Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 9 August 1949, Page 4

Local & General

I Three Records. > "In 1948 we set up three new, ? , best ever, health records. The num1 her of our babies dying under the 2 age o-f one year was the lowest I ever recorded. Still births weye the ! lowest ever known and our general I death rate. was the lowest eyqr reI corded." — Jennie Lee, member of ! Parliament; speaking in the B.B.C. j series, "Famous Women." ! Skirt Catches Fire. I In an linusual acqident at the i weekend, Miss Pearl Mason, aged | 22, of Dunedin, was badly burned I when her dress caught fire. She i was having supper at a cafe and i was not near a fire or heater when ! her .skirt of fine net caught alight, [ burning her on the arms and body. I She was taken to hospital, but | allowed to leave the fpllowing day I in the care of a nurse. It is thought | possible that the skirt was set I alight by a spark from a cigarptte.

1 Cheque For A Penny. j Who but a practical joker would | write a cheque for a ld? A former 2 Dahnevirke dairy farm'er, the late | Mr. O. Christopherson, re- ! ceived such a cheque some I 29 years ago when he overpaid j the Railways Department for I some goods. He never cashed I the cheque, but instead framed it j at a cost of 3s 6d. Today it hangs j on the walls of the offlce of his ! son, Mr. L. Christopherson. Waipui kurau, and arouses the curiosity of I many. I School Jubilee. I With the diamond jubilee of the ! Levin School falling in February I next, plans are already under way I to celebrate the occasion in a fit- $ ting manner.. A series of functions I are to be arranged which will bring i together many past pupils and also { those who have served on the staff 1 or committee in former years. The I initial meeting a short time ago was I poorly attended and with the vast I amount of organisation and preI paration work to be done, more | helpers are required. Former pupils ! and others eonneeted with the ! school in earlier years are, there1 fore, invited to attend a meeting to 2 be held 'at the school tomorrow ! night at 8 p.m., and thus interest | themselves in the project.

! Early Vegetables. I ' Nelson-grown peas and new j potatoes, the first of the season, 1 have been on sale in Christchurch I for the last few weeks. Only Small I quantities of peas have been reI ceived, and the first consignments ! have been selling at 3s a pound, * and last week at 2s. This year there i has been a break of only a few | weeks between the finish of last | season's peas and the appearance | of the new season's peas from Nel- | son. Some of last season's peas, I which were on sale about three or ! four weeks ago, were supplied to | the Christchurch markets from I Sheffield. Small quantities of j early tomatoes, grown in Jocal J glasshouses, are now on eale at 7s j 6^ a lb. . I Softwood Production. L It was believed that the huge I forest of exotic pines on the. pumice 1 country would ultipiately supply -a i significant propprtioh of Australia's I spftwopd " impprtatidns prbvsjLbusly' 1 obtained from Scandlnavia ' and t North America, stated the Director | o'f the State Forest Service (Mr. A. J" R, Entrican), in a recent report. | That would be possible, he added, 2 only by the operation. of mass pro- | duction mills in which sawing costs | would be reduced sufficiently to 1 permit competition with Scandina2 via and North America. It was [ imperative in the interests of | future generations that the exploit2 ation of native forests be limited I to the minimum consistent with f satisfying essential requirements.