The Levin Daily Chronicle SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1933. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 July 1933, Page 4

The Levin Daily Chronicle SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1933. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A motor cycle ridden by two young men named Jack Williams, and Cyril button, crashed into a motor-lorry in the Square at Palmerston North last •v»ning, the consequences being a par-tially-wrecked machine and both Sutton and Williams receiving such injuries that they had to be taken to hospital. The motor cyclists had crossed the railway line when they ran into a lorry being driven by Mr T. Cronin, who was about to enter a right-of-way. Both were thrown heavily, Sutton receiving abrasions and Williams injuries to his head. Their condition last night was reported as satisfactory.

“It is rather astonishing that despite the number of unregistered cars lying idle in private garages most owners have apparently no desire to dispose of them,” stages the service officer for the Alarm watu Automobile Association. “Actually many owners could well afford to register them and meet running expenses, but on account of the short days and weather conditions they appear to consider that it is hardly worth while.. Owing to the fact that new car importation has decreased considerably during the last few years the shortage of good used cars is becoming more and more acute. The impression gained is that the motoring public are only waiting for the slightest signs of improvement in trade conditions generally and the motor and allied trades will be amongst the first to benefit.”

There is little that the average service bus driver does not know of what makes for safer and easier driving, and a Dunedin motorist, who- has just completed a tour of the South Island informed the secretary of the Otago Motor Club that he had received from one of them a hint that seemed to be well worth passing on to other car owners. Whilst travelling on the road from Nelson to Grcymouth he experienced a good deal of trouble through moisture clouding on his wind shield and interfering with visibility to such an extent that on several occasions he was compelled to stop the car whilst he cleared the glass. It was during one of these stops that a service bus came along and the driver, on learning the cause of delay, advised the motorist to open the rear clip on the driver’s side of the bonnet and lift the leaf a few- inches, at the same time jamming it jn this position with a piece of wood or anything else handy. This, the bus driver explained, allowed the fan to drive a current or warm air from the engine on to Ihe screen, and so prevent ice from forming on the glass. The motorist gladly accepted the suggestion, and for the remainder of his trip he was free of at least one motorist's -bugbear, —a frosted wind shield.

A very wet day is being experienced in Wellington (states a Press telegram). and all Rugby, Soccer and hockev matches are off.

A reminder is given of the Druids’ Plain and Fancy Dress Dance to be held on Friday next, July 21st. Good prizes are offered for the best lady and best gent in fancy dress and fertile best pair in fancy dress. There will be modern and old-time dancing, which will include numerous novelties. The prices of admission, 1/6 and 1/-, are within the reach of all.

The services of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church to-morrow will be conducted by the Rev. Janies McCaw.Jato of Lower Hutt. T'Jie morning subject will be “Lord Teach us to Pray’’ and “The Lord our Castle,” and for the evening “Alpha and Omega’’ and “Which is Christ. Jesus.” A cordial invitation i« extended to all to be present at those services.

The Methodist Church services will be conducted in the Century Hall tomorrow by the Rev. W. G. Slade, M.A., whose .subjects will be “The Indwelling Christ” and ‘.‘Life’s Great Hour.” Attention is also drawn to the musical arrangements which will include the anthems “The Lord is My Shepherd” and “King of Kings,” the solo part in the former to be taken by Miss Laurenson. The prevailing economic difficulties will be brought to a focus in an address to lie delivered by Captain 11. M. Rushworth, M.P., for the Bay of Islands, on Thursday evening next, in the Century Hall. Gapt. Rushworth, who has represented the Bay constituency since 1928, is an eloquent speaker who has made a searching study of political problems; and the meeting, which is being arranged under the auspices of the Levin branch of the Farmers’ Union, may be expected to draw a Isigge attendance. The chair will be taken at eight o’clock by His Worship the Mayor (Mr P. W. Goldsmith).

