The Levin Daily Chronicle TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1936. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 July 1936, Page 4

The Levin Daily Chronicle TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1936. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A controversy lias {-..risen in New Plymouth regarding the site of the proposed new post office. It was pointed out at a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce that, if no agreement was reached, New Plymouth's ■oost office would be placed lower <m the urgency list of the department, and possibly the town would not tditain a new building for a number of years, and the chances of obtaining a new courthouse might be affected.

A daily through connection of Auckland and Dunedin, with a suggestion that, if calls cannot be made at Wellington with aeroplanes suitable for a trunk service, Wellington should lie served by feeder ’planes through Palmerston North and Blenheim, is proposed by the Auckland Chamber of Comemrce, in representations it has made to the Commissioner of Transfnort for submission to the Minister of Transport (lion. R. Nemple) for consideration.

A radio set donated !>y Pope -Pins AM is being proudly taken hack to New Guinea by Bishop Pesters, Vicar Apostolic of Kabanl, who passed through Auckland on the Monterey after his first visit to Koine for icn years. “When I saw the Holy Father he asked whether my people had heard him speak on the radio, and 1 sard they had no chance to hear the voice of the ‘Great White Chief,’ as they call him. because they were too poor to buy a radio set, so he gave me one himself,” the Bishop said.

It was stated by Dr. M. M. Hoekin, medical superintendent of the Waikato Hospital, at a meeting of the board, that there is a shortage of doctors in New Zealand, lie said that there was one doctor short on the staff of the Waikato Hospital and he was having difficulty in tilling the vacancy. The position should be relieved at the end of the year, when 60 students would have qualified at the Otago Medical School, he said. For some years past only 30 had passed through the school annually, and this number was insufficient for New Zealand’s requirements.

Willi the ages of his tive children totalling ;>2(J years, ami with over Ltd descendants, Mr. Thomas Took, of ('lamlelamls, celebrated his both birthday last week. JJ is youngest chil'l is •lii, ami the eldest 74. -Mr. Took was sent to Xew Zealand by Sir James Eergusson. father of the former Gov-ernor-General, to (ill a position as stockman on the Gordon Estate at Cambridge, lie is in full possession of his faculties, and one of his proudest memories is his friendship with Charles lladdou Spurgeon, the famous preacher, lie has been a staunch Baptist for vears.

What Hon. E. Semple, Minister if Public Works and Transport, meant when he spoke of “scroungers’’ was explained by Hon. P. C. Webb (Minister of Mines) when speaking in Wellington. “1. know that some people have taken exception to Mr. Semple’s words about ‘scroungers’,” said Mr. Webb. “It does not matter how poor or how rich you arc, but if you don’t render social service and arc mentally and physically capable of doing so you are a parasite. When Mr. Semple spoke of ‘scroungers’ he referred to those men who would rather live on sustenance a thousand times over than accept a job at a higher standard than was ever paid before.”

To wake up in the morning and find his teeth frozen and to have to thaw them out before lie could eat his breakfast was the experience of a Centra! Hawke’s Bay man recently. It appears that lie put his false teeth in a cup of water, which he left standing- on the table overnight. To the morning the water had frozen hard, and ho had to melt it before he could restore his teeth to their proper place.

“J am sick and tired of hearing witnesses tell me they were crossing intersections at Id miles per hour,” said Mr. L. It. Alosley, .S.AI., in the Magistrate's Court at Wellington, when a witness in a collision case insisted that he was travelling at 15 miles per hour. “Probably 10,000 people have told me they had been travelling on the intersection at Id miles per hour,” continued Air. Alosley. “1 was not bom yesterdav. It’s bevond all reason.”

Business in India has been practically at a standstill owing to the uncertainty regarding the political future of the country, but it is now gradually recovering, according to Air .A. Tail, assistant manager in Calcutta for Thomas Cook and Sou, Ltd., who ar-

rived from Sydney be the Wanganella, iu the course of his second holiday trip round the world. He stated that as a Jesuit a a-umber of old-established linns had gone out of business and. Indians were praclicallv monopolising many ini i ust ries.

Five sisters who hnd not been togcthei lor over 25 years "’ere irmiu''' 1 at Dunedin recently. They came from Scot iasi<l. Queensland, New (South Wales and Westport, and mot last month at. their sister’s house in Caversham, where they are at present slaying. Twenty-five years ago one sister left hi‘r liome in Cowden-oeath for New Zealand, and at different stages three other sisters left for other pints of the globe, while one remained at home. .Although they have corresponded regularly they had not been together since then.

Without caning' on tlie defence to give evidence, Mis Honour, Air. .Justice Smith, after a Jive-day hearing in the Supreme Court at Wellington, non-suited with costs approximating £61)0 Norman Heaton Pike, Auckland, in his claim against David dames Richards, Wellington, retired professor, and Hoy Nathaniel Barton, Featherston, sheep-farmer, respectively third and second mortgagees of a Wairarapa property named Bank View, which Pike owned subject to mortgage. Against both defendants, as mortgagees in possession, Bike claimed £4OOO for alleged neglect, £1250 occupational rent, and an order for accounts. Against Kiehards alone lie sought £B2O damages for alleged forced sale of stock, an order declaring null and void an agreement of June 1, 11)35, transferring Ins interest in Bank View to Richards, and an order for the delivery or cancellation of the transfer of the property.

A man is frequently a hesitant buyer when it eomos to clothing. Eecoguisatiou of this has lead W. M. Clark, Ltd., Levin’s Best .Store, to “Slice” prices more drastically than usual in the men’s department, for the momentous mid-winter sale. Proof of the welcome nature of the bargains is seen in the big crowds which throng the men’s department."