Local and General

Chronicle (Levin), 15 March 1949, Page 4

Local and General

The Yawn Stuck Yawning w&s the cause of a Napier man being taken to hospital. He yawned vigorously, tnere was a loud click, and he was unable to close his mouth. Under a mild anaesthetic at the Napier Hospital the jaw was put back in its proper place. High Cost Of Sport Norman von Nida, Australian golf professional, said in Napier that it was more expensive to follow sport in New Zealand than in /almost any other country in tiie world. "One thing tnat has impressed me very nmcli," said von Nida, "is hoy^ mpcii ariy sport costs | the ' sportsman .'in'" New Zea.and. I have been-all over the world and I do not know of any country where the cost is so high." N.Z. "Sarte And Contented" A Canadian bowler writing to a friend in Timaru says that during his visit to New Zealand he thought that New Zealanders had a more sane and contented life than Canadians. He ehjoyed the greens in New Zealand, and on returning to British Columbia realised how poor were their own. A number of Canadian bowlers will take part in the British Empire Games at Auckland, he adds. j Plunket Pups I Human babies are not the only ones reared on the Plunket system. Scattered throughout Southland are severn robust Golden Cocker Spaniels. Their mother died of calcium deficiency, so the owner, to save the pups, sought advice from the Invercargill Plunket Society. A strict diet was maintained on accepted lines and there is now probably no healthier group of pups in Southland. Deer Photographed 'j Reports of tame fallow deer on the Caines Brothers' farm property at Makirikiri intrigued members of a visiting American film unit so much that tney called there speeially to photograph them while travelling between the Chateau Tongariro and Wellington a few ! days ago. Some excellent shots were taken on colour film by the ■ tourists and these they plan to show in the United States when : they return. For almost 65 years, I there have been deer in the , Makirikiri district. Tame deer have i been on the Caines Brothers' proj perty for about 35 years. ! New Collier On Way To N.Z. The Union Company's collier | Konui, which is making a delivery j voyage from Robb's yards, Leith, to i New Zealand, is due at Port Said within a few days, and at Auckland on April 20. The Konui sailed from Leith on February 23 with a cafgo t of basic slag after making her i maiden voyage to Antwerp to. load the slag. She was the second of six specially-designed shallow-draft | colliers for the West Coast trade to be ordered for the Union Company. Launched by Miss Mary Wootton last y.ear, the Konui is a 3000-ton-ner capable of carrying a dead- : weight cargo of 3030 tons on a draft of 17 ft. 3 ins., at a speed of 11 knots. New 'Sewerage System Although the ImhofE sewerage system has been in use in tne United States for a number of years, there are only four models in New Zealand. One of them was recently installed at Bunnythorpe by the Ministry of Works to service the houses at the State Hydroelectric Department's sub-station. This system is quite different from the ordinary septic' tank and is operated ori the following lines. Sewage flows into a tank 13 feet in depth and ten in diameter, and the solids fall to the bottom. The effluent liquid flows from the top of the tank into a trickling filter. There it is' distributed evenly over a bed of stones' and gravel about two inches thick, on which a jelly forms. The bacteria from the jelly purifies the effluence and the solids are drawn off twice a year and "dried.