Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 17 June 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Early Lambs; Early lambs are now becoming more numerous. Mr. H. F. Hall, of Potts Road, Ihakara," reports two were born on his property on May 1 and he now has a total of 22. They are the Dorset Horn breed. Maori Rolls Closing. The main roll for each of the four Maori electorates is to be closed next Monday, the Electoral Department having hotified to this effect all Maori welfare officers who are handling the canvassing of enrolments of Maoris. After Monday a supplementary roll will he opened for each of the Maori electorates. Big Cargo of Stamps. A quarter of a ihillion postage stamps, ' weighing more • than a hundredweight, were •. among the cargo of a British South American Airways freighter aircraft which left " London recehtly. ' ' Designed and manufactured in Britain, they form part of a new issue of stamps by a Central American Republic and all depict sportipg jsubjects. In all, 5,500,000 of the stiamps.are being flown out by B.S.A.A. Museum. Additions. ' . Six silver ornamehts from the estate of the late Mr.. Hallyburton Johnstone were among the gifts to the museum during, the month, said. ! the director, ' Dr. Gilbert Archey, at the monthly meeting of the Auckland -Mstitute : and Museum. r ... Other additions, , were Melanesian spears and.a club,- stone implements and fi§h hooks excavated from an old Maori workshop, a "penny farthing" bicycle, and a patchwork quilt. "Red Tape." "The position is that the1 Department fias recommended the board to purchase this equipment, and now the board has to make formal application for Ministerial consent. If that is not beating around the' mulberry bush, I don't know what is," commented the .chairman of the Wairoa Hospital Board, Mr. M. G. M. Williams, a,t a meeting of the board when the matter of purchasing certain laundry equipment and erecting two 30 horse power boilers was considered. "The position with the Department is hopeiess," added Mr. Williams. It was pointed out that considerable delay was often experienced because of the Government's red tape policy. Maternity Home Fire. An outbreak of fire in a nursery occupied by three1 babies at the Woodville Maternity Hospital was discussed at length at a meeting of the Dannevirke Hospital Board, the controlling authority of the hospital. It was decided to provide electric heating in the building in preference to gas which is used at present. The chairman (Mr. P. C. Smith) said that the fire broke out between walls dividing the nursery and the nurses' sitting room and had originated from the use of a gas heater. A considerable portion of the wall had been damaged and three studs had been burnt through. Businessman's Long Flight. A young Chinese. businessman from Hong Kong, Mr. S. C. Tsang, is making one of the longest business tours, .all by air, ever undertaken..,, He left -Hong Kong in April to visit the BJ.F. in Britain. By the time he returns to Hong Kong in October, he will have travelled 40,000 miles, the greater part by B.O.A.'C. He is visiting 20 countries in Eur'ope, Africa, the Middle East, the Indian Continent and the Far East, to secure business for, and expand trade contacts with, Hong Kong. Mr. Tsang is the manager of a big rubber products factory and assistant manager of a weaving and dyeing faotory, both in Hong Kong. When interviewed recently in London, he saw a bright future for Hong Kong, despite the troubles in China.