Local and General

Chronicle (Levin), 14 February 1949, Page 4

Local and General

Sports Tonight. Tlae usaai weekly athletic and icycnng competitions will be conducted by the Levin Amateur Ath.etic and Cycling Club on the Levin Park Domaifi to^iight. . j Boy fecouts Shop Day. The Le'vm3'Bo-V; Seouts^will hold a shop day tomoxrow in order . to raise funds. As this is the bcouts : only public appedl' each year, it is iioped that the public wili respond ^enerously. iifeneflcial Rain. . The district has!. benefited considerably from the,fsteady light rain which began yesterday. According to Mr. Howard Hatvey, of Cambridge Street, Levin, 80 points of rair? fell up to 6 a.m. this morning. ' Seven Rats — One Trap. A letter describing a big catch ' made with a -''box and trip-door" . rat trap has been:.sent to the Auck- ■ iand S.tar by a reader. A female' rat entered the empty box and tripped the slide. When the box was opened, however, seven rats were inside. The solution: six baby rats had been born in the box. Healthy Oysters. Oyster breeding in New ZeaRand appeared to be much healthier than in Europe where there had been a neavy mortality, said Dr. C. M. iounge, professor of zoology at the. Jniversity of Glasgow, in Auckland yesterday. Dr. Younge is.attending the Science Congress and left for Christchurch la.st night. Hfe is .also hnpressed by the size of'New Zea.and crayfish which, he says, would jrimg high prices overseas.

Rabbit Poisoning By Air. The distribution of rabbit ^poison . by aeroplane is being considered by runholders in South Canterbury^ This was reported to. the Soiitb Oahterbufy Catchment 'Board by the pastdral liaison officer who said ihat when a Christchurch flrm'had oifered to sow grass seed and disLribute poison from the air he had considered the scheme of such importance that he had sponsored it. The firm claimed to be able to distribute 400 ?b. of seed over 1500 acres in an hour at a cost of £6. "Debt" to IJnited States. "I feel the people of New Zealand owe -us in the United States the perpetual opportunity to cothe here among you and enjoy this wonderful forest in a state of absolute primeval preservation," said Professor W. H. Shepherd, professor of landscape architecture at the University of California, speaking at a public Lecture in the science biock of Auckland University College. Subject of the lectiire', spdiisored by the Au'cklahd brahch Of the Bird and Forest Frotectioh Society, was "National P'arks of the United States." . , Additions to Museum Library. * ' ! Some valuable v.olumes have been added to' the Auckland Institute and' Museum librai-y. An intCre'sting acquisition is the Atlds (pubiished in 1826) of Duperi;y's vdyage around the world in La Coquilie. This rare work has.sonie fin§ coloured plates of natives in varioiis parts \>f the world. .BurkiH's' dietionary of the economic produets of the Malay Peninsula should bC of use to botanists, geologists arid others. Donations incldde a publibatidn with 208 full-page photbgraphs of Praglie, and John Hutchinson's feeent work, "British Flowering Plants:" In the past four ; mOnths ovef 400 b'ooks and pamnhlfets have bee'n added to the library, the majority having been' nurchased from the Edward Eafle , Vai-le Trust Fiinct. J