Local And General

Chronicle (Levin), 1 December 1949, Page 4

Local And General

| Young Man Dies. 9 As a result of injuries received in S a motor accident, Mr. Colin Albert | Frude, aged 24, a shop assistant of ! Lower Hutt, died in the Hutt Hos1 pital yesterday morning. He j sastained head injuries when a [ motor-cycle he was riding was inJ volved in a collision with a motor2 car at Lower Hutt on Saturday | evening. I Christmas Ration. i "'They don't intend us to grow | fat on it," says a letter received by I an Auckland resident from Great i Britain. The writer mentions that ! people in England are getting "a I little extra" for Christmas— half an 1 ounce of tea, one ounce of bacon 2 and two' ounces of fat. (Since this j letter was written the weekly meat I ration has been increased from 1/4 j to 1/6.) . • After 32 Years. \ I An X-ray examination of a New 1 Plymouth tramways employee, Mr. f G. L. Brett, revealed a rifle toullet | cr a piece of shrapnel which had j been embedded in his thigh since 5 1917. Mr. Brett was wounded at J Passchendaele and later lost an S arm at the Somme. The examin2 ation was made when an acute J pain developed in his thigh after I Mr. Brett fell from a ber.ch at his j work. | Caught Both Ways. j A constable visited a hotel not j 100 miles from Levin on Tuesday — I une xvlaoris' election day when the i sale of hquor to them is prohibited | — and to nis surprise found a young I native at the bar. "Don't you know I what day this is?" the constable 1 questioned. A puzzled frown crossed J tne Maori's face. Then came enI nghtenment and this answer: "Yes, j Boss, but Maori boy not 21 yet." I 341b. Eel Caught. I The iargest eel caught .on the f West Coast for some years was I taken from tne Arnold River by j Mr. J. McAuley, of Arnold Siding. ! The eel' weighed 341b. It was 5ft. I 2in. long ahd 20in. in girth. A i partly-digested trout was found in ! its stomach. Previously, the J Iargest eel reported to the Grey I District Acclimatisation Society I was one of 30|lb., taken from the ! Arnold River in 1943. I Death. In Lonely Hut. J Human remaxns, believed to be | those of Thomas McCann, rabbiter J and mmer, aged about 65 years, a I returned soldxer of the First World { War, were found by a police .party ! m a burnt-out cottage at Cattle | Flat, 16 miles from Balfour^ The 1 fire was seen in the district by j shepherds on Monday, and later it ! was noticed that the cottage had I disappeared. A police party visited I the scene and found human reI mains among the debris. There 1 was nothing .by which to identify j the remains but the police are sat- { lsfied that they are those of Mr. ! McCann, who had lived in this iso1 lated locality for years. War medals I and other personal belongings were ? found among the debris. I Dog Week. ' ! The campaign to fight the 1 hydatid disease is on the whole j time but this week is "Dog Week" 2 and every dog owner is requested to f dose his dogs with arecoline tab- | lets. Recent developments have I proved conclusively that it is ! urgently necessary that there be a I Dominion organisation to fight the j scourge and this month it is ex1 pected that Federated Farmers, ! with the help of the Government, I will take this in hand. The men- . i ance is serious and any dog owner f who neglects to dose his dog is re- | tarding progress. The slogan is I"Dose a Dog and Save a Child." Dog owners are warned not to feed raw offal to dogs. Boil or dispose of the liver, lungs and the whole of the intestines. .