LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 206, 18 August 1911, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A meeting of the Napier South Town Board will be held at 8 o’clock this evening

It was reported in Napier to-day; that the workers in Messrs. Bull Bros.’ brickyards had gone out on; strike, and that the strikers’ I places had been taken by other; men. I

On Wednesday evening next ai social and dance will be held in the) Oddfellows’ Hall by the F.L.O.L.’ No. 5. An energetic committee! has been formed, and a good j night’s enjoyment may be looked * forward to.

The Defence Department has| •written asking the Hawke’s Bay! County Council if it has any- halls or suitable buildings, will they allow them to be used for the drill-' ing of territorials, and thus assist in the training of the forces of the Dominion.

The Controller and Auditor-Gen-eral certifies that the public debt (as defined by section 2 of the Public Debt Extinction Act) is £64,272.134. This, of course, is not the total public debt, but only- the moneys borrowed, against which there is no sinking fund in terms of the Act passed last session.

At the Otago No-license Conference at Balchitha it was decided to urge the Government to pass legislation makimr it illegal for brewers to sell to any- other person than a licensed liquor dealer. A motion was passed bv the residents of Bclclutha affirmim? entire confidence in the value of the No-license law and advocating national prohibition.

The quarries of Scinde Island have supplied fossils of nearly one hundred species of si fell fish, and also a large number of fossilised bones of animals. The fish of the tronica 1 ocean t hat once submerged Scinde Island have in one or two cases been preserved intact. Their teeth, however, are fairlv plentiful and by them the geologists are able to learn much about the one-1 time denizens of these seas. !