Local and General

Chronicle (Levin), 23 February 1949, Page 4

Local and General

Cricket Film Tonight Cricketers of the district will assemble in the Horowhenua College hall, Levin, at 8 pan. tonight for the screening of the New Zealand crieket coaehing film. Accompanying it will be leetures. by Mr. C. Oliver, the Wellington coach, and Mr. M. F. Pengelly, of the Wellington Umpires' Association. The evening will be of considerable interest and benefit to players. Caledonian Sports. When congratulating the Horowhenua Pipe Band at the weekly athletic meeting on Monday night, the president of the Levin Athletic and Cycling Club, Mr. W. Ctibb, mentione'd that he would like to see the Scottish Society stage a Caledonian sports meeting. It was a nighlight in any district, with its dancing, piping, and athletic, field and cycling events. Mr. Cribb promised his club's full support if the gathering was organised. Good Mile Run Under " rdeal conditions a - newrunner to Palmerston North, Len Ingram, Waikato one and three mile champion, ihtroduced himself to athletics enthusiasts at the Sportsground last night. He ran a good race from scratch in the senior mile, coming hbme a good second to L. Hawthorne in 4 mins. 34 9-10 secs. He started off 120 yards behind Hawthorne .and finished up : about 30 yards to the good. Ingram will be running in the district for the remainder of the season. Rare Marriage Service Two o.d-established Maori families were united through a marriage service performed at- St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Hawera, on Saturday— one of the few nuptial masses ever celebrated for Maori couples. In the first ceremony of this type in his experience, the Rev. Father J. J. Riordan, C.M.G., married Hine Whakangi Doreen Rongonui, a descendant on her mother's side of the old Taranaki chief Honi Pihama, and Roy Tumanako Tawharu, of the Ngati-Raukawa tribe, now of Palmerston North. No Reciprocity « The ahsen.ce of rehabilitation reciprocity between New Zealand . and the United States was referred to by the district rehabilitation office in a letter received at the 'Metropolitan Licensing Authority meeting in Auckland tnis week. A United States ex-serviceman who was stationed- in the Dominion during the war and married a New Zealand girl, was seeking the transfer of a public hire taxi. While he wa's not eligible for assistance in New Zealand, the letter stated, the office had given him advice, and did not feel justified in oppasing the transfer of the licence. Library's DiflRculty Some difficulty had been expenI enced in changing books from the ! National Library Service van, which I now, un'der- the present Traffic ! Regulations, had to be parked at ' some distance from the library I doors, eommented the librarian, i Mrs. M. Whitaker, in her report xo ; Monday night's meeting of the ! Levin Borough Council. It was not I very easy to carry by hand some i 400 volumes from the library to the ! Van and a like number from the ! van to the library, especially m i wet weather or during a high wind. I She suggested that a light trolley ' he borrowed for future visits. Issues f for the month were as follows, last i year's figures being given in paren- : theses:— Fiction, 5596 (5586) , ! magazines, 50 (43) ; non-fiction, 414 (285); total, 6060 (5908) . Issues from the National Library Service were: Fiction, 87 (206); nonfiction, 78 (260) ; gran-d total, 6730 (6632).