Local and General

Chronicle (Levin), 22 February 1949, Page 4

Local and General

Use Of Regent Hall Sports bodies ahd others requiring the use of tlie ftegent lTa.ll during the coming winter wi'll have to make application in the same manner as those rfequesting street days. This was d.ecided last night when the Levin Borough Co'uncil received a reques't for the use of the hall fjrom the Levin Table Tennis Club. Applications will be received for the use of the ha.l at the March meeting of the council, and they Will then be allocated times and days. - / In Committee "We have tonight finali&ed with Mr. Garrett, of United Theatres, Ltd., the arrangements regarding the Regent Theatre stairway and the Covering of it and the foyer. We have also considered further developments at Playford Park including negotiations • with adjoining owners." This wa5 the statemqnt made available to the Press by the Mayor, Mr. H. B. Burdekin, "when the Levin Borough Uouheii resUftied in open meetihg last night after a lengthy period in committee. Ulster's Loyalty "The people of Northern Ifeland do not seek independence; they do not want to alter in any way their position of absolu'te equality with their fellow citizens in England and Scotland," said the Rt. Hon. Sir John Milne-Barbour, one of Northern Ireland's administrators, in a broadcast on Sunday night. "You will find that Ulstermen are king's men. George VI is our king, the Union Jack is our flag, and all the resources of the province will always be unreservedly available -to the British Commonwealth of Nations." Another Poljlceman For Levin? An indication that if accommodation was secured another policeman would be sent to the Levin station, was made by the Mayor, Mr. H. B. Burdekin, at last night's meeting of the Levin Borough Council. He said that in a recent conversation 'with the Commissioner of Police, Mr. D. J. Cummings, he ha'd made a strong recommendation for an increase in the Levin force, said Mr. Burdekin. The commissi'oner had pointed to the difficulties of seburing houses in Levin, but had promised that if one was found the forde would be increased. Bicycles On FoOtpaths The question of bicycles being left on the footpaths in Oxford Street, instead of in the racks constructe'd for fch'em, w'as raised at last night's meeting of the Levin BOrdugh Council, when the Mayor, Mr. H. B. Burdekin, suggested that it was time steps were taken to put an end to the ptactice. He said, however, that he had dis'cusfeed the matter with the Sergeant of police, who had said that the council should first ensure that bicycles left in the racks would be safe there as, with the absence of no parking zone markings around the stands, gars were inelined to en- 1 croach oh the racks. The works committee, it Was decided, would go j further into this matter. Less Stocfe Slaughtered It appeared that the February killing tallies were going to be well ddwn because of the dissatisfaction of the wholesalers *and retailers with the Goverrtiheftt's wholesale meat price order, commented the manager of the Levin abattoirs, Mr. F. E. Larsen, in his montlily report to the Levin Borough Co'uncil last night. January had been a good month, however. Mr. Larsen submitted the fdllowing figures for the January killings, thdSe for the same month of last year being given in parentheses: — Cattle 845 (651), sheep and lambs 5702 (4932)-, p'igs 745 (690), calves 26 (15). Ten cattle, two sheep ahd seven pi'gs had been condemned.