Local and General

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 45, 5 February 1920, Page 4

Local and General

The Napier Boys’ and Girls’ High Schools will remained closed until further notification. The “shoot" of the Okawa Rifle Club, which was to have come off at Roy’s Hill range yesterday, was cancelled.

The Hawke’s Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society’s executive committee will meet in Napier tomorrow morning. A large gathering of swimming enthusiasts from the Hastings and Napier districts are expected to gather at the Hastings carnival, to come off at the Maddison Baths tonight. The Hawke’s Bay Almanack for 1920, published by Messrs. Dinwiddle, Walker and Co., which appeared some weeks ago,,again this year contains a wealth of valuable information. A young man named Norman Bennett, alias George Watson, was charged at the Napier Police Court this morning, with (1) being found drunk, (2) breach of .his prohibition order, and (3) with the theft of a coat. Mr. A. L. Beattie was on the Bench and remanded the accused until Monday next, Mrs. W. A. Whitlock, A.L.U.M., teacher of elocution and dramatic art, announces that she will be at the Oddfellow’s Hall, Market street Hastings, on Tuesday, February 10, and at Abbott’s Hall, (entrance, Browning stteet) Napier, on Wednesday, February 11, from 3 to 5.30 p.m., to interview parents and intending students. “The Winchester Woman,” shewn for the first time last evening at Everybody’s Theatre, Hastings, is a fine picture story, and is further enhanced by an exceptionally able caste, principal among whom is Percy Mannont. the Australian actor. The further adventures of “Stingaree” are a good set and well worth seeing. Exclusive topical budgets support the programme. The following pupils from the Hastings North (Mahora) School were successful in securing Junior Free Places at the recent examination : —Kenneth Heaton, Mervyn Saunders and Jasper Swan. Of 27 pupils presented for Standard VI. examination last December 22 gained proficiency certificates and 4 competency certificates. The Dux of the school for 1919 was Maggie Pitcaithly. A very good programme is now being screened at the Hastings Municipal The Mack Sennett comedy “Back to the Kitchen” is one of the best, and the little child wonder should be seen to be believed. Ethel. Clayton has the principal part in the Paramount special “Maggie Pepper,” and May Allison has the stellar role in “The Uplifter,” two pictures of sterling quality. Hawke’s Bay at present holds the Nelson Life Saving Shield, which is supposed to be competed for at the championship swimming carnival at Auckland this month. At a meeting of the Hawke’s Bay head centre of the Royal Life Saving Society in Napier last evening it was decided that, as they had not received the rules and information according to the regulations, they could not see their way to either compete for or hand over the shield. A most successful social and dance eventuated last evening, in the Hastings Assembly Hall, under the auspices of the Hastings branch of the New Zealand Labour Party. About 150 couples graced the floor, spending a most enjoyable evening. The dances were interspersed with musical items, which were mpch apA waltzing competition createfi great interest, resulting in Mrs. McMillan and Mr. J. Jack, being placed first, Miss Kenny and Mr. J. Sinclair 2nd, and Miss A. McCauley and Mr. McNab 3rd. Mr. Johnson, of Clive, acted as judge. Extras were played by Mrs. McMillan and Mr. J. Cbannian.

A Gisborne motor enthusiast has purchased a monoplane, which arrived this week by steamer.

