Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 18 June 1948, Page 4

Local & General

Butterfat Payment The Rangitikei Dairy Co., Bulls,; is making a further payment of j 2£d per lb. butterfat for the .past! season. The mopthly advance over j the greater . part of the year has j been at the rate. of 2s per lb. Fatally Injurefi ' A iaboui'er received fatal injuries j when he was struck by a works ! train at the sNeiv Zealand Farmers' i Fertiliser Company's works at Te Papapa. He was Kooti Rudplph, aged 23, married, ' of Parnell. Mr. Ru'dolph suffered multiple injuries and died before the ambulance arrived. Retaliatibn A Dunedin chemist retails this story of the recent tram strike there. A young woman entered his I shop and asked for a 'cottle of haliIbut oil capsules and a packet of saccharine t&blbts; "Seeing the 'trammies' are o nstrike, I'm going on strike, too," she told the assistant. The' halibut oil was to be her husband's fish course, the saccharine tablets his dessert!

Big Game Fishing A claim that a catch by Mr. J. C. Black, of Auckland, of a 4651b. striped marlin on a 39-thread line be recognised as a world record has been received by the International Game Fish Association. The claim, j according to advice received by the^ Tauranga Big Game Fishing Ciuo, J is being considered by the executive ■ committee. The existmg world^ record for this class of tackle was' established by a 4031b. fish caugnt; by Mrs. Michael Lerner (United States) , off Tocopilla, Chile, in 1940. i Extra Six Months' Gaol Before Mr. A..Coieman, S.M., yes-| terday at Taumarunui the five pris- i oners who escaped from Waikune! Prison on June U pleaded guilty of escape from legal confinement and were convicted and sentenced to ; six moriths' extra imprisonment. j All but one of the accused had a : list of previous convictions. The( police complained of the prevalency of these offences and thej Magistrate commented on the ; need to protect the public in rurai! areas, especially women, agamst, offences escapees might commit. j Early Settler's Watch A massive old pocket watch, the : property of the late Mr. Adam j Swan, who arrived at Port_ Chalmers . in the ship Pladda in the J early sixties and became one of the j first bullock wagon operators in the Tapanui djstrict, has been givgn to the "Otago Early Settlers' Museum by Mr. Swan's son, Mr. John Swan, of Waiwera South. Jewellers'» receipts of over 60 years ago, pre-, served in the back of the case, glve an interesting idea of the change in values over the years in watch repairs. Repairs are listed _ at 6d, while a new case spring was installed for ls. Cleaning and unspeeified repairs co'st ls 6d. Purchase of, Aircraft Two de Havilland Devon twinengined passenger aircraft are to be bought by the Government, said the Minister of Civilian Aviation, Mr. Jones, yesterday. .The planes will seat eight to II persons, and are the service "version of the de Havillahd Dove., They.will replace the Dominies. The new aircraft can fly on either one or bowi engines and have a greater range, higher speed and better performance than the Dominie aircraft, They will be used by the services and will be made available for Ministerial and other Government pur-^ poses.