Local And General

Chronicle (Levin), 19 October 1949, Page 4

Local And General

Bus Driver Captures Kiwi. a The driver of a Wanganui River Services bus captured a large kiwi about two miles below Pipiriki on a recent afternoon. An approach will be made to the authorities at the Alexander Museum in Wanganui to have the bird placed in suitable captivity. Food Parcels Arrive. Carrying 5070 food parcels of a total weight of 52,665 lbs, the freighter Cufic, which left Napier cn Augus: 23, arrived in the United Kingdom on Monday of last week. The parcels inciuded those posted in Auckland and the province between July 22 and 29. Raffle Ticket Selling. The Wanganui Education Beard decided yesterday that it did not approve of the selling of r-afflp tickets by primary school children in aid of school funds. Mr. W. H. Brown said that quite a number of schools were asked to raise money for their own asphalting. It was hard to raise money today. New Zealand Metals. Metais other than silver and gold produced in New Zealand last year were valued at £21,105, according to the Mines Statement. The most valuabie were iron ore from Onekaka, Okaihau, and Kamo, and tungsten ore from Glenorchy and MaPrae's Flat. Arsenic was obtained from Waiuta, 'antimony from Mount Stokes, in Otago, and manganese from Clevedon. Heart Surgery. The heart surgery clinic at Green Lane Hospital had 97 cases in its first 12 months of operation, Mr. Douglas Robb reported to the Auckland Hospital Board. Patients had come from the four main centres as well as other districts. Operations had been performed in 37 cases, including blue baby patients. 'There was now a waiting list of 50. Wrong Time. "Language problems sometimes got me into trouble in my few months' stay in this country," said Dr. E. L. Palmer, Professor of Rural Education at Cornell University, New York, in a witty address to the Auckland Rotary Club. "I was travelling to Wellington in a sleeper just after my arrival here, and to make conversation I said to the man next to me, 'I see you are travelling light.' " "No," came back the answer, after he had looked at his watch, "we're right on time."

Overseas Consultation A Wellington woman who, learned on Monday that she was £10,000 richer than she was the previous day showed no signs of ' the excitement which might be expected in such circumstances. She is Mrs. I. M. Burton, a 30-year-old post-woman, to whom the mail brought the news that she had won first prize in an overseas lottery. Mrs. Burton, who lives at Lyall Bay, Wellington, has been working as a .post-woman since March and, in spite of her good fortune, intends carrying on with her job. She has been taking tickets in the lottery for years. The nom-de-plume she used this time ' was "Chinaman's Luck." The Mpdem America. "We look on the United States as an advanced country in the mechanisation of its farming and •liomes," said the Assistant Director' General of Agriculture, Mr. R. B. Tennant, in a talk to the Levin ( Rotary Club this week. While there recently he had spent the night with a farmer in Iowa, "a very excellent chap, and one who was comfortably off and most hospitable," continued Mr. Tennant. While there was a refrigerator in the kitchen and other appliances, there was no running water laid on to the house and no bathroom. Water was drawn from a nearby well and the bathroom was 100 yards from the homestead. On enquiry he found that many farms were similarly situated. "I make this . observation to show that even in the modern America the farmers have not taken advantage of all these new things," added the speaker. , j