Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 31 May 1948, Page 4

Local & General

! Irish Flag ... The diSpiay of the Irish National Flag of green, white and orange ! during Mr. Eamqn de Valera's visit I has raised questions afeout the [ choice of colours. Green is for the South, orange fdr the North, and, I white for peace between the two. Main Trunk Line Clear ' The Raiiway Department has i advised that the Main Trunk line is [ now clear at Taumarunui where j flood waters caused a large slip to j block the track, and the expresses ( wiil he running as usual this morn- ! ing iristead of ,r,yia the Stratford j branch. line. I To Allocate -State. Hauses | The personnel of the cojnmittee i to allocate "Statej rental houses in J Wanganui comprfsep the Hqn. W. J. i Rogers, M.L.C:, Mayor of WanI ganui, Mrs, M. G/Batt, and Mr J. | J. Scott (prominent members of the I Labour Party) , the Rev. A. C. Mc- | Lean, MA., and^the Rev.- Father ! Kingnan, S.M. I Small Donation Respected S "Some quite considerable donaI tions received this year have been i made by well-wishers, who, it is ! evident, preferred to make a gift j to a cause of their own choice duri ing their lif etime, rather than leave I the funds to be taxed at their | death for purposes selected by the | Government," sfates the annual I report- of the Auckland Crippled j Children Society. "One of the 1 most respected donations during 1 the year," adds the report, was ! worded: 'From R.B. . . .with love to I ,the crippled.' The amount endosed | was 3d." *

j Cost of Living 1 A New Zealander must work I four minutes, ari American seven | and an urban; Russian factory { worker 31 minutps in order to buy ! a 1 lb. loaf ot br-ead, according to ( Consumer News. It says a pound 1 of tea costs a New Zealand worker I one hour 17 and 1-8 minutes, an | American 39£ minutes, and a j Soviet worker 11 hours. „A woman's I cotton working dress, a New Zea- ! lander seven hours 54 minutes, an ■ American two hours 22 minutes | and a Soviet worker 31 hours 51 i minutes. f Coates Church at Matakohe i Five years- after the sudden death I in Wellington of the Rt. Hon. J. G. J Coates, a heap of br'icks, around j which cattle graze, is the oniy I sign of the inter-denormnationai ! church that was promised by the i Government as long ago as 1944, as a memorial to a great New Zealander- The bricks, dumped on the { prop-osed sifce of the church shortly | after ' the Primp Minister (Mr, I Fraser) announced the GovernI ment's decision, are described by I Mr. J. Sterhng, seeretary of the j Matakohe Cemetery Bbard, as "a 1 horrible reflection on the memory S of a man who did so much for his | jcbuptry." | Believes in Miracles * ! Fate took a kmdly interest in | John Milton Eassey, of No, 4 Llhe, I Kairanga, in the small hours of i yesterday morning. Driving home I at 3.30 a.m. Mr. Eassey momentar- | ily dozed at the wheel of his trpck 1 and whep he woke up some conI siderable time later he was lying m I a paddock besi'de the road. His I truck? The vehicle had collided I with a power poie and the front J had praetically disintegr'ated. The S cab was rent asunder and the I spokes of the driving wheel were ! b'uckled right hack. The amazing | thing is that Mr. Passey havj i escaped withQut sp much as a I gcratch. How he was thrown ciear 1 and escaped 'without injury is one pf those thhige 4hat- perhaps wili never be known. '