LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 267, 27 October 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AN D GENERAL

To date 976 recruits have enlisted at the Napier Soldiers’ Club. ) The sum of £153 0/4 was subscribied during the recent collection in ! aid of the Dr. Barnardo Homes.

j The Napier taxi-drivers have i argeed to carry passengers to the j Gymkhana, on Saturday for six- ' pence. This generous offer should materially assist to swell the atteni dance.

The population of Wairoa borough is 1,533, namely 815 males, 718 females, excluding Maoris, and not including the Freezing Works employees located just outside the borough. The increase since 1911 is 436. —Press Association.

A final reminder is given to the Hastings branch of the Women’s National Reserve of the meeting to be held in the room over Everybody’s Theatre at 7.30 to-night. The branch intends to form a sewing bee and any gifts of material, etc., will be gratefully’ accepted. «.

The official opening for the season 1916-17 of the Hastings Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club will take place toincrrow at 2.30 p.m. Intending members and friends of present members are cordially invited to be present and participate in the afternoon’s recreation.

The Hastings Red Cross Workers are asking for further, funds for the British branch of the Red Cross Society, and for this purpose they are holding a “Red Cross afternoon” in St. Matthew’s Hall on Tuesday afternoon next. The proceeds and subscriptions will be devoted to the purchase of comforts fot the sick and wounded in Mesopotamia. At Patutabi last night a house belonging to William Gedye, drover, was destroyer by fire, and a little child of three or four years burned to death. Gedye is away in Opotiki. Mrs. Gedye was attending to children in the back room, and found the front room, where the little one was, in flames too late to rescue her. Tbe house was completely destroyed.—Press Association.

The Havre’s Bay Cricket Association has decided to open its seasob on the first Saturday in Napier. The following sub-committees have been elected: — Ground and postponement: Hastings, Messrs M E. Wood and E. Napier; Napier: Messrs F. Cane and E. P. Smyrk. Match Committee : Napier, Messrs M. R. Grant and AV. J. Hughes Hastings Messrs A. Hickling and E. Napier. A young roan was arrested at the Freezing AA'orks at AA’airoa yesterday, charged with desertion from the Army. He stated that he was invalided from Zeitoun and discharged at AVellington, but it transpires that his discharge was conditional on reporting in April. He was brought before the Court this morning and remanded to the care of the military authorities.— Press Association.

“Is Gambling Essentially Immoral’” is a question that will be discussed in a special address next Sunday morning by the Rev. M. A. Rugby Pratt at the Hastings Methodist Church. Special interest attaches to this question in view of the vast scale on which gambling operations are conducted in these abnormal days of war. At Sunday morning’s service Mrs. Goss, a soloist recently from Wanganui will sing “O Rest in the Lord.”

An officer of the Fourteenth Reinfercements, writing from Sling Camp to his people in New Plymouth, says that on board the transport on which he travelled there were no fewer than 130 cases of measles, while over 300 cases of various kinds passed through the ship’s hospital during the voyage. The two nurses had a busy time, and the men, prior to disembarkation, presented each with a purse of sixteen sovereigns.

A profit of more than 1,000,006 dollars a week (or roughly £200,000) was made by the Ford Motor Company, of Detroit, Mich., U.S.A., during the year ending July 31st last, according to the financial statement just made public (says the “Exporters’ and Importers’ Journal” of September). The Ford Company’s total profits for the year are nearly £12,000,000, as compared with £12,451,945, the revenue of the New Zealand Government for 1915. 'The year’s business totalled 208,867,347 dollars, and the year’s profit was 59,994,118 dollars. The total number of men employed in all the plants is 49,870, and of these 36,626 are receiving five dollars per day. oi' more. More than 27,000 of them are employed in Detroit. Mr. Ford announces that most of the profit will be used in expanding the business of the company.

Car Owners' For liow much longer are you going to let coin of the realm slip through your fingers? In other words, when are you going to join the growing band of satisfied users of the Compensating Vapour Plug, and let this little device save money for you? We don’t ask you to purchase until you get results. Y’ou pay a deposit, and should you not be satisfied that you are getting better results, your deposit will be refunded. Could a fairer offer be made? Call to-day and secure yours at the Motor Accessory Co., Ltd., Heretaunga street, Hastings.*

The N.Z. Express Co. pack, store oi remove furniture. They ship goods, live stock, etc., to eny part of the Dominion or abroad. Their long experience enables them to handle ship ments quickly, end by the cheapest and safest routes. Napier office: Byron street Hastings officer Arenne roan'*

Hastings subscribers: For complaints re late or irregular delivery of yom “ Tribune,” ring up 39 up to 5.80 p.m or IfiO after that time.

