Local and General.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 200, 17 August 1921, Page 4

Local and General.

The Hastings Horticultural Society will hold their annual meeting in Mr. A. I. Rainbow’s office, Friday, 19th inst., at 7 p.m. Glasgow contains 13,000 houses, tenanted by 47,000 people, which have been condemned as unfit for human habitation. The Chinese residents of Wanganui have just made a voluntary contribution 'of £46 9s to the funds of tho Hospital Board. The return season of. the Gilbert and Sullivan Company to Hastings will take place on Thursday, September Ist, when “H.M.S. Pinafore” will be A Carterton nurseryman, sent to Belgium for glass required in a large greenhouse. The duty and freight charges exceeded by £2 the amount paid for the glass. “At the instance of tho Secretary to the Treasury, tho use of ink eradicators in any office of the New Zealand Defence Forces is hereby prohibited,” states a General Order issued this week. | The funds available in America for road improvement are sufficient, ac- j cording to tho latest official report, to afford an expenditure of £500,000 ' for each working day. Construction is : proceeding in every State at a fever- , ish rate. During the hearing of a judgment ■ summons case at New Plymouth, it i transpired that a native had been per- ■ mitted to incur debts amounting to £lOOO to unsecured creditors in tho town. The magistrate made no order, but recommended tho lean’s introduction to the bankruptcy court. A donation of 100 guineas has been made to the John Bollard memorial scholarship fund by £lio Avondale Jockey Club. The late Mr. Bollard was one of the founders of the jockey club. Tho object of the promoters of the fund is to -raise £lOOO, which will establish two scholarships in perpetuity. His Excellency the GoVernor-Geuera 1 (Lord Jellicoe) has acecpted an invitation to be the chief truest and speaker at a luncheon of the New Zealand Club to be held on August 24 in the Concert Chamber of the Town Ball. Wellington. His Excellencv returned to Wellington from the South Island on Sunday. At the annual meeting of the American Automobile Association it was resolved to urge officially upon national and State agencies and organisations the importance of launching a national campaign for roadside “treatment,” bv which term is imnlied the planting of trees, sodding, planting of slopes, removal of objectionable signs, etc.

’ An unfortunate accident happened to a young man of Ohakune, William t Parkes-, on Thursday, at Syme’s saw- ; mill. Tie was working at the saw bench, and while in the act of kicking sonic accumulated sawdust away, his foot came in contact with the saw. The result was that the outside of the foot, together with four toes, was cut off. Dr. Cursham Corner, who has had 10 years’ experience with maternity cases in the East End of London, declares that the mother’s instinct is far too strong for her ever to get the “wrong” baby, even if, at the time of its birth, she was unconscious. Twins, he says, which sometimes even to doctors and nurses look absolutely simTiar, are always distinguished by the mothers. The Marama, while recently at ’Frisco, was overhauled by the ship’s officers, who discovered 300 bottles of whisky hidden in the ships’s afterpeak. The prohibited liquor was packed in creap suit-cases. The captain handed it to the American revenue officers. Almost simultaneously 1500 bottles of whisky were seized on the Sonoma at ’Frisco, constituting a record haul. Whisky sells at £5 per bottle. The grand long night social and dance to be held bv the R.G.S. Orchestra in the Public Hall. Whakatu to-morrow, Thursday, evening promises to bo a huge success. Various songs will be given between dances, and one by a double quartette will bo well worth hearing. The hall is to be gaily decorated and a very pleasant evening is assured to all. ’bus will run from Havelock and Hastings free, and cars will run from Napier at a moderate charge.

