Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 29 April 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Trampers' Outings,. The Levin-Waiopehn Tramping :Club made a toial of 30 trips lasi jyear, with an aggregate attend;ance of 400 members. These con(stituted 23 weekend trips and sevcii {day trips. The 30 excursions were jmade up of eight working parties, • Ifour ski-ing trips and 18 tramping trips. - . . Indoor Bowling Tourney. : A post-entry combined disrict inj ! door bowling tournament will* be I ;held in the Ohau Hall tomorrow, | jcommencing at'lO'*a,m- This is the j Ifirst tournament of its kind in the f ! Horowhenua and it is hoped that it 1 j will be the forerunner of many ! ' others. Teams representing Mou- ■ | t'oa, Koputaroa, Raumati, Levin j j and Ohau will b.e present. i. i Five Army ApoJicants. I, j Five applicants for the Army J |were given an ap itude test in the • Levin Borough Council Chambers Miast night. The tests were con- | jducted by Major E. G. Spraggon. ; iBesides these men, two women , candidates sat the test, which is ; i designed to discover the section for which the appiicant is best suited. consideration also being given to his or her wishes. The recruiting officers will remain in Levin urrtil |9 p.m. tonight. |Many Adoptions. 1 j Sixteen adoption applications :were dealt with in Christchurch ilast week by two magistrates. Mr. jRaymond Ferner and Mr. Rex C. I Aberne.hy.^ The number of people (in the Magistrate's Court was uniusually large. The adopting parjcnts in each case, the solicitors , concerned, and also a number of | taxi-'drivers were in the rooms or jnear at hand, as well as the children concerned. One three-weeks- ! o.d Chinese giiT was adopted by jChinese parents. An English girl, [aged six, and two twin girls were jincluded in the children being jadopted. All the applications jwere granted. 1 1883 and 1949. In January, 1883, the Lyttelton :;Hartour Board opened its flrst. :jgraving dock, and ihe first vessel ; |to use it was the sailing vessel j Hurunui. To mark the occasion : | the board gave a banquet. The . cost was £533, and £240 of that was for the wine list. Last week the i board again celebrated the visit to Lyttelton and another Hurunui, a new motor-vessel, an*d gave anouher function. "This ga'thering I am afraid is on a much more moderate scale," said the chairman (Mr. C. W. Tyler) . He presented the master cf the ship with a pieture of the first Hurunui — the new one is the fourth — entering the graving dock, and a'so a pieture of the menu, including the wine list. How Law Earnings Ga. Problems of expenditure in a typieal legal offlce were neatly summarised to the Dominion legal conference at Auckland by Mr. H. R. Wild in the course of a paper on office organisation. "It is nothing less than the truth," he said_, "to say that the average practitioner works for his staff from Monday morning until Tuesday afternoon, for the landlord until well into Wednesday, for the sundry creditor until Thursdav morning, for Mr. Nash until the evening of the fourth day, and gathers his failing strength to win some brea'd for his own family on Friday. In these circumstances it is important tosee that we get value for the goods I and services we have to sell."