Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 25 May 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Hockey Results. The results of games played on ; Saturday in the Horowhenua i hockay competitions are-as foilows: j — Ladies : Raukawa 3, Levin 1 ; Tex- ! tiles 10, Coliege nil. Men: KimberI ley A 7, Kimberley B nil; Te Horo j 3, Levin nil", Rahui 10- Colts 4. I Blood Donors. [ One hundred blpod donors must i report to the Auckland Hosnital I each week if the required amounl r of plasma is to be made iocaily. \ Last week there were 89 donors, I includirtg 35 new ones.- Several j flrms are' helping by regiila'rly sup- ! plying donors but others will be ! asked to assist in raising the week- ■ ly number to 100. ! ! Paying Taxes. : > • j Vlf e very one oaid«his- taxes when-i j j they becaine due there * might be a ! substantial 'decrease in taxation,' j said Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M.. in the j i Auckland Police Court, during the ! ihearing of a proseeution bv the I Commissioner of TaxeS' for failure j I to pay income tax. ••"in-fact. I have been assured that this woul-d be the I case if payments were made at the j right time," added the magistrate, Virtue Rewarded. ... Two Foxton Beach visitors, . motoring to Levin were caught napping with a puncture, the tyre on the spare whe'el flat, and no ipump. Several motorists hasse-i | lunheeding until a woman motorist Iwith children on her way home to Rotorua foimd time to act the part | of the Good Samaritan. Virtue jwas in this cese rewarded, for after expressing her regret thafc she had not enough benzine to visit Hoxton Beach. the Rotorua resident was j 'delighted to receive two benzine [ coupons from the sti'anded motorj ist she had befriended. j Hats In Chureh. , . \ The subject of hats in church is ! tackle'd by the vicar of a South | Island parish, the Rev. J. D. Froud, j in his newsletter to parishioners. [ He writes: "it has long been conf sidered the custom for women to I wear hats in church largely be- [ cause of St.' Paul's instruction in ! rthe matter. The Archbishop of I Canterbury announqed that it was I the opinion of- bishops of the j Anglican Church that the ruie or ■ suggestion of St. Paul, so long I observed, did not necessarily app'y I to modern times." Mr. Froud I ad'ded: "A well-brushed head of I hair is more seemlv than some of s the etrocities which ba'ance nre- ! cariously on the heads of women j parishioners and-faf le-ss distract- | ing to other worshippers "