Local and General.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 201, 18 August 1921, Page 4

Local and General.

The Government is about to acquire another property in the Wairarapa for soldier settlement. A dajice will be held in the Paki Paki Hall to-morrow week in aid of the improvement fund for the building. The new Methodist orphange in Masterton is nearing completion, and will probably be. opened next month. The bamboo sometimes grows two inches in 24 hours. There are 30 varieties of this tree; the smallest is only six inches high, and tl»3 largest 150 It. Tinned meats still stand at a high price when the low prices of stock are considered. Retailers are buying these lines very cautiously, as a drop in prices is regarded as overdue. Air. Justice Reed stated in the Su*preme Court that after Saturday there would probably be no judges in Wellington till the sittings of the Appeal Court, the date of which is September 19. “San Francisco, as I have said before, is one of the cleanest cities I have ever seen in my life,” said Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P.. to a “Times” reporter yesterday. “It is very much like. Wellington; onlv its harbour, of course, is very much larger than ours.” “I often think we impaired a lot of hearts in Egypt.” said Dr. H. J. McLean in his “Exercises” lecture at Wellington, “especially when one thinks of the work a horse did and a man did. I went away with a mounted regiment, and I found that our horses weren’t allowed to bo gallojied for weeks after their disembarkation. The men had their 901 b packs up .in a couple of days!” At the Supreme Court, Dunedin, Charles Howard Tipping, sixth engineer on the steamer Mahia, was found guilty of causing actuual bodily li arm to Alfred James Pottinger, fourth engineer of the same vessel, under such circumstances that if death had resulted he -would have been guilty of manslaughter. The affair was the result of a quarrel on the ship on May 4 last, when accused fired a revolver at Pottinger, The jury made a- strong recommendation to mercy, and accused was fined .£3O. • “I hone.” said Bishop Julius at the meeting of the Council of Christian congregations at Christchurch on Monday night “that this council will help forward righteousness and truth rather than denounce wrong-. I am sure that is the true work God wants us to do.” This was his comment op. the council’s resolutions denouncing racing and gambling. He further said that it might not be advisable for an opinion to bo passed by men who knew very little about and came into very little contact with racing. The latest name for immigrants on the Government Relief Works in the back country is “Jimmy Grunt.” According to a Wanganui resident who visited the works recently, there are a fair number of immigrants employed and some of them who are not used to the work are not making big cheques on the co-operative basis and are there*fore not too well satisfied. The workers also include a number of men who find employment in the freezing works during the season, and these will no doubt leave as soon as the works open. At yesterday’s meeting of the Wellington Education Board indignation was expressed at the recent criticism by Mr. Caughley. Director of Education, concerning the board’s method in the appointment of teachers. A resolution was passed regretting the tone used by the director in the press and the letter to the board expressing his opinion. It was highly improper flint the director should describe as “farcical” the system adopted by the board. The director was asked to meet the board in conference to discuss the position.

Eleven hundred children and adults sat down to supper at the District High School dance last night, and hundreds of adults did not enter the sup-per-room at all, as they left before the grown-up people’s turn to be entertained came round.

