Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 28 April 1949, Page 4

Local & General

| May Petrol Coupons. | I Petrol coupons numbers 31, 32 | and 33 will be available for May at | I full face value.. This was an- ! I nounced by the Minister of Supply, t ; Mr. Nordmeyer, last night. In ad- | |*dition, any unused coupons numJ jbers 28, 29 and 30 will be available I jat'full face value during the-same j jmonth. I i Old Coin Found In Paddock. | A farmer, Mr. E. W. Buckingham, ? found an 1842 English shilling I when he was- walking through a i | paddock at Rakaia recently. The 1 : paddock has been ploughed re- ! :gularly for many years, so he asi isumed that the coin w'as droppe'd | >by an early aettler. The shilling is ! in a reasonable state of preservaI ition. 1 j Army Shows Royal Wedding. i I A colour film of the Royal wed- | ! ding is one of the highlights of the | j Army mobile film unit's wide selecI ,tion at present being shown in the | window of AlJen's, Ltd., in Oxford ! Street. The films are being screenI ,ed in conjunction with the Army's i ; recruiting drive in the town. The ! films are all of general interest I iand are attracting large crowds. ! Searchlight On Levin. I i The piercing beams of search- | lights -drew many interested spec- $ tators to Oxford Street last night, ' I where the Army recruiting personi nel at present in Levin turned' on J a demonstration. The lights used ! were 58,000 candlepower beach 1 lights, with a range of 10,000 feet. j They will again be operating to- ! night between 7.15 and 8 p.m. | Thirteen Years Too Late. ! What appeare'd to be surprising j ignorance of the political scene in 2 New Zealand was shown by a State S department last week when a letI ter addressed to the secrecary of i the Reform Party was delivered to 1 the headquarters of the Auckland | | division of the National Party. The I Reform Party ceased activities I about 13 years ago. Enclosed in a j 1 "window" envelope, the letter had j ibeen posted by the Land and In1 come Tax Department, says an j Auckland report. It was re turned | unopened with a pencilled re- ! minder that the Reform Party no j Jionger existed. ! The Death Penalty. i ! When Mr. F. W. Doi'dge, M.P. for i ; Tauranga, was asked at a meeting ! at Wanganui to give his attitude | concerning the restoration of the j death penalty, he said that his j views might differ from those of I most others in the party. He had j no doubt that the majority of the J j members of the party would wish ( 'to see the death penalty reintroI jduced, but as a young jourijalist f ihe ha-d had to attend the hanging | ! of a young man and that had had | | a marked effect in moulding his j iown opinion. One judicial author1 jity had told him that, although he I jhad opposed the removal of the j J death penalty, he thought now that ? the law shoul'd not bfi r.hrmfrprt

J funtil sufflcient time had passed to j jgive the present law a fair trial. i Railway Refreshments. j Members of the Christchurch ? branch of the National Council of | Women have expressed- disappointj ment with the reply received from | the Minister of Railways, Mr. | Semple, to the remit from the i Dominion conference of the council | asking that light refreshments be ! served on trolleys at railway I stations to relieve the congestion in * railway refreshment rooms. The | Minister said the system of serving | food on trollevs had been tried, but S was so little used that he couM not 1 see his way to reintroduce it. Many | members said they had never seen j refreshments served by the Rail- » way Department on trolleys, but ! one recalled that she had seen a | trolley used once years ago. It was j decided to ask' the Dominion [ executive to reopen the matter with Jl Minister.