Local and General.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IX, Issue 80, 19 March 1919, Page 4

Local and General.

The Napier Borough Council meets to-morrow night. The Supreme* Court session completed its sitting at Napier this morning, when a number of matters were settled in chambers. The Bakers’ Conference at Christchurch apointed a deputation tn interview the Board of Trade regaiding the price of hi end in the various centres. Press Association.

Huddart Parker's "Riverina” is now scheduled to leave Wellington for Sydney on Monday, 21th. insl. at 2 r+m. Intending passengers are requested to note change in sailing date.

The management of the Ha-tings St. Patrick’s night ball, desire to thank the Hastings Band for playing selections outside the Assembly Hall, and so considerably adding to the attraction of the occasion. It is reported that a 17 year-old student at Te Ante College, named George Waerea, was on Monday arrested on a charge of wilfully setting fire to the college class rooms, and that accused appeared at the Waipawa Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday and was remanded for eight days. The Auckland Hospital Board decided last night to take steps to establish a Tubercular Home in the Auckland Hospital District. The board will take steps to locate suitable sites and submit them for the consideration of the Health De-< department.—Press Association. Arrangements are practically complete for the Hospital Saturday collection in Napier. The whole of the hospital district has been mapped out and allotted to various committees and organisers, and it is fully anticipated that the result will exceed all previous efforts. Thomas Joseph Taylor, charged at the Napier Police Court yesterday with failing to provide maintenance at 10/- weekly for his illigetimate child at Wanganui, also £l5 6,/- birth expenses and past maintenance was convicted and sentenced to two month’s imprisonment with hard labour, warrant to be suspended if 10/- per week is paid off arrears and 10/- weekly for current maintenance

Sir Robert Stout delivered a very interesting . address at last night’s meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Philosophical Society. The subject being “The Aftermath of the War.” Sir Robert, predicts that a dearth of work might ensue after the war. He suggested that longer hours should be worked. He explained that work increased the capital of the world, and the more capital there was the more there could be done, and consequently there would be more avenues of employment. He also dealt with Germany’s indemnity and the League of Nations scheme. The Chief Justice was accorded a hearty vote of thanks for his address.

Sitting in civil jurisdiction at the Hastings Courthouse this morning, Mr R W. Over. S.M.. gave judgment for plaintiff m the following undefended cases ■ —Hawke s Bay lanmis (onp i itivi \ssoci ition v. H T. Twiss £6 12/6. costs 23/6; Hastines Timber and Joinery Co. Ltd-- v- H. T. Twiss. £1 14,-. costs o - : Nellie barlev v. James K.vle, £3 12-. costs 14/-: A. J. Vidal an 1 hons v. Irederick 0 Connor, 17/-, costs - same v. D. Prior 17;-. costs 5- : Gumblev and Sons v. Paora Tahou. £7 10 2. costs 28 6 , Millar and Georgi v. I rank Bennett £6 16 10. costs 23 6 Judgment summons :—Graham and Gebbic v. Tsit 1 8 1 ti b" pnd n six ni ntl.s cr divs impnsonn <nt \t the Hi ting M gist!ate’s (out t i dav bi foi Mi Iv \\ Dyer S M Ii tii M >hi a powerfully built Ma i of about >< vi n if ig< was li tic, d < i th< infoim iti >n of P iddv M übuku wrt i assaultii? inform mt l>v v i,t< ling ho d of him in I tinow ng him <n th gtound. Mi I 1 M Hillett f n iifoiinant. a d tne < a ( u > < iit rt a di iputc ovri i t tali Hot tid <t at the late \ipi r ini whin Mohi bi came angi e ilk d infoimut i thi 1 .and thuv him t wn lutiimant was i mi< ti d al <nt liiiiis in list I of theft before a number oi people and it M hi tini it 11 i wnt ri him lit i I)iifn i mt d< ni< d th asiu t Hi W ) up ml i 1 -amt w a i i 111 >n in but l< 1< ndant hi! n> light to t ik( the law into his wi h ind fl ft nd mt was fined 10 - and costs £-1 0 b. Ti Hiwki lav Tobmo Com;u v 1t 1 hiv secuii d a manufactuiti if tbntv v< ns xpenmee, ml ftotn inftnn it tr n line 1 the m kiri- puhb of New /< iland will have a vetv ph isant n pj ise when tin nr v toba <o are placed on the n arket which is exjected to be within the n xt fortnight \ new depiitnunt in the ir business is the ...<< nd.ng ~f t.,Lacco for the farmers right through New Zealand. Mr. Gilmour has had years of experience in the growing and curing, and farmers wdio accept the company’s’ offer, will reap a rich return from their land. The company will be only too pleased to discuss the growing with the farmers and the.v are cordially invited to visit the factory at Port Ahuriri and discuss the position fully. It is pjleasing to know that this industry, is not- to be allowed to languish, as many industries have been in Hawke's Bay. The business is also under entirely new manacement. The sudden and violent swing of the tablet-receiving standard when taking the tablets from arriving engines as they dash past before drawing up at the ends of the Hastings Railway platform, is always fraught- with danger to persons standing in the vicinity of the standard, who might, by a movement, get- within the radius of the swing at the time the mechanism was in operation. The arm of the standard is fixed about the height of an average man’s head, and a blow from the sweep of this iron extension would be, serious and might easily prove fatal. The danger is much more in evidence when the platform is crowded, as it was on Monday evening to welcome returned soldiers, and the railway' officials are, on such occasions, at their wits ends to keep the public at a safe distance, a kindly duty on the part of the authorities which is not always responded to by individuals of the throng in. the same spirit. The peopje should understand that tflie railway officials are only acting to safeguard them, ami that- it is not only their duty, but their vital interest to obey instructions and to see that others do likewise, thus materially assisting the station master and his staff. It is a matter for suprise, however, that the Railway Department don’t enclose these danger zones, or else devise some other means for enclosing the arms within their sweep, so that the lives of heedless persons would not be endangered. The height of these standards are uniform throughout, and, it is understood, cannot be