The Levin Daily Chronicle TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1934. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 September 1934, Page 4

The Levin Daily Chronicle TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1934. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

■ Lyndon Henry Decide, aged 24, on charges of obtaining money by fraud and stealing bicycles, was sentenced at Dunedin yesterday to 12 months’ imprisonment. He had previously been convicted at Auckland and Christchurch.

Donald Ldurie, aged 27, who is believed to reside near Taihapevand had been staying at Hanmer, borrowed a shotgun from an unemployment camp at Glynn Wye (Canterbury) about 2 p.m. on Sunday, to shoot a hare. He was found dead with the gun beside him and a bad wound in the head, at a fence near the camp. As a leg of his trousers was torn, it is'assumed that the gun discharged accidentally as he was getting through the' fence.

A farmer who has experimented in growing tree lucerne for shelter, fodder and fuel for the past eight years, says the poor hilly land from Paekakariki to Wellington could be transformed in three years by planting that little-known tree in the almost waste, gorse-infested hills. The stock feed, and the prolific bloom is valued as winter feed for bees and branches may be cut at intervals for honey birds. A use for the great crop of seed is yet to be found. The life of the tree is about ten years, and.when dry it is fairly good fuel.

‘‘‘We in New Zealand have every reason to be .proud of our police,” said Mr iGeorge Elb'bett, J.P., district coroner, in a speech made at a farewell ceremony at Hastings to Senior-Ser-geant D. J. O’Neill and Sergeant G. P. Bonisch, two officers of the Hastings police force, now on transfer. “When we read what has Ibeen done by members of the police forces of other countries, and we realise that not one in 100 of our own police force can be bribed, then we are all the more proud of ouf police,” he said. “‘They are a wonderful body of men, and are held in the highest regard.”

Successful attempts' are Wing made by the Public Works Department to place in other employment those men who will be paid off when the Waitaki hydro-electric works are completed. Other major public works, including the Kingston-Queenstown road, the Milford Sound road, the Glenavy irrigation scheme, and the Palls dam in Otago 'Central,'"will absorb many men, and the department is investigating the advisilbility of proceeding with other works, particularly' in Otago Central irrigation. On August Ist last, 656 men were still employed at Kurow — since then the number has fallen to 507. • .

Dismissing the appeal of Harold Harding Morris, a manufacturing jeweller, from a conviction for unlawfully carrying on the business of a gold coin dealer, Mr. Justice Ostler at Wellington yesterday took the view that traffic in sovereigns was not currency exchange, but the purchase of gold. In regard to the other points raised in the appeal, the Judge said the regulations were not ultra vires. Mr. Justice Ostler upheld the appeal of Harold Harding Morris, Ltd., from a conviction under the Secondhand Dealers’ Act. In his opinion, ho said, the company came within the very words of the exemption as “a person who purchases secondhand articles, i.e., old jewellery, for the purpose of manufacturing other articles, i.e., ingots of bullion, therefrom. y ’

Miss Gibson will relinquish her duties as postmistress at Koputaroa as from to-morrow when the money order and savings bank branches will be closed and the pest office transferred to the store, where Mr Brown null act as postmaster.

Reports had been made concerning much sheep-worrying at Waitarero Beach of late, said Cr. L. H. Best at the meeting of the Horowhenua County Council on Saturday. He said a good number of dogs had been loose and some had been shot. They had no collars and the owners of the sheep worried had no redress against the owners of the dogs. The matter was referred to the engineer for the necessary action to bo taken as to seeing that dogs are registered.

The British Minister of Transport, in his efforts to impress “safety first” on motorists, had hit upon a new scheme. In a recent speech he said: “I appeal to every woman in Britain to say to her husband or son every morning they leave home: ‘Be careful —come home alive.’” A Wellingborough business man has promptly invented a holder to attach to the dashboard of a motor car. In it can be placed a woman’s photograph, and round it is the inscription; “iPlease be careful, for my sake.”

The Wellington Chess Club have advised their intention of visiting Levin on Saturday evening next to play the Levin and Shannon Clubs. A team comprising 23 players and including Messrs Gyles and Kelling, former New Zealand champion and Wellington champion respectively, will make the trip and local chess enthusiasts are looking forward with a good deal of pleasure to the coming visit. This will be the first match between the Levin and 'Shannon combination and the Wellington Club, and it is hoped that it will become an annual fixture.

All his friends and relatives believed that Ali, a Turk, was killed in the Balkan War of 1911. A few weeks ago he suddenly appeared at his old home in Constantinople, which was rather a shock for his wife, as she had married again. Ali, however, is a sports man. He claims that he is “officially dead,” is applying for a new name and not disturbing his wife’s second marriage. He says he was wounded in the Balkan War and lost his memory. It was restored recently by a sudden shock, and he at once took the first train back to Turkey and his wife. That’s his story, and he’s sticking to it!

