Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 25 January 1949, Page 4

Local & General

.No Olive Oil, Please W'ftergidefs and IJalmatian volunteer workers'who l'oade'd the Yugoslav ship Partizanka were yesterday guests on board the liner for dinner. Evefything went down wefi — excgpt th,e olive oil. On the completion of loading fchey were treated, with true' Daimatian hospitality, to wine. "I won't complain i'f we have a ship like this to work e.v.ery week," said -one of the W§t£rgjdgrs. , * f-i ' r ; *j j}'.. *• * Ship's Luxury Fl^t Who wb'ujd lfkf a luxury air-con-ditioned flat aflqqt? There is one available.in the new Orient liner Orcades, which "has reached Australia 011 her rnaiden voyage, at a modgst £2.60 per week. The flat contains fyedroqm, • sitting roo'm, priyate radio, yerandah running to the sidg of the 'ship, bathroom, lavatory, entrance hall, boxroom and a pantry equipped with "a rqfrigerator and breakfast heater. Two Tmcks Collide Two light trupks were extensively damage-d w'hen they collided m pxford Stregt at qbout 10.50 p.m. on Friday' nigh't. One ' vehicle was driven by Yopng Chan, of Muhunoa and the othe'r by Mr. D. J. Co'nvery, of Winchester Street, Levin. Mr. Convery was travelling in a hortherly direction, while Yquiig Chan was proceeding south'. The aepident occurred near the Levin School. Show Entries With a'further 100 entries received for the Horowhenua A. and P. Associat'ion's annual show, which Will be heldi on • Friday and Saturday, the total to date' is more thaii 300 above thp record total received for the 1947 show. Final figures show a total of 2300. -There will be 30 entries in the Wellington proyincial championship ' jumping which will ' take' place 'on the second day of the show and prize mdney'totalling' more "than £75 ' will be at stake. "Upqzorenje" Prominently displayed aboard the Yugoslav liner Partizanka are cards h.eaded, "Upqzorenjp," followed by several lines. of print, apparehtly in the same language. Below this is printed the English trans"Jation: "^dvertisemgnt: Passengers afe w'arned of nqt throwing on floor lighted res'ts of digaretteg in cabins, hulls and desks.'** Several of these notices have been fetranslated by the aid of pen and ink to read: "Passengers ' are warned against j throiving lighted cigarette butts on j floor of "cabins, halls and deeks." ! Feeling The Strain "The British people are tired. | They are very brave, but they are ' fegling the strain of austerity," 1 saifl Mrs- M. T. Anderson, who re- j turned to New Zealand in the i Cqrinthic affer §t.ayiiig with herj marr'ied daughter at Wellington j (Sufrey) fbr " sonie months. Th(ej food parcels being sent out from, •New Zealand' were a wo'nderfiil hplp, but people, oonld heip' stiil moirn if they excluded vegetables and sent more tinned meat. "It?s ineat the people n.eeid," she said, as mu.qh as we can 'gend." Meat Erices i "I notide that wholesale meat prices are to be controlied from , February l,,rsq.id the'chaiiman of ! directofs of thg Gear Meat Company, 'My. gtronacfi Rgtersop, at j tbe annugl meeting ' in Wellington. J i'lf this cqntrol follows the pattern j oTe^rlien cpntr,qlg,.we can look for- 1 w'ar| to qn'J increased scarcity Of j sppplies, " pro|)ably ' hlgner prices, . girdi certainly unsatisfactory mar- | g'lps." He a(|:ded that .inequitable cphtyol by th'e authorities of retail meat prices had adversely affected the year's profit#. ,