Local and General.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IX, Issue 171, 5 July 1919, Page 4

Local and General.

The Wanganui Borough Ccuned contemplates extensions to the local gasworks to cost £31,000. St. Matthew’s Sunday School, Hastings, will not be open on Sunday afternoon.

A copy of the coal commission's report, has been received bj- the Napier Chamber of Commerce and is available lor perusal by memoryThe arrivals at the Port of Napier for the month of June were: —Inner Harbour 32, Breakwater 14, a total of 16 vessels.

The Napier Harbour Board earnings for the six months ending June amounted to £21,342, an increase of £4,400 over the corresponding periou of last year. The members of the Hastings Band are requested to meet at the Band Room to-morrow, (gundav) at 1.30. to take part in the sendee during the afternoon. “The only simple and effective wav to tax motors is to tax their tires.” —Mr. F. T. Moore’s (Johnsonville) at Thursday’s conference of Welling ton local bodies. Thfc sentiment met with general approval. The Hastings Loyal Orange Lodge notify that they are going to hold a euchre party and dance, in the Hastings Oddfellow’s Hall, on Friday evening, July 11th, in connection with the celebration of the anniversary of the 12th of July. A general meeting of the Hastings Returned Soldiers Association wi'i be held in the Club next Thursdayevening, as advertised. Mr. Spence, will deliver a lecture dealing with “Retrospective Financial Assistance” and “Repatriation in New Zealand.” A Government advertisement is inserted in this issue notifying householders of the great need to economise in the use of coal, and warning them against accumulating stocks by obtaining supplies from different, merchants and also against hoarding coal. Any cases of this kind will be severely dealt with. For kicking and striking opponents during a Rugby match in the Manawatu district between Awahuri and Western United, a member of the former team was disqualified f»r life, and warned off grounds under the control of the Manawatu Rugl.y Union. The police are also taking action against the player for assault. Reels of sewing cotton (announce--a London exchange) will soon lie cheaper. At present 7Jd. is charged for a reel that before the war com.l be purchased for a third of tbai. eT.moiint. while a pre-war penny rem now costs 4d. British drapers have been advised that lower prices to the public for certain of the Coats s combine goods came into operation on May 10th. In the Press report of the ‘ hen.iing catle” case heard at the Hastings Magistrate’s Court it appeared as if Mr. Crosse (the County Chair man) had himself turned out on the road 15 of his own cows to shift for themselves. The report should have stated that the cows in question had broken into Mr. Crosse’s garden from the road, and when discovered had done considerable damage. The turning out referred to these cows and not to his own.

it Wesley Church, Hastings, tomorrow morning, there will be a special Peace thanksgiving service, to which returned soldiers are cordiallv invited. At the evening service the 'subject will be “Remembrance and Thanksgiving.” Tile Rev. A. Mcßean conducts both services. Owing to the combined afternoon service there will be no service or Sunday School at Mangateretere. Mr. Hocking will preach at Pakowhai at 7 p?m.

The Registrar of Electors for Waimarino is busy transferring electors in Taihape and district into the Rangitikei electoral district. The re-arrangement of electoral boundaries. by which the new electorate of Waitoma was created, brings Taihape and neighbourhood in Rangitikei. the Waimarino district’s south ern boundary now ending north of Alatoroa. The headquarters of tnWaimarino district will be at Taumarunui, and Marton remains the headquarters of Rangitikei.

The Repatriation Department is of opinion that wireless telegraphy as a profession offers little prospects, whilst the wages received are generally small. This statement was made by Mr T. M. Charters (Canterurv Repatriation Officer) at Wednesday’s meeting of the Canterbury Repatriation Board, and Mr. Charters had recommended that an application for a grant for assistance m obtaining tuition should be made but he stated that there were exceptional circumstances in that particular case. He admitted that there were a few ‘'pickings” in the profusion. particularly as regards employment on land stations-