Local and General

Chronicle (Levin), 10 March 1949, Page 4

Local and General

j ,Fire Warnipgs i ! A let.er expressing appreciation ! 1 of the Horowhenua County Counj cil's action in approving the - erec!tion of fire warning notices at Waikanae Beach was received from a : resi'dent, Miss D. Walton. She said that she hoped it wouM not Ibe long before they were erected and suggested the corner of Waij meha and Moana Roads as the site j for one. | Conductor's Plight j Gambling and liquor were almost , the sole topics of conversation in a I Auckland tram this moming. In ' one especially heated 'dispute in which two young men took opposite sides on the issue of hotels closing j .(at 10 p.m., the conductor was asicj ed to settle the matter. "You've ! got me there, mate," he said. "I j always stick to the motto, "the cus- | tomer is always right.' " I Drainage District Sougfat i Asking for the consdtution of a > drainage district in the Waiwiri j (Ohau) area, a petition signed by j nine ratepayers in the vicinity of | Lake Papaitonga was receive'd at ! yesterday s meeting of the Horo-' I whenua County Council. It was j decicied tnat the necessary steps : under the Counties' Act (1920) j should be taken to form the dlsj trict, but that the request should : firs't be forwarded to the Manawatu : Catchment Board for approval. | Moral Rearmament iviurai rearmament was "the greate'st force in the world today against Communism and materialTsm," said the Mayor of Wellington, Mr. Will Appleton, opening a | meeting last night. Mr. Appletcn, jwho attended meetings of tne ! movement in London recently, saiv: i moral rearmament should coinImend itself to Christians as pro|viding a workable plan for world., ipeace. The... meeting was addres~ea 'by a visiting South African police jofflcial, Major A. Cillers, who ! attended a Moral Rearmament 'Assembly in Melbourne recent'y, and Dr. Eric Ojala, who attende'd , the international assembly in Swit- : zerland last " year. — -Wellington, jWednesday (P.A.) .