Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 1 May 1948, Page 4

Local & General

l Fire in Bach | The fire aiarm was sounded | about 8 Of'ciock last night, an outj break having been dlscovered ih j the kitchen of a two-roomed b&ch | in Mako Mako Road, adjdinihg the ! Levin racecourse. The brigade was | quickly ott the scene and extinI gdished the fire, confiiiing the | damage to the one roorh. | Obhiplimfentary Evenitig IA eompliinentary function to Miss H. E. Bowen and Mr. F. E. Tarker. at which suitable recognition will be mad&-of their long ,ser- | viee as inembers of the Levin Bdri ough Cotincil, wiil be hela ih the I Cehtufjr Hall on May 11. It will I take the form of a social evening | during which presentations will be | hiade to them. | Watches Gaforb j Housed in a 65^000 sq. ft. factory I and with £250,000 worth of mach- $ inery and equipment, the AngloI Celtic Watch Company at Ystradi gyhlals, Glamofgan, is at present | turning out 5000 pocket watches I each week. With .another building j of 20,000 sq. ft. being ddded, and | with a total of a millioh pounds | worth of machinery, the ultimate | t&rget is to produce two million ! pocket and Wfist watches a year. I Another Writ Nailed To Mast ! A third writ of a summons in the J 1 action for salvage was fastened to j | the mainmast of the Wanganella | at the Wellington floatmg,; • :dQc| ' J yesterday. Plaintiffs are the MayoiV ; 1 counciildrs and burgesses df East-. 2 bourhe borough arid the fnaster ■ I and cre'W df the borough steahiship | | Cobar who .claim £'2O0O for salvage ■ I services render-ed to the Wanga- ' I nella on January 20. Ten days ago I the Wellington and Wanganui Har- . « bour Boards afhxed their writs to ■ | the mast. ( | Firemen And Road Safety I A letter from the Fire Srigades- 1 I men's Union, stating that drivers , I df flre-engines shottld not be asked ; I to break the law when traffic lights ' I were against thera, was considered : | at the meeting of the Auckland ; | Metropolitan Fire Soard. The' \ I union said verbal instrtictions, re- ' I ceive'd by the men, to proCeed | with caiitioii, pldeed the dnus on | them, and made them subject to J edhitnon law. The board confirnied | a re'ply to the union that it was | making every endeavour to have 1 the regulations amended. The | dhairmari (Mr. B. Brigham) noted | the Road Safety Council had i advised that legislation approXiinI ating the board's proposals should | s-hortly dome forward. | Political Street Names $ "The town is becoming iditsy | with the names of politicians, S ihterriatidnal and otherwise," ' sai'd I Mr. A. L. Jones, to the Waimairi ; i Cduhty dduncil, Canterbury, at a ' I reeent meeting, when opposirig a ' » recommendation that two * ngw , I streets be named Triiman Avettue . [ and Attlee Crescent. '"Would not : ! Semple Crescent be better?" sug- : | gested ariother member. It was : pdihted dut that the streets were ; ! baft of a new blddk, ail but two of l the streets df which have already j beeh tianled, and that the two Stig- ' gested. names woul'd be in harnidhy : [ With the others. "Then why hdt | Clapham Plaee?", was a further ; suggfeStioh. DeSpite objections to perpetuating such nam.es in the ' I city, the names were accepted as ) recommendea. 1