LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 208, 19 August 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

i The annual meeting of the Nai pier Chamber of Commerce will be s i .held next Thursday, 24th, ait 3 j j p.m.

A notice to owners of dogs found without collars having the proper' registration thereon is inserted in ! another column by the Hawke’s i Bay County Council. '

The championship tournament of j the Hawke’s Bay Amateur Golfing j Club, will be held on the Waiohiki : golf links, on 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th of September.

A meeting of those favourable to Mr. H. M. Campbell’s election to Parliament will be held in the Pub- i lie Hall, Clive, this evening, at I 7.30. !

The Napier Art Society held their monthly exhibition at the Art Rooms of the Technical School, i Napier, last evening, when a large ' number of sketches and paintings I were exhibited. The secretary; asked members not to delay ini getting their exhibits ready for the | annual exhibition to be held at j the end of the year . i

Referring to the complaints re; sheep-worrying by stray dogs, the I Hawke’s Bay County Council has' written to the Hastings Borough ; Council stating that it had been i reported that several greyhounds ■ were at large in the borough. The i Town Clerk (Mr. H. W'. Cook) has I replied stating that the Dog Tax Collector had been authorised to i destroy all collarless dogs and was ! carrying his instructions into ef- i feet. I

An old age pensioner was before the Napier Court this morning on a charge of drunkenness. The old man, who is 80 years of age, plead-1 cd that he had been suffering from ■ a bad cold and that was the rea- i son why he had taken too much. He asked for leniency and would ' guarantee that the offence would > not occur again. His Worship (Mr. j D. A. Baxter) took a lenient view j of the case and convicted and dis- 1 charged him. '

The Napier Music and Elocution. Competitions will commence in the Theatre Royal on Wednesday evening next. Concession tickets are piocurable up to Monday, August- 21st only. Three special trains arc being run this year in place of two last, and on Saturday evening, the 26tli inst., the usual 10.15 train for Hastings will leave Napier at 11 p.m. The official programmes are now on sale at all book and music stalls in Napier and Hastings.

, It- has been felt for some consid- : prable time that additions to the Sunday School at St. Augustine’s Church, Napier, were badly need- ! ed. so as to prevent the over- . crowding which occurs. The ladies ;of the parish some time ago -suc- : ceeded in raising £45, and the ' C.E.AI.S. branch have been makj ing a special canvass for funds dur- ; ing the last two weeks and a fair : sum has already' been received. The whole of the amount so far received will be placed in the offer- : tory at to-morrow’s services as a : thanks-offering, and the usual : Sunday offerings to-morrow will ; also be placed to the Sunday • School fund . A children’s service : is being held at 2.30.

; For a long time old buildings ; trom the Napier Borough have i been removed to Napier South, j where after being repaired and | painted ,they appeared as new j structures. The muitci* came up i for discussion at last night’s m-eet-i ing of the Napier South Town : Board and on the motion of Air. i George Latham, it was decided i tnat the board should rigidly enforce its rights under section 92 of the Public Health Act, 1908, ; which provides that no building on ' laud under the jurisdiction of any i other local body may be removed i to the Napier South Town Dis- : trict without the consent of the ; Town Board being first obtained.

The pamphlet issued by the! Farmers’ Political Protection Fed-' eration, a copy of which has been ; received by the secretary of the Hastings branch of the Farmers’ : Union, includes a copy of the fol- ‘ lowing resolution passed at a recent meeting of Canterbury - Trades Unions : —That in the opinion of this meeting the policy so ably advocated by Mr. Tirthur J V i thy, general secretary of the! New Zealand Land Values League, ■ or nottaxinglabourand labour pro- : ducts, and taxing land values in-! mead, is the only statesmanlike 1 policy before the country, the only ' policy that will bring to all classed . of wage-earners the economic free-; dom and justice they have so long been denied, and therefore we call upon the wage-earners of every! constituency to close up their ranks, and at the coming general' election, return candidates who i will support Mr. Withy’s land | policy of all true labourites in the i Homeland.

The Acting-Prime Minister has telegraphed to Mr. A. L. D. Fraser stating that the whole of the Wairoa Borough (both sides of the river) is included in the Hawke’s Bay electorate. This brings Erasertown into Hawke’s Bay.

The Hastings Motor Club meet at the Hastings Post Office tomorrow at 9 a.m. for a. run to Pohui . The departure from Napier will take place about 10 a.m. A special general meeting of the Club will be held on Thursday, 24th inst., in the Grand HofrfcL Hastings. W'

In New Zealand the “roadk&nd bridges” member is fiercely opposed to any reform that is likely to rob him of one of his best means of fighting for his seat. Under a non-political system of publiq works expenditure, even unaccompanied by electoral reform, the Fields and Craigies and Browns and Smiths would be swept away. So too, in France, the opposition to electoral reform comes ,to quote the New York “Post’s” correspondent, from “those who hold to election's as they are-and to keeping what they have.” The proposed reform is death to the “parishpump” Deputy. In France it .is regarded as certain that the reform will come soon. It is certain to come soon in- New Zealand and with it will come the growth of a proper national spirit to replace the petty parochialism which dwarfs our public men and de-> grades our public life.—“ Dominion.”