Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 1 June 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Telegrams To China. Tmegrams are now being accepted ior an pouiLs in umna, advises the postmaster, Mr. A. V. Morgan. He adas, nowever, that traiiic is subject do indefiniie deiay. Christchurch Milk Supply. iiougnu (ior aoout t«x,000, the muK-Lixatins pianu and the whoiesaie recau rnnk . runs m Christcnurch are now being operated by tne Government. It is expected, however, that the Christchuijch IvniK Oompany, comprising equafiy iepresentaoives of consumers and producers, will take over ihe plant oxi J uiy 1.

Telephoned Telegrams. The number of received telegrams telephoned to addressees who are teiephone-exchange subscribers at Wellington now totals about 1400 daily. The sarne number of messages are also phoned out daily at Auckland. Much time is being saved oy plioning out messages. A confirmatory copy of the telegram is always sent to the addressee by post. United Nations Flag. New Zealanders will have their first opportunity of seeing the official United Nations flag flying in the Dominion on June 6. The flag, which is blue with an emblematic globe of the world in the centre, will be flown that day in observi ance of the King's Birthday from the Wellington building which houses the headquarters offlce of the United Nations' Association of New Zealand. Feilding's Automatic Phones. Some five years are likely to elapse before Feilding will be provided with an automatic teiephone service, stated a letter received by the Feilding Chamber of Commerce from tlie Postinaster-General, at its meetirig on Monday night. The information was supplied through Mr. M. H. Oram, M.P., who took up the chamber's inquiries on the subject. The Postmaster-General added m his letter that meanwhile the new post ofiice was to be equipped with a new manual service which would provide for a first-class exchange and improved toll connections.

"Wag-o-the-Wall" Known in Scotland as "wag-o-the-wall," an unpsual wall clock has been lent to the Canterbury Museum for inclusion in the tableaux of pioneer colonial furniture which will be placed in the museum during the centenary of Canterbury next year. Tlie clock is constructed to fit into a tall cabinet or be fixed on a wall. It is a pendulum clock and its face is of painted wood. It was such furniture that the museum was seeking for display .in a tableau depicting a Canterbury cottage between 1850 and 1860, said the director of the museum (Mr. R. S. Duff). Simple household furniture of the period seemed difficult to fiiid, he said. Weed Killer Train. ' Stated to be the first experiment of its kind in Australia or New Zealand, a hormone weed-killer train has been engaged from New Plymouth to Marton spraying the permanent way. Later, it will return to Taranaki to cover the Opunake branch line and move up the Strat-ford-Okahukura line. The train had been operated for some tifne with the older type of weed-killer, of which approximately 200 gallons were required for a mile of permanent way. Only 16 gallons a mile are required of the hormone mixture and it is expected that substantially more efiective results will be obtained. The train sprays over a width of 14 feet.