LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 116, 2 May 1911, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Napier High behool Go corn ors meet on Momloy next, at 5< p. rn.

Paring April, which was the first ! month of the registration of youths for compulsory military training, 6167 persons were enrolled out of a ' total of about 16,000 liable to serve.

The parade called by the Napier Guards for this evening has been cancelled.

The first meetin:: of tb<- n--w Harbour Board will be held on l.ridav ncx:. The principal business will be the appointment of a chairman and setting up ot committers.

Next Mo:i<iay. ai th-- mcetiii't <>f riie Hawke's Bay Coti’ily Council, the et-t finales for receipts and ex penditure. ami amount of rate to he struck for the ensuing year will be brought up f<»r consideration.

Notice is given wy an adverr. mrnent in another column that a g era! election of members of tieHauke’s Bay Rivers Board ui'; held (if necessary) on A\ edne*-!:ij-.. May 17th. 1911. Wednesday. May 10th. up to noon, is the time allowed for receiving nominations.

The following are the returns for the Napier Hospital, ending on {Saturday night. In Hospital at last date : 50 males. 26 females ; admitted during week: 7 males and 7 females ; discharged: -1 males and 5 females ; dead : 2 males : remaining a! date: 51 males and 2 s ? females.

Among tin visitors to Hayward’s Napier Picture Theatre on Saturday night Wits a huge grey rat. Attracted, doubtless, by the announcement of an excellent programme. he was resolved to >ee the show, and ran boldly up the stairs and secreted himself under the skills of unsuspecting females. A frantic series of screams was momentarily expected. but the rat. though uninvited, was evidently a well-behaved guest, and did nothing to disturb the pleasure of the, entertainment.

1 Mr. L. Azzopardi, the Napier rain recorder for the Meteological Department, suppdies the following J figures for the amount of rain that

fell in Napier during the month of ■April:—2nd .JOin, 3rd .16in, sth .13 in, 15th ,43in, 16th ,23in, 17th 17in, : 18th ,26in, 19th ,05in, 20th 1.20 in, 21st ,33in, 22nd .02iu, 23rd .34in, 21th .78in, 27th .Olin. 30th .Olin; making a total of 4.22 in. The total rainfall for the corresponding ; month last year was J6Bin. In all there were 7 rainy days, the highest being that on the 24th . 107 in.

For some time now Mr. E. W. Andrews and other reformers have written and spoken very extensively concerning the “ twangy ” speech of some New’ Zealand children. Mr. C. J. Caughley', the headmaster of the West Christchurch School, having been interested in the subject, paid careful attention to the enunciation and pronunciation of the pupils in the. recent periodical examination. He states that he has satisfied himself that the average of children speak ing with a twang is about three in each class of forty. In the lower standards the quality of speech is better than in the higher grades. Up to Standard 111. the twang is .comparatively rare; it is at its

worst in Standards IV 7 . and V., in , which the pupils are from 11 to 13 years of age. Air. Caughley isconj vinced that these occasional j " scares” do good, as they call attention to a possible evil before it lias any chance to become general.

“ I have come to the conclusion that there are two landlords in this country that ought to be taxed | very heavily. One of them is the (State, and the other the Alaori.” •That is the opinion stated to an ’Auckland “Star” representative i by Air. C. FL Ensor, a Canterbury farmer, who has been spending a holiday in the North Island. Mr. Ensor continued to justify his remarks by saying that the two landlords he had quoted were holding in the North Island the largest amount of undeveloped land he had ever seen, ami that land was iretring overrun with weeds and rabbits. The worst feature of it v.as that the land was lying idle und creating no wealth at all. I here were millions of acres of <uch land in the Rotorua and Waikato districts that could bo brought easily into cult ivat ion. and some of H was splendid soil, as proved bv a few isolated patches that had been cull ivated.

Plastic suryerv. an American innovation that created a litlle stir

a few years ayo. is achieving one of i's greatest triumphs in the case of Timothy Martin, of New A’ork. A San Iranctsco correspondent, w?il - mg on ALtrch 22nd. describes the case thus:- 'On .May IGth. Alartin tell. lace foremost, into a set of revolving cogs. His whole face was lacerated, the eyeballs barely escaping. Three doctors kneaded ‘lie flesh, as it healed, into a chin, and gave the .siii’icrer a new mouth '.t:d lips. This week they began the last stage'of the work, supplying a nose. The small finger of the left hand was slit open, and placed where the nose should be. The anti is bandaged so lightly

: that the finger and face are held rigidly together. It will take some ‘ weeks for them to knit. Then the finger will be amputated, and the ; ' nose ’ shaped..”

A meeting of the Hawke's Bay Comity Council will be held on Mom.iuv. .May sth. at lt ; .3t : a.m.

