Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 19 August 1948, Page 4

Local & General

Big Lottery Prize First pnze of £15,000 in an overseas lottery has been won by Mr. P. W. Evans, licenste of the Gresham Hotel, Wellington, and Mr. B. Harrhy, of Kilbirnie, Wellington. The ticket was brought jointiy in the name of "Blanket Syndicats." Mr. Evans is the owner of the raeehorse' Blanket. Believe It oi* Not The burning of gorse on roadsides near power poles is dang-erous because heavy smoke is a coivductor of electricity. Advice to this effect from the South Canterbury Electric Power Board led members of the Fairlie branch of the Fsderated Farmers to agree to refrain from burning anything near power poles. Junior Chamber Debate A debating contest between teams representing the Palmerston North and Levin Junior Chambers of Commerce was held this week and resulte'd in a wiri for the Levin team. The question debated was whether New Zealand's secoridary industries should be encouraged and fostered. The successful team took the negative si'de. The adjudicator was Mr. Tomlinson, of Levin. He Did His Best An Engiish immigrant who arrive'd at Whenuapai this week had a reporter mystified when he gave the name of a vessel expected at Wellington as something sounding like "Peekayer." After tne name was repeated several times 'the reporte admitted defeat and asked the visitor to spell it. "Certa-inly," was the reply. "P-a-k-e-h-a." Unusual Charge Against Horseman AiUiough the hoise he was nding near Kawakawa was so severeiy injured in a collision with a motorcar that it had to be destroyed, William Cooper, a Maori escaped injury. However, when a constabie arrived on the scene, Cooper was arrested on a charge of being drunk in charge of a horse. Cooper was thrown on to the top of the car, faliing from there to the ground. Bequests to University Advice of an anonymous gift of £10,000 for the benefit oi the homt science faculty, has been received oy the councii of the University of Otago. Other gifts received were £100 from Mrs. Park to provide a pi'ize in mining, £200 from Mrs. Jennie Macandrew to provide a prize in music, and £100 which was raised to establish a prize in mathematics to commemorate the work of Dr. R. J. T. Bell. Campaign Against Hydatids A campaign against hydatids has been started in real earnest by the Southern Hawke's Bay provincial district of Federated Farmers and is receiving good support. Already the county councils of Dannevirke and Akitio, the Women's Division and the Southern 'Hawke's Bay Stock and Station Agents' Association have' promised unanimous support. The Hawke's Bay Education Board, school committees and teachers are being asked to assist, and Mr. W. Welsh, Inspector of Health, with Mr. 'A. D. Dunford, chairman of a special committee, have already responded to invitations to address meetings. Ohalsea Arson Charge By consent a young man who was recently arrested in Auckland on a charge of wilfully setting fir.e to a building at the Ohakea R.N.Z.A.F. station on February 16, 1947, was again remanded when he- appeared before Mr. J. R. Herd, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court at Palmerston North yesterday morning. On the application of Senior Detective O. Power accused was remanded to appear on September 8. Mr. J. A. Ongley, for accused, consented but requested a renewal of bail and the order for the suppression of accused's name. The requests were granted.