Local And General

Chronicle (Levin), 23 November 1949, Page 4

Local And General

Subsidy Sought. The Levin Boroug'h Council has decided that enquiries be made from the Internal Afiairs Department regarding the possibility of obtaining a subsidy towards the cost of the work of exten'ding the j swimming baths. iFootway Over Crossing.

! With referonce to the provision ' of a footway across the Mako Ivlako Road level crossing, the levin Borough Council at its meeting on Monday night decided to approach the New Zealand Rai - ! ways requesting that the work be j carried out. Abattair Killings. ; The report of the killings at the Levin abattoirs during October was ■ reeeived at Monday night's council I meeting as follows, the figures ' for the same pericd last year bej ing shown in parentheses : Cattle : 1721 (638); sheep and lambs: 5153 1(4383); pigs: 590 (477); calves 25 ■ '(3). Fees for the month totalled j £1177 12s 5d (£967 0s 4d) . jWigless Barrister. I "I will hear you, although you are not wearing wig and gown," Mr. Justice Callan told a barrister in the Auckland Supreme Court yesterday. Than'king his Horiour, counsel said a taxi let him down and when he arrived at the Supreme Court he had not sufficient time to robe before the Court sat. ! Weed-Killing Train. i A special train known as the "maintenance branch weed-killer," ! has begun operating in Taranaki. 1 It is part of the Railway Departj ment's plant for fighting noxious I weeds growing beside the main line and branch tracks in the i North Island. The train consists 1 of a tank wagon with a capaciLy of 4200 gallons of dieselene, in which the weed-killing chemical is dissolved, a staff car, which includes cooking, sleeping and eating facilities, and a eonverted box wagon equipped with pump and sprayers. A tentative schedule drawn up provides for spraying operations between Lepperton and Waitara, Lepperton and Stratford and Stratford and Whangamomona. Cannot Buy Enthusiasm. Addressing electors at Takaro last night on the subject of em-/ployer-employee relationships, the National Party candidate for Palmerston North, Mr. W. B. Tennent, said "You can buy a man's time, you can buy his physical presence in a given place, you can even buy a measured number of skilled muscular motions per hour or day— but you cannot buy enthusiasm, you cannot buy initia- • tive, you cannot buy loyalty and you cannot buy the devotion of hfearts, mind's and->souls." Subsequently Mr. Tennent said he eonsidered the greatest need of modern industriai society was to^make industriai employment an essential part of a satisfactory human life — not a cause of conflict or an evil burden to be escaped from as far as possibie.