Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 5 June 1948, Page 4

Local & General

No "Chronicle" Monday "The Chronicle" will not be published on Monday (King's Birth- j day) . "Few Gentlemen" Judge Tyndall, in the Auckland Arbitration Court: "These gentlemanly agreements are not very satisfactory taecause there are so few gentlemen about!" Sound Shell Project With a view to discussing further the proposal to, btuld a sound shell' at 'the Levin Park"Domaih,:a meet- 1 ing is being- ligld in the Levin j School on Wcdnesday next at 8 I p.m. Organisations in the town which are likely to be interested have already been circularised-re-garding this project and other im- j provements at the domain, and ' they are now reminded of the | meeting and urged to be represent- j ed at it. c •' . ■■ *' Rare Visitors t ■ I Tlie white. heron, or kotuku, which was rar.e evep in early Maori times, has been seen in parts of the Auckland Province. Residents of Te Hapua have seen -one on the Parengarenga Harbour auring. tne past two weeks and birds thought to be white herops were seen on the Tamaki River last weekend. The birds have also been seen at Kerikeri and on Great Barrier. The only colony of white herons in New Zealand is on the Okarito lagoon in Westlan'd.

Generous Donation The United Nations Children Appeai in Levin is to receive a donation from Messrs. Allan Horn and Sons. At the sale of their stud Jersey stock on Thursaay one of the heifers catalogued was donated by them to.the appeai. It realised 40 guineas under :>the hammer and this sum will be pal'd to the fund 'by the auctioneei,*s, the New Zealand Loan and Mefcantile Agency Co., Ltd., who have foregone their usual commission. Indians Return 1 Five Indians from' various parts of New Zealand, who have been to India for short visits, have returned to the Dominion. Most of them had been staying in Bombay. Conditions were settled around Bombay and food was becoming quite plentiful, they said. Two of them, Mr. P. D. Lala, of Frankton, and Mr. R. Tribhovandas, of Pukekohe, were marrie'd in India and brought their wives with them. Another arrival was Mrs. S. Navan, who, with her young son, is to join her husband at Pukekohe. Used by Royalty Railway passengers travelling between Springfield and Arthur's Pass probably regard the carriagdb in which they sit as ordinary railway equipment. One carriage regularly on this run, however, has an uncommon history. It was built in 1901 for the late King George V, •who visited New Zealand in that year as the Duke of York. Later it was used as a vice-Regal, then as a Ministerial car. In 1938 it was converted at the Addington workshops to "its present state, a combination passenger carriage and guard's van. Suva Prison Comedy A recent gymnastic display by an inmate of the Suva gaol, Anare Late, was not, it turned out, just for the entertainment of his felxow prisoner's, writes the Auckland Star's correspondent in Fiji. Anare's performance took place in the ablutions block and consisted simfcly of jumping up and catching a horizontal water pipe. The nignt after the -display he repeate'd the performance, but added to it by swinging from the water pipe on to the outer wall and so to freedom. Anare's return to prison 12 days later was equally unconventional — 'he knocked on the front door of the prison and deman'ded readmittance.

Broadcast Talk The campaign against cancer will be the subject of tomorrow I night's talk over the national network at 8.45 p.m. The speaker will be Sir James Elliott, president of the N.Z. branch of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society. Settler Nurses More Government-sponsored settlers are working as nurses in New Zealand than were originally recruited for the purpose'. An official of the Immigration Department said this week that many girls who had been brought to the country to fill other jobs in essential industry had asked to be transferred t>o hospital work. Road Deaths In May 14 people were killed on the roads — four pedestrians, four cyclists, two motor-cyclists, four passengers and a driver. "Though this is a smaller number than in May last year, it is still too high," said the Minister of Transport, Mr. Hackett, yesterday. "If someone had taken a little more care all these accidents could have been avoided." Thieves Take Safe Kev The manager of the poultry farm at Massey Agricultural College (Mr. J. H. Kissling) is in a quandary. Yesterday morning he founcCthe door of his office at the farm had been forced open and on checking up he discovffred that s several articles had been taken. But the key of the safe is missing and he cannot find out. if £17 which had been placed there has been taken. Mr. Kissling was working in the office until 9.30 p.m. on Thursday. Among the goods stolen were 700 cigarettes and a wash basin The police are investigating.