Local and General

Chronicle (Levin), 26 March 1949, Page 4

Local and General

Tu Learn Fire Fighting A new clause in the New Zealand Licensed Hotel Employees' Award, issued toy the Court of_Arbitratiop, provides that the staffs of ' hoteis shall be instructed to the fullest extent practicalble in -fire-fighting methods and the location of fire 'escapes. This clause is part of a general settlement reached between the workers anid-'employefs iri conciliation council. Hats In Bellamy'is . One of the 'privileges held by a mernber of the General Assembly is to jbe' .able to' Ve^r his hat'' m 'the "siacte'd' ' precinc'ti of •Bellamy'st Nodouh't -^ahti-ng to be- diStinguiShed ' Troih • the- common herd,- a !lhrge -humber Of /feemtoersdnsisto omtexerr. i 'oismg .this. rightr-.In fact, .4t»f4s ift", rtefreshimg change to see'one who just walks. in looking like anyone .else. .ro« .«„ ; Not Before Time t i Not toefore its'dfline/'the- inte'fior bf ; i Parliament Buildings is having its ! ! face lifted. Peeling paint is toeing I |stripped off th.e walls of the miles j.ipf glopnjy qorxidprs, carpet,is being. ■ taken'up and; re|ufnishe^, the j leather seats .of tfLe ciiairs in ' the j, memibefs'" social room h'aVe been rej ; eOver'ed and the whole''p^,ce it'be- • ing 'sprtffeed' up -generaity. • One | ! thing still nji^mg^ is the head of j ;-the bust - of "King- Dick" Seddon, | which' used to stand in the Hall of I ^emories. It was cracked in the j j 1942 earthquake, and in 1945 was j I sent to a noted Auckland sculptor ! 1 for repairs. It is about time it was j j returned from the Queen City. Shipmerit Of Sugar vvith a cargo of sugar from Auckland, the Union Company freighter I kaimanawa' is due to reach Wellington on Sunday. With many , Wellington restaurants * ratidning I sugar to so much a .cup of tea or eoffee, and housewivds making do With brown sugar, the arrival of the Kaimanawa's cargo will be welcomed. After that, more sugar supplies are not expected until the arrival of the Waiana from Auckland. This vessel starts loading in Auckland next week, and will probably. sail early the following week for Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dun- • edin. Surprise For Bystander Alice, the 101-year-old "boss" elephant of Wirth's circus has a penchant for plain bread and butIter. A man with a basket on his arm, intently watching unloading operations at the Hastings railway station on Wednesday, did not notice Alice's great form as she lbomed up quietly. • A questing trunk . deftly removed two large lbaves of bread from the basket. Alice 'disposed of them in a single gulp. Feeling a nudge the man had 4 glimpse of his pound of butter disappearing into Alice's mouth t'o complete what the elephant appardntly consi'dered a fine meal of bread and butter. Alice .eats a hundredweight of hay a day and dririks enough water to keep a small locomotive running. Living Conditions "Disgraceful" "The. living conditions of Maoris at Huntly West are disgraceful and should ;be ibrought to the notice of the Maori Affairs Department," saidi the. district Coroner of Huntly CMr. R. Avfery) at the' inquest ihto the death of a three-weeks-old' Maori iboy. The baby's mother said , that she was f eedinp* him on the night of January 20 when she went to sleep. When she awoke next •morning he was lying by her side dead. Witness said that four ddults and eight children were. living in a small two-roomed house. The-size of the rooms was 12ft by ^ft and 12ft by l-2ft. This was the second case he had heard recently where a child had died under simdlar circumstances, said the Coronler. He returned! a verdict tha^ the baby had died from suffocation after being overlaid by his ,mother. . _