Local and General

Chronicle (Levin), 16 February 1949, Page 4

Local and General

Eyerything Turned On "We went to see a volcano and ifc was erupting. We went to look over the geysers, they were erupting. We wanted a shower of rain. It was turned on, Now we are in Levin for this outing and tne weather could not be better." This comment was made by a member of the scientific group which visited Levin yesterday as the. guests of the Native Flora Club. "Fireflies" • Hundreds of moths fluttering in Mie beams of powerful army searchlights at Blandford Park, Auckland, last evening provided a "firefiy"' effect to the band contest scene. Immediately the insects flew into the beams they seemed to be transi'ormed temporarilv into tiny flames of fire. Altogether, the setting in which the bands played, with its striking contracts of brilliant light and utter darkness, was truly delightful. On— Not Off t /'Were you the people who took pictures of us from an aeroplane on Friday," asked one of the crew of the Tasman race winner Veer Gynt, when a reporter and pnotographer boarded the yacht on her arrival at Auckland. The visitors admitted they were. "Came pretty close didn't you," the yachtsman aske'd. "What, did we scare tl^e pants-'off you?" asked the reporter*. "No, but you scared the pants on to one of us. He was sunbathing in the nude when you came along." But Those Hotels! "People back home go to places which are not as good as this for holidays," s'aid a member of the scientific group yesterday. He was standing on the banks of. the Ohau River looking up towards the hills. Your Chambers of Commerce should try and steer a' lot of them over here," he ad'ded. "They've got nothing like this in some of the places they go to. You've got everything here." Adding however that a better system in hotels was necessary, he said that Americans were used to private showers and baths in their rooms and "water that really runs."