Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 20 April 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Post Office Holiday. The postmaster, Mr. A. V. Morgan, advises that on Monday next (Anzac Day) Ihe telephone ex,;nange will tae open continuously, but that all other branches of the Levin Post Office will be closed. Heater Catches Fire. A kerosene heater in the kitchen : of Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Clout's home ! in Kawiu Road caught fire shortly I after 8 a.m. today. It was dragged ' outside by M|r. Clout before the [ arrival of the fire brigade and the [ m y damage was to two fiaor mats. | Special Collection Of Books. j A specia1. collection of books on j painting and drawing is available ! at the Levin Public Library until I 'May 31 under. loan arrangements j. with ~the tlountr^ 1 Libr&ry Service. !. Details of the works comprising the I collection are available from the | librarian, Mrs. M. Whitaker. . j Old Age, Perhaps! j New PlymouJTs Pukekura Park ' Committee is worried afcout a. tree [ that is not looking; its best. The [ vioncern is reasona]fie, because the [ tree, a Spanish cliestnui, is by far the biggest of its kind in New Zea- [ land and possibly the biggest in the [ world. It is more th'an 100 years old. The committee will try to improve its condition. , Sheeo Stealing Charge. A farm labourer, James Henry Woods, aged ,37, married, appeared before Justices in the Pahiatua Magi.vtrate's Court yesterday [ charged with the theft of 40 sheep valued at £76 0s 3dj the property of Fraser Bros. and other s of Pongaroa. Detective-Sergeant J. G. Long, ' in applying for a remand till 10 [ a.m. on April 29, said other charges were pending and further inquiries had to be made. The remand was ! granted, accused being allowed j £100 bail with one surety of £100. j Too Much Power Used. An exuess consumption of 101,000 units cf e.ectric power was used by consuniers in the North Island last

week. The allocation for the week [ was 30,529,000 units and consumption amounted to 30,630,000 units. The Electricity Controller, Mr. I Dave'nport, stated that ihe rainfall at Taupo was sufficient to maintain the iake level during the past week. I Wery little rain had fallen in the l Waikaremoana watershed since the j middie of March and the lake level continued to fall accordingly. The | allocation took account of the Easter holiday period. j Coal Resources. Equipped with a new seismic prospecting unit imported from i Ameiica, the New Zealand Geo'o- | gical Survey will survey ' South j Auckland coal resources. Another ! miportant task for this highly | jefficient and mobile unit will be to i ispeed up and enlarge on the surf vey work required for the proposed I hydro-electric statians on the WaiI kato River. In all about 15 years of ! mvestig-afions can, be foreseen in | Soutli Auckland and a new per- | manent office of. the ..Geqlogical | Smvey is to be established soon in ! Rotorua. 1 I Danger To Motorists. I Moooriots who approach.thb new | Bulls bridge in darkness are' in j danger of being .deae,ive,4 by the I poorly defined footpath along the I bridge,,' according to last night's meeting of the , Manawata Automobi le Association., ; A. member I stated that various complai'nts had I been referred to hihi in connection I [with the footpath. From the inj formation available it . appeared I that the position could be improved | by a whiLe line at the edge of the I path. It was agreed. that the secIretary shou7d contact the appropriate authorities immedjately aifd place the suggestion before them. Iln a recent issue of "The Chron,- • ic?e" it was stated that. Mr. A. W. i Partom was nresident of the Welj lington Provincial and Levin ! Paullry-keepers' Assoeiations. This Ishould have read a past president. The present officers are Messrs T. Bright (blenheim) and J. V. Sid- ^ dall (Levin) respectively.