Local And General

Chronicle (Levin), 22 December 1949, Page 4

Local And General

j! ! Sunday School Picnic. s j The annual picnic of St. j| j Andrew's Presbyterian Sunday School, Waitarere, was held' on j Saturday. Careful arrangements i[ had been made by Mr. and Mrs. J; Stanley and a programme arjl ranged by Rev. A. Salmond proved s most popular with the boys and girls. !' 0 jl Divorce Regulations. 1 An amendment- to the Matri- !| monial Causes Rules, 1943, which ? wili abolish the prescribed form of affidavit which is required to be filed with a petition for divorce or s other similar relief, is to be gazet■j! ted. The affidavit will be replaced 1 by a short form of verifying oath !| to be appended to the petition. jl Dangerous Pastimes. ;| "u'nderwater fishing is now very !| popular. People float under the water and spear the fish as they ? come close. It's great fun but it > can be dangerous. One beginner S speared me right through my new s cotton bathing suit. And it was ;! an accident." — Anne and Honor Thackrah, two girls from the !| French Riviera, holidaying in Lon- !| don, speaking in the BBC pro- > gramme, "In Town Tonight." !| Abattoir Killings. > Tne following stock was jj slaughtered at the Levin Abattoirs |! during November, the figures for jl the same month of last year being jl given in parentheses: — Cattle 697 ! (650), calves 17 (9), sheep and !| lambs 5746 (4888), pigs 880 (798). Three cows, four sheep and 19 !' pigs were condemned. Fees for the month totalled £1394 2s 7d, as j! against £1106 12s 2d in November j! of last year.

|! Part Of Landscape. ' jl "I've been in Epgland almost 1 three years now. That's long enough to have acquired a favour- !; ite soccer team, to have learned ? to say eheer-ho instead of ta-ta, ^ and long enough to recognise a ? queue as part of the English scen- > ery — as must part of it as the oak tree, the raincoat or the umS brella." — Jon Cleary, an Australian \ novelist, speaking in the BBC ! programme, "Calling Australia" on j| the "Man in a Queue." jl Export Lamb Bonus. A bonus of 6d a head on all J; export lambs killed during the past season, was announced by the J; chairman, Mr. J. E. D. Roberts, at jl a meeting of directors of the jl Primary Produeers Co-operative ;l Society, Otago, which is the trading organisation of Federated Farmers. This Otago co-operative, which has been in operation' in the province for only two years.' handled more than £250,000 wortli of farmers' produce in Otago. dur- ;! ing the past 12 months. Down Wanganui River. Believed to be the largest party to make the trip down the Wan- | ganui River in a small craft for !| many years, 20 young people, mostly students of Auckland University College, will set out for Taumarunui on Boxing Day in readiness for an early start down jl the river the following morning. The party will • travel in three' large rubber dinghies, ' four canoes of 12 to 16 feet in length, and a Diywood punt. . A fourth rubber dinghy will .be leaving three days before the main party. Arranges ments , have been made for a \ cameraman of the National Film j Unit to travel with the party. V '

Labour Federation. The 1950 Federation of Labour conference will be held in Wellington and, although no definite date has been fixed, it may be held earlier than intended. This information is contained in a circular sent to all affiliated unions by the national executive of the federation. The unions have been asked to submit the nominations for national officers and for four resident executive members of the national executive as well as any remits they wish to bring forward before February 24. Several trade union organisations have been pressing for an early conference of the federation.