Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 6 May 1949, Page 4

Local & General

8 'Abundance Of Trees." I Waipoua kauri forest has im- | pressed. tourists "and international- | y famous scigntists, but not al? | New Zealanders. A New Zealand 8 woman who. visited the forest re1 cently described it'in a letter thus: ! "Beautiful — an abundance of trees i )f every age." I Truck Catches Fire. | The Levin Fire Brigade received I a call -shortly before 8 a.m. today I Lo a fire in a heavy motor truck | owned by Mr. E. Coliis. The vehicle 1 had stopped in Cambridge Street 1 and when the owner started it 1 again the engine back-fired and 2 caught alight. The fire was ex- | tinguished without damage.- — • I Flower Show Prize Money. I Prize Money won at the Levin I Horticultural Society's chrysan- | themum show on Tuesday is now I obtainable from 'Ihe secretary, Mr. I A. O. Powell, at his residence. The | final check of noints gained in the ! various sections has resulted -in a I change in the decorative classes, | where first prize has -now been won | by Mrs. W. E. Bakerr ! National Party Meeting. 1 More than 100 people gathered to I hear Mr. C. M. Bowden, M.P. for I Karori, when he spoke in the Re- | gent HaP, Levin, last night. The 1 chairman of the gathering was the 2 Mayor, Mr. H. B. Burdekin. The I president of the Levin branch of I the National Party, Mr. B. Antcliff, £ proposed a vote of thanks to the £ speaker at the conclusion .of his ! address. ! Wedding Presents Stolen. 1 Wedding presents worth £60, bei longing to her, daughter who was I recently married, were stolen from | the home of Mrs. Kathleen Laker, 5 in Mount Street, Auckland. Other 1 property valued at £25, .including a | radio, was a'so taken while Mrs. I Laker was absent between 6.30 p.m. 1 and 9.30 p.m. Nine boxes contain- | ing wedding presents were not i touched. j Stickler For "The Truth." | "I must request cotfnsel to phrase 5 their questions in terms of 'truth I or untruth, correct or incorrect' in 1 their search for the truth," said | Mr. Justice Northcroft in Timaru | Supreme Court. "This Court 'does £ not want to descend into the braw2 lings of the kitchen." He was re- ! buking counsel for his practice of 1 asking a witness if statements 2 made by his wife were "deliberate 1. lies."