The Levin Daily Chronicle TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1933. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 July 1933, Page 4

The Levin Daily Chronicle TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1933. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Owing to the gr&at loss of unaccounted gas caused by leakage in old gas pipes, the Waihi Borough Council will shortly have to face the, question of the possibility of closing down the works.

The Horowhenu-a County Council on Saturday received an invitation to appoint a delegate to the Committee that is making the local arrangements for the schools Rugby quadrangular tourney to be held in Levin next month. The County Chairman (Mr Monk) said there were many other organisations in the district that would be quite.justified in taking this up, but the Council's duties hardly embraced it. He moved that the committee be informed accordingly. The motion was seconded by Cr. Gimblett and carried. -

"We feel that we have got much better value from advertising than we have from the money spent in any other way,'' said Mr Dynes Fulton, acting-chairman of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board, at Hamilton, in an address to dairy company directors in No. 2 Ward of the Board's district. The Board had reduced its advertising quota during the past year to £12,000, Mr Fulton continued, but it proposed a vigorous advertising campaign with the object of increasing the sales of New Zealand butter in the 'Midlands North of England. The Board proposed to spend £25,000 during the coming year, and would probably have to increase the levy on producers in order to find the money. Mr Fulton said he knew the price for butterf at was low, but the peculiar conditions existing in England ma.de the present time_the most opportune for launching a big. advertising campaign.

A request was received from the Public Works Department by the Horowheriua County Council, at its meeting on Saturday, that it undertake traffic tallies so as to arrive at the amount of normal winter traffic on the highways, In the circular on the subject, the District Engineer (Mr H. H. Sharp) stated that a three days' tally should' be taken so as to arrive at a fair average, and in some cases a twelve-hour tally per day would be sufficient. The number of cars and lorries only was required, but special mention should be made of heavy lorries—those exceeding a total load of over 6i tons. The Chairman (Mr G. A. Monk) remarked that it would b« useless to take a tally for only twelve hours - a day in this County, through which most of the heavy lorries travelled at all hours of the night. He suggested that the taking of a tally be referred to the County Engineer, who might uu al;le to utJioe the servk-es oi some of the unemployed, under. No. 5 scheme. The matter was referred to the Engineer, on the motion of Cr, I Atkins seconded by Cr. Colqukoun.

The monthly report received from the Ranger (Mr R. W. Goldsmith) by the Horowhenua County Council on Saturday stated that he had dealt with 35 head of wandering stock. He also reported having registered 507 dogs to July Bth.

The course was at its height at the Waitara Plunipton on Thursday. The greyhounds were drawing close on their quarry, and it was evident an exciting conclusion would be a matter of moments only. It was. . . A strange brindle-™«dog- jumped the ifenc'e, iandj killed the hare.

Several years ago a farmer introduced the tree lucerne to the Pohangina Valley. So much is it appreciated by stock that it now grows unprotected only on the river cliffs where it is not accessible. Native birds, including bellbirds, are revelling in the honey and the seed pods.

A promise to contribute £4OOO or £SOOO as the nucleus of a fund for founding a Karitane Hospital in Hastings lias been made to the Mayor (Mr G. A. Maddi Son) hy a well-known I-lawke's Bay farmer, the only condition Twing that his name should not be disclosedr

The Otago Daily Times says: —Reports from Central Otago state that the conditions for skating are practically ideal in some localities. In the Naseby and Oturehua districts the ice. is very thick and the pastime is being indulged in freely. A number of D'uncdin people .find skating on the ice so fascinating that they are making repeated trips to Central Otago.

The suggestion was made by Mr C. L. Turnbull at a meeting of a Palmerston North School Committee that'on ballot papers, not only for school commititees /but for elections generally, places should ,be decided by lot. He suggested that many voters were inclined to select the iirst names on the list, irrespective of their qualifications for 'the position. It was decided to forward a remit to the Combined School Committees' Association that places on the papers should be balloted for.

Mr P. Dyer, Consul for Greece, reports having placed an order for a considerable consignment of New Zealand butter, for immediate shipment to Lourenco Marques, Portuguese East Africa. So far as it known this locality is quite a new market for New Zealand butter. The .produce has been ordered by the secretary of a large freezing and ice works company in Lourenco Marques, who was at one time a member of the Greek community in Wellington.

During a wedding breakfast at Feilding, the bride was called upon to read the sheaf of congratulatory telegrams. Before she realised the import of one from her Pahnerston North friend, she read in a voice which proclaimed suppressed emotion: "May the Lord have mercy upon poor Jack." Hilarious laughter from the bride' and bridesmaids, groom, best mfxn, clergyman, and guests greeted the announcement. The story was told at the celebration of their golden wedding recently, when the merry peals of fifty years ago again echoed through the same roof.

The yearly change in the registration numbers of motor-ears was discussed by members of the Taranaki Automobile Association recently. Mr E. Day considered that nothing could b*e said in favour of the continual change in numbers. If a check on the payment of registration fees were required "stickers'' of varied shapes could be 'supplied at a cost of id, as against the present 2s 6d, and £30,000 a year could be saved. "I will guarantee that not one man in the room can tell me the correct numerals on the registration plates of his car at the present time," challenged Mr Day—and no one could. It was decided to support a South Taranaki remit advocating permanent numbers. j

Schoolboys are smoking 50 per cent, more cigarettes than they did ten years ago, according to a Christchurch schoolmaster. And techjoolgirls, and older girls, too are doing ditto ditto, it seems. .So are young men. But older men, as a rule, prefer the pipe. * Generally speaking they have no more use for the cigarette than a vegetarian had for a grilled steak, especially if they happen to be veteran smokers. And since the slump hit New Zealand, there has been; so the tobacconists say, an increased demand for pipes, with of course, a corresponding demand for pipe tobacco—especially the New Zealand. The marked preference for this tobacco exhibited by so many smokers is easily explained. Firstly the flavour and 'bouquet are exceptionally frne; secondly, owing to the trifling quantity '•of nicotine it contains it is extraordinarily pure. The toasting of the leaf does it! You can smoke any of the four brands (Kiverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), with absolute impunity. There is no other tobacco i on the market of which this can be i said.—3ss"* . Allen's, as usual, are going to clear their frock racks, so intend to create a stir by offering their whole stock of beautiful winter frocks at ridiculous prices. Fancy a beautiful tweed frock 27s 6d for 12s 6d, then a very smart rayon velvet frock, 59s 6d for 12s 6d. Surely a stir it will be! So call early. A. W. Allen, Dtd.*

* The Ohinemuri County Council has decided to call a meeting of dairy factory representatives with a view to preventing overlapping of cream lorries and consequent damage to roads.

"It has a few rabbits on it," said an applicant before the No. 6 Transport Licensing-Authority, at Palmerston North, amidst laughter, when he was asked if his farm was free of mortgage.

Competitions held in conjunction with, the Levin Silver Band's shop day were (won as follows:—Oake, Mrs Kerslake; dinner, Mr C. 8. Keedwell; ham, Mr F. Hudson. The cushion contest has not yet been finalised.

A y,oung Palmerston North motor cyclist has just returned from a tendays' tour Hawke's Bay, Manawatu, Rangitikei, Wanganui, Taranaki and Waikato to 'Chateau Tongariro. His speedometer registered 960 miles on a petrol consumption of 10£ gallons of benzine. A thousand miles for a guinea is surely a record for economic transport.