The Wanderers’ Football Club wish to bring before dancers of Levin and district that their Grand Annual Dance will be held this year on Wednesday July 26th. To ensure an evening’s entertainment out of the ordinary, tire committee has at considerable expense engaged the famed Wi Duncan’s Dance Band, which is Hawke’s Bay’s premier dance orchestra. Many new novelties have been included in the programme and all those who attend the Regent ball-room on that date are assured of an evening’s entertainment equal to any yet held in that hall. The prices of admission are advertised in this issue. "This is the only country in the world that has a greater cow population than human population,” said Mr C. M. Hume, in h's lecture at Levin on Wednesday evening. Figures were projected on the screen which show r ed that the number of cows had increased by more than 50 per cent, since 1921, bringing them to over 1,700,000. The average production per cow in 1931-32 was 199.7 lbs. of but-tcr-fat, and it is estimated that this year it will work out at between 215 and 220 lbs. There will be between 250,000 and 260,000 cows under group herd-testing this season, as compared with 234,527 last year.

On Wednesday His Excellency the ■Governor-General, Lord IBledisloe, planted a tree at Birkenhead (Auckland) in celebration of Arbor Day and in commemoration of his visit to the district. One of those present at the function, whose recollection of the appropriate quotations of famous poets is somewhat uncanny, recalled what Pope had written of an ancestor of Lord Bledisloe. Writing respectively of the second Earl Bathurst, the Governor - General’s great-groat-grand father, and also of the then Earl of Glasgow, one if whose descendants was also a Governor of New Zealand, the poet asked: “Who plants like Bathurst, and who builds like Boyle?” Incidentally, it may be mentioned that the finest trees in Gloucestershire are those of Lydney Park, the home of Lord Bledisloe. —Star.

“I am against the practice of schools growing vegetables and flowers to sell, as I think it most un-Christianlike to deprive small nurserymen, unemployed people, small struggling farmers, and old-age pensioners of earning a living,’’ stated Mr W. B. Roe, headmaster of the Parkvale School, Hastings, in his report presented at the meeting of the School Committee, when referring to a suggestion that the school should grow vegetables and flowers to sell. “In fact, I think the practice of schools entering tlie commercial world should be prohibited,” ho added. “I intend to put half of our vegetable plot into carrots, etc., ’for the Good Cheer Depot, in order to teach the pupils the value of service to others.” The committee agreed with the report. Saturday night shoppers will do well to remember that Aitken’s annual sale is now in full swing and a visit to this Bargain Store is well worth while. A list of the many bargains offered appears on page 8 of to-day’s paper.*

At a meeting of the Te Aroha Cycling and Athletic Club the secretary stated that unpaid nomination fees in connection with the last sports gathering amounted to over £2O. Members stated that certain visiting athletes took part in the sports and unless they actually won prize money never attempted to pay their entry fees. It was remarked that dulls had only themselves to blame, for if the rules of the union were carried out no man would be able to compete unless his fees were paid. It was decided to inform all defaulters that they would be reported to the union unless payment was made.

A youth 17 years of age stepped on to the wharf at Lyttelton on Wednesday night and for the first time in his life saw a motor car. He was S. Smylie, whose family lives at the Chatham Islands, and he was making his first visit to the mainland. Later in the evening he saw a railway train for the first time, and he was taken to see the big ferry steamer Rangatira. Then came the event to which he had long looked forward, a visit to a talking theatre. I'iie boy told a reporter that there were several young men and women at the Chatham Islands who had never visited the mainland.

Speaking at the initial meeting of the Nelson Fern Society, Mr F. B. Martin said that on a recout visit to Tauranga he met a fern enthusiast, who informed him that during excavation work a log was discovered 15 feet below the surface. Some soil was taken from the vicinity of the log, placed in boxes, and covered with glass. In due course young ferns appeared in large numbers, and several of.them differed from varieties to be found today in form and other characteristics. It is an extraordinary revelation, and opens up a wide field of speculation as to how long th« spores have been buried at that great depth and as to what happened to put them there.