Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 21 January 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Licensing And Gaming The licensing and gaming polls are to be held on Wednesday, March 9, the acting-Minister in charge of the Electoral Department, Mr. Nash, announced today. I Tne polls relate to off-course betting, closing hours for hotels $,nd the sale of liquor and other licens- ! ing matters, including a "wet" or "dry" King Country. Gaol For Chinese How Ted Joe Beck, a Chinese labourer, age'd 21 years, had been found in a filthy condition covered ' by hay in a haystack on a farm projperty at Bunnythorpe, w'as described to Messrs H. Greenwood and L. Skinner, J.P.'s, when Beck appeared in. the Magistrate's Court at Palmerston North yesterday charged with being idle and disorderly without lawful means of . support. Beck was sent to gaol for one month. Catch Recaptured A seagull carrying an 8 in. fish, hotly pursued by an angry small ; boy, entertained golfers at Hagley Park for some time on a reqent afternoon. The gull had difficulty in carrying the fish, and every 50 yards or so would alight on the fairway to secure .a fresh grip. Alternately charging ahead at full speed and then dropping flat to the ground, the . boy chased the bird 300 yards across the golf finks before he retrieved the fish. • Lightning Cooker i Thq electric oven, known as the, Dl, normaliy used for melting. plastic, will one day replace household cookers, forecasts Sir Kerr Grant, former physics professor at( Adelaide University. The oven ' ccoks a joint in one second, is no l larger than a refrigerator, generates as much energy as a radio .station, producing heat frequency" instead of radio waves. But its cost, for one thing, holds up its de- j velopment for the avei-age home — • £800.

Novei Demonstration Commonly known to the present genei ation as a "penny-fathing bicycle" because the rear wheel is smaller than the front one, but to older people as the "ordinary," a local resident will give a demonstration with one of these machines at the inter-club sports on the Levin Park Domain on Monday evening. Early in the present centfury these bicycles were a common sight, but with the introduction of the "safety," as modern machines are termed, they have become something of a rarity and always create much interest. Another Discovery Speculation about the discoveries made by Dr. R. A. Falla's expedition into the takahe country of Southland is rife in Invercargill and Dunedin. Newspapers were told that nothing official would be made public until Dr. Falla's report was made to the Department of Internal Affairs, but the Southland Times says it was reported unoffieially that the expedition "saw signs of another bird which has occupied a prominent place in the ornithological lore of New Zealan'd." > Nothing To Say "Oh, no, I do not want to say anything!" the newly-arrived Soviet official, Mr. N. Burov, turned on a most disarming smile, Then he quickly turned on his heel and walked away from the table in the lounge of the Corinthic where he had just changed English pound notes fqr New Zealand money. Thus Mr. Burov, with his wife and four-months-old baby, arrived in Auckland yesterday en route for Wellington, where he is taking up an appointment. What that appointr ment is, only Mr. Burov and the legation know. He was asked. His reply was a shrug and a shake of the head. ■ ■