Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 21 June 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Big "Welcome." Colo-ured lights forming letters I 100 feet high spelling out "WqU 8 come" or "Welcome to Napier" may j be seen on the side of Bluff Hill. 1 The idea is being ' investigated by I the Napier Chamber of Commerce j as a possible tourist attraction. I Health Camps. The introduction of more local area eommittees to bring the New Zealand Federation \ of Health Camps more closely in touch with the public and to facilitate discovery of £bildren needing heal'tji Icamp t'reatment was 'recommended by the ffejd'eration's" Dbminion advisory board when it met in Auckland on Saturday. r ■ Scientists To Report.' ' Dr. O. J. Murie, leader of the rec'ent scientific expedition to Fiordland, will give the Governme'nt a full report on the wapiti, their 1 numbers ' and their alleged ravages I in the West Coast Sounds. district. I The Minister of- Internal • Affairs, I Mr. Parry, has asked for a report on 1 the scientists' findings, but- it will i probably be several mpnths ibefore I the result of their- extensive investi- | gations is available. j Invitation To Dean. I An offer to pay his passage I money if he will come, to, New ZeaI land for the Canterbury, centennia1 | celebrations has beenrmade by the I committee organising them to the I Dean of Christ Church, Oxford. In | support of its plea to the dean to ! come, the committee points out | that an undergraduate of Christ J Church, Oxford, John Robert God- ! ley, is regarded as the virtual I founder of Canterbury. 1 Kotel's Early History. 1 Referring to an article in "The 2 Chronicle" last Friday speculating 1 on the year in which the Levin I Hotel was built, a correspondent, I "Old Settler," says it was ihterest- | irig to local old timer§. £^The hotel I was estabhsh'ed in 1890 by Mr. I Peter Bartholomew," says the I writer. He was a timber merchant I and operated the hotel for three ? years before it was acquired by I Mr. F. L. Garland." ! Visit To City Factories. I A party of 25 members of the i Shannon and Moutoa Young ? Farmers' Clubs will.make a.n educaI tional tour of Wellington factories | on Wednesday nejct under the | auspices of the Levin and Welljng-- | ton «Junior Chambers of Commerce. | They will be accompanied by six | members of the Levin chamber and 8 will visit a modern plastics factory, I a paint factory and the railway I workshops. I New Fireman's Helmet. I A fireman's helmet made of a 1 woven glass facric impregnated with I resin was demonstrated at the re- | cent annual conference in Welling- | ton of New Zealand fire brigade j superintendents and deputy-super-1 intendents. The cloth of the heh s met, which is a British inventiqn, ! is made from spun glass powder I' and the makers claim the helmet is 2 brickproof, slateproof, fireproof, 1 and capable of resisting electric I current of ljO.OOO volts, either wet I or dry. The helmets in use in New | Zealand are made from either cnrk I or leather. , , i j ! Apples Toi Canada. I The Acting-High Commissioner i (Dr. Clayton Hopper). has been | advised of the arrival at Montreal ! in. good condition of 30,000 cases of 1 New Zealand apples. Except, of 2 cohrse, for the dollar position, said ! Dr. Hopper, there was no' reaspn I why there should not be a two-way I trade in apples between Canada ? and New Zealand. New Zealand I apples would arrive when they were [ scarce in Canada, and that country ! could supply apples When they ! were in short supply in New Zea1 land. He added that because of the 2 dollar shortage Canada 'had prac1 tically lost her considerable market for apples in Britain,