Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 5 January 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Auckland Houseis Ransaeked Using a skeleton key to open mortice locks, burglars ransacked. thfee houses in the Epsom and' Onehunga districts while the- occupants were on holiday. It is believed that the total value of the. j goods stolen, including a large I quantity of jewellery, exceeds £2000. | Goods stolen froM one home at | Onehunga included the elothing of | young women who. are now visiting \ Napier. | Menace To Traffic • S Motorists travelling oyer the East Coast Road during the holidays have commented on a neglected section of the highway between Campbell's Bay and Mairangi Bay. In contrast to cither sections, which have been patched'and repaired in I readiness for the heavy holiday I load, this portion 'is exceptionally I rough in places. . Worfet feature, I described as a "death, trap" by many drivers, is a deep ridge in, the centre of the road on the crest of the hill north of Campbell's Bay, where some narrow escapes from accidents have taken place. I Butter Consumption | New Zealand not only has shown | the greatest poundage saving of | butter per head but also her per- [ centage of reductinn on pre-war 4 butter consumption is the largest in the British Commonwealth, ac- ' cording to the New Zealand Grocers' Review. While the journal agrees that New Zealand is notyet in a position to abolish rationing of- butter it contends that the Minister of Supply sHould make a compromise and immediately restore an extra two ounces weekly for 48 weeks of the year. (An extra a'lfo. per person is allowed at Christmas-time.) N.S.W. Farmers' Toui" Sixty New South Wales farmers will arrive in Wellington on January 17 for a fortnight's tour of the Dominion. The tour has been organised by the New South Wales ; Rural Tourist Committee in conjunction with the New Zealand Tourist Department, the Federated Farmers and the National Pig Council. The party will visit the Manawatu, Waikato and Auckland districts, returning to Wellington - about January 27 for. a short visit to the South Island. Another' group is expected to come to the Dominion in March. Surprise Packet A man who has just returned from Australia tells the story of how he met on a train a group of • ardent bridge players who needed a fourth to make up a game. At the end of the run he found he was a winner by 3700 points, but he was a little disgusted when one of his new acquaintances pleaded for time to pay, and asked for an address. Two days later came a registered letter containing a note of settlement accompanied by £37. The holidaymaker • immediately ordered a strong whisky, straight. He thought he had been playing for threepence a hundred. Spreadinsr Goodwill "The beautiful scenery, with rolling hills and . mountain peaks, rushing. streams, and pasture land, ; ihe wonderful harbours, the weird and fascihating sights of Rotorua and the Waitomo Caves, the public parks and gardens, and, above all, the warm-hearted friendliness of the people — all these things an'di more we shall'never forget," said Mr. Bill Scott, a member of the Canadian bowling team which visited New Zealand last year in a letter to a friend here.- Mr. Scott took about 1600 . feet of colour : movie film of the tour and showed it to a number cff' groups in Canada. "The pictures are much appreciated, and every time I show them people ask to know more of New Zealand, and so the spreading ; tJof goodwill goes on," he added.