Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 8 May 1948, Page 4

Local & General

Car Registrations This year there will be no new number- plates for mofor vehicles because- of ihe shortage of steel, j but starting from June 1 labels toi be stuc-k on the- windscreens will be issued at the Post Office. The labels wiil have black letterfng; onl a fine violet red backm'ound:. Num- 1 ber plates were last issued in 1946. j "Please Find My Dog" A small boy in Silverstream Hospital has lost his. pet, an 18-months-old S.cottish terrier. The boy is a poliomyelitis case- and is fretting. for the- dog. It is feared that if he do.es. no.t get it, back he wifi sufier a further setback in health. The hospital. anthorities wifi gladly meet any. expenses, in-. curred- by anyone ha finding and returning the "dog.. Once In 100 Years, Toc>, Often Once. in . 100; years was too- often for James Rfx- Henderson, . George Michael Moo.re and Frederiek- Rees, Who were charg-ed in the Magistrate's Co.urti Masterton, With byaving- had poSsession of iiquor in the vicinity of a- dance hall, the oceasioni;being the Castle--point centenaix ^bafi held on, Apinl 2% Hendergpn-and' Rees^wereea,eh fin'ed '%p wfdore £2V Horse Meat For Belginm When the Corinthic arrived at. London recently ' she unloaded 36, t.ons of New Zealfnd horse meat for Beigium, according to a news item in the F.L.A. Mbnthly-, the official magazine' of the 1 1 Port oi London Authority-. The horse meat w.as frozen-, andi shortly after it was unloaded ref riger atod, vans of an un-. mistakable continental pattern duly appeared' on -the quay alongside the- ship, loaded the horse meat, and then departed for the Harwic-h Zeebrugee train ferry. Sunspots May ^ause Disturbances A period of m.agnetic and radio disturbances accompaniedj. by auroral dfsplays appears, fikely- in the near future. fhis was stated pn Thursday by- the Director of tbe Carter- Observatory (Mr. L L. Th.omsen) last night. A large active sunspof area has, he stated, appeared on the eastern limb of the sun in the past; few- days In a ; stretch of 350 mfies there "are two i very large spots 30,000 and 50,000 j . miles in diameter- as well as 60 or 70 smaller spots. Disturbances appeared likely between May 12 and 15. Treading On Thin Iee "f think that the South Island should be- treated in the same- way as England treats Scotland," s.aid Dr. F. Birkinshaw in r'eply to the question "Is the South Island getting a fair deal?" at a Brainsl Trust conducted by the Auckland branch of the New Zeaiand Geo^ graphical So.ciety- "It shoufd be used hs a breeding ground- forbank managers, senior government ofScials and academic 'types.' Ifs, scenery might at times have some interest, and Dunedin's. hoarded wealth has built concrete monu--'ments to the South Island in most North- Tsland centres "-But apart from this/ we should either forget • about the So.ufh fsland or trea.1T it ; rough."