The Levin Daily Chronicle FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 December 1938, Page 4

The Levin Daily Chronicle FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The vital statistics recorded at Levin for the month of November were as follows, last year's figures for the same period being given in parentheses:— European: Births 7 (11), deaths 7 (10), marriages 5 (2). Maori: Births nil (1), deaths 1 (nil). There were no marriages by the registrar.

The crews of ships plying between Australia and New Zealand will no longer be able to bring oranges'home to their families or friends. The edict has gone forth that the importation of oranges, except through the Internal Marketing Department, is totally prohibited. The masters of ships have been requested to notify their crews that they cannot bring oranges into New Zealand.

While engaged in the underground workings at the mine of the Martha Gold Mining Company (Waihi), Ltd., Mr. E. Jeffries suffered an injury when a detonator he was applying to a charge exploded. As a result, Mr. Jeffries lost the index finger of his left hand and portion of his thumb. Severe bruises on the body were suffered by Mr. Keith Anderson, a young man, when a piece of ground slipped and fell on him at No. S level of the mine. Mr. Anderson was admitted to the Waihi Hospital.

•Some forty members of Levin's younger set attended an enjoyable dance party in the Oddfellows' Hall last evening. A Monte Carlo waltz was won by Miss Small and Mr. B. Eateman and a lucky spot by Miss M. Swindlehurst and Mr.- J. Oak. After the expenses of the function had been met a small credit balance remained. It has been donated to the Porirua Christmas cheer fund, a gesture which will be much appreciated by the sponsors of that appeal.

The 20th aniversary of the liberation and union of the three branches of the -South Slav race, the Croats, Serbs and Slovenes, into the central and eastern European State, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, occurred yesterday. The long fights for the national freedom and union made it impossible until 1919 to introduce modern social laws in the kingdom, but within the last 20 years Yugoslavia has made wonderful strides in every branch of modern State husbandry and in the economic field also. In recent years, under the wise administration of the present Government, Yugoslavia has mad-? treaties of trade and amity with her neighbours to the mutual'benefit of alb parties concerned.

Losing his footing in a rough sea and becoming entangled in a fishing net, a seaman on the Auckland fishing launch Joan was carried overboard and struck by the boat's propeller. The seaman, Mr. William Oxenbridge, who lives at Archhill, escaped with minor abrasions to a leg. The Joan was fishing off Port Charles, Great Barrier Island, and Mr. Oxenbridge was hauling in the net when standing on a raised deck at the stern of the launch. Although the master of the boat was standing close to him, the first indication that he had fallen overboard was given by the splash as he struck the water. Mr. Oxenbridge was dragged bv the net, in which he had become entangled, and although the engine of the launch was stopped promptly he was struck by the propeller.