Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 12 May 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Playreaders Change Name. The Levin Piayreading Society will in future be known as the Levin Litt.e Theatre Society. The , change of name was upanimously • deci'ded af ter the monthly . reading 1 last night. Farmer's Warning. "If we can't get housi'ng in the ! country . the cities won't "be much ' ''good, despite their 40-hour week and other hooey," said Mr. Roy Craig, ehairman of ;.he dairy sec- ] tion of Mai^awatu Federa-ted Farm- . ers, at yesterday's annual meeting of the provincial executive. Dogs Attack Goat. j± figrn put up oy a goat when it was attecked by two aogs •which i had been kiiling sheep near Grey-I mouth this week led to the cap- j ture of the dogs. The dogs hadl killed one sheep, and they then j turned on the goat, y/hen they were caught. ' The dogs were destroyed by the borough inspector. Large Scale Rat Poisoning. Aoout 1,500,900 poisonea rat baits were distribu\.ed in the city and suburbs during the annual campaign against rats last week, said the Auckland City Council's. chief sanitary inspector, Mr. C. F. Pau 1. That hgure exceeded the number lissued last year by 100,000. InIspectors considered there had been ja definite reduction in the rat population. The Menace of Water Hyacinth. - "The Lands and Survey Deparfcment regards the spread of water hyacinth so serious y that it is atitacking the infes..ation imfiiedijateiy with a view to eradicating the Iplan from the Rangitaiki waterways." This statement is made jby Mr. E. R. Marryatt, fieids instructor of the Departmenu of Agriculture at Whakatane, in an jarticle in the current issue of the iJournal cf Agriculture on the rapid j spread of water hyacinth in Rangitaiki canals. Cargo of Beer. A (mai of 7b00 cartons of beer, representing 93,600 bottles, is being loaded at Auckland in the smaJ motor-vessel Melva, fcr Port Moresby, the administradve centre | of Australia's Papuan territory. The jshipment, which comprises a large > paut of the Melva's total cargo, has Ibeen obiained from two Auck and Ibreweries. The vessel is expected jto saii today. In the past year jseveral large consignments of beer |have been despatched from New 'Zealand to ports in the Sou-hwest Pacific. Women's Divisiooti Meets. The monthly mee.ing of the Levin branch of the Women's di- | vision of Federated Farmers was heid recently, the new.'y-elected presi'dent, ■ Mrs. C. Barthommew, ceing in the chair. The guest speaker for the afternoon, the Rev. A. Salmond, chose as his subjects the He en Lowry Hall in Wellington and women's part in farming in other lands. The good attendance aecorded the speaker its appreciation. The past yeaf's attendance prize was won by Mrs. M. A. Blenk-ho-rn. Afternoon tea, served by the hostesses, brought a very pleasant afternoon' to a e ose. Duck's Long Flight. The firsc band retrieved from a duck this year, was forwarded to the wild life branch of the Denart- j ment of Internal Alfairs by Mr.- A. Hall, of Oamaru, through the Waitaki Acclimatisation Society. The bird, a young grey duck, banded near Pa'merscon North on March 7 ' last, was shot on the Waitaki River. on the opening day of the game season in .Ihe South Isiand. Mr. Parry, Minister of Internal ■ Affairs, in •discussing this long flight today, mentioned that it is the longesl duck flight recorded in this country and was all the more interesling as.it had occurred before the opening of the 'North Isiand game peason.