Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 3 May 1948, Page 4

Local & General

| Vital Statistics ; The vital statistics recorded at S Levin for the month Of April were as follows, the flgures for me same mOnth of last year beina a'iven in parentheses: — Deaths "10 (2), births 22 (20), marriages 6 (8). Anniversary Eight years ago today the Second Echelon of the Second N.Z.E.F. sailed from Wellington for the Middle East. Two days after the convoy had left Fremantle it. was • diverted to England via Capetown j i beeause of Italy's declaration of j war. The echelon arrived in the [ Middle East early the following • year. ( April Rainfall April was a wetter month tbiS' year than last. According to fignres recorded by Mr. H. Harvey, of Cambridge Street, show that 4.79 inches fell during the month, as compared with 2.52 inches in April ! of last year. Rain fell on 10 days j of the month, the highest being I 2.98 inches on April 21. The highj est temperatute was '75 degrees on April 19 and the lowest 28 degrees 1 on April 27. - \ London Wool Saies .The Bank of New Zealand has received . the following cabled adViCe #om its London offiee, dated April 28; "The saies have opened with strong competition and large attendance of buyers. There is an active demand by all bfanches of the trade. Compared with last London saies, sliped generally 10 per cent. dearer, and scoured crossbred fully 10 per cent. dearer. New Zealand greasy Merinos sol'd readily. Practically nothing withdrawn." Potate Exports? Inquiries concerning the possibility of ^exporting New Zealand potatOes to South America have been received by the Auckland Grain, Seed and Produce Merchants' Association. Nothing authoritative has yet been | announced. Shipments of potatoes from' the South to the North ( Isiand have been prohibite'd to I I enable North isiand districts to S i dispose of crops, No indication has [ yet been given as to when the first [ South Isiand shipments tn AuckI land will be jnade. j Invasion By Bees | A grocer in Nelson . received a I large case of frames of honey into | his store the other day and after | opening it left it for a few min- !- utes, On his return he found the case the subject of attack by large I numbers of bees, who were appari ently bent on getting some of their | own back. Efforts to rescue the j honey failed till, after a gallant | gesture on the part of the grocer, f the case was removed Outside and j a hose turned on thft invading j horde. After the depredal^ns of j the bees and the hoSing, there was | littie honey left for the grocer. e Similarity In Unifdrms j The surpfise of American tour- | ists on finding that waitresses in I New Zealand hotels wore almost \ exactly the same uniform as j ntirses in the United' States was j expressed by Mr, Thomas B. Doyle, of La Jolla, California, iii an inter- ! view in Dunedin, One recent j Amefican visitor, said Mr, Doyle, j had been uncertain at flrst whether j he Was iri an hotel or had, my misj take, been provided with a room j in a convaiescent home. Mr, ; Doyle, who, as an interior decoraI tor, is required to devote daily j attention to appearances, suggest- - ed th^t the uniforms'of waitresses 1 niight be varied to ffiake them more attractive, even if only biack 1 and white materials were used.