The Levin Daily Chronicle MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 February 1939, Page 4

The Levin Daily Chronicle MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The engine-driver, Albert Ernest Rowley, married, aged 36, of Taihape, who received injuries in a railway accident near Hunterville a week ago, when he was believed to have been struck by an overhead bridge, has died without regaining consciousness.

Although the foundation stone of the new Law Courts for Christchurch was laid last Easter, no announcement has yet been made by the Government as to when the next step in the proposal will be taken. “We are still waiting on the Government to act,” said the president of the Canterbury Law Society (Mr. J. D. Hutchison) last week.

A Vickers Vildebeest aeroplane, piloted by Acting Pilot Officer D. Clark, of the Rojml New Zealand Air Force Flying Training School at Wigram, turned over on its back at the aerodrome last week while landing. The pilot was not injured. The main damage to the machine was a broken propeller and slight structural damage.

The management committee of the Auckland Rugby Union has decided to give its whole-hearted support to the territorial movement. In , a resolution passed last week it recpiested all affiliated clubs to give earnest consideration to the appeal of recruiting officers for recruits from Rugby players, as it was impressed with the representations made by. the defence .authorities as to the urgent necessity for increased strength in the Territorial Forces.

The shooting- of a female dog- with an Alsatian strain in the Mangaroa Valley by a farmer, Mr. W. Lindsay, ended a period in which stock and poultry valued at about £IOO have been killed. Farmers found poultry missing each morning for some time before the dog was seen. After being shot at several times she became gun-wise, and was seen only at night. With poultry protected, the dog turned her attention to lambs and calves, once killing a calf and a number of lambs within an hour. One of her pups, caught wandering at night, was used as a decoy, and the dog was destroyed. It is understood the dog was taken to the valley from Wellington by a picnic party and abandoned.

Arrangements for regular supplies of fresh oysters have been made by Alexandra Restaurant, who announce today that their tasty oyster patties are now available.

This is the last week of Davie’s great summer sale. Super bargains will be the rule for this week. Coats, frocks, eostuines, millinery, frock lengths, etc., are going at gift prices. There is also a special display of the new wools in the island window at Davie’s, the adies’ outfitters.*

The glorious summer weather yesterday made the local beaches exceedingly popular, and a large crowd of Levin people and visitors from further afield •spent the day swimming and sunbathing. Many remained late in the evening until the tide had receded sufficiently to permit the digging of toheroas. During the day 700 cars were counted on the beach.

nineteen members of the LevinWaiopehu Tramping Club spent the week-end on Kapiti Island, where the diversity of sport obtainable and the gloriously fine weather combined to make the outing a most enjoyable one. A fishing expedition proved quite successful, the catch including a large king-fish. Swimming and tramping were also indulged in and the trip was voted one of the best for some time.

The architect responsible for the design of the United Kingdom pavilion at the Centennial Exhibition, Mr. G. O. Pratt, arrived by the Mataroa. He said he expected that the construction of the pavilion would be started in April. The building would be of striking modernistic design, with an interior of imputation stone. The displays would include model aeroplanes, ships, motor-cars and locomotives. A featurcwould be a large map of the world showing transport routes throughout the Empire.

A bottle thrown from the Awatea on January 5 th, 1939, when 200 miles from the coast of New South Wales, by Master Thomas Bevan, of Karori, Wellington, was picked up at Maul’s Gorge, on the West' coast of New Zealand, by Mr. W. R. Rope, of Awakino Road, Dargaville, The bottle drifted approximately 900 miles in 45 days, the rate of drift being about 20 miles per day, showing the existence of a remarkable set to the eastward, this perhaps being temporarily accelerated by the series of westerly gales recently experienced in the Tasman. The letter was not wet when found.

Notwithstanding exhaustive inquiries by the police throughout the Auckland district, there is no trace of Charles John Raymond Birss, aged nine and a-half years, who disappeared from his home at Clevedon Road, Ardmore, near Papakura, early on the morning of April 3rd, 1938. For several days after he was reported missing searches were made of the surrounding country, but nobody saw or heard of him. The boy lived with Mrs. J. Handy. Shortly before 7 o’clock in the morning she went to his room to wake him, but he was not there. His clothes had gone, and with them a pillow-case. She reported the. matter to the police. Since then the authorities have visited, every school in the district.

Many of the numerous pleasureseekers at Hokowhitu baths, Palmerston North, yesterday, were witnesses of a quite unexpected drama. A youth, standing at the water’s edge, was given a violent push in the small of the back. As he fell he swung round and grabbed the wrist that had pushed him. Imagine his surprise at finding', when well on the way to the water, that the wrist was attached to a small girl in sun-top and shorts. Her surprise turned to anguish on hitting the water and finding herself wet through in clothes not meant for. swimming. In fact, so great was her astonishment that she became incapable of anything but making loud distressed noises. The youth, already out again, re-entered the water and restored her to dry land with commendable promptitude. Perhaps .she will hesitate to push in future.

“I don’t know if you have read your ‘Alice in Wonderland’ recently, but this certainly does resemble the madhatter’s tea-party,” said his Honour Mr. Justice Northcroft, to counsel in a civil ease in the Supreme Court at Christchurch. “There may be some sense in it somewhere, but I fail to see it.” The case concerned the dissolution of partnership between two estate agents and sharebrokers, and the point under discussion was the ownership of some gold-mining shares, which both parties said did not belong to them. “It woull be cynical to say that both disclaim them because they are valueless,” added his Honour, but he was assured they were worth od each. Later he observed that he did not know who should consult an alienist —himself or the parties, and suggested that a disputed sum may have been spent on headache medicine.

Tennyson, the. poet laureate, was a great lover of the “weed.” He invariably smoked a ‘ ‘ chur-mwarden •’’ — otherwise’ ‘ ‘ a yard of clay, ’ ’ and never | used the same pipe twice. As soon as he had smoked a pipe out he would | snap it in two and throw the pieces [ into a box kept for the purpose. Then, if he wished to smoke again, he would select another clean pipe and repeat the performance. The clay, once so popular, is out of date, but the pipe, after all, is of little consequence. It’s the baccy that counts! So long as that’s pure and good nothing else matters much. And in that respect Maorilanders are fortunate, for New Zealand produces some of the world’s finest to-, baceo. There are only five brands — Gut plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold, not only famous for their purity, flavour and aroma, but, thanks to toasting—by the manufacturers’ secret process and consequently freed to a large extent from nicotine, they are comparatively harmless. There are no other toasted tobaccos.