Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 6 November 1948, Page 4

Local & General

Garden Competition. 4 A cottage garden competition has been arranged by the Levin Horticultural Society in conjunction with its spring flower show. Entries for the competition close on Tuesday next with the secretary, Mr. A. O. PowelL Remembrance Day Remembrance Day will be observed tomorrow with the custq,mary two-minutes silence at 11 a.m. Most of *the . churches .in Levin are commencmg their ser.vices earlier than usual and . ,congregations will. - join—with , the nation in the silence of .reineni- : brance.- s,.,. .} •• ' ' -r ' - • . i ' j ' Bank Robber Sentenced , [ ■ For the armed robbery pf £344. ; from the teller ,at th'e Bank of New Zealand agency in .Parnell, Auckland, on Qctober 1'5, "Edwaid John P'atrick Phplart, aged 24, an Englishman and former cornmando officer, was sentenced J$y Mr. Justice Fair, in the Suprenjte Court, Auckland, ' y.esterday, to.' tvj'o years' imprisonment with .hard labour. He. . had 'Plfeaded guiliy jn the Police ■ Court. — Press Asspciation. r. i- • : ' Liner Dominion Monarch . . The 27,000 ton Shaw Savill liner Dominion Monarch, which will resume in her normal peacetijne service shortly hefore Christmas, iS expected to arrive at Wellington from London, via South Africa and Australia, on January 22. She will not now visit Auckland, as previously announced. The liner was under Government control for more than eight years and carried thousands of trOops during the war. "For Sale" Car Notices If you want to sell your car and advertise from it when it is parked in an Auckland- Street, you are committirag an offence. A motorist who placed a notce that the car was for sale in a window when he parked his car in a Christchurch Street, found a similar bylaw broken. But he made the discovery only when he was booked for it. Fortunately for him, the Bench took a lenient view, convicted and" discharged him. Mr. Bland, traffic superintendent in Auckland, said he did not think a motorist need worry unduly if he carried a "For Sale" notice in his car, provided he wasn't carrying on a second-hand car dealer's business, or made a business of parking the vehicle with the notice "displayed.