LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume L, 11 September 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Nelson Harbour Board decided yesterday to extend tho wharf and e, '^t thereM } iX slled measuring 172 ft x odtt, mainly for the purpose of providing additional facilities during the i S e £»s7.” ni “ 0n - Th " •»*”>»*“>

I lie Christchurch branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will benefit to the extent, of about £SOOO under the will of Miss Agnes Dodd ,of Hawarden, who died on August 7.

As a finale to their .stay at “The Chateau.-’ Tongariro, the Ruapehu Ski Club and the Ta.rarua and Hutt Valley I ramping Clubs were entertained by the management at a very gay fancy dress dance on Saturday night. Mr , od Svmo won the ski club prize for best- fancy dress, his character chosen Deinga Scotsman. One of the judges was- Mrs Walter Weston, of New -Plymouth .

' , considerable want of faith in doctors _ certificates was admitted by Mr. Justice Blair while a case in which a menica. certificate had been submitted to account for delay was being .heard the Supreme Court, states, the Wairarana ‘Aw.” “I have only met one doctor who distinguished' between objective and subjective symptom®,’’ said' PJi.s Honour. A patient might go to a doctor, he added, and say, “I have got a severe pain in the stomach,” and the doctor might certify that. To satisfy him. His Honour added, a certificate should be based on objective and not subjective symptoms and it should really be on affidavit. <

A total area of 64,650 acres, costing £622,964. has been purchased by the present. Government for closer settlement purposes, according to a return laid on the table of the House of Representatives on Tuesday by the actingPrime Minister, Hon. E. A. Ransom, on the motion of Mr R. Semple (Lab., Wellington East). As a result of the Government's purchases, 182 new settlers have been placed on the land. A saving of £250 in sessional printing costs and a further economy in the number of copies distributed has been effected by the new system inaugurated this year in the issue of “Hansard,” the official record of Parliamentary speeches. Hitherto “Hansard”, has been issued! twice a week, but under the new arrangement it appears in daily numbers, which are bound into small indexed volumes at the end of each week. At the Presbyterian Hall, Hawera, on Saturday afternoon the .St. John’s Busy Bees will hold their annual sale of work and produce im aid of overseas missions. The function will commence at, 2 o’clock and the Bees; it-his week are making their iinal arrangements to ensure a very successful and enjoyablci gathering. There will be stalls for the sale of sweets, produce, cakes, flowers and plain and fancy needlework. Afternoon tea will be served in the hall at a nominal charge to visitors. An inquiry into the general incidence of banking is souglit by Mr.' U. H. chapman (Lab., Wellington Morth), who addressed a question on the point to the acting prime Minister, Hon. ±c. A. Ransom, in the House of Representathe.s on Tuesday. He intends to ask if .such nil inquiry could be made lor the purpose of relieving industry from the enactions of banking institutions which placed “enormous burdens on all forms of industry. ’ He said the bairns operating in New Zealand showed profits amounting to millions of pounds even in times of depression

Indications are now being given that the railway goods traffic on. tne Cforist-ciiurcu-West Coast line lias passed its maximum and is beginning to decline. Tins development may be attributable winy to tne present depression and the renewal or competition with the West coast coal from the Australian trade, •rays the “Christchurch Press,” but, whatever the reason,.the remarkable increases, month by month, in the aggiegate tonnage drawn eastward through tne Otira 'funnel are, for the first time since railway communication with Westland was first established in August, 1923, being displaced by decreases. The position, is revealed by the following comparison of traffic in August over the last three years: 1923, 55,324 tons • 1929, 69,429; 1930, 60,118. rue question "YY'nere do you live:”’ wmtui tne orricial assignee put to an unemployed uanimipt m Wellington recently, met with an unusual response, “un, senu my letters to the U.P.0.,” said banitrupt. “That’s no good,” replied the assignee, “I want to know where you live.” iianhrupt’s, assurance that he would call at the post office every aay did not meet with approval, and the examiner thought apparently that the bankrupt was desirous of concealing something, iiut when the question was pressed the answer was that

lie had no residence. Further inquiries elicited the information that he slept out and had spent the previous night in a car. Asked where this was, he said it was “in a garage.” The official assignee remarked that bankrupt had better beware lest an owner came and drove him off “to Napier or somewhere. ’ ’ Addressing a meeting of anglers at Tim-aru cast week Professor Peretval, in dealing with, the decrease in the number and size of trout in streams, said: that the fish were up against civilisation, since the introduction of the trout the bush at the heads of many of the rivers had been cut down or burned off and the ! beds of many rivers had been narrowed and straightened. This caused the water to rush to sea with much greater speed than when the country was in a less civilised state, and. the conditions in the beds of the streams had been I changed, stones,' particularly, being rolled down taster and further, with the result that the shelter for the fish and their food supplies were greatly altered. The trout,, in his opinion, was a very adaptable fish and finding its food supply and conditions generally in the streams changing for the worse, it had gone to sea.

