Local And General

Chronicle (Levin), 19 November 1949, Page 4

Local And General

Time Off For Voting. A rec~mmendation that retailers adopt the same procedure as in 1946 in regard to time-off "for voting, was made at a recent meetmg of the Manawatu Drapers', Clothiers' and Boot Retailers' Association. The procedure followed at the last Gene^l E.ection was ihat* all staff workod till 1 p.m. when the shops closed to enable the staff to take their lunch hour with no return to work in the afternoon. This ooviated the nece&sity of portion of the staff having a 12 — 1 p.m. lunch hour and then returning to work" for one hour and retailers could operate with a ' full staff right up till 1 o'clock. Need For Youth Hostels. Youth hostel associadons should be given more encouragement in New Zealand, in the opinion of a young Australiah law. clerk, Mr. Jim Milier, who is now completing a world hitch-hik'ing tour. While in England, Mr. Miller made extensive use of youth hostels, paying only ls 6d for: an evening meal and a night's lodging. "The international headquarters of the organisation ' are actually in New Zealand — at Christchurch," he said. "The hostels were a wonderful help to me. They enabled me to see a lot of England and Eire, perha.ps more than the average tourist, and at considerably less cost." Health Stamp Saies. The sale of Health stamps for the period November 8 to 15 amounted to £76 5s 4d. Every office in the Palmerston North postal district has now exceeded its quota and the total saies to date amount to .£5803 18s. Saies are as follows: — Palmerston North £2687 15s lOd, Apiti .£27 19s 9d, Ashhurst £107 0s 9d, Bulls £169 9s 9d, Dannevirke £623, Feilding £435 ls, Foxton £151 10s, Glen Oroua £30 5s 9d, Halcombe £40 3s 9d, Kimbolton £34 ls -9d, Levin £674 3s 9d, Manakau £32 18s lOd, Ohau £53 10s 9d, Pahiatua £243 6s, Pongaroa £31 11s 6d, Rangiotu £10 2s 2d, Rangiwahia £20 4s 6d, Rongotea £78 15s, Sanson £23 8s 6d, Shannon £106 15s, Tokomaru £30 5s 6d, Weber £18 17s 6d, Woodville £121 7s 9d, Longburn £21 2s 4d, other Offices £31 0s 6d. Total, £5803 18s. Bewildering! The Feilding golf links was the stage on Wednesday afternoon for the enactment, quite possibly of the first incident of its type yet re'corded in New Zealand, when a substantial drop of dirty oil, descending from the air, struck a lady golfer. .No one was more momentarily faewildered than the golfer when the splodge of oi! came seemingly frolm nowhere to smear her glasses and run down the front of her dress and on to her stockings. It was a startling and upsetting experience and, recovering from the first shock, the lady, after appreciating what it had done to . Ifer clothes, com-. menced tp pondsr the 'problem "Who done it?" The other members of the club who were close by when- the incident occurred, offered the only possible explanation, namely that the oil came from an aeroplane which had just oassed hiffh overhead.

Show Prize Money. _ . Successful exhibitors at the Levin Horticultural Society's rose •show this .week are advised that prize money may he colle'cted from the secretary, Mr. A. O. Powell, preferably during mornings or evenings. The secretary, now notifies that the class for any garment of underwear in the children's needlework section was won hy P. Franklin, with J. Keegan second and B. Kemsley third. , . 1