Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 6 September 1948, Page 4

Local & General

Radiuni Needle Lost Believed to have been thrown out with discarded surgical dress- ( ings, a radium needle valued at £25, was -lost at ttie'^New Plymouth Hospital last Wednesday. W^^1 the assistance of a."special radiurnl detector flown ' from Ganterburyl University College, the only one in; New Zealand, it was recovered inl the ashes of the hospital's inciner-i ator yesterday afternoon. It was1 not damaged. • • Sailors Pu2t?led, i When "tlie Swedish sugar ship Belos . was weighingv-anchor in the stream at Aucklan,.d for towing to Chelsea a knot, the: size of a man, ' vijas discovered in the massive chain at least 40 feet from the anchor. Sailors are puzzled as to how it got there as it is known it would not pass through the hawespipe. The anchor had to be suspended by wire stops to enable the towing to proceed. A barge ,will be brought alongside at Chelsea to remedy the defect. Crew for Pamir Four deck boys and five able seamen haye been signed on the barque Pamir' to replace former membefs of the ' crew. Altogether about 50 young New Zealanders applied for jobs. Seven seamen and three deck boys have left the Ship since her arrival in Auckland, some of them to enter the jVIarine Department's school of navigation. The Pamir's mate, kr. A. Keyworth, said that several young men between 23 and 24 years of age had> applied to join the ship but had been' refused because they were too old. Remarkable Escape Two men had a remarkable escape from serious injury when their car left the road on Mount Stewart on Saturday night, and rolled over several times to come to rest on its side. They were Ernest Frederick Aubrey Pink, cycle dealer, of 72 Chelwood Street, Palmerston North, and' Ivan dewett, of 20 'Pirie Street, Palmerston Nortlm Mr. Pink suffered lacetations to the face and after treatment he was discharged from hospital. Mr. ■ Jewett was taken to hospital in : an uncdnscious cdnditibn and suffering from' lacerations • and concussioh. 1 The car was 'extehsiVely damaged. ' ' • f The New Zealand Plough » The standard plough used in the Dominioh was essehtially a New Zealand developmeht; said Mr. L. L. 'Cord'efy, wha has ' vetired as i mahaging' director "■ of a Christchurc'h implement manufacturing fifhi1, 'interView ' 'With " the Press. The original colqnjal plough 'had been' designed by Mr. James Gray, of Dunedin, for Mr. John Grigg, of Longbeach. It had since been improved, but was still the basis of the standard plough manufactured • in New Zealand, being quite distinct from the American and English patterns. It had the advantage of running on wheels instead of being sledged on ,soleplates, and was about 20 per ,'cent. lighter in draughtr