A reminder is given to dancing enthusiasts for the R.G.S. Orchestra’s grand long night social and dance to be held in the Mangateretere Public Hall tonight. A free ’bus will leave Havelock and Hastings, and cars will run from Napier at a moderate cost. A grand benefit social and dance it to be held at Paki Paki on August 30, in aid of an invalided man, who is at presoiit in the Napier Hospital. The object of the social is a very worthy one, and one that does credit to the comradeship and sympathy of the organisers, and, no doubt, the appeal will meet with a ready response. The Labour Party intend holding a meeting in Hastings in a -fortnight’s time for the purpose of selecting a candidate to contest the Hawke’s Bay seat at the next general election. The selections made throughout the Dominion must be in the hands of the Labour executive at headquarters, in Wellington, by November, hence the apparent previousness of the gathering. Three further registrations in Napier this morning brought the unemployed total up to 92 . There is a prospect of a number of men being sent to Putere, where a number of the men have left the relief work. It is stated that they had to. pay so much to get in provisions and- other materials in connection with the work that the best gang are only making 3/- per man per day, and they are not satisfied with this. A special general meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Fruit Growers’ Association will be held in the Oddfellows’ Hall to-morrow night, when Mr. David Miller. Government Entymologist, will deliver a lecture on “Bed Mite.” On Saturday a field day will be held at the Arataki Experimental Station, when the manager (Mr. Rodda) will report on the results of last season’s spraying experiments, etc. “I understand that one society is absolutely exhausted .and that several are on the verge of exhaustion.” remarked the chairman (Mr. Williams, of Hawke’s Bay) at Tuesday’s meeting of the Advisory Board of the Federation of the New Zealand Patriotic War Relief Societies. During a discussion regarding soldiers dependent upon exnausted societies, opinions were expressed that no society should be subsidised by a lump sum from the War Funds Council. Some members stated that there was no desire on the part of their associations to be reimbursed from any other fund. A meeting in Wellington yesterday of the Teachers’ Superannuation Board dealt mainly < with ordinary routine business. A report on amendments thought necessary in the Teachers’ Superannuation Act was considered. A sub-committee consisting of Messrs. F. 'Bethune (Newtown). P. H. Richardson (Government Life Office), T. S. Ronald son (Public Service Superannuation Board), Hayes (National Provident Fund), and J. Caughley (Director of Education) was set up to pre pare a final report to send to the De partment. The sub-committee war authorised to confer with a similar committee of the Public Service Superannuation Board so that the proposals may harmonise. At the Hastings Orphans’’ ’’Mothers’ Rest” concert on Tuesday night, Chief Orphan Clarkson, in his address, said that in a letter which he had received from his daughter in Los Angeles, Cal., she told him that there was a very beautiful annual observance in that city called “Mothers’ Day,” on which everyone wore favours—a red rosette, if his or her mother was alive, and a white one if she was dead. On that day everyone presented his mother with Howers and some little present, as an earnest of his affection, and the custom has had a very exalting effect on the whole community. Mr. Clarkson thinks that a similar usage in Hastings would set an example to the whole Dominion, which could not fail to raise the tone of life generally.

Mr. H. B. Hughes, M.A.. 8.D., gave his fourth lecture in the Village Hall, Havelock North, last evening, before a deeply interested audience. His subject. “The Masterful Lord of Creation —Man,” was dealt with most eloquently under different headings. He touched on the many activities in the material world—in the realm of science, architecture, electricity, surgery, etc. On the development of the mind and supermind, and on our wonderfully constructed bodies, he illustrated his points with a. variety of stories. All his remarks went to prove what his subject said, that man. indeed, wad the master of the earth and her treasures. Mr. E. F. Leicester occupied the chair, and moved a hearty vote of thanks to the lecturer, which was duly acknowledged. A meeting of the Napier Repatriation committee was held in the committee’s offices, Tennyson street, on Tuesday. 16th instant. Present: Mr. E. C. Clarkson (chairman'). Messrs. R. L. Paterson, J. P. Williamson, W. Tweedie. W. H. Herd, and W. J. McGrath. Leave of absence was granted to Messrs. W. F. J. Anderson and E. H. Williams. Three applications for furniture loans were granted, one similar application 'was recommended to Wellington, and one was referred back to applicant for amendment. One application for business loan was Approved. Due application for fare to Tauherenikau Training Farm was approved. It was resolved to send a recommendation to Wellington that the maximum amount for furniture loans be reduced to £5O in future. Referring to the work of Boy Scouts during the epidemic and war, Captain Cossgrove mentioned one or two instances. During the epidemic at Wellington two Bov Scouts discovered a family of. six, father and mother and four children, all seriously ill with influenza and not receiving treatment. One boy went back to headquarters for medicine and supplies, and the other staved behind to look after the sick and clean up the house. Those two bovs nursed the family back to health without any outside assistance, nor any medical aid. During the war the Scouts did useful service at the camps in New Zealand, while at Home 18,000 of them acted as coastguards and on patrol duty along the coasts. The Admiralty was evidently more than satisfied with the work accomplished, for they have subsidised the Imperial headquarters to the extent of 6/- per Scout per annum. Speaking at Tirain (Hawke’s Bay) on Monday ,the Minister of Lands stated that lie would ask them not to become pessimistic concerning the cables from Home as to the prices for butter and cheese, and reminded them that notwithstanding the large amount the Dominion and other countries were producing, there was still an unsatisfied demand for the world’s products. There would be a demand for their butter and cheese, and while they could not expect to get the prices received up to the conclusion of the war. they should obtain payable prices. He was recently in conversation with a member of the Overseas Settlement Commission. who had told him (Mr. Guthrie) that of all the countries he had visited—including Canada, the United States, and Australia—none approached to the perfect system of dairying iu Denmark except New Zealand. His informant said this was particularly emphasised in th© Taranaki district, where there was doser settlement. Dairying was ths premier industry of the country, and had made remarkable growth. Last year it produced £16,823.000, as compared with .£713.000 in I 1899. and the industry was really only ’ on the threshold of its prosperity.