Gisborne is at present suffering a severe shortage of accommodation, and complaints by steamer travellers are becoming chromd? Dogs owned by Maoris will no longer be exempt from registration, but will be placed on the same footing as those belonging to Europeans. Attention is drawn to Miss Kiore King's advertisement in this issue stating that she h*s vacancies for four pupils for elocution and dramatic art. At the Waipukurau Show yesterday, a pony, donated by Mr. Paul Hunter, was sold and resold, and was finally knocked down to Mr. W. Matthews, of Hatuma. The handsome amount of £142 was realised, and this will be given towards the Waipukurau Hospital improvements. Messrs. Whitcombe and Tombs’ Dominion Year Book and Almanac for 1920 is a useful and complete production which will be found a handy reference On the desk of farmer or business man. It also contains a summary of questions of the day, which is interesting and instructive reading. Complete details are also given of soldiers’ gratuities, allowances, etc. There is still (says the Eltham “Afrgus”) a rage for Jersey stock in this district. Anything that ha* a good strdin of Jersey in it is saleable at a substantial price. Jersey calve*, jtist off the bucket, are bringing from £5 to £6. Good Jersey cows next spring are expected to realise record prices. Jerseys were in great demand here some years ago, but were supplanted in favour by the Holstein*. Now the Jerseys have come into into their own again. A motorist with long experience of provincial roads considers that local authorities could greatly improve their thoroughfare* by using Guer shingle. In the district between Dannevirke and Woodville, he says, the lack of this is particularly noticeable. The sides of the DannevirkeWoodville road are thick with m ital thrown there by passing motors, because the stones are too large to consolidate in the body of the highway. Instancing what the use of fir\ f shingle will do he points out that between Morere and Wairoa,.in Hawke’s Bay, where gravel the size of peas has been used, the road surface for ten miles i* one of the finest in the Dominion. — “ Manawatu Times.” Thomas Joseph Leggett, a returned soldier, w*.s changed at Wairoa with stabbing Tom Mahanga, a returned Maori soldier, at the Ferry Hotel, North Clyde, on Saturday. He was brought before the Justices and committed for trial, bail, being allowed. The wound is not seriou*; In the Supreme Court at New Plymouth yesterday, before Mr. Justice Sim, the jury returned a verdict for plaintiff m the retrial of the claim of Ingram Colson, farmer, of Fitzroy, against Ebenezer Woldridge, garage proprietor, New Plymouth, for damages caused through the negligent driving of defendant’s car by Leo Walsh ; £750 was awarded with costs, each side to pay its own costs of the first triaj. It is a common thing for farmers to work their horses in the field from morning to night, watering them only at noon (says a farm paper). This is done even on days of excessive heat. The driver usually has two or more refreshing drinks in the middle of the morning and again in the afternoon; but -the horses, who are equally as thirsty, go without. This want of water is not only distressing, but it causes the horses to drink in excess at noon and again at night which often results in colic, and always tends to produce a distended stomach, or what the farmers call a “hay belly.” Farmers who would treat their horses humanely should take water into the field for them in hot weather. Remarkable prosperity is being felt by some of the chief industries centring in Thursday Island, Queensland’s most northern outpost. Trochus shell, which is exported to Japan, is worth over £lOO a ton, while it was once sold for £3O or £4O. It is one of the mainstays of the large fleet of pearling luggers, of which • Thursday Island is the headquarters. There is a danger that the high price may lead to the r ®^ s being ruthlessly stripped. The choicest variety of trepang, much sought after by the Chinese* for making soup, is now worth from £6OO to £7OO a ton, several times its price of a few years ago, and other varieties are also high. High prices are also being realised for pearls and pearl shell. Finally, a high, price rules for sandalwood, of which a quantity is obtained on Cape York Peninsula and shipped from Thursday Island. The fact that the Australasian athletic championships are now in progress has given rise to a .good deal of discussion of the merits of runners past and present. “I reckon Wilson is the greatest hurdler I have ever seen,” said an old thusiast vesterday, “and the greatest New Zealand has produced, but I am very doubtful if any other member of the. team now in Australia is a champion of champions. I thought Lindsay would have done better, but in any case I do not class him with the late John Hempton, who was phenomenally fast. Hempton had an electric finish and I have often seen him hopelessly out of a race till near the tape, ana then manage to get there first. I have always been impressed by Dormer, but he has not done the big things I expected him to from the day I first saw him run.” Amongst the latest announcements made by the Post ana Telegraph Department, is that of a parcel post, cash-on-delivery system, between the "“United Kingdom ana New Zealand. This system provides for the collection - from the addressee, by the Post- Office, on behalf of the sender, of the value of articles contained in parcels exchanged between New Zealand and the United Kingdom, came into force on January Ist, 1920. This will enable a person in New Zealand to order goods from the United Kingdom, or a person in the United Kingdom to oraer goods from New Zealand, have them dispatched by parcels post, and pay for them on delivery. The amount to be collected from the addressee, under the system, is termed “trade charge.” This “trade charge” must not exceed £4O, on any one parcel, and it must not exceed the declared value, pips the postage and other fees pavable on the parcel. On parcels received from the United Kingdom a special delivery fee of 4d per parcel 'trill be chargea. If the trade cnargtj on a parcel from the United Kingdom is not paid within 30 days,. after its receipt at the office; of delivery, the parcel will be. treated as unclaimed.

