Local and General

Chronicle (Levin), 1 April 1949, Page 4

Local and General

Brooklyn School Jubilee . On September 24 the Brooklyn Public School will celebrate its Jubilee, when it is expected that many schooiday friehdships . will be renewed. To enable an authentic ;record to be compiled of ex-pupils, ! all old scholars are requested to ; send in their names and addresses, 'togelher with period of attendance at the school, to the Jubilee Secretary, Brooklyn Public. School, Wellington. i Flight Test i- The first flight as a civil aircraft of the flying-boat Takitimu, a forbier R.N.Z.A.F. Sunderlafid, was made yesterday. This latest addition to the Nationai Airways COrporation's fleet will enter the : Auckland-Suva service on Saturday, replacing the veteran flying-boat Mataatua. ConVersion ' of the Takitimu took six mohths. R.S.A. Working Bee Work on the preparation of the Levin R.S.A.'s bowling green must be completed tomorrow in readiness for the soWing of the grass the fol-. iowing Saturday, whicn is the last day the green expert can undertake it. So that this may be! accomplished another working bee has been arranged for tomorrow. from 8 a.m. onwards and ail members are asked to attend and assiSt with the work. Public Trust Business Estates to the value of £569,859 were accepted" for administration by the Public Trustee durihg Februai'y, 1949. The new business for the eleven months ended February 28, was £7,256,160. Grants of adffiinistration made by the Court in favour of the Public Tru&tee numbered 146 for the month. The steady increase in the number ofi wilis held on behalf of living testa- j tors is continuing and at the end of February, over 143,500 wills were held. j Musters His Herd On Motor-cycle Many farmers ride horseback to mmter their dairy herds, but Mr. Ross Walker, of Maungakaramea, North Auckland, uses a motor-cycie. 1 Early in the morning and at 4 .j oiock avery aftemoo'n he roars across his paddocks at full speed, brings up sharply behind his large herd and rounds up atrays by rushing up ahd circling at their heels. His motor-cycle has a special j bucket-type seat spring to cushion ; large bumps in the paddocks. Mt.l; Walker hasn't yet found a Substibute for dogs and still uses three. Bouble Amputee Gfets Farrn The presehtation of a 190 acre farm to the flrst traihee tb be grad- i ed'frorh the Disabled Servicemen's1 Training Farm at Milson was made recently. The trainee, Mr. Douglas Gollatt, is a double amputee. Located in the Mt. Stewart district, the farm on which he will Settle within the next few months, will carry ( sheep. Among the large assemblage • of guests present at the special'; dinner to mark the occasion, were ' the Minister, the chairman Of the 1 Training Centre Committee (Mr. J. Linklater, O.B.E.), Colonel J. Murphy, president of the New Zea- : land Disabled Servicemen's League, and Mr. W: E. Leadley, generai ; secretary of the league.