Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 29 July 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Card Evening. The usual weekly card evening was hel'd in the Qha,u School on Tuesday night. Prize-winners were Mrs. Holder (ladies) and Mr. T. George (men). The consolation prizes went to Mrs. Haley and Mr. E. Fetersen. Petrol Coupons. Petrol coupons Nos. 4, 5 and 6 will be available at face value for August, said the Minister of Supply, Mr. Nordmeyer, last night. The Minister added that any unused July coupons, Nos. 1, 2 and 3, will also be available during August. So Near And Yet So Far. One horse almost beat the watersi'de -ban on Wednesday morning. He was to be loaded aboard the Picton steamer Tamahine. Standing in his box, he was waiting for the sling hook to descend and lift him aboard for the ypyage south.- At the crucial moraenti' .-the ,man in charge of the watprside' worker loading .cargo said: "I must see the irnipn ab'oUt. tftis.'" 5 "The hor?e' is still in Wellington. ''■> Haircuts. "How long does it take to have your hair eut?".:an advocate asked a witness in -the Court of Arbitraiion in Christchurch, during the. hearing of J>he hairdressers' dispute. "I do not know," said witness. "Do you not get your hair cut?" asked Mr. Jiistice Tyndall. "Yes, but it is taking less and less time each time I get it cut," replied witness. "So does mine, but the charge is the same," said Mr. F. C. Allerby (workers' representative). Stock Drive. The Levin School Jubilee Committee has inaugurated a vstock drive in an efforfc to raise sufficlent funds to honour the advent if the school's sixty years of service to the community. One bullock has already been donated, although the decislon was made only on Wednesday night. The committee thinks this is a very good start and is anxious that more contributions to the effort will be forthcoming. The seeretary, Mr. L. R. Salmons, can be lodated by ringing telephone 10 or the headmaster, 13 IS Levin. All stock donated will later he auctionea and the money deposited in the jubilee fund.

Cruise For Bellona. H.M.N.Z.S. Bellona will leave Auckland on Tuesday next for a month's shakedown. cruise in. the Hauraki Gulf after a major- refit— her first since the end of the war. Replacement of the cruiser's oilburning stoves foy electric ovens, Which will be greany appreciated by the galley staff when the warship is in tropical waters, was a feature of the refit. While in the gulf the cruiser will be thoroughly cleaned in preparation for her visit to Australia when she and five of New Zealan-cTs six frigates will combine with ships of the Royal Australian Nayy'in exercises. The New Zealand ships will sppnd a week in the Hauraki" Gulf in September before crossing the Tasman. The frigate not goirig to Australia is to undergq. a refit. Dishonest Policy. "In my opinion this practice of holding down the farmer who wishes to retire, to 1942 values for his property is a dishonest policy, and every person- who supports it brands himseif as condoning dishonesty," state^Mr. W. N. Perry, president, in his report .to the Dominion Conference of Fe'derated Farmers. "This small class of the community, namely, the farmer who wishes to sell out and tetire, is the only section of the community called uponr to make a direct contribution " to ward? rehabiiitation. The professional man who sells a practice, the tradef who sells his company, and the brewery company which sells an hotgl, ' and other people who sell anything to a returned serviceman are not treated in this way. Other sections, ■ of course, pay in taxation, but the farmer is the only class which is pieked out to be penalised."