Post Office Hours

Chronicle (Levin), 20 January 1949, Page 4

Post Office Hours

The usual hours will be Observed at the Levin Post Office on Mon,'day, January 24 (Anniversary Day) , ■ j advises the postmaster, Mr. A. V. ' ' Morgan. However, no delivery will : 'be made by postmen, but the rural . pelivei'y will operate as usual. ' TihiC; P ussyfopts^ On 1 ;ifi .I;n^r ; | Kittens may be companionable [ creatures to have in' a home, but ithe'y become expensive pets when jthey start removing the family [jewellery. When a wristwatch was ' missed from a Dunedin home /recently, suspicion pointed to some iunknown intruder. The watch was, i however, discovered and returned iby a small boy later in the day ;from the gutter in which it had •been lying some 200 yards from ithe house. Apparently the kitten 'had foun'd it an acceptable plaything. Experts "Faulted" Speeches over the public address system could not be given at the I annual dinner of the Electrical ; and Ra'dio Federation in Melbourne. Some of the city's best ! radio and electrical engineers, answering the call for volunteers to repair a fault, called nail flies, pen knives, and forks into service. But in the end, the speakers had to rely on the carrying power of their own voices. "I'm afraid it is a case of a physician being unable to heal himself," remarked the president, Mr. A. H. Gibson. Farmer Takes Bets "It is unusual to have to fine a man who has carried on the useful anfi dignified occupation of farming over a number of years, .and who has taken up this wretch!ed cause," Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., jtold Herbert Stanley Goldsack, I farmer, of Springvale, when he I appeared before him in the WanIganui Court on a charge of keeping a common gaming house. Detective-Sergeant J. K. 'Robertson explained how he had visited defendant's house and foun'd him taking bets over the telephone. jThey were 32 in number and of a total value of £22. The Magistrate imposed a fine of £25 with 10s costs. Electricity On Farms He had been staggere'd to learn that 94 per cent. of the New Zealand farms were connected to electric power supply, said the Victorian Minister of Agriculture and Forests, Colonel A. H. Denriett, in an interview last week. "You have attained here what it is gping '-to take years to develop in Australia," he said. It was gratifying to him that this amenity, which was really a necessity, had been made available in New Zealan'd to those who deserved it most. Some of the workshops he had-seen on New Zealand farms had amazed him and the best of these could not have been so complete if electricity had not • been laid on. Colonel Dennett, who sai'd he was a great lover of horseflesh, added that he had been disappointed to see so few farm horses in New Zealand., He realised that this was because of the high degree of mectaisation of the farms.