Local And General

Chronicle (Levin), 15 November 1949, Page 4

Local And General

Much Data Taken. The Local Government Commission ended the flrst stage of its inquiry into Auckland problems yesterday ihoming, tvhdh it adjourhed uiitil Februaty 13. In the past week, the eohimifesion. . has receive'd about 1000 foolscap pages of factual data from authorities concerned in the inquiry, and has tdken another 130 pages of information verbatim. Softball Results. ' Competition softball games on Saturday resulted as follows: — Men's grade: Pirates 14, Athletic 6; Wanderers 22, Punahau 3; kimberley 15, Achilles A 12; Raukawa 32, Ajax 10. Ladies and junibr men: Raukawa 15, Wanderers Stars 10; Kimberley won by dfefault from Aces Ladies; Punahau 22, Aces Colts 8; Achilles B 12, Wanderers Ladies 5. Car Conversion Alleged. A 20-year-bld labourer of Levin, Mervyn- Ross, appeafed in the Magistfate's Couft at Palmerston North yfeStbrday charged with unlawfully convertihi, but not^so as to be guilty of theft, a ©a£ v^lued at £80, the prpperty of William Charles McPhail. Thd offence was alleged t'o have takbn place -at Palmerstoh Nbrth dh Ocbdtbdf 7. Gn the appiidatibn of DbtbctiVb■Sergeant. J. G. Long, accused was remanded till this_ morhihg. JBetter Farm Life. Although Holland; had pioSt moderh farm equipment, agriculi tural working conditibns wero better in New -Zediarid, Mr. k. de Bruin, agneultiifal , attache to -thb Dutch Lbgation, Wellihgton, told 50 immigrant Dutbhirien. He pointed out that in Hollahd most of the farm Work had to be crowded ihto n'ine months, biit New Zealand's superior climate allowed work to he carried on throughout the year. Building Controis. The latest sthfy going the rbtihds , ih the building trade concerned a man who had r'emovbd irbh ffbili the roof of his house to effect repairs, and who had been forbidden to replace it because . it had come under the category of second-hand material, said Mr. R. F. Judson, National Party candidate ior Mount Albert, in an address at Balmoral. Mr. Judsoiri was referring to the absurdity of ibuilding controis Which allowed a person to buy materials and leave them idle, biit prohibited their being put to the use for which they were intended. He said he had been told this ihcident by an architect, who had Vouched for its authenticity.

Children Tbt> Sdft? Ohildren today werb tbo coddleti mentally and physically by their parents, said the headmaster bf the Vogeltown Sehobl, NeW Flymoiith, Mr. R. V. Burton, addressmg the IngleWobd Hbine ahd Sdhool Associatioh. Childfen were demanding as a right and receiving tbo many Of the material comforts and ltixuries Of life for their owh of society's true welfare. He alsd thought the bhildreh of today ofteri Weaf far tdb mariy clothes. "We are raising, a.generatidh softer and more selfish thah its predecfessors," he declafed. Hfe believed children . needed to bfe toughened liientaily, physically and morally. Parents and teachers should allow clhildren at their pwh level to make decisions and face the cohseqiiehces. bliiMren shotild Work and Wbfk haid, hat only with , their riiinds, but with their hands. The hew educatioh denianded this. Far morfe emphasiS was beirig piated Oh pihysical and manual laetivities. A dhild'is happihess £tnd iisefulpess for the hext 60 years Of his .life depended very largely on his physics! cohditioni