Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 28 May 1949, Page 4

Local & General

| jR «.A. Mernbershio Rises. i ! Levin shared- with a few other | assoeiations the distinction of re1 eordin? a ri.se in i'««# membership, j said Mr N. M Thomson, president I of the Levin R.S.A., in the course | inf Trrs annual renort nresented at I the annual meetin'p" this week. DurI ino- the Ta'st 12 months the memberI f ship figures had ri.se'n from- 4fin to I 1 490. and further increases coul.d be ! | expecfed during the coming year. f Manv Visitors. | The arts and crafts exhibition ■ which has been conducted in Levin j over the nast three days by the 1 fSouthern Wellington Federation of S Women's Institute^and which con- § icludpd -last eveningv-was seen' b^'ilo 8 fless than 1150 citiz'ens. The attend8 . ance yesterday totailed 4uu. The j i federation ext.ends its tnanks0 r-n ! I Messrs. W. M. Giark, Ltd., ana | ( Messrs. A. W. Alien, iitd., i'ur gno i j to assisL with the expenses ot thr | jfuncnon. 1 i ! Public Trust Business. | I : Estates to the value of £476,233 I were accepted for administration by i jthe Public Trustae. during the | i month of April, 1949. Grants of adi | ministration made by the Court in I favour of the Public Trustee num-: j bered 119 for the month. During | the month 576 new wills appoint1 ing the Public Trustee executor i were prepared on behalf of testa- | tors and lodged for safe custody, ! and 490 wills were revised to proI vide for changes desired by testa- | tors. The total number of wills now | held in the Public Trust Office on I behalf of living persons is 144,466. ! iBomber For £20. | j Three of six Hudson bomhers ! i which have been stored on the edge I 1 of the Taieri airfield for several I j months have been sold to ChristI Jchurch buyers. The bombers, which I jwere in service during the war in I ; the Pacific zone, were sold by tender J ilast week by the Stores Control ! Board, Ministry of Works, and, the fl jprices ranged from £20 to £40. The j j original price of eaeh Hudson was I j about £14,000. Two have been sold | J to Dunedin buyers and one to an £ I Oamaru buyer.

■ Would Unload Cement. I j If the Building Controller in Wel- | lington renews his offer to let I I Manawatu district builders expedite 1 , deliveries of cement by unloading | | cement ships at the weekends, he ! j will be met by an enthusiastic band I jof men anxious to begin work im8 mediately. This was revealed at a j recent meeting of the Manawatu I Master Builders' Association' when j' the secretary (Mr. F. G. M.'Parkin- | son) conducted a survey, which f showed that 54 men were offering i for the job and- that transport for * them to the port of unloading was | readily available.