Local And General

Chronicle (Levin), 9 November 1949, Page 4

Local And General

Tennis Team. The following team is to represent St. Josenh's in a match against Koputaroa on the St. Joseph's courts on Saturday, commencing at 12.30 p.m.: — Ladies: Miss J. Lynch, Mrs. J. Ahern, Misses M. Cla.pcott and J. Fanning. Men: P. Ryan, A. Gray, G. Hesp, Junr., and N. Baylis. A Naval Guinea Pig. New Zealand's wartime cruiser Leander has ended her active career to become a naval guinea pig at the English dockyard of Devonport. She is being* prepared for s'hip target trials, which are to take place at Loch Striven in the Firth of Clyde early next year. When they are completed she will go to the shipbreakers. Disappointing Fishing. Fly fishing in the Taupo district since the opening of the season last week has been disappointing, due to the fact that many trout are still in the rivers. As a result of heavy rain discolouring the streams fishing has been difficult. Late spawning is blamed for the poor condition of many fish landed. Mapping Lava Flows. The lava flow from Mount Ngauruhoe during its recent eruption is being investigaied by the I geologist to the Auckland Museum, Mr. M. T. Battey, and a member of the geological survey branch of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Mr. L. R. Allen, of Rotorua. The men are mapping the limits of the recent lava flows from Ngauruhoe.

Radio Fade-Outs. Bad radio fade-outs on both local and overseas circuits were experienced every few minutes between 10 a.m. and 10.45 a.m. yes-i terday. They followed the complete blackout on Monday which has resulted from intense sunspot activity. The Director of the Carter Observatory (Mr. Thomsen) said that he was unable to give the reason for yesterday's fadeout. He added that the sun was highly active at the moment and his ionosphere was perhaps in a critical condition and likely to be effected by any slight variations in the sun. Power Consumption. Power consumption in the North Island had been 3.25 per cent. above allocation during the week ended November 6, said the electricity controller (Mr. A. E. Davenport) . Power consumption, in generai, remained satisfactory. Some of the excess consumption had been because of the repayment of units saved earlier in the year. At Taupo the lake level had risen from 1175.9 ft to 1176.05 ft after 1.54 in. of rain. At Waikaremoana, where there had been 0.6 in. of rain, the level was 2007 ft., compared with 2007.7 ft. the previous week. Airmail Parcels. If senders of airmail parcels include in the address the telephone. number of the addressee, the Post and Telegraph Department will advise the addressee by phone that the parcel has arrived. This new service is expected to avoid delivery delays on urgent parcels which sometimes stay in post offlces up to 24 hours awaiting normal delivery. For the pr'esent this service will be given only at post offlces directly served by airmails. It is intended that small gummed labels be issued to senders, but until they are available senders are asked to give the telephone number as part of the address.