Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 29 August 1949, Page 4

Local & General

Is Your Car A Notornis? The name of a New Zealand bird which until recently was thought to be extinct, is used in an additional sense — to describe a car which is so old-fashioned that it has become almost extinct. "Wormed" Their Way In. The Kiwi which lost a leg hy being caught in a rabbit-trap at Opotiki has now a home in the Auckland Zoo. Children bringing worms with which to feed this rare bird are admitted free — fourteen of them on one day this week with a tin of worms in place of a ticket, Lovers' Pew. For the benefit of courting couples, a Methodist parson has shortened evening ehurch services from 80 to 60 'minutes. He has set aside pews for these young people, and nobody worries if. they hold hands. The parsoh, ReV.' Jdseph T. Hodgson, of Bromley, Kent, got the idea from somie of hundreds of couples he married. Not On Agenda. "Are we tn committee?" asked a member of the Canterbury Education Board, when the chairman, Mr. A. E. ^Lawrence, read a note handed to" him shortly after the meeting began. "No," said a number of voices. The note read: "HavS any of the board members parked their cars outside the building? A traffie inspector is busy doing a bit of chalking." Public Trust Business. Estates to the value of £596,747 were accepted for administration by the Public Trustee during the month of July, 1949. New business for the fout months ended July 31 was £2,613,03^. Grants of thus helping to make the afterin favour of the Public Trustee numbered 138 for the month. During the morith 665 new wills appointing the Public Trustee executor were prepared on toehalf of testators and lodged for safe custody and 623 existing wills were revised to provide for changes desired by testators. The total numher of wills now held in the Public Trust Office on behalf of living persons is 145,098. Wedding Hitch. The nuptials were due to commence in a Taihape church at 5 o'clock. Came 20 minutes past the hour and still the guests waited — still no sign of the bridal party. Little did they know. On a nearby playing field the finals of a hockey tournament were being fought out. As full-back for one finalist team the Maori bridegroom was being spurred on by the cheers of his prospective bride as she ran up and down the sideline. Word at last came through to the guests that their wait had been in Vain for the game had been lost. However, new' arrangements were made and when the guests reassembled at the church at 7 o'clock, this time with the bridal party, everytfatng went off without a hitch.