Local And General

Chronicle (Levin), 23 September 1949, Page 4

Local And General

Mere British, Children. • t Fprty-rive more British children [ will come to New Zea'and next I week under the Government's , j child migration pohehe. Fourteen - I hoys and seven girls hetween six I and 17 will arrive iri the Mataroa. , [ on Monday and 17 boy.s and seven j girls are in the Rangitoto, which I is expected on her maiden voyage j on Tuesday. I Friendship Farm. I Be mce eo jour feliow empioyees. ! Proflt from the example of Mr, I F. Partridge, of .Lowburn Ferry, I near Cromwe'l. He warked for a I shoi't time with a -Mr. Weir on a ! Cpntral Otago station n.eariy 40 j years ago.'. Now Mr. Partridge has [ revealed that his acquaintance ! fefu him a £40,000 sheep farm in j New South Wales. He had neither j seen nor pprresPO?ided with his j benefactor sinee before World Wat I I. A manager wili r.un the estate, | which is at Warren, about 250 l miies northwest of Sydn.ey, [ Church Memorial. ! A memorial table and five I chairs, with panels of attraptiyeiy I grained and pohshed kauri and in-" I serted pieces of British Hpndnras I mahogany, has fceen presented .to I .ne Whangarei Baptist ChUrch by ! the family -of the late Mr. and ! Mrs. c. R. Lovavt, of Whangarei, I in memory of their parents. An i unveiling ceremon-y will be hefd f on Sunday, October The wood j in panels came from a knot-end' I left over as unsuitable for use in j baat-buirding. Its grain and texI ture are of rare q.eauty. Th3 set I is the work of Mr. E. XX. Fqster,f of Auckland, who made the New 9 Zeaiand Goyernment'f wedding j present for Princess Elizabeth. I Frisoner Stiil At Large. j The police have not yet founq ! wi.iiiajn Jam'es (27) * one I pf tWO prisoners who escaped fr'om S ;uxxc . gaoi achui\4 o^ippk f on the af.ernoon of t AhSust 26; ! With Dawson Gus King (26), a I three-quarter caste . Maor|, James i broke away from the ' cbecking I line-up and ran into the grounds I of the Auckland Granppar §chool. j Warders fired two shpts at the 1 men. The escape was tve 1-plan-1 ned, bo.b uaen changing into S civilian ciothes affer getting clear. 1 Several thefts in 'fhe' Mbunt- Eden 9 disfcrict were reporte'd to the police j soon afier the men ^caped. King i was found lying in a diteh on the 1 eastern side of Mount 14§n 3 I p.m. on August 29. j Aircraft To Bescuf. . „ . . ■ The air freight service operatep J by the N.a'4onai Airways pprpora--j tion came to the reseye of a I Christchurch eonfectioner yeste?T 1 day. His suppiies of .citrus peel I "were running put an.d unless be | couid get more quick y, he wopid ! have been forced fo cjpse his fae^ | tory temporarily, Askecf |o h«}P I n.a.c. a.rranged for a Paknta 1 freight pxane tp make a speeiai J flight from Whenpapai \o Ghriet- § church yesterday affernppnf faking 2 three ahd haif "shprt ions of peel. ! The cons-gnment wa# ioaded yes- | terday morning an'd the Dakota 2 left at 1.15 • p.m., arriving at I Christchurch at 4 p.m. The faeI tory was in fpU production I ioday. ^ 1 Learning About ice Cream. ^ .. 2 The excenu and growth of the ! ice cream industry in New Zea^ 9 land is indicated by the attendI ance, at a refresher course at 1 Massey Agricu tural' College, of ! J about 45 managers and operators j of ice cream plants in parts of 2 ihe Dominion as far separatqd as 9 Auckland and Alexandra. The I course, which will end today, is i covering a wide field) with lectqres I and demonttrations . ,on such I aspects "as piant jayput? faetqry i hygiene, effecting aavings in. manl aemept, production ari! disfribU" J tion problems,' and, in the plore i general sphere, industrial psyeho- | logy as applied to staffs, apd the I ice cream ifidustry ahroafi. Tlie j course will concliide today with A •1 J brains trust ahd ee#slob. '■■■*;