Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 20 July 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Jubilee Meeting. This year the Levin Dairy Company celebrates the 50th anniversary of the commencement of its operations. Tdiiiorrow the an-nual meeting of the company is to be held in the Regent Hall at 11 a.m. and a large attendance of shareholders is expected. Miles Of Wire. About 77,000 miles of toll and telephone lines are; operated by the Poso and 'Telegraph Department in New Zealand. The telephone reticulation systeni in .Auckland has 137,000 miles of wire in underground cables and 8270 miles of open aerial wire. j Street Frontages. •. v Until the labour; position improves the Levin Borough Council will be forced to discontinue its previous plan of tidying Up and leveliing the grass verges outside the homes Of hhfotigh" ' resid ents. Nowever, it was declddd at a meeting this week to fiiake feVer effort to attehd to thoSe for Which application has actuaiiy be'On made to the couhcil. ' / Flower SHow Dates, ,, The dates for the. three shows it will ho d during the coming year were deci'ded 011 by the Levin Horticultural Society at its annual meeting last night. They are as follows: — Rose show, November 15; dahlia show, Febr'uary 8; chrysanthem'um show, May 3. Mention was made that the St. Mary's Guild would be ho'ding its bulb show on September 13. Trial Foi* Negligeiit DriVihg. The trial of Lachian Thompson McLean, a 70-year-old farmer, of Waituna West, on one count of negligent driving causing death commenced before Mr. Jus'tice Greson and a jury in the Supreme Court in Palmerston North yesterday. The chargo against McLean arises from an accident at Rewa on March 27, wheil accused's wife, who was a passenger in his car, was killed. The Crown Prosecut'or was Mr. G. I. McGregor, and counsel for accused was Mr. A. M. Ong ey.

Tractor Plunges Over Bank. A Manunui farmer, Mr. R. E. Boddy, and his two young children narrowly escaped When a tractor plunged over a 25-foot bank into a swamp, smashing the trailer it was towing. Mr. Boddy was feeding out hay from the trailer and the children, a boy aged six and a girl aged three, wqre sit'ting on the tractor when it began moving towards the bank 25 feet away. Mr. Boddy tried to apply the brakes, 'out the tractor went oVer the bank, rolle-d three times and ended on its side. The children suffered injuries to their faces, hands and legs and the bov is now in Taumarunui Hospital. Mr. Boddy had a leg injured. It is believed that' one of the children accidentaliy released the brake.