Local and General

Chronicle (Levin), 7 March 1949, Page 4

Local and General

; It's Always The Same "The great ' problems' that gov'ernment has to handle don't dif- | f er much all over the world ; the IGreeks, more than 2000 years ago, Iwere concerned with just the same | things as those that worry us in (England now — with keeping peace |and doing justice with the relaI tions between one State and j another."— professor Simmons in !a B.B.C. broadcast. I Rep, Softball Teams I The following Horowhenua softI ball teams have been chosen to i play in Wellington next Saturday: — A team: Skiltom Stackhouse, Morgan, Desgrand, Marshall, Bonher, Greatbatch, Atkinson and Fletcher. B team: Learmont, Morton, S. Bonner, Swan, Rose, Taurine, Manuel, Rossen and King. Playei's will assemble at 8.30 a.m. at the bus stand and will practice tomorrow at 6 .p.m. New Leper Stafion A new leper station at Tetere; on Guadalcanal, is expected to be opened this month, Mr. P. J. I Twomey, seeretary of the Lepers' 1 Trust Board, said on Friday. Mr. Twomey diselosed that there were 1000 leper natients in the British South Solomon Islands awaiting fereatment, The new station will be staffed by a native doctor and two nursing sisters specially trained at the' central leprosy hospital at Makogai, Fiji. j ' , Good Organisation No smail amount of work was involved in arranging for the appearapce of the Wellington Wutersid'e, Junior Band in Levin during the weekend. Credit must go to Messrs. H. A. Robertson (president), W. C. Shilton (seeretary), M. H. Boyce (conductpr) and the committee of the Levin Military Band, who sponsored the visit, for the organisation. The smooth manner in which all the | arrangements were carried out i won general praise, j

U.K. And N.Z. Goods | How many housewives would i buy New Zealand-made china, silver or silver-plate, soap-savers, or many other New Zealandmade articles if. they could purchase the imported equivalent, asked Mr. Colin Mclntosh, in his report as chairman at the annual meeting of the Farm Accounting Association at Christchurch. Mr. Eden, he said, had appealed very strongly for New Zealand's support to help Britain get on her feet by buying more manufactured goods. This was something all farmers would like to see, and he thought this view would also be taken ih the cities.