Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 9 June 1949, Page 4

Local & General

County Inspection. The Horo whenua County Council will this year make its inspection of the coiinty a tiiree-day one, instead of one-day as in 'ihe past. Ihe dates fixed for this year's inspection were July 1, 5 and 7. Centennial Jamboree Proposed. lne suggesnon thac a scout jamboree shouid he held in Canteroury in the centennial year of the province was made at a-conference of xay workers in Canterbury on Saturday. Boys from ail parts of New Zea and would attend, it was chough-. A remit on these lines WL1 be sent to the New Zealand Boy Scouts' Association. Main Highways. The District Highways ' Council, in a letter to the Horowhenua Ooiunty Ctiuncil yesterday, stated that 'tiie Main Highways Board couid not consider extensions of the present highway declarations owing to difficulty in meeting maintenan.ce commitments on existing main highways. The council decided to re-su'bmi: its recommendations for next yeai. Delivery Voyage. The 555-ton motor vessel Vestria, latest addition to the Northern Steamship Co.'s fieet, left Genoa at the week-end on another stage of her deiivery . voyage from Wales to New Zealand. The vessel left Barry on May 8 under the command of Captain J. Appleton. She will call at Livorrio and will then load phosphate at Sfax. She is expected to arrive in New Zealand next month. Official Authorisation. j The constructioh of a motor way ! from Wellington to Foxton, skirting I Porirua, Paekakariki and the bori oughs of Otaki and Levin, has [ been officially authorised in a : gaze'tte notice just published. A ' copy of the notice was receivea ! without comment at this month's meeting of the Horowhenua County Council yesterday. The Levin Borough Council also received a copy at its meeting last night. Prize For Happy Marriage. Happily-married coupies stand a chance of winning a novel conteso at the Waikato winter show — the Dunrnow F.itch competition. It is based on the old Engiish custom of awarding a flitch of bacon to a couple atiending the show who can prove that they have spent the firsc year of their married life in harmony. The prize is a hamp'er of food a month, which the winn'er will send for a year to the winner of the Dunmow Flitch in Britain. There are a number of entries. Cathedral For Suva. Erection of an Anglican cathedral in Suva will probably begin this year, according to 'the Bishop of Poiynesia, the Rt. Rev. L. S. Kempthorne. In 30 years members of the Church have contributed £16,000 towards the projeet. "The cathedral Will be completed in stages, beginning with the chancel. We shall erect the shell and leave it to posterity to complete the ornamentation," said the bishop yes.erday. Gorge Rock Blasted. A diffieult task, that of removing the 12-ton rock which had partially blocked the Manawatu Gorge on Monday; was successfully accomplished yesterday. Owing to .the danger of likely further 15 falls, work was not commenced until yesterday when a part'y of five men under the direction of the overseer, Mr. C. Olivecrona, was successful in shattering the rock with three plugs of gelignite. Portions of rock which were not blown directly •into the river were then small enough to be easily handled. Traffic was held up only a short .tjme * dijring blasting operations*