Pension Payments

Chronicle (Levin), 5 January 1949, Page 4

Pension Payments

Payment of pensions and benefits during January will be -made' on the following dates: — Family benefit, ' 11th; age benefit, 18th; widows', invalids' and orphans' benefit, 19th; war pensions, 20th; and war veterans' aiiowance, 31st. Two Babies Named Charles Two children born in Levin during December have been named "Charles," according to the flies of ! the registrar, Mr. H. J. Henderson. rOne is a Maori child and the other Iwas named Garry Charles. Britain's f amous war-time Prime MiniI ster, Mr. Churchill, has a namesake I in Winston Paul, the Christian names of another Levin child born i last month. Cricketers' Mascot A black cat, smuggled out of Christchurch, is now in Auckland as the mascot of the Otago Plunket - Shield team. It was in a Christ-j ehurch hotel that the cat first at-; tracted the attention of one of the team. He saw it pinned to a; Christmas tree at a. party given during the Otago-Canterbury shield! match. Later that night the admirer of the cat, accompanied by another member of the team, made ; his way into the hotel lounge knd removed it. "Bold Look" Far Men •' Christchurch, according to th'ei December issue of the New Zealand! Draper, is shortly to , launch "The Bold Look" in men's' wear. Main

feature will be a new type shirt with a collar cut back at a wide angle for wearing "the Windsor knot." "The wider-cut collar has led to iin. stitching on the edge of collars and gauntlet cuffs," says the paper. "It aims at a more sweeping, open-air appearance in men's ciothes, with lapels on suits cut in more sweeping contours to harmonise with the shirts." Ties, in design and colour, are clear and sharp, with figures bolder and more widely spaced. Hats and handkerchiefs are also included in the new sartorial move. Governmeiit Motor-cars Mr Nordmeyer's motor-car comes in for this comment from a reader of the Evening Star, Dunedin: "The squandering of the taxpayers' money upon super American cars by our Socialist Government and at -a time when there was a dollar shortage caused much comment at the time of their purchase, also the secrecy that attendedMt. It appears that these cars have not been used by the mighty solely upon departmental business, and 'the fact that Mr. Nordmeyer's super-car has been brought from Wellington and used by him when condueting a post-sessional election campaign makes us wonder where we're heading for. Is an ordinary member of Parliament prbvide^ with a Government car when condueting an election campaign? Has the age of the new royalty ' arrived? I'm thinking that after next election Mr. Nordmeyer will miss the supercar."