailed up a cow and had then gone out to the road to inv.estigate a crash she had heard. fhe witness added that she had pujt a chain around the cow and then. gone into the y.ard. "Where did you i put the chain — around its neejr?" [ asked His Honoilr. The witness,: j No; around - the other end. j Anonymoius r Amusement wa's caused at the [ : conference of, the New ZeaJand : j Society of Mastef Plumbers at the i [ flnal outcome of % '.request f rom the j secretary to read'*to the delegates f\ an anonymous letter.' One delegate j I expressed opposition to the suggesI ! tion, saying that an anonymous I letter shoul'd not be read to a body jv of delegates at a conference. After . soihe discussion it was decided that the secretary shoi&d read the letter. Delegates were tlien" astounded to learn that the writer wished to make a gift to the socjety of £50, to show his appreciation of the work of master plumbers' organi -isation^ .