Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 16 May 1949, Page 4

Local & General

j Ilcckey Results. * ! The fo. owing were the fesults of Saturday's hockey competition games in the Horowhenua district: — Men: Te Horo 10, Kimberley 1; Rahui 8, Kimberley B 0; Levin 8, Levin Colts 2. Women: Raukawa 4, Rahui 2| Levin 2, Textiles 1. Ducks Fly High. Few limit bags were secured by lbcal shooters when the open season for ducks commenced during the weekend. The' worst possible conditions for the spdrt prevailed oh the opening day, Saturday, and again on the Sunday, the birds fly- . ing very high. Similar reports were i received from many other districts.i | Minister's Apron, .j In addition to the Pahama hat which he .brought home from Havana last.year, the Minister of | Finance, Mr. Nash, iS now the posi sessor of a patchwork apron. Ac- ! cording to an advertisement in an invercargill paper, he won it ap- ; oarently. in open, competitio, at a New Zealand Labour Party bazaar. ; The advertisement gives no | description of the apron and does i not say what the Minister did to (secure the prize. | A "Mine"' Of Peiinies. Heavy rain in Rotorua provided a school holidav treat for Whakarewarewa children. It wash'ed up a "mine" of coins under a bridge in the resef ve. Prom this bridge tour,ists toss coins into the stream for . Maori children, who dive in and rejcover them., One man is reported I to have dug out 11s in pennies in i half an hour.

|New Zealand's Population. | New Zea and's mean population for 12 months, including Maoris, at December 31, 1948, was 1,841,424, an increase of moTe than 200,000 since 1933, according to the Abstraet of Statistics. The Maori population has shown a steady increase since 1938, the tatai now being 11,627, an increase of about 10,000 in the last 10 years. -

Rural St^Pte Hotises. Instead of bai ding all State houses in cities and towns, the Government should build 50 per cent. in the Country to rent them to farmers or farm workers, Said Mr. j. W.-Parkin, Whangarei delegate, at the conferenCe Of the ASsociated Chamfcers of Commerce. He thought that ift this Way it would be possible to cultivate thousands of acres now lying idle. Hardware Price Reductions. May 23 has beeh' e fixed * as • the deadline date after which exchange reductions must apply to imported hardware. From that date the present authorised wholCsale prices for any remainihg stocks of hard"/are 'miist be amended to exclude from costs the difference between the current rate of exchange and that ruling before August 18, when New Zealand currency was brought to parity with sterling. u*S.A. Wants n.Z. Lambs. If Britain wahts to Create dol'ars for-her own use or that of her GOmmonwealth, she should imniediately lift the bah on the exDOrt of New Zealand lambs, says an editorial in the American publication, Butchers* AdVocate. "We bave a severe iamb shortage "in America and we can afford tO pay tiiuch more in doilars than Britain is paying in pounds sterling," the artic'e adds. "The meat trade of ihe United States can present a plan for creating more Gollars lor Britain and New Zealand by urging :he cancellation Of certaih restric:ions on New Zealand meats at present."