Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 12 June 1948, Page 4

Local & General

Collie Laid Up For Repairs Wireless advice that a leak had developed in the hull of the coilier Kartigi' on het voyage from Westport to Auckland was received yesterday by the Union Company's Auckland office. Temporary repairs have been made and the steamer will arrive there on Sunday morn4ng. Her crew will be paid off and the vessel withdrawn to enable re-. pairs to be made.

N.Z. Official War History "The first . publication of New ZealandJs Official War History are now in the printer's hands," said the editor, Major-General Sir Howard Kippenberger yesterday. "They are the detailed account of the action of L ttoop of the 33 Antitank Battery on November 23, 1941, and a short account of the services , of women at y^ar/' he said. "These ; are the first "of a series of mono1 graphs on variduS topics' and epiI sodes in all three services." ! Slaughter Of Native Pigeons | Settlers in the Wanganui district, | particularly in the Waitotara Val- ! ley area, are gravely conceraed at i the destruction of native pigeons. i Upper .Waitotara settlers, Messrs. ! Matthews Bros., I, Peat, and AnnaI bell Bros., are. offering a cash rej ward for the. conviction of offenders. In an interview, Mr. A. R. Annabell said that most of the destruction is peing done by people travelling along the roads. Shots were heard recently and a dead pigeon, which had been killed by a j shotgun, was lound hanging in a kowhai tree. •-' British Cars For Royal Tour ! The Government has been m | consultation with officials _ at ; Buckingham Palace on the question ! of the most suitable motor-cars for i use in the tour of New Zealand by i Their Majesties, said the Prime ! Minister (Mr. P. Fraser) last night. I As a result it was decided that six i Diamler cars wouid be purchased. In addition the Diamler Company is j placing six other cars at the disj posal of the Government without ; charge for the tour with the right ! of purchase by the Governnient or I sale in the Dominion. Rootes Ltd., j have made a similar ofter of six ! Humber cars in the same terms and j both offers have been accepted. i Milk Shortage i Wellington is still having trouole : with its milk supplies. The position j has been helped by South Island i co-operation apd milk from there has been arriving regularly. There I is enough to go around for normal consumption purposes at. present, : but the general manager of the ! Wellington City Milk . Department i (Mr. E. L. Benseman) is not too ! sufe about " the future. Seasonal ! conditions had. been so bad, he said, I that it was .pbssible that the posli tion would deteriorate. Supplies to ' schools and ice-cream manufacturI ers have been diScontinued. With \ the temperatu're down to a record low for. the year, not many people would worry about a shortage of ice-cream.

I Cancer and Geography Cancer of the skin and face is 1 three or four times more prevalent j in Auckland than in Dunedin, Dr. j Howard J. Gaudin, honorary secre- | ' tary of the Auckland branch of the | British Empire Cancer Campaign I Society, told a rep.resentatiVe meetI ing of womeh in the Auckland [ Town Hall council chamber. This I was due to the effects of the sun. I Dr. Gaudin was answering a ques- | tion whether cancer in New Zeaj land was of higher incidence than j elsewhere. Whjle it was "about the I same" as in other countries, he ! said, certain types of cancer were I more numerous in some localities | than in others. Though sufferers ! were fairly evenly divided in sex, 1 he added, women generally were found to diselose symptoms more ^Jreadily than hien.

Flying-boats for Sale The two pioneer Tasman flyingboats Aotearoa and Awarua are for sale. Tenders close on June 21, a condition being that the successful : tenderer must take delivery from ! Hobsonville within 21 days. The ' Aotearoa is offered for sale, comIplete except wireless' equipment, but her si'ster plane has been stripped of engines and InStruments. It is highly improbable that either of these popular aircraft will ever fly again. An Exaggerated Report Was the English speedway rider Gil Craven killed in a speedway aecident in England"? That is; a question which has created wi'de interest in New Zealand recently. In particular it has been worrying Palmerston North speedway enthusiasts, for it was at Palmerston North last season that Craven did most of his riding, It has now been definitely establisHfed"" that Craven is not dead. His brother, Reginald Craven, was killed in a speedway aecident, and it was no doubt that fact which gave birth to the report that the erstwhile Palmerston North favourite had niet his death.