The Levin Daily Chronicle THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1936. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 February 1936, Page 4

The Levin Daily Chronicle THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1936. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

When asked why the blinds of the Dunedin Post oDice were not drawn during tin; period of mourning, the officials replied that there were none to draw.

Owing to the damage done by Sunday’s storm, several breeders could not present their entries at the Feuding Show. The unexpected devastation had necessitated their staying at home to put things straight, and this fact brought about a last minute alteration in many of the classes. In sev ;ral cases owners of sheep entered had notified the association that they had suffered the loss of some of the shceo in floods.

The man in the street is to have his say before the microphone under a novel scheme instituted by Dude (scrim’s IZB, Auckland. The new session which will commence to-morrow evening is known as “Vox-Pop” — the voice of the people. The microphone will be taken down into Queen Street and passers by invited to answer a few questions, some serious, some humorous. It will be interesting to discover what the average New Zealander thinks of things in general.

Tlie rail-car service expected to comrunning between Wellington pmd New Plymouth in May will not t now be inaugurated until three months later, according to Mr. A. W. Wellsted, j commercial manager of the Railway l ( Department. Speaking at a meeting of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce, .he said great difficulty was being experienced by English manufacturers in coping with orders, with the result that the firm which is building too en.gines cannot supply the department as soon as was expected.

“We read a lot in the newspapers .about the education system of our country being decadent. I don’t think ( it is, but I think the boys and girls ,of our decade were just as capable of holding their ends up as home-builders ns are those of to-day,” said Mr. G. Kcrse (Wyndham), when replying to a toast at the iP'ahia (Southland) j School Jubilee banquet. “We hear a great deal about culture to-day, but ,in those days we heard more about agriculture. When all is said and done, .New Zealand is primarily a pastoral ,and agricultural country.”

Declaring that, generally speaking, drivers under the influence of liquor who placed innocent lives in peril must expect to lose their liberty for a time, Mr Justice Smith, in the Wellington Supreme Court yesterday, sentenced Robert Hunter Service, a bank audit inspector, to three months’ imprisonment on a charge of negligent driving, thereby causing bodily injury. His Honour said he would request the Minister of Justice to arrange for Sendee to be kept apart from the ordinary prisoners. His license' was cancelled and lie was prohibited from taking out another for two vears.

A passionate defence of Italy’s campaign in Abyssinia and an equally strong condemnation of (lie app!.cation of sanctions against bis country were

made by the new 'Consul-General for Italy in New Zealand, Dr. Mario Dos-

sanies, wben he arrived at Wellington

on Tuesday. The sanctions, he said in an interview, had almost completely blocked Italy’s external trade, and were having the effect of transforming the country’s economy into a strictly internal economy. “Italy with its

44,000,000 people, is just like one man behind the King and Mussolini. In Italy there is a general feeling that a great injury has been done to us, and we are just calm and quiet and decided to go on.”

Sale prices are still keeping Dempsey’s assistants busy and a sextet of values published on page 5 to-day ’ is an indication of the reduced ruling l' in high grade footwear.*

Union Jacks flying upside down and loft flying after sunset were common sights in New Zealand last week.

A motorist on the Hutt Road, after being held up with engine trouble for an hour, had the matter rectified by a ID-year-old boy'who came along.

The Nazi flag was flown last Thursday from the first German steamer to visit. Lyttelton since 1914. It was the third anniversary of the Nazi Government in Germany.

A new Labour daily is to make its appearance in Christchurch shortly under the name of “The Times.” It is a little more than eight months since the old “Christchurch Times” ceased -publication. The names of two Cabinet Ministers appear on the directorate — the Hon. D. G. Sullivan and the Hon. Walter Nash.

. A graphic indication of the damage suffered by the electric power service during the height of last Sunday s gale in this district is given by a series of photographs taken by Mr. J. A. Hmith, engineer to the Horowhenua Electric Power Board, in the Opiki and Makcrua areas. On the Makerua-I ane road is shown a pair of poles, bearing a heavy transformer, which, standing in soft ground, have been forced over to such an angle that the high-tension lines are within a few feet of the ground. On the same road, half a mile from the Opiki school, a view shows an upright pole with a sheet of corrugated iron wrapped about it just below the top cross-bar, between the high ami low-tension wires. At a point south of Tokomaru a further sheet of iron was blown against a pole, the 'force of the wind driving an iron spike in the pole, used as a step, right through the stout wood to the other side. Several instances have been called to mind where fronds of fern and oilier bush plants, growing only upon the higher mountain slopes, have been found in and around the residential area in Levin, whither they have been carried by the gale.