Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 2 May 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Vital Statistics. The vital ~ statistics recorded at Levin for the month of April* are as follows, the figures for April, 1948, being given in perentheses: — Births 16 (22), deaths 9 (10), marriages 6 (6). Boxing Cancelled. The Levin Amateur Boxing Club will nQu hold its gymnastic and boxing instruetion tonight on aceount of a prior booking of the Regent Hall. The usual instruetion will take plaee next Monday night, May 9, at 7 p.m. '(Arctic Steak." "Actic steak" was the best piece - M ineat M -had .to .eat.wfjilg. an *. holiday in England, saM Mr. Jug4 tjcei.Callan in ahf address to the Auckland-. 'Cathblicl Men'S Luncheon Club. It was a' euphemistic term for whale. "It was a good thick piece of meat," his Honour ad'ded. "There was no fishiness or oiiiness about it." » Tr,- • , Social Security Payments. Soeial security "benefits and pen- , sion payments, wiiP be made on the Ifqllowing dates' during the month jof May: — Family benefit, Wednesday, May 11; age benefit, -Wednesday, May .18; • benpfits- fpr widqws, I ipvaljds, - miners ^ and,-,. okphans, T^iursday, May 19; ' ; war ponsion Payments, Monday, *' May',. % 3;' ' war veterans' allowanc'e, Ttiesd'ay, May 31. ' ' I Racial Co-operation. I What was described as "a great j enterprise in racial co-operation" iwas seen by the G'overnor-General, Sir Bernard Freyberg, V.G., at Wes1 ley College, Paerata." In a college j of European, Maori and • Islands j pupils, the head prefect is a gamqan, Sene Tupai, and his de'puty a Tongan, John Utu. Their j associates are two Maoris and two ! Eurqpeans. Man's Death In Street. b An elderly man died in Oxford j Street at about 8.15 o'clock on Saturday night. He, was Mr. James McCracken, aged 64 years, of Wilton SLreet, Levin. Mr. McCracken was waiking along the footpath when he apparently had a heart seizure and died bef ore medical aid could.'reach him. An inquest was opened before the cqroner, Mr. J. S. Moir, and adjourned sine die after evidence of identification had been taken. He is survived by a sister in Levin and a brother in Christchurch. Propagation Of Pine. Ap attempt is to be made at Hastings to propagate a cone from a descendant of the famous lone pine tree which prompted the naming of the "Lonesoipe Pine" sector on Gallipoli. An Australian war veteran of the campaign, reVisiting Gallipoli after the FirsL World War, took a cone from the solitary tree and on returning to Australia succeeded in growing a sapling from this seed. ' A cone frpm this tree has been sent tq Mr. S. Howard, of Hastings, who has handed it to Mr. J- G. Mackenzie, . superintendent of the borough reserves. If the tree grows it will be known as the "grand-sop of old Lonesome Pine."