Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 12 July 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Democracy or Despotism? The threat which Communism makes to the democratic way of life will be dealt with by the Minister of Works, Mr. -R. Semple, when he addresses a non-political public meeting in the Regent Theatre, Levin, at 8.20 p.m. on Sunday night. A film entitled "Here is .New Zealand" will be screened after which Mr. Semple will speak on the subject of "Democracy or Despotism." Guitar For Wrestler. Wrestler Pat Fraley is known outside the ring for his singing ability. When he arrived at Whenuapai from San Francisco he was presented with a new guitar, on e of the flrst off the production line of an Auckland factory. It was the gift of .his friend, Tex Morton, a New Zealander who is wellknown in the Australian entertainment world. r "Something Speqial." - "This ought to be. marked with something special," jemarked Mr. M. E. Lyons, cMirman of the Christchurch Technical College Board of Managersf, when a letter from the Education Department notifying the abolition of free place returns was received. The abolition of a return to a Government department was almost unheard of, he added. Telegrams To Germany. All classes of telegrams may be accepted for the British, French and United States zories in Germany and their sectors in Berlin, according to advice received by the Chief Postmaster at Auckland. Telegrams to the Russian zone and sector of Berlin may be accepted only at ordinary or urgent rates and the use of code is subject to the special authority of the Allied Control Commission. Search For Motorist. An intense search for a driver of a truck which struck a 52-year-old woman on the • Day's Bay Road, near Point Howard, on Wednesday, is being made by the Lower Hutt police, but so far has been unsuccessful. The victim was . Mrs. Dorothy Drain, Howard Roa'd, Lowry Bay. She is on the seriously' ill list at the Hutt Hospita.l. The police are anxious for information regarding the truck which was being driven towards Eastbourne and did not stop after knocking the woman on to the rocks beneath the level of the road. Labour Attache JSuggested. On the ground that New Zealand is at a disadvantage at International Labour Organisation conferences through diiferent delegate's attending each year, a suggestion for a Labour attache at the High Commissioner's office in Lon'don, or elsewhere has been made by the workers' delegate to last year's conference, Mr. M. C. ' Kilpatrick, of Christchurch. Commenting on the suggestion,' The secretary of the New Zealand Federation of Labour, Mr. K. Baxter, stated that^ New Zealand had as much ability in economic or labour matters as older countries, but, because these countries eould afford a permanent delegate, they filled the committees continually. - A Cairn Reply. An example of what he termed the famous "phlegmatic nature of the Cockney" was given by Mr. T. M. Howgrave-Graham, former secretary of Metropolitan Police, London, in an afidress to the Canterbury College Law Students' Society. A small house had been destroyed by a bomb, and the occupants were thought to be in an Ariderson shelter down in the garden, said Mr. Howgrave-Graham. A constable who banged on the locked door of the shelter at first got no response. Finally the door opened and a voice sai'd : "What the 'ell do you want " When told that his house had been destroyed, the Cockney said: "It was a blinking rotten house, anyway."