Local and General

Chronicle (Levin), 22 March 1949, Page 4

Local and General

1000-pound Shark A shark claimed to be 1000 lbs. in weight was caught at Cowes Bay, on the eastefn side of Waiheke Island, on Friday by GreenWells, Ltd., fish oil chemists. It was a ! grey nurse 10 ft. 10 ins. in length and 4 ft. 8 ins. from fin tip to fin tip. The catch was made from the launch Briny Marlin ,by the captain, Mr. N. Purdell. " February At The Library Thirty-seven new members were enrolled at the Levin Public Libjrary during February, reported. the litirarian, Mrs, Whitaker, to.last inight's" meeting ' of tne Levin Borough Council. The total nuiiii ber of books isstied was 7520, eomipared with 6366 'in February, 1948. It was made up.dS follows: — Fiction 6378, non-fiction 590, magazines 54' and juniors 498. Tank Landing Ship The Roose Shipping Company's former American tank landing 'ship Rawniti sailed from Port Waikato •;bn Sunday afterhooh -for Suva after 13 months of idleness. She wiil be i registeied will«Ijoad>,iW'ar! i Digpo'sal Boart fnkterials'vat'Buva for Sydney. ' Captam D. K. Mathiel son, of Stanley'Bay, is in command, with Captain W. " J. Keane as extra master. She carries a crew of about 18. Egyptian Sunflmver Brought from Egypt as seed i-n a serviceman s pocket, an Egyptian sunflower has grown to enormous dimensions in tne garden of Mr. W. Shackie, 7 Reynolds Street, Riccarton. The flower has a horizontal circumference of 33 inches and is shaped like a baL. The vertical circumference is 27 inches. The petals, which are about five inches long, are clustered together to a depth of about six . inches. ' The stem is 7 ft. 6 ins. long and about two inches in diameter. i Abattoir Killings A slight drop in the f ees at the Levin abattoir for the month of February was disclosed in the report of the manager, Mr. F- E. Larten, ro last nights meeting of .the Levin Borough CouncL. They totalle-d £1084 16s 7d, as against £1Z79 7s in February, 1948. The killings for the month were as folilows, those for the same month of the previous year being shown in i parentheses : — Cattle 507 (700), sheep and lambs 5105 (5160), pigs 870 (1141) and calves 28 (67) . Wool v. Cotton Shirts . ■Scnolars at -NfclSon College will icontinue to weair'Jflannei shirts in summer. By one vote, the board iof governors decided against allowing them to wear cotton. -Reasons given by opponents of the lighter garment were that the hot weatner , was of such short duration, and 'parents could not be expected to buy t'hree new shirts when their jsons, nad three already. Medical opinion, it was stated, was also in i f avour" of woollen shirts for wear in j hoo weather because they. were more absorbent. " Task For Therapists . ^ Occupational * therapists are sougnt for the residential training schoOx for children suffering- from cerebral palsy, to be established at Rotorua, Dr. G. H. Lennane, Director of Physical Medicine, toid a j Christchurcn audience that he did ! not seek people to instruct children how to make woolly rabbits or I leather bags. They. would' naVe to teach children to eat — not at m^l | times, because tfiere was riot sufnI cient time. As • part . of their inIstruction, children would go through the motions of eating, bei taught how. to dress and undress; themselves, and the things normal' children learnt as a matter of course. ^ '