The largest estate certified for stamp duty during the month ot April wa, that »>f VViiliam Grant, of Christchurch, £296,404. The only Napier estate was that ot

Alexander McKay, £630

Owing to difficulty in seeurins a suitable hall in which to hold the general meeting and at home ot the District Plunket Nurse bmiety. the meeting has been postponed until Wednesday. 17th May.

The value of building permits issued at Hastings during the month of April more than doublet I that of the corresponding month ot last year, the figures being as follows : - I91(L £32:7; 1911, £7795, which includes an amount of £3n.H> for the “ Hawke’s Bay Tribunes new building al the corner of

Queen street and Karaiiiu road

The Rev. J. J. North, the wellknown Wellington pastor, is again on the warpath. This sturdy reformer wishes to have a censorsnip of cinematograph films, and gives instances where he thinks one is necessary. A proper officer, he states, should be appointed, not a prude, but a " wholesome, happy man. who knows honest laughter from filthy laughter.

The Hawke's Buy County Council give notice by an adv ertisemeni that by warrant under the hand of His Excellency the Governor, pub lished in the New Zealand Gazette of April 13th. it is provided that the Hawke's Bay County Council are authorised to execute the construction of a bridge, over the Esk or Petane river. The advertisement sets forth the apportionment of the costs of the work.

The installation of Mr. Janies Garnett as Mayor of Hastings will take place at the Council Chambers at noon to-morrow. We were in error the other day in stating that the ceremony would be held the second Wednesday in May. an amending Act to the Municipal Corporations Act having fixed the first Wednesday in the month as the date on which the installation of mayor is to take place.

The workmen of the Napier Borough Council are now fixing in position eight rubbish boxes which are to be placed in different parts of the town. There will be three placed along the Marine Parade, two in Shakespeare Road (one near the Post Office and the other higher up), two in Hastings Street, and anothe r in Emerson Street, '[’lie boxes are neatly built, and if made proper use of they ought to free our streets from the fruit skins, waste paper, etc., which are such a danger and eyespre.

The lai ■ge culvert which removes storm water from Shakespeare road. Napier, has for a long time been blocked up. with the result that the lower parts of the town have sometimes been flooded. This culvert w'hich discharges on the beach is being cleaned out, and there now remains a week or two's work in cleaning the drain between the outlet and the Post Office. This is the most difficult park of the work as men have to crawl into a drain only a few feet in height in order to remove the mud with which it is choked.

In view of recent actions the following important extract from Hie Hawke's Bay Tailoresses' Award, section lit. may prove interesting: "All bespoke work shall be do.i? in the registered workroom. -v»rhin the district covered I>y iliis award, of the employer for wnom the work is performed. and j<>r whom or bv whom the. order x-

taken. All such work as shall be performed by a journeywoxnan other than on weekly wages shall be paid according to the time statement hereto attached. The expression 'bespokework" in these conditions shall include all garments for winch orders or measures are taken, also all goods made and sold as tailor-made.

The follow r>g letle’ bas been received by tne Chairman of the Hawke’s Bav ( .ountv Council:—-Re R nil anta Ci'••).. Will you kindly inform me v-betlier during tL * period Air. AViHi.ims was chairman of the County t (mncil permission was given to ine Hastings Borough Ci.uncii to o'3-eri t’n<- Ruahapia k from its mil ural course to its P'-escnt position ! Also, whether permission ha' hern given to the Hastings Borough Council to eloan out the County drain and divert the creek along the Tomoana-Pa-kowhai road within the last nine years. The Commissioner of Crown Lands and myself have interxi. wed your thairmati on a petition from Crown tenants of Tonmana and Alalmra on this matter, and Lave not yet received any satisfactory information of your position, an explanation of which I now ask you to give.—I remain, yours faithfully. Geo. J. Alerritt, Secretary Tomoana and Alahora Settlers’ Petition.

Mr. Robert McNab is on the Palmerston executive of the Irish Envoy's entertainment committee. The Envoys will be the guests of Mr. McN’ab while in Palmerscon.

Severe frosts have been experienced in tiie Wairarapa district Glaring tiie It?st two nights. These wili have a damaging effect upon rhe. young grass.

The new road roller recentiv importer by the Napici B< < i Council was given a till! i m i i s morning. All delayed n mitfii i e work v, il be taken m ht id n i(d lately.

Mr. th R. Wilson reports having sold Mr. J. AV. Smail's fine property. comprising 19 acres, together with nice house and outbuildings, situated in Oliphant road. Hastings. to Mr. Ben Shadbolt, price £2250.

The chairman of the Coiimy Council. Mr. T. Mason Chambers, accompanied by Cr. Clark, visited Petane to-day with the obje <* or reporting on the drainagt < r 'hi township. Their report wnl probably come before next rueti 1 -, ot the Council.