The New Zealand Expeditionary Forces’ letter mail for France etc., closes at Hastings at 8.40 a.m., tomorrow, Saturday. His AVorship the Major (Mr. W. Hart) has received from the Maraetetara settlers’ social and dance (per Mrs. J. Hart) the sum of £lO 9 10, being the net proceeds. Two boxes of books from the Hastings Carnegie Library' been sent away, one to the Old People’s Home, Park Island, and one to Mr. King, AVellington, tai y of the Y.M.C.A. The Library Committee “ Hastings Carnegie Library, in tlipjr report to the Borough Council his’ ■ stated that they were considcimf th< matter of directing that only standard authors’ works be hup- ka plied. K At the. Hastings Magistrate’s 1 Court to-day, before Mr. W. G. r Kenrick, S.M., F. C. Newrick (Mr. Croker) sued E. Farmery (Mr. Major) for £2O, balance due on threshing mill, traction engine, for coal, mill ridales taken and not returned and £lO damages for trespass. Defendant admitted £ll due on purchase of engine and threshing mill, and entered a counterclaim for £5 3/6 for oats, spanaers, etc., and labour. The case was .not concluded when we went to press.

To-day is the anniversary of the return from South Africa to London o- the (City Imperial Volunteers) in 1900. The line of march extended from Paddington station to the H.A.C. Armoury at Finsbury. The regiment was met at Temple Bar by the Lord Mayor. A short service was held at St. Paul’s Cathedral, and the troops were also addressed by the Lord Mayor ,at the Guild Hall. A banquet was held in the evening. On the C.I.V. standard is inscribed: Paardeberg, Klip River, Jacobsdal, Roodeport, Johannesburg, and Thabanchu. A North Auckland family has contributed seven sons towards tho war, and there may be some justice in the claims of the friends who supply the information that thia constitutes a record for New Zealand. The father of the family is Mr. J. H. Saies, a timber worker, of Whangaroa, and the boys who f have left for the front are James, Frederick, Bert, Joseph, Arthur, Edward and Alfred. Alfred has been killed in action, and two of the others are wounded. There are still three other sons in this patriotic family, and it is possible that the lis,t will be added to shortly. At a metting of the AVellington. City Council Reserves Committee yesterday, tile chairman was asked why people indulging in golf on the Municipal Links on Sundays had not been prosecuted. The chairman explained that it had been discovered, that a nice point was involved, and the question had been raised whether the council had power to forbid by by-law the playing of golf on the reserve. It was pointed out that; section 347 of the Municipal Corporations Act provides: “Inasmuch as it is inexpedient that questions; of religion or morals should be regulated by by-law no by-law shall be valid if the breach thereof would involve the breach only of some religious or moral rule.” The chairman added that many citizens who had this section up their sleeve were only too anxious that their rights in the" matter of Sunday golf should ba put to te“. and tin- eoufkil seemed to be. “ an equivocal pot-i--tiot . i '>• u’s. ->ul. I axn, ,r r.i anyone •' felt aggrieved, tq, "tart fl the r- Dw to net deci" ‘•i’ — TLe two dajs set apart- for tho Gymkuana for Xmas gifts promise to" be full of incident, and as a result the funds to supply our boys with tokens of esteem should be largely augumented. To-day tne Commercial Travellers will confine the operations to Napier and vend wares unusual to their ordinary calling. In the evening they are joining forces with the City Band, and will hold forth at the Rotunda. The combination should be sufficiently magnetic to attract a large gathering. At an interval in the proceedings exemption badges will be on sale at ten shillings each* These badges, which are of special design, will prevent the wearer from further financial demands in connection with the Gymkhana and permit entrance to McLean Park. Arrangements are well in hand for the Mock Court, where a lengthy and varying list of charges will be disposed of. Should the clerk of weather be considerate a large attendance at McLean Park on. Saturday afternoon may be anticipated. “My Sweetheart” will hold a levee at the Municipal Theatre on Saturday evening and the success of last Monday’s performance should ensure a bumper house. Christmas Cakes for “the boys” are now being made in large numbers by Messrs Kirk ana Marks, Hastings, whose cakes are meeting was universal approval. The last Xmas mail leaves early in November.

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