Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 1 July 1949, Page 4

Local & General

| Builder Injured. | ' When he fell yesterday from the i roof of a house on which he was [ working at Pahiatua, a builder, Mr. ! Selby Spencer Johnson, suffered I severe injuries to his face. He was I a'dmitted to the Masterton Hospital. Valuable N.Z. Stamp. Wellington stamp experts regard as a very poor price the £135 paid for New Zealand's first stamp at Hamer's, London, on Tuesday. The stamp was a penny fullface Queen and was printed in' London in 1855. Collins (N.Z.) Lt'd; lists the stamp I ; at £350 mint and* £160 used whPe | ' Pims (N.Z.) puts it at £325 mint 1 and £180 used. The price quoted 2 , by Stanley Gibbohs is £375 mint 1 and £30 to £180 used. J Left Sitting. 0 1 The Grand Canyon justified i everything that . was said of its £ beauty, Professor H. N. Parton to1d 1 the Canterbury Uniyersity Cdhege 1 Scientific Society. /T'm told it is a geologists' paradise';' it fvas hot a'S hot there as I e^pected," said Professor Parton, a physical chemist. Geologists ha'd tlie last laugh a moment later when the lamp on Professor Parton's projector expired. The illustrated part of the ^cture ended pfematurely. one of the last slides leaving Professor , Parton on a mule in the depths of the Grand Canyop. Double Century Cbmmemorated. The New Plymouth Boys' High School pupils were given a halfholiday on Wed'nesday in honour | of M, P. Donnehy's double Test ! century. Donnelly is an old boy of 1 the school, where he was head pre- | fect for two years. captain of the ? first eleven and first fifteen and | senior athletics and tennis cham- | pion. This mav be Donnelly's last 2 full season in first elass cricket. j Letters to his mother in New PlyI mouth indicate that his work will I take first place an future. Don- | nelly, who is employed by a British j rayon firm, hopes to visit New Zea- ! land within the next two years. I Historic Waimate Trees. J Norfolk pines nearly a century

I old iif the gra.veyard of the oldest [ Anglican Church in New Zealand — ! St. John's, Waimate North, Bay of I Islanfis — are being felled. The | .three giants were dangerously close, [ to the church and it was feared 1 that if they fell the roOf might be I damage'd. Two of the trees have J already fallen to the axes of Maori | bushmen, and the third, near the i lych gate, will soon follow. TJae I rings of the largest tree show a'n I age of approximately 100 years. Not J far away is another tree of parti1 cuTar interest. It is a fine puriri 1 which grew from- a febcing post ! Dut into .the ground in the ea.rly S 50's by Mr. Christian Neumann, one 2 nf the earliest pioneers of the ! North.