The Levin Daily Chronicle SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1936. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 February 1936, Page 4

The Levin Daily Chronicle SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1936. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At Wanganui yesterday Eric Lionel Ilealy, aged 2-8, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to a charge of breaking and entering the premises of Ross and Glendinning and stealing goods valued at £43 3s lid. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.

A jury in the Supreme Court at Wellington yesterday heard an action by Alexander Sutherland against Peter Anthony Kraus, a claim for £503 Is damages arising out of a motor collision with a bicycle on the Tlutt road on September 21. They gave a verdict for £OO special damages, £22 Is for hospital and medical accounts, £5 for repairs to the bicycle, and general damages £IOO, a total of £lB7 Is.

Representatives of the Taumarunui, Kaiteke, and Ohura County Councils, the Taumarunui 'Borough Council and the Ohura and Monunui Town Boards held a conference to discuss the Main Highways Board’s scheme for the taking over of traffic control from local bodies. All the delegates entered their protest against any alteration to the present system of traffic inspection.

The rating position as affected by the interests of native and Crown lands in the district was outlined to Hon. F. Langstone (Minister of Lands) by a deputation from the Waitoino County Council and Te Kuiti Borough Council. .Speaking for the Waitonio County Council, Mr. A. A. Lee said that the amount of native rates struck was £4OOO per annum, and not I per-cent, was collected.

Tombstones in (lie old cemetery on Napier Koud. Palmerston North, were considerably damaged in the recent stoien, many being broken off at their foundations by the wind. A large section of the roof of a neighbouring dwelling' was hurled about 100 yards into the cemetery, snapping off six tombstones in its fall. The eastern section of the grounds suffered the most severely, and the loss wifi probably run into some hundreds of pounds.

An exceptionally heavy fall of rain occurred at Wellington in the early hours of yesterday morning. It was actually heavier that the hardest fall in the violent storm last week-end. though this time the fall was not so long and was not accompanied by any fierce wind. In do minutes yesterday morning 0.20 in. of rain fell, as compared with o..‘?9in. that fell in half an hour during the heaviest shower last Sunday. Yesterday morning’s heaviest shower began at 5.40 a.m. A number of slips in various parts of the city and suburbs followed the deluge, including a few fairly large ones on the Hutt road, one of which contained about 200 yards of spoil. There was uo appreciable damage to the city’s waterworks.

The Levin Silver Band will rendar a programme of music in Oxford Street this evening commencing at 7 p.m.

An intimation is given to parents that the Bairncote kindergarten will re-open for the first terra of the year on Monday morning at 10 o'clock.

To return home after a few weeks’ holiday, and find that her residence had been entered by thieves was the experience of Miss F. A. G. Kelling, headmistress of the Awahnri School. The articles taken consisted of a radio set, gramophone, violin and a few pieces of crockery.

A Magisterial inquiry into the mishap to the Union Company’s interisland express steamer llangitira ‘s to he held at an early date 1 . The vessel struck a rock off ’Wellington Heads last Bunday morning during a violent south-easterly gale with heavy rain, causing extra bad visibility.

A Greytown contractor who had just completed a big metaillng contract lor the Mauriceville County Council met with serious misfortune in the weekend floods. It is estimated that 8000 yards of metal were washed from the roads and that the contractor's loss will amount to about £BSO unless he secures some relief from the County Council.

A Press Association message from Wellington states that on January 18th there were 84,777 males receiving rationed relief work or sustenance or awaiting placement on relief, as compared with 85,6.13 on December 21st. The figures do not include some thous--1 ands of men working full time in subsidised industry.

The Kimberley Hall Committee held another highly successful euchre tournament in the hall this week, a very enjoyable time being spent by those who were present. Prizes were won as follows: —Ladies: first, Mrs. B. Russell; sealed. Mrs. Murdoch; consolation, Mrs Moore. Gentlemen : first, Mrs. Hunter; sealed, Mr. Coleman; consolation, Mr. J. Nielsen.

“Probation is not as good as it looks, as it is merely a postponement of sentence if the terms are not complied witli,“ said His Honour Mr. Justice Blair in the Supreme Court at Palmerston Xorth, yesterday. “It is a gratifying feature that in the majority of cases—though there are unfortunately r.omo exceptions—the offenders do not come back to the Court, and thereafter live honest and reputable lives. It is a great pleasure; to the probation office - : to be able to report that the conditions of probation have been fulfilled and a man has made good. “

The Coroner (Mr. A. .J. Graham), at Palmerston North, stated with reference to the death of Mr Ralph Wood, on the Tararua Ranges on Sunday that, owing to the body being in a place from which it could not be recovered to enable him to view it, in accordance with practice he had reported the circumstances to the Attorney-Gen-eral and awaited instructions from him with reference to the holding of an inquest. Owing to the body being in an inaccessible spot, Mr. Graham had given permission for its burial in the vie ini tv.

The average woman makes a poor aeroplane pilot, in the opinion of Ken Main, chief instructor at the Toronto Flying Club. He admits that there are brilliant exceptions to the rule. “The biggest fault of women flyers,” he states, “is their poor judgement of speed and distance. If you don’t believe this, just ask a woman to estimate or to measure by the eye, the distance between herself and some object. Energetic women who are devoted to athletics often make fairly good pilots. I don’t believe I have ever had a woman student who has not possessed lots of confidence.”

A Waipukurau man has discovered a novel and inexpensive indoor sport. All you need is a cat and a rat —and, until yon get giddy watching, you get something that for speed and thrills rivals greyhound racing. In this case, ns in one’s earliest school books the cat sat on the mat. Its name was George. Boon it saw the rat. The rat got away to a good start and went along to lead across the couch, along the top of the book-case, and over the radio.. Round the back of the course, in the heavy going across the piano keys, George put in a strong- challenge, but the rat drew away again to lead by several lengths in the straight in the first round. Going round the hundred and twenty-third time, however, the rat got among the radio valves, and, following a judicial inquiry was disqualified for life!