Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 14 January 1949, Page 4

Local & General

A LawyeFs Will An Auckland ' relative of an Edmburgh lawyer, who died and left such a tangled 21-year-old will that eight counsel had to be engaged to unraVel it, is one of 40 i claimants to the estate valued at £2000 before debts, funeral expenses and costs of an expensive Cuurt action were deducted. The pleas and c.aims covered 65 pages.Bcwlers And Petrol 1 "Appare'htly.-.tiie only " people who are kil'owed ' special petrol licences for sports .fixtur.es,. are 'footballers and cricket players," said Mr. P. O. Skoglund at last night's meeting of the Manawata' Bow-ing Centre. He was referring to the visit of the Manawata Centre to Hawke's Bay in the near future, Nq , petrol, licence had been granted for this trip. "N.e.ther the tennis players nor the bowlers have been given licences," he said. Holiday Aecident Vjctim Mis. Eileen Harvey, 50, of 91B Riccarton Road, Christchurch, one of the passengers in a motor car aecident near Kumara on Christmas Day, ■ wife of the drlver, Mr. George Henry Harvey, died in the Grey Hospital on Wednesday. All four passengers in the small car were serious'y injured when the vehicle left the road about three miles west of Kumara and crashed into the side of a concrete culvert. One of the youngest members of . the party, Gavin Kidd, has since been able to leave./ hospital. Mr. James Polson, 41, married, and Mr. Harvey are still under treatment. Sunday School On Wheels Since its was estabiished nine months ago a mobi'e Sunday school unit has covered many isolated areas in the King Country, Hawke's Bay and North and South, Auckland. . vIt is intended, says Mr. W. !, E. Archer. eeneral secretarv of the !

Auckland Sunday School Union, to widen the area covered by 'the unit this year. The unit consists of a large motor caravan equipped with living quarters for two and carrying 'the latest educational. aids, visual aids, sound projectors and over 500 books. Serious illness in his family has caused .the travelling organlser of the unit to resign. - Light In Sky Gigantic shimmering light in the sky, of such brilliance that it lit up the sea and the surroundmg country, and which gradually took a shape described as that of an enormous skull, startled a We'lington camper and his wife at Opoutama, near Wairoa, on Tuesday night. According to the husband it occurred about 9.30 and appeared in the southern sky, changing its appearanee from that of a giant ball. Ifc lasted only a few seconds, but While it did the effect was uncanny. The light gave the sea' a phosphorescent appearanee. A few m'nutes later came a. deluge of rain. Bulls Traffic Bridge The old Bulls bridge traffic bottle-neck will endure for weeks, yet. Much cleaning-up work re-j mains to: be done on the new reinforced concrete structure upstream from the old one. Contractors have I :o complete the footway decking ; md handrails strip off much tim3ering, and provide accommodation ' for trunk telephone lines before ; ;he brfdge can be opened officially; ft had been hoped to open the new 1 ?ridge temporarily to ease .the i ronday period congestion, but at l ihe last minute this decision was : :hanged and ' the bridge stayed, ilosed. It is understood that the'] contractors refused to accept ' esponsibidty for the bridge if it i vas used while the Pohcfete* WM'I till "green." J j

New Zealand Frogs Protected Two species of- New Zealand frogs have been protected by Act of Parliament for some_tjme and by amending regulations gazeited last night, all species are brought under the protect on of the Act The amendment was made neces-, sary by the recent discovery that there was a third species of native frog - which, under the legislation in force, was unprotected. The protection necessary has been proidded by the inclusion of all species of the genus (Rarrettie Ghmesii) to which they belong, in the schedule to the Act. • 5