Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 5 August 1949, Page 4

Local & General

. " ■ Midweek Football. A erowd of 10,000 paid £883 13s to watch the Auckland v. Canterbury representative rugby match at E'den Park on Wednesday afternoon. Of the receipts, £106 15s 7d goes to the Government in amusement taxation. Aii estimated attendance of 2000 saw the Maori League match at Carlaw Park. • Milson Airport Boggy. Milson aerodrome is temporarily closed to visiting light aircraft. This step was taken when it was found that the recent rains had made the ground boggy in parts and dangerous for light aircraft flown by pilots unfamiliar with the field. However, the National Airways services are still operating and pilbts of the Middle Districts' Aero Ciub are still using the field. Education Grants. Increased grants to cover the administration costs of education boards themselves and various e'ducational activities in schools, are provided for in, the Education Board Grants ' Regulations 1949 gazetted last night. The grants affected will be paid on a different basis from that adopte'd in the past. Another set of regulations, the Post-primary School Grants Regulations 1949, which are also gazetted, make provision for increased grants to cover incidental expenses at post-primary schools. The basis on which such allocations may be made is also slightly different from those ruling in the past.

Found His Own Car. A New Plymouth man, driving to Stratford on Tuesday night in a car which he had borrowed after his own had disappeared from-out-side a house in Fitzroy, noticed headhghts in a gully beside the highway. The lights came from a car which had evidently plunged off the road. The man stopped to give assistance and found it was his own car. The car had apparently somersaulted off the road ahd rolled over the bank near ILake Mangamahoe, about six miles from New Plymouth. The bonnet and other parts were damaged and there was blood on the front seat. £89,000 For Rock Removal. The Chago Harbour • Board has accepted a tender of £89,120, for the drilling, blasting and removal of about 27,000 cUbic yards of submarine rock at Goat Island. The job, which is expected to take three years to complete, is believed to be one of the biggest rmderwater blasting operations ever to be undertaken in New Zealand. When the rock ts rehioved, the width of the channel between Goat ' and Quarantine Islands will be increased by 100 feet and will provide a greateF degree of safety for the passage of ships. The rock will be used in other harbour works. Fine Weather. When Miss Vaughan St. Leger left South Wales in December for a world tour she took with her two suitcases, but no raincoat, umbrella, or hat. Now, after eight months' travelling in India, the Far East, Australia and New, Zealand, Miss St. Leger is still without these normal items oi a traveller's luggage, and she is willing to back herself for a small amount to say that she will have- "St.- Leger lUck' and will not need them before she returns to Britain at the end of this year. 'Tve had really amazin'g luck," she said in Christchurch. "I have not had to alter my plans once because of the weather. The only time it has rained when I have. heen out was in Singapore, and then I was on a beach in a bathing costume, and it did not matter, anyway."

Watchmakers Bill. ' Notice of(his intention to.ask for leave to introdUce a Watchmakers Registration Bill was given by Mr. M. Moohan (Petone) in the House of Representatives tyesterday. The measure is sponsored by the Horological Institute and is designed to ensure that repairs and other adjustments to timepieces are made only by competent craftsmen and that in this way the interests of the public are safeguarded. Dabbled In Photography. "I don't know very much about photography, but I have dabbled in the art," said the Mayor (Mr. E. H. Andrews), when ' he opened the sixth New Zealand International Salon of Photography this week. "Many years ago, when I was in business, we " had a photography department. When Lord Kitchener visited New Zealand we had an order for a, million photo postcards. We had to get them out in a hurry and my part in it was washing the photos, so I can honestly say that I have dabbled."