The Hastings Aorotudi Council invites applications for the position of junior typiste. Mr. Percy W. Tomb* announces that hi* first term commences on Monday, February 9th. The new pupils of tile Napier Technical High School will be enrolled to-morrow (Friday) from 3 to 5 p.m. _ The Sister* of St. Joseph, Hastings, will resume music lesson* and. commercial classes on Monday next. Intending pupils should apply early. The alleged “corner in flour” which is said to have affected the South Island supplies and is threatening a rise in price*, has not made itself felt in Hawke’s Bay yet. Commissioner and Mr*. Hodder, accompanied by Brigadier Toomer and Major Colvin, will arrive in H*»> tings on Monday in connection with the “Jlig Four” campaign being conducted by the local corps. They will conduct an open air rally, followed, by a meeting in the citadel. We wish to remind the public of the lecture of “Esperanto and International Commerce” advertised to be delivered at the Y.M.C.A. this evening by Mr J. H. Hodges, F.B.E.A. This is to take place In the gymnasium, a large airy room. Attendance is not limited to Y'.M.C.A. members, but the general public and ladies are invited to be present. The following resolution wa* passed at the meeting of the Hastings branch of the New Zealand Labour Party, held on Tuesday evening:— “That this meeting protests against the holding of internees ,in camp, necessitating the placing of three officers in charge and tbs expenditure of two thousand’pound* per annum, especially as the cry of the Government is for economy and increated production, and the fact that -peace has been signed.” The annual meeting of the W.C.T.U. was held in Napier yesterday afternoon. The report mid balance sheet showed that a good year’s work had been accomplished, and the union was in a strong position. New officers were elected asjftfllows:—President, Mrs. G. W. Venables; secretary, Mrs. Foot; treasurer, Mrs. F. Grayling; deimjates to New Zealand conference, Mtedames Chelew and Walker. The preaident, in addressing the members, strdMOa the need of a vigorous campaign. Cr. Thomson has given notice of his intention to move a* follows at the next meeting of., the .Napier Borough Council:—“That this council again draws the attention of the Hon. the Premier to the urgent necessity of establishing a Ministry of Supplies referred .to in, this council’s resolution of the 19th of September, 1919, communicated .to tbd Premier; and further bote* that the Housing Act, 1919, contain* no, pro- ■ vision for the establishment of .a Ministry of Supplies a* promised in the Premier’s letter to the council dated October ,11th; 1919,” The future of the New Zealand Returned’ Soldiers’ Association, was , specially referred' to by Mr. D; J. B. Seymour, the' retiring general secretary, \ at a complimentary dinner tendered to him oh Saturday night. He urged that for the future the main concern of (he association should be directed towards matter* such as pensions, medical treatment land, and repatriation. For the next 50 years soldiers would be suffering from recurrence of war injuries, and those who had sufferea particularly through, the rigours of . war were likely to tail in health at a | relatively early age. It was obvious that a sympathetic administration would be more than ever necessary. The memory of the public was notoriously short, and the ex-soldier and the R.S.A. must for many years to come scrutinise very carefully all administration and legislation in which the soldier was concerned. Messrs T. Long (Auckland) and John I. Fox strongly endorsed Mr. -Seymour’s remarks. It is probably not very generally known that quite an appreciable new export trade is being created in Australia in the way of sending eggs to the United States. Last year Qie consignments amounted to stuns 155,000 dozen, valued at over 60,000 dollars, equal at current rates of exchange to something between £15,000 and £16,000, or about 2/- a dozen. Mr. Norton, American Consul-Gene-ral at Sydney, says that prices have been steadily going up since the first experimental shipment. was made; and that the demand is practically unlimited. He also states that the reports with regard to egg pulp for pastry and cooking purposes are also distinctly encouraging, and show that in these two lines Australian products can more than hold. their own in the markets of the big industrial centres of Western Canada. : Present local prices ih New Zealand are such as to relieve our poultrymen from having to look for foreign markets, mit the hint thus conveyed may lie worth bearing in mind when conditions assume a normal aspect. Messrs E. L. Hall and R. P. Baker, of London, chairman and . managing directors respectively, of the International Correspondence Schools, have, just completed a three weeks’ visit to New Zealand. During their stay they exhaustively investigated local conditions with a' view to making sucji alterations in the curriculum of the Institution that will enable the I.C.S. to meet requirements of New Zealand students even more effectively in the future than in the past. During the past week a conference of au the New Zealand agents was held in Wellington. The interesting announcement was made that the new Domestic Science courses, covering the subjects of dress-making, millinery and cooking would now be placed on sale in New Zealand. These courses are meeting with a very extensive demand in the countries in which they are now offered. A conference of all overseas managers is to be held at the head office London, in August of this year, to be followed by a visit of inspection of the Associated Institutions in America. Mr. J. G. Smith, general manager for New Zealand, will accordingly leave for England and fEe United States in July next. The visitors are much impressed with the general prosperity of the Dominion, which is so apparent on all sides. '