The Levin Daily Chronicle THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 July 1936, Page 4

The Levin Daily Chronicle THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A cash sale of l:iucl in the Mauawatu district amounting to £40,000 has recently been completed, states the -Manamatu Standard. A s])eeial Baptismal service will be held in the Gospel Ilali to-night at 7.30 p.m. Mr. J. Clark, Evangelist, will give an address on Baptism according to the Scriptures. Three persons are to be baptised. All are invited. When Captain Harold Eraser was Hying from Bockhampton to Brisbane', the engine fell out of his plane at a height of 4000 ft. Keeping control of the machine, he landed safely in a small cleared patch on a heavily wooded sand ridge. Subscribers to the “ Chronicle” are reminded that subscriptions in advance are now due. A discount of £s is made ou a quarter’s subscription if paid in advance and all who wish to avail themselves of this concession should do so now. Enquiries are being made in the Manawatu district as to the best means of providing- facilities tor domestic education and encouraging the Maori children in their settlements to take advantage of them, it has been suggested to several branches of the Women’s Institute that this subject is one by Avhich they may earn gratitude ami satisfaction.

Only tlie fourth recorded instance .since ISod, a frigate bird was found dead in a paddock on a To Ivniti farm last March and had its bead and wings ~cut off for identification purposes. Now the Auckland War Memorial Museum has received the fragments. The bird is the first known to have landed in Mow Zealand since 1903, and none of the others was found so far inland. It is thought that the bird, a Pacific islands species, was blown south by the north-west gales which swept the ocean in March. Tiie possibility that the future will show the elimination of a census in 1931 to have been an ill-considered measure of economy is mentioned in the Commerce Journal. It is contended there that the country could less afford to dispense with fundamental figures given in a census than with almost any other statistics. In one of tin* most trying periods of our history, accurate data of the occupations and age and sex distribution of the people were lacking; and on that it is argued that this increased the difficulties of framing a public policy to suit tin* times. Several hundred Auckland children who arc inmates of various city institutions received a pleasant surprise on Sunday when they were presented with a large number of (Queensland pineapples. The fruit, which was of fine finality, had been on exhibition in the .Australian court at the Auckland Winter Show and arrangements for distribution were made by the Australian Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, Air. K. 11. Nesbitt, who was assisted by members of the Australian Hospital, the children of the Blind Institute, and inmates of the Presbyterian orphanage at Meadowbank and the Poman Catholic orphanage at Mowick. In addition to the fruit, quantities of sweets and toys were distributed. A further of the new dainty Matchless designs in shoes for ladies is featured in an advertisement in this issue by Messrs A. Dempsey, Ltd. hi black suede, this product is guaranteed to give every satisfaction to the most discriminating purchaser.'"

Two of the three airline companies: operating in New Zealand during the I Ihree mouthy, ended dime 30th achieved an efficiency rating of 100 per corft. ac- j cording to the returns compiled I>y the civil aviation branch of the Defence "Department. F.v “one man’’ labour, topdressing, d raining, and subdividing, in the course of a year a Fcilding suburban farm lias been converted from a carrying capacity of 100 sheep and 10 cattle to 300 sheep and 30 cattle. The capital cost of material for this splendid result was a little over £IOO. At the meeting of the Levin branch of the X.Z. Farmers’ Union last even- | nig. it was decided to makc> a visit to the N’.Z. "W’oolpack pud Textile Co.’s factory at Foxtou on Monday,! Angus) 10th, leaving Levin at, ".m. and to invite members of, the Young Farmers’ Club to attend,. Those wishing to go are asked to! uu.i'- Lie secretary of the branch, Yrj X. d. Xeweli. j From time to time then 1 is public j applause Cor hardy men swimmers at 1 Oriental Day, Wellington, but at Stea-I j tonn two women brave the sea regular- 1 ly, .and they have missed very few! mornings since the summer. Del ween ■ 8 a.m. and 5) a.m. those two go down for their swim, sometimes feeding the seagulls on the way. Even last Sunday, when at midday the water was 4-1 degrees, they had their early morning plunge. “It is extraordinary to us to find | that dancing is prohibited by law in j licensed hotels in Xew Zealand,” said lan overseas tourist. “1 understand | that it is quite in order in private j hotels, as we danced at one in Roto--rna, but in the case of a licensed house it is different.” lie* was of the opinion that if this state of affairs could be rectified it would add greatly to the j attractions of New Zealand for overseas visitors. ITc said that they usually arrived at the hotels just before dinner at night, and after dinner they I had to sit iu the lounges ami either go I off to bed or to a picture theatre.

“1 think one of the biggest bugbears oil tlic rood is the' child whose feet wil not roach the pedals of a bicycle, and yet is allowed by its parents to wrap itself round and under the bars, with one eye pointing here and the oilier there —it is jm possible to tell whether they are going' or coming, v said Mr. R. d’. Furness, president of the Marlborough Automobile Association, when discussing road safety, at a meeting of motorists in Blenheim. Another delegate expressed the opinion that, in future, pedestrians and cyclists who were run down by cars would l»e prosecuted for negligence. This, he said, was done in Baris, and he considered that punishment for being run over would soon euro people of carelessness.

An incident with alarming possibilities occurred during the representative Rugby fixture, Manawatu versus Horowhenua, on the oval at the .Showgrounds, Palmerston North, yesterday, workmen were engaged in another part of the ground* splitting- up a pine stump and to facilitate operations set om> and a-half plug's of gelignite in an augur hole bored a foot from the end. The charge exploded like a gun and a chunk of wood weighing close on a dozen pounds, shot out of the end of the stump to land a hundred yarns away right behind the goal posts on which both teams were at the moment converging. The missile contmued to career across the oval to crash into the fence in front of the grandstand. It was indeed fortunate that the players were just out of the line of the projectile.