Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 21 May 1949, Page 4

Local & General

j Tree Lovers. [ Post offi.ce linemen are tree lovers I at heart, but trees growing near [ telegraph an dteiephone lines are 1 stiil one of their main proble.ms. 2 jMore fines are broken by falling I trees or branches than by any I other means. and property owners I ican help to a-void many of the in- ! telegraph and telephone lines are I storms by trimming their trees j clear of all wires. 1 Phototelegram 8„erviee. i Ninety-six phototelegrams were 1 'handled over the Post Office OverI !seas Photo-telegram service during I the year ended . M.arch 31. This. | service can be used not only for I the normal photographic traffic but I also for business doeuments fpr | signatures and X-rays and pholo1 graphs for identification' purposes. I Almost any pictu.re or document I can be sent by the service. Pholo- | teiegrams are sent over normal i overseas radio-teTephone circuits. I While . not in use for phototraffip I the circuits are used for overseas I telephone calls. S Regent Hall Alteratiftns. I The construction of the supperI room, cloak rooms and kitchen at ? the Regent Hall is going ahead. The I j workmen have knocked out the two j jwaPs between the men's cloak- | room and the sfore-room and are | at present engaged in erecting a I beam to support the roof where ] one of the Walls has been demolI ished. The letting of the hall for, I the greater part of next week will 1 hold un the work for that oeriod | but the intentipn is to continue the I work with ; all sneed fchereaffer in 1 order to have the hall in order fpr i the dancing season. Thp hall will I be closed for three weeks from May I 30 to June 17 inclusive. I Fire Calls. 1 The need for concise directions I when giving the Post Office or Fire | Station information about an out1 break of fire has been indicated in | recent months when some deficiI encies have caused unnecessary | running by the Levin brigade. The 1 superintendent of the brigade, Mr. | W. S. Salmons. said yesterday that 1 the brigade's work could be made ! much easier if the fu'l description j of a street, e,g., Queen Street East | or Oxford Street North, was given ! or in the case of say Bartholomew I or Weraroa Roads, north or south | of Queen Street. The Post Office, | he said, was taken by the brigade 1 as the central point of its division I of the borough.

I No Dead Weekends. !"One thing which igreatly impresed me while I was in the United States was the way people worked i in the weekends. Everywhere I went | I found.that I could obtain every ! service I wanted oh Saturdays- and | Sundays without any trouble. The | Americans seem to have been able I to achieVe good working conditions ! for themselves without making the S weekends the dead periods they are j in New Zealand. The result is that ! all Americans are able to' gain fuller' I enjoyment of their leisure times." | These remarks were made yesterday I by Mr. I. A. Barnet, a we'll-known j stud cattle breeder of Dannevirke, I who has just returned from a stock I buying tour of the United States. | In the advertising columns of | this issue appear details of a disI persal sale to be conducted by the I New Zealand Loan and Mereantile | Agency Co., on the property of Mr. 1 J.. J. Guerin, at Kuku, on Monday, i May 23. The stock to be offered is | in first- class condition and is I thoroughly recommended to inj tending buyers.