“One matter that occupied the attention of the executive during the year was the compulsory attendance of evening school students at evening military parades,” said the president, Mr. J. H. Reed, at the opening of the technical education conference in Wellington on Tuesday. “For some time it appeared that, by the withdrawal of certain concessions formerly granted to technical school students, the compulsory parades would interfere more seriously with courses of study. We

had considerable correspondence with

the Minister of Defence in this matter

The temporary suspensions of the compulsory clauses of the Defence Act seems, however, to have solved our problem in the meantime. Whatever may be our views on the question of compulsory military training, there can be no doubt that many serious students suffered distinct hardship in having to attend evening parades.’’ A .subject of concern to harbour boards was mentioned in the House on Tuesday by Mr. H. T. Armstrong (Lab., Christchurch East), who is 1 chairman of the Lyttelton Harbour Board. Mr. Armstrong notified his intention to ask the Minister of Marine, Hon. J. B. Donald: (1) Will the Minister explain the reasons for the delay in bringing- down a Harbour Amending Bill, which has been asked for by the Harbours’ Association off New Zealand each year since 1924 and I which was actually promised in 1928? I (2) Is it correct that the Minister! has informed the association that he I intends delaying the matter another • year? (3) Considering that over a hundred resolutions have been submitted to the Government by the association since 1924, urging important and ne-c-essar ; amendments to the Harbours Act and regulations, does the Government think it is acting fairly to such an important public body by ignoring its recommendations?

The Broadcasting Company has received advice from its consultant in America that a description of the first race for the America Clip, which is to take place between noon and 5 p.m. on Saturday afternoon (American eastern daylight saving time), will be broadcast. This time corresponds with the New Zealand time of 3.30 and 8.30 a.m. on Sunday morning. All New Zealand stations will, therefore, be on the air for that period and will carry out a rcbroadeast, atmospheric conditions permitting. As indicating the elaborate arrangements which have been made by the broadcast authorities in U.S.A. to describe ‘the race, there will be observers in destroyers, dirigibles and aeroplanes, from all of which craft the announcers’ descriptions will be transmitted to the shore stations, to be relayed round the whole of the network of American stations controlled by the Columbia and National Broadcasting Company. Short-wave broadcasts will be made from Boundbrook, Pittsburg and Schenectady.

Provided weather conditions are suitaWo over the weelc-ead, members of the M.t. E'gmont Alpine Club will make a. trip on Sunday either to the ski track on the Stratford Plateau or to Pant-ham’s Peak. If conditions are particularly favourable .a- climb will probably be made to the summit of Fantham’s Peak, where the hut can be visited and 1 plenty .of ski-ing and glissading can be obtained. Mr H. Murray, of Elitham, will be the leader of the party. ’Transport will bo arranged if those desirous- of making the trip will communicate with the secretary (Mr T. F. McKenzie). Departure will be taken from Haw era at 7.4-5 a.m., so that the party ntav leave Daiwson Falls at 9.15 a.m.

Yesterday Mr J. W. Deem, Director (of the Fields Division of the Department of Agriculture, Mr J. W. McCulloch, fields superintendent, and Mr A. Hudson, crop experimentalist, visited Hawera and, accompanied by Mr J. W. Palmer, of the department’s Hawera staff, visited the lime and potash trials on pastures treated with phosphatic and nitrogenous manures on the property of Mr R. H. Parker, Mangatoki. The party also inspected the Waimate West demonstration farm, Where it was noticed that topdressing with sulphate of ammonia had produced a supply of good succulent feed for early oows. The- paddocks were being grazed rotationally and twice already had had stock in them. They were practically ready for a third grazing. Further trials of nitrogenous and phosphatic manure were seen on the pnopertes of Messrs M. McKenzie, Turuturu Road, and W. Reynolds. Manawapou Road.

Various financial issues were raised bv Mr F. Lansstone (Lab., Waimarino) in notice of a question addressed to the acting-Prime Minister in the House of Representatives on Tuesday. He asked whether the Government’s attention had been drawn to a statement by Mr. W. M. Hughes, a former Prime Minister of Australia, (1) that the ! acceptance of the policy suggested by Sir Otto Niemeyer would only result in stagnation and despair; (2) whether that in 1923 the exchange in London was 30s per cent. Sir Otto Niemeyer said that the high exchange rate of 30s per cent was due to Britain and j New Zeanland being off the gold standard ; (3) whether that since Britain returned to the gold standard the exchange rate has gone up to over £5 per cent., and (4) whether the Government would appoint a Parliamentary Committee with full power to inquire and report on the cause of the present internal and external financial depression.