Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 22 March 1948, Page 4

Local & General

No Public Statement The report of the Local Government Commission favourittg the petition of the Manawatu Catchment Board for the dissolutioh of the Manawatu-Oroua River Board was discussed in.committee at Friday's meeting of the river board. No public statement was available concerning the board's deliberations, Band Concert Appreciated A large and' appreciative audiende gree'ted the Levin Municipal Band' in the Public Gardens iast night when' the first of a series of : after-church concerts was pfesented. • Instru"tnents are available' for' youths wiShing .to learn and further par* "ticulars can be obtainedhy attending the learners' class In the bandroom on Thursday night,

Many Visit War ships „ Ships. of the Australian naval squadron, at present in Wellington, Were thrown open to visitors yes- j terday afternoon. About 4000 j people visited each of the ships,! H.M.A.S. Australia and H.M.A.S. ! Bataan. The two vess'els were to { leave for Auckland at 3.30 p.m.! today. Before enterittg harbour at j Auckland,, they will take part j in manoeuvr'es , together ' with i H.M.N.Z.S. Beltona: j Waikato Winter Shdw ! The first Waikato Winter Show to be held since 1941 will be Open- | ed by the Governor-Genral, Sif 1 Bernard Freyberg, V.C., on June 1. j The exhibition, which will be open I for seven days, will this year in- ■ clude a number of new classeS. 1 Special ptizes totallirtg £222 and a 1 cup are offered this year for a beef championship to encourage greater j meat production for the United ! Kingdom. Women Justices , One of the few women Justices of i the Peace in Queensland, Mrs. F. Hickey, of Brisbane, arriVed by air to attend the annual cdnference of the New Zealand Justices' Federaftion in Dunedin, She is representing the Queeitsland Justices' Association, of^hjph^sfte' has-beefi-^ mdfnber "for 12 years. From her experience as a justice, Mrs. Hickey is convinced that rhore women should be appointed to these positiojjjs, more particularly so that they could take an active part in dealing with problems that essentially belong to women and in helping to eheck chlld delinquency. Work For Relief Fund Few .iobs were offered Victoria University College arid Training College students on Saturday when they- held a work day for the World Student Relief Fund. Among the tasks available were lawn mowing, shovelling earth, hedge cutting and digging ditches, A humber of women students did houSework and cared for children while parents were at the races. A member of the executive of the Students' AssOciation expressed the hope that the public response would be greater next Saturday when another work day will be held. U.S. Hotising Scheme Designed to decommodate 18,000 familieS, one of America's biggesthousing p'rojects in America is being built on the east side of Manhattan, said Mr, R, G. Bailey, an American structurdl engineer, in an iiiterview in Christchurch- Mr. Bailey is assistant expoft mankger of the Besser Mahufacturing Company, Alpena, Michigan, which produces machinery for the manufacture of concrete buildlng blocks. A site for the New Ydf k . housing project was beihg cieared by the demolition of ! tenements, said Mr. Bailley. The pew suburb.to be created would consist of blocks of' flats, the highest of which would be of 10 StoreySj together with parks and aii the amenities of fefte most modern cities. N •

Royal Tour StamPs To mark the visit to New Zealand of the Kihg and Queen and Princess Margaret, a special commemoratiVe set of four postage stamps will be issued next year. The Postmaster-General (Mr. Hackett) said on Saturday that the denominations would be 2d, 3d, 5d and 8d., Designs for the set were. now being prepared. The Minister said he was sure the issue of the special set would be welcomed by all New Zealanders as an added expression of their loyalty to the Throne and as an indication of New Zealand's great pleasure in being honoured by the Royak visit. The denominations adopted hadi been selected so as to obtain by the surface and air-mail rates the greatest covetage throughout the world. The combined. set, amounting to ls 6d, would cdver' air-mail letters to the United Kingdom and air-mail letters by the B.C.P.A. services to* Oanada and the -United States.