Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 15 July 1949, Page 4

Local & General

s f Train Traffic Delayed. j North Island Main Trunk rail- § way traffic was delayed for about i six hours on Wednesday when a i truck of a goods train from Franki ton to Taumarunui was derailed | four miles from its destihation. j The only express affected was the | 3 o'clock from Auckland to Wel- ! lington, which was held up for $ about an hour. The cause of the i accident was a broken axle. About- | a quarter of a mile of the track J was damage'd, most of the sleepers | being broken. ( More Electric Fences. f The possibility that the shortage • = of fencing wire would induce farm- ! ers to invest in electric fences was I mentioned by Mr, R. S. Patterson ! (Opiki) when supporting a remit f from the Opiki branch of Feder- | ated Farmers. jat a meeting of the | Mana.watu provihcial executive ' S committee in Palmerston North • | yesterday. The '"rfe'ffijjtj adVodfetting | that licenses be grianted for the imI portation of double-headed naiis | suitable for electric fences, was | adopted. j "Not So Bad." | Living conditions for tourists in .1 Sydney at present are not as bad as | many _ New Zea'anders imagine, | according to a New Zealand woman | staying at a hotel in the city. In S her hedroom, she -sayg, are three | electric lights, a radio plug, and a | hot water service — and enough ! hot water for -a bath twice a day. ) A bus to the centre of the city i passes the hotel every three I minutes. "I see no inconveniences I except lamp-lit entrances, which | look a bit grim," she writes. "No j one here condemns the miners. All 1 they can think and speak of is the | Communists, whom they blame for | the whole trouble." I The Wharfies' Friencl. I "I received some furniture from I the south the other day," said Mrs. I W. J. Polson in ' an address at I Lower Hutt last evening, "and I when it arrived it was ma-rked, in I iettejrs a foot high, 'Mrs. W. J.' I Polson, the wharfi.es' friencl. God

| bless her,J " Mrs. Polson said with I a smile that after that "compliIment" she would haye to be careful in her criticism of waterfront labour. She h^d just told her I audience. of how 'a young man at * one of the New Zealand ports had I "earne'd" £4 for 30 minutes' (not I including "spelling" and "smoko") I work on a Sunday. Part of the re- | ward was "dirt" money for hand1 ling four sheets of lead. I Good-looking Cricketers. I Giving sidelights on the cricket I match between New Zealand and I Yorkshire, a wo'man writer in the I Yorkshire Post says the New Zea- | landers on the whole are a good- | looking team. Few pictures, she f considers, do them justice. The | teenagers — among them that group | of enthusiasts, who, although | ticket-holders, arrive on the ground | e-y 8 a.m. to enspre seats by the j players' entrance and never miss a a Yorkshire match ' at home— voted | 27-year-bld Raborie the most hand- . | some of the party, ' Bert Sutcliffe | an-d the six-foptet'Cave, oije of the S bachelors, scored, too. . • | Watching Their Umbrellas. J Aucklanders these days are not | so forgetful about thfeir umbrellas. | At the tramways' lost property T auction this week only 250 were for | sale instead of the usual thousan'd 1 or more. The auctioneers were sur- = prised when a Woman arrived with ! the cord and knob of an umbrella | and asked if she eould go through 2 the pile to find one that fitted. The | request was declined. Illustrating | the memory lapses of the com- | munity was the widely assorted list I of articles for sale. In 700 lots, | which took over three hours to sell, jj were clothjng, watches, cushions s and a "mystery parcel." - • a