Albert the Silent is dead, at the age of 81. “Europe’s model member ol Parliament,” cynics called him. He was Herr Albert Horn, and he set uj a record of 44 years’ uninterrupted membership of the Reichstag, during which time he represented his native place, Niese. But he also broke the record established by “Single Speech Hamilton.” for during that period he never made a speech—all the more notable as an achievement as he be longed to the legal profession. The Advisory Board of the New Zealand Patriotic War Belief Societies decided in Wellington yesterday that in order to conserve local funds for tho benefit of local soldiers the Advisory Board is of tho opinion that responsibility in respect to ex-imperial soldiers should be undertaken by the War Funds Council ,and that the same system of reciprocity as exists between affiliated societies should apply between the societies and the War Funds Council. The mending of Cupid’s bow on the Shaftesbury Memorial in Picadillycircus, London, tho otnor day, brought a caustic remark from a flower-woman. A young man paused at rhe fountain to buy his fair companion a buttonhole. “I’m glad they’ve mended Cupid’s bow at last,” said he to the flower-seller. “Yassir. it’s just abart time,” she replied, “but ain’t these divorceses ’nough to break ’is ’art as well as ’is bow? Now ’e’s got it mended, let’s ’ope ’e’ll try and aim straighter, and not let the wrong harrow ’it tho wrong ’art quite so often.” Tho manager of the Hakataramea salmon station, in a report to the Government, writes:—“This season’s run of salmon is the largest wo have yet experienced in New Zealand. The salmon were also larger in size, many of the fish, both at the Dobson and Ahuriri Rivers, bling from four feet to four feet four inches in length*. The total number of eggs collected, not including Pembroke, was 1,133,000, being as follow? : Hakataramea, 293,000; Ahuriri, 389,000; and Dobson, 451,000. The distribution was as follows: Hokitika and Wairau Rivers 400,000 each, and Pembroke 250,000. The balance is now being hatched out for retention in ponds, and distribution at Hakataramea.’ ’ A summary of the w’ork done to date by the War Pensions Medical Appeal Board was supplied yesterday by the Minister of Defence, Sir Heaton Rhodes. Appeals dealt with are 198, being 191 from soldiers and four from dependents. Those have been disposed of as follows: —Appeals from soldiers: Dismissed 147, increased 10, previously cancelled now reinstated 4, new grants 3, pensions made permanent at present rate 2, reduced 11, withdrawn 14, referred to War Pensions Board 1. Appeals from dependent!: Dismissed 3, granted (to widow) 1. It was suggested recently that a good deal of time and correspondence might be saved if chief postmasters were allowed to> sit on councils of chambers of commerce—at least, in the four centres of New Zealand. The idea found favour with the Head Office and tho .Post and Telegraph Department, and the Wellington Chamber of Commerce has decided to invito the Chief Postmaster to be a member of the council for the current year. Mr. H. D. Bonnett suggested that if post office officials were to be made ex-officio members of the council, it might become incumbent on the council to consider admitting officers from the Customs, Railway, and other Departments with which the chamber was brought into

contact. . | A meeting of the Havelock North Swimming Bath Bazaar Committee | as • held last evening. Mr Leicester presiTI ing ovfcr a good attendance. Mr Sefton, ? the hoifc secretary, reported that good t progress was being made with the house to house canvass, and a large amount ‘ of goods had been promised. He also ra.e'iitioncd that Sir George Hunter, - M.P. for the district, had kindly cont seated to open the bazaar next WedArrangements were made for the carting of the promised goods, erec- > ting stalks, etc. The price of admission to the dance on the Thursday night was i fixed at 2s 6d and Is. Much enthusiasm is being shown, and the success of ; the bazaar is assured. , I The desirability of further concentra- • tion in the matter of the administra- ‘ tion of war relief funds was briefly dis- ’ cussed at yesterday’s meeting in Wel- , lington of the Advisory Board of tho New Zealand Patriotic War Relief So- • cieties Federation. Mr. Snodgrass i (Nelson) moved, and Mr. Farrant 1 (Southland) seconded, “That it is de- ' ; sirable that tho expense of the admini istration of patriotic funds should be ’ on the lowest possible scale, and where 5 it can bo shown that a reduction of • administrative Indies will prove beneficial to the hinds, the Advisory Board is of opinion that the Minister should i exercise his statutory powers to obtain I. the amalgamation of the funds or secure their diversion to the War Funds ; Council.” The motion was carried. ’ ’ A discovery which brought back memories of the early da vs was the excavation at a side of the main street at Whakatane of several large Maori f cooking places, two human skulls, also a number of stone implements, a secr tion of the backbone of a whale, severa’ ’ fish bones, and a blue glass bead used ; by the old traders in that vicinity. 1 • is understood that by arrangement i with the Wellington Museum, measurements are being taken of the old skulls found and the figures recorded. A short time ago, when Dr. Buck was | there, some curiously shaped skulls . were handed to him. He attached I great, importance to them, and pro-* i mised on his return to go into the , matter further. Dr. Buck will, there- ’ fore, have further material to work upon.

i Tho collection taken up on the stage at the Hastings Orphans ’ concert in aid of the Mothers’ Rest last night amoun- ■ ted to £5. The “Wairarapa Daily Times” has 1 been shown a cheque paid out by tho New Zealand Government as the full amount due to one “wool king” as hie share of the surplus wool profits. The cheque was accompanied by a long typewritten letter of instructions regarding receipts, etc., and the amount to which the cheque entitled the payee was—one penny. At tho meeting of the Hastings West Schoo) held on Monday evening, the headmaster (Mr G. K. Sinclair) reported that the roll number was 360 and that the average attendance for last month was 331, and for the quarter 94 per cent of the roll number. He also reported that four barrels 6f tar had been received to complete the tarring of the school ground, that Mr J. Ebbett had donated the cost of cutting firewood for the school and that at the Hawera Show pupils of the school had secured 17 awards, including six firsts iu writing and drawing.. Messrs .Irwin and Esam were appointed a visiting committee for the ensuing month and they were requested to select a suitable place for a flag staff to replace the one recently taken down as being danger-