Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 15 August 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Rangerous Teapots. Teapots have caused more deaths than the hlast furnace, Dr. Helen Deem told delegates to the Plunket Society's 'biennial conference. She stressed the need for guards on electric radiators and eovers for electric switches in the home. Maori Game Off. The combine'd Maori team will not now play Horowhenua in the rugby game scheduled. for Saturday, according to adviqe reoeived from the Maori Advisory Board by Mr. J. E. Fullarton, secretary -to the Horowhenua unionw It was staied that 'Wairarapa/, playays * woilds *nojt. be available and in view af this fact it had been, decided to dis-r continue the game. Relativity! "You cannot build a stable within a certain distance of-a house, but you can build a house close to a stable. That is the folly of the oy-iaws," said Mr. F. W. Gould, ao a meeting of the Waitotara County Council. "You can build a house near a nuisance, but you cannot put up a nuisance near a house," said the engineer, Mr. W. J. Gardiner. No Audience. Community life at the Auckland fJniversity College is at a low ebb, according to the Rev. H. C. Dixon. He said ac a pubuc meeting 'called cy the Auckland District C'ourt of Convocation, that a recent debatmg conies„ was attended by nine people — six speakers, the chairman, and two in the audience. A major oraiory contest had no audience. All clubs found it difficult to hold meetings. Mr. Dixon advocated a residential college. Ancther Kiwi. Tne Hawke's Bay Acclimatiiation Society has another kiwi on its property at Greenmeadows, replacing the bird with a wooden leg which died, some months ago. The bird was caught in the headlights of a car in which Mr. and Mrs. W. Suther.and, of Taroponui station, were returning home at midnight. When trying to escape from the glare the kiwi became bushed in thick fern and scrnb. It was later taken ■ to Greenmeadows. / Wasps Rob Bees. A Hamiiton beekeeper, Mr. J. D. Lorimer, has suffered considerable ioss through the depre'dation of wasps. When he inspected a stand of 34 colonies of beps owned by him and situated in a gully on the Cambridge road near Hamilton, he found that wasps had consumed the store of food honey that had been left in the hives for the bees, and, all the bees had died of starvation. The bees were worth £2 a colony, but they could be replaced by the subdivision of other colonies he possessed. • Sea Training Cuurse. Five New Zealand boys "WiU shortly be selqctgd for sjx lnonths' training in the Prince of Wales Sea Training School at Norfolk, England. Tpe school' is operated by the British Sailors' Society, whose London "headquarters have offered to receive and train free of qharge five boys aged between 15^ and 17 years from New Zealand. Spe-cial consideration is promised to spns qf seamen, pai?rr ticqlarly those whose fathefs" have , lost their lives or suffered corq.plete physical disability. The Prifice of Wales School, the society clalms, is a first-class training school and one of the most successful of such es.tablishmonts in ; the United Kingdom. h "