Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 3 September 1948, Page 4

Local & General

| Boy's Accident I A young boy has been admitted i to hospital with a severe injury so | his foot as a result of an accident l with an axe he was using. He is I Ron, 10-year-old son of Mr. and I Mrs. R. Gallagher, cof York Street, [ Levin. [ "Bigger Than Taupo" I A Maori boy who saw the .sea I for the first time when he visited j Hawke's Bay from an inland district wrote home as follows: She's big all right," he said, "bigger even than Taupo. It's just as wet as Taupo, only salt. Ships sail on it, too, right over the edge. People go on them, all over the place. But I'd rather be in Taupo." Record Priced Sheep A record price of £1200 sterhng ! Jfor a Corriedale ram hogget, sold [ at ' auction, has been paid for an j 11-months-old breed sheep bred by Mr. B. S. Trolove, of Kekerangu. The hogget was included in a shipment of stud sheep consigned to South America on the vessel Norfolk from Lyttelton about July 8. It was sold at j Buenos Aires on August 27. AnI other ram hogget bred by Mr. TroI love realised £925 sterling. ! What's In A Name! i "I have yet to see a chicken ; and hani roll that had anything ! to do with chicken," said a witness I in the Christchurch Supreme | Court, when asked why he had ■ not built up that part of his bus- | iness, which had proved very j popular, when chickens were : available. He sai'd that he had ! tieviated from a recipe given him I for chicken and ham because it j was the same for Belgian saus- ; age. | Asparagus 5s 2d a Bunch ! New4 .season's ..asparagus from I Hawke's Bay sold at Messrs. | George Thomas and Company's : auction mart in Wellington yesterday at from 2S to 5s 2d a halfpound bunch. A representative of the fir-m sa;id it was a particulany good lot and was very early, newseason asparagus usually not making its appearance until about the middle of September. The consignment comprised only one box, containing approximately 50 bunches. The prices. realised were well in exeess of,- previous years. Penalty for Mischief Four Dunedin boys who were eonvicted on charges of mischief and ordered to do two days' work in city reserves during the school holidays by Mr. H. W. Bundle, S.M., have carried out their sentences. The boys worked under the direction of the superintendent of reserves and no objection was raised. It was stated that the boys were carrying out the sentence of the Court, and to suggest they should become members of the union and receive pay would be just as ridiculous as to suggest that prisoners doing gardening work around a gaol should "be union members and be. paid :Jaccordingly,