“We have the responsibility; they have not,” said the Prime Minister (Bt. Hon. G. W. Forbes) at Wellington on Saturday evening, when telling the New Zealand Company of Master Mariners that his mail included many letters from correspondents advising him how to control the affairs of the Dominion. “We have to do the job, and we have to make t}ie decisions,” ho continued. “Those decisions are made with no other thought than the best interests of the country. The reputation of our- Parliament has not let down the honour of the great Mother Parliament in any way.”

Foreign tourists have complained at intervals of the inconvenience they suffer in having to deposit £lO with the Customs Department before landing in New Zealand as a guarantee of compliance with the terms on which temporary landing permits are issued to them .under the Immigration Restriction Act. Such a deposit is usually not refunded until just before the departing visitor’s steamer leaves the wharf. As a result of representations made by the New Zealand Tourist League th« Minister of Customs has agreed to waive the requirement in certain cases under the discretion already vested in collectors of customs.

After a season of great winter sports activity at Mount Cook, the keas of the district have caught the ski-running habit. Soon after daybreak they.repair to their favourite glissading ground, the sloping iron roof of the Ball Hut, and to their screeching activity more than to anything else-can be attributed the early rising of the residents. In spite of stern discouragement (says the Christchurch Press), the keas’ curiosity and mischievousness are unabated. A (bedroom door carelessly left open attracted a flock of the birds, and one of the party of University skirunners staying there had the lining picked out of a good pair of shoes and a pair of slippers badly gashed.

Some 45 years ago a farmer near Lumsdcn (50 miles north from Invercargill) named George Chewings came across h grass new to his eye. He showed it to a Mr.. Tothill,. who said that it was evidently a fescue, but to make sure he would send, it Home to Button ?s to ascertain. Button's wrote back to say it was a fescue and that they would pay : Is per pound for as much seed,-as , could be produced. So Chewings started to grow it for seed, and made a [fortune out of .it, as did other farmers who followed suit. Last year. 966 tons of seed were shipped out of New Zealand. This grass is used for the furnishing of most of the lawns and fairways in America and England.

“Prestige”—the name that has entered the Iworld of distinction —the name of Paramount importance to the well-dressed yet wise,spending woman. Clark’s present to Levin the entire range of “Prestige’’ Hosiery in all its exclsive creations,, exquisite iu tone and texture, expert in design and workmanship. Buch hose as “Prestige” is unequalled for, long wear and low price. Bee the great window display at Clark’s/'

The annual general meeting of the Weraroa Cricket Club will be held in Messrs W. Bull’s office to-night at 8 o’clock. All members arid intending members are' requested to attend

William Sharpe, aged 25, a State colliery employee, was seriously injured in the neck when playing football on Saturday in a 'Civil Service match at Hokitika. His spinal column is fractured, but hopes of his recovery are held out. , , •

/On July 19th the freighter Anglo Canadian, bound to Newcastle (New South Wales), was in the zone of the Solomon Islands earthquake, and did not know it. Without warning, there was a shock which startled' everybody a.nd awakened men who were asleep. The sea was so calm that the suggestion of a submarine earthquake did not at first enter the mind, of anybody aboard. The vessel was' stopped and investigations were made' to discover whether there was any propeller trouble. No sign of this could be found, and soundings were then taken to discover whether the vessel had encountered an uncharted reef. Again the result was reassuring, and at last the true explanation of the, disturbance was guessed.

I'he plea that both prisoners came of respectable families did not mitigate, but rather aggravated, their offences said Mr Justice J£air at Auckland yesterday when sentencing Doug-las-Russel Newmamfi aged 27, and Keith Bryson, aged ‘27, Newnian had admitted stealing goods, the property of his employers, the Farmers ’ Auctioneering Co., over a period of three years, and Bryson had admitted selling the stolen goods for Newman. The Judge said that Newman during the period had had ample time to consider what he was doing. It was a carefully planned scheme. Bryson’s case- was rather different, as he had apparently been induced by the other man to. share in the scheme and the proceeds. Newman was sentenced to three years’ hard labour and Bryson to two years’ reformative detention.

John Gilchrist, a well-known Labour speaker, was convicted at Dunedin yesterday and fined £1 for delivering an address in a public street without a City Council permit, and convicted without a penalty for causing a street obstruction. The Magistrate (Mr H, W. Bundle), in the course of his reserved decision, held that the by-law was valid, stating that free speech meant no more than equal freedom to all citizens to fully express themselves, provided they did not offend against the law. The use of the streets was primarily for the passage of the public, and the council, alive to the danger of congestion, had made a by-law restricting public speaking/ which he considered reasonable. The proper setting for a political meeting was a hall or reserve; streets were formed to walk on, not ,to talk in. Counsel for defendant mentioned the possibility of an appeal, this depending on the decision in a similar Auckland case.

According to tests Tqupiri coal starts quicker, keeps in longer and has the cleaner ashes. S. Debonnaire is the local agent and a -trial will convince housewives of its economy.*