Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 21 October 1948, Page 6

Local & General

"England Expeet's . . ." blk In celebration of Trafalgar Day, the flag at the Levin Post Qffice was flying at full mast today. Band Street Day Tomorrow • the Levin Municipal Band makes its annual appeal to the public for assistance, giving citizens the opportunity of showing their appreciation of its services. A street collection and shop -stall wiil be conducted. For some time past an energetic .band of workers has been making a wide variety of saleable articles, and the stall will be well stocked. One Woman And 68 Men! One woman waS surrounded by 68 m§n in Auckland yesterday. She was the only woman juror whose name was called in the, Supreme Court at the opening of the new criminal session. "Elaine Rebecca Robinson," called the Registrar. Mrs. Robinson walked forward, took the Bibie from a Court offlcial, and stood alongside about 40 male jurors whose names had already been called. Strawberries At 11s- 6d A Punnet Oysters are out but strawberries are in. Yesterday 36 punnets of i Auckland strawberries, the first to arrive in Wellington this season, were soid at 11s 6d a punnet. They were of good quality and sold freely. It was reported some weeks ago that the first strawberries for the season were sold in Auckland at 15s a punnet. Other of the new season's fruits and vegetables are now coming in good quantities into city shops, and although many customers will be pleased to see strawberries even at such a.high price there will probably be more general demand, for instance, for broad beans at ls 9d a lb. Loss of Memory Every person who suffered concussion developed some degree of retrograde amnesia, or loss of memory, whieh might be from a fraction of a second up to five years in duration, said Professor E. F. D'Ath, professor of pathology at the Otago Medical School, giving eyidence in a civil action arising out of a motor accident. The state was from the time the accident happened, backwards, he said. This loss of memory might continue for a variable period. In the great majority of cases, patients recovered.a good deal of their loss of memory, but were always left with a small period immediately before the impact — a fraction of a second up to a few seconds or a minute — the memory of which they were never able to reeover. Second Advent Campaign The Second Advent Campaign had a capacity congregation last Sunday evening and the campaign committee has found it necessary to provide more seating accommodation. As a result-the Regent Theatre 4 has been taken for the remaining Sunday evenings and the meetings will'take the form of an "after-church" service. The three months long campaign in the Welcome Hut, near the Levin School, has not been forgotten, and if Mr. Coppin's prophecy lectures are as dynamic as - his evangelistic messages were"1 at that time, those who attend will not do so in vain. An editor of a wellknown newspaper* recently remarked in most appreciative terms on the EvangeliSt's realism and ability to get right down to "the man in the street." This is what is needed if moral standards are to be raised and every person become an asset to the community. ' . , .

Ship Quarantined The Danish ship Astoria was placed in quarantine at New Plymouth yesterday because a member of her crew was suspected . of having developed diphtheria. The ship was about to leave for Nauru Isiand when the di'scovery was made, having completed the discharge of her cargo and taken in stores. Stamp Sells For 115 ■ A New Zealand. stamp which at its time of issue in 1864 cost a penny to buy has been sold at an auction in Auckland for £15. It was a full-face Queen's head, Pim's catalogue number 112. Ahother good price was £9 5s for the famous "Laughing Boy" Health pair of 1931 in mint condition. Almost all New Zealand special issues were in demand by the large crowd which attended the sale. One of the recent issues, the Centennial set, also attracted buyers at attractive prices for the vendors. . "Outlived Its Usefulness" Vhen the question of reappointing two delegates to the Councii of Sport arose at the annual meeting of the Auckland Life-Saving Association, Mr. A. C. Faulkner, a retiring delegate, expressed his disappointment with the council's record. He had been a member since its inception, he said, and at first had great hopes in its possibilities. In time, however, it had simply become a rubber stamp for the Department of Internal Affairs. The last meeting had lap'sed through the lack of a quorum. The councii was gradually disintegrating, Mr. Faulkner said, and had outlived its usefulness. Anpreciation "In appreciation of many hours of interesting reading and of the numerous food parceis you have sent," is the text of a note that accompanied a cricket bat received from Britain by a member of the Waitara Cricket Club, Mr. Jack Goddard, as a gift from Mr. Jack Goddard, the Gloucestershire slow bowler. Prevented from playing cricket last season owing to an injured toe, Mr. Goddard (Waitara), who is a medium-fast bowler decided to make a penfriend of the well-known English county cricketer, and wrote 12 months ago to his namesake in Gloucestershire. This began a regular • correspondence between the two. Mr. Goddard (of Gloucester) , who is now 47, is still considered one of the best slow bowlers in England. Member Suspended The Dargaville Borough Councii on v Tuesday night suspended one of its members u#til after the next meeting in November. He was Cr. T. W. McKay who refused to apologise for remarks made at a previous meeting. Mr. McKay said he would endeavour to disprove the ruling on which the suspension order was based. He was* willing to resign and contest an election against two other councillors involved in the incident. The incident, it was stated, concerned Mr. McKay's allegation that two other members of the councii were interested in a motion concerning the use of asbestos cement roofing for personal business reasons.

Price of Petrol That it was time a reduction was effected in the price of petrol fn vi'ew of the Government's action in bringing the exchange rate back to parity was the opinion of members of the ManawatuAutomobile Association at a meeting this week when it was decided to reque'st the North Isiand Motor Union to make a further approach to the Government on the subject.

• Capital Punishment When bringing in true bills against five persons charged with crimes at.the opening yesterday of the quarterly sessions of the Supreme Court at Dunedin the Grand Jury placed the following rider before Mr. Justice Kennedy; "Owing to the increased number of murders in the Dominion the Government should' be recommended to reintroduce capital i punishment or failing that imprisonment for life."