Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 6 October 1948, Page 4

Local & General

Estate of £260,000 The estate of Herbert Elworthy, sheepfarmer, ofx Craigmore, Timaru, has been svVorn for probate at £260,000. Public ' bequests contained in the- will .ar^lOOO each to the Church of England, Craigmore, and St. Mary's Anglican Cnurch, Timaru. j Three Wins in. Lottery A Reefon resident, Mr. W.l Bailey, has received advice that 1 he has won three prizes totalling £1012 10s in an overseas consulta-' tion. Mr. Bailey, who had 30 tickets in the consultation, won j three prizes — £1000, £10, and £2 10s. First Godwits Return Three godwits were seen feeding on the Foxton Beach river flat on Sunday for the first time since the migration away from the Dominion occurred prior to the t winter. Within a few days it is expected that there will be consid- j erable numbers of these birds back again. The main flig'ht is usually precede'd by scout birds. The godwit spends the New Zealand winter months in Siberia. Giant Gate Ready After six months' work, the 50ton gate and 10-ton guide frame for the Maraetai 'diversion tunnel — vital parts in the new hydroelectric scheme on the Waikato River — have been completed. Works Department engineers in Auckland inspected the gate andf frame yesterday, and they will now be dismantled for their jour- 1 ney to Mangakino. The gate, 1 which is about 25 feet- s.quare and : over 3 feet t'hick, is constructed of ' steel girders faced with 5/8-inch 1 plates.

Swapped Seasons? Anglers and duck shooters seem to have swapped seasons for the commencement of their sports this year. Guns on Lake Wairarapa struck clear sunny days, while anglers on "the first" in the Wellington area were; confronted with conditions that would have been excellent for duck shooting, with very little more rain. The Mangaroa seems to have fished well under the conditions, providing several small bags, and persevering anglers generally managed to secure a fish or two, elsewhere, but they had definately to be worked for. North Island 9*iow Unusually heavy spring falls of snow were experienced on the high country in parts of the centre of the North Island at the weekend. At the Chatean, where rain or snow has been experienced for 10 successive days, the mountain road has been kept clear for traffic with a grader and bulldozer ,and on -Saturday the cross-country ski race was run on the golf course below the hotel. The snow fall eased on Saturday to be replaced by rain. Snow fell heavily at Te Haroto, on the Taupo -Napier Road about 50 miles from Taupo, at the weekend, but it was not of sufficient depth to interfere with traffic.

Bullock Strangled Strange circumstances are believed to have caused the death of a six-year-old bullock owned by Mr. A. A. Siteman, of Koiro, near Taumarunui. The beast was . feeding on the' side of a steep cutting with a forked thousandjacket tree below it, It is thought that the bullock had reached into the trees to nibble tender shoots when the ground under its hind feet gave way and it slipped downhill, catching its neck in the fork and being "suspended above the grourrd. It died of strangulatibn.