Local and General.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 92, 28 March 1922, Page 4

Local and General.

A brilliant electrical display was noticeable in the southern and south-east-ern sky last evening. The Hastings Co-operative Society’s ladies’ guild social and dance will come ofl at the Oddfellows’ Hall, Hastings, this evening

A gymnasium social evening will bo held in the Ha? tings i.iVl.c.A. this evening, when old and intending members are invited. The Dorset arrived in Auckland from England on Sunday morning and passengers left by the 7.40 p.m. train the same evening. The Canterbury Rugby Union has spent £4OO on a night-training ground tor football teams, and lias decided to open the season on April 22nd.

The usual monthly meeting of the Farmers’ Union will be held in the Old Library,, Market street, Hastings, on Thursday next (30th inst) at 2.80 p.m. All members are invited to attend. A conference of four district HydroElectric Power Boards at Palmerston North decided to approach the Government to raise and guarantee a combined loan for the purposes of each board.

Alfred Priest, an employee at Manson and Clarke's sawmill at Taumarunui, met with a painful accident. He was engaged in handling some logging machinery, when a hook flew out and struck him, with the result that his nose and wrist were broken. He was conveyed to the local hospital.

In commemoration of the memory of that great footballer, the late David Gallagher, captain of the famous “All Blacks,” the Auckland Rugby Union proposes to ask the delegates’ sanction to provide a cup to be known as ‘The Gallagher Memorial Challenge Cup,” for competition among senior clubs.

There is a possibility of tho Hon. C. J. Parr being in Hawke’s Bay next week. This is not definite however.

A general meeting of the Havelock North Football Club will be held in in the Town Board oilice on Thursday next, March 3()th.

At the Auckland Commercial Travellers’ Club, Mr. Massey said be hoped in the near future to announce a new railway policy. It is estimated that reductions in the Christchiin h tramway service, which will begin on April Ist, will bring about a saving of about £2OOO a year.

'Hie Arbitration Court will have most complete information at its disposal when next the Court deals with the cost of living question. Information is now being obtained of every single group, the food group, rent, clothes, etc.

The Mangateretere Public Hall Committee is holding another of their popular grand long-night dances in the hall. Whakatu, on Thursday evening. The floor is to receive special attention, and the supper will be in the hands of the ladies’ committee. The music will be supplied by the R.G.S. Orchestra. Cars will run from Napier and Hastings returning after the dance. By mail reaching Auckland this week news was received that during January last the Royal Institute of British Architects announced that the Soane Medallion and prize of £l5O (to be devoted to three months’ Continental travelling and study) was awarded to Mr Alfred J. Brown, A.R.1.8.A., assistant architect to Welwyn Garden City, Ltd. The winning design was a series of plans of university buildings. The prize was bequeathed by Sir John Soane, architect of the Bank of England. Mr A. J. Brown, formerly of St. Holier’s Bay, left New Zealand in January, 1916, with the N.Z.E.F., and was dangerously wounded at Messines.

“Though a man’s conduct may not be outrageous enough tu warrant instant dismissal yet if tho evidence of his conduct does not show sufficient interest in his employers’ business to justify confidence in him, there is reason for his dismissal,” said Mr J. E. Wilson, S.M., during the hearing of a claim for alleged wrongful dismissal at tho Auckland Magistrate’s Court (reports the “Herald”). “Further if tho employee irritates, consciously or by means of his temperament, anybody of those who have to carry on the business, and thereby impairs the conduct of the business, it’s a strong ground for dispensing with his services,” the Magistrate concluded.

Writing to a Midlands (England) paper concerning Anzac Day, a member of the Australian and New Zealand Association reminds readers of the date selected lor the pilgrimage to the graves of Anzacs buried in the Unite Kingdom. He* pointed out that 60,000 Australians and 17,000 New Zealanders died in the Great War for the sake of the Empire, and of those numbers 2500 rest on British soil. The following is a list of graves in certain localities: —Tettenhall, 1 Australian; Stafford, 1 Australian; Bilston, 1 Australian ; Stourbridge, 13 Australians; Dusley. 1 Australian; Whitechurch, 1 Australian ; Cannock, Chase. 73 New Zealanders; Sedgley, 1 New Zealander. The writer appeals to any ex-member of the A.1.F., or anyone else, to .show their appreciation of the supreme sacrifice by placing a few flowers on these graves.

The dedication of the new edifice to replace the old Chruch of St. Mary of the Angels, destroyed by fire in Wellington about four years ago, took place last Sunday morning. The building, which was designed by Mr F. de J. Clere, the architect, is one of the most beautiful places of worship in the Dominion. The architecture is of Gothic design, and although the outside of the church is unfinished, it is not so with the inside, which is exceedingly chaste and artisticc At the ceremony, F. G. Mahoney said that the cost to date was £31,865 5s 3d, including £l4OO paid to the architect, the total being considerably augmented by the extraordinary increase in the price of cement. Of that, £25,884 Is 6d had been collected, £4650 had been borrowed at 5J per cent, and £lOOO at 6 per cent, while £lBOO had been given free of interest, leaving a debt of £7500. The speaker appealed to the congregation to reduce that amount.

Last evening’s meeting of the Napier Borough Council being the last of the financial year the Mayor (Mr J. B. Andrew) was asked to vacate the chair. On his leaving the council, Cr Ashcroft, Deputy Mayor, took tho chair, and drew attention to the fact that it was usual at this meeting to vote an annual honorarium to the Mayor. Cr Harvey eulogised the work done by the Mayor and regretted that the council was not in a position to grant a larged amount than £3OO for the past year. He moved that this amount be paid. Cr A. Hobson seconded, and the motion was carried unanimously. In notifying the grant to tho Mayor, Cr Ashcroft said the whole council held similar feelings to those of the mover. Mr Andrew thanked the council. They had passed thorugh trying times, and he was sure when the annual returns came out the ratepayers would be satisfied with their work. He was optimistic about the prospects of the coming year.

An extraordinary feature of a manslaughter case which has been occupying the attention of the Supreme Court at Blenheim (states the Marlborough “Express”) was the fact that witness after witness came forward and admitted that they had been riding bicycles and motor-bicycles without lights on the Spring Creek road on the night in question. Mr. .Justice Hosking commented on this fact during the hearing, remarking that people who committed this offence against the law got motor-cars and everyone else into trouble. At last a witness was called who did not preface his evidence by stating that he was riding without a light. His Honour noticed it and required if he too had been without a light. Mr. O’Leary, who was examining the witness: “1 am afraid to ask him. Anyway (to witness), did you have a light?” Witness ‘unblushingly): “No.” His Honour sighed despairingly. This statement revealed that of all the traffic on the road on the night in question only the car and the trap involved in the collision even claimed to have been lit.

No sailors are included in the ship’s company on the New Zealand Shipping Co.’s steamer Orari; but in their place 26 cadets do all the ship’s work, and at the same time are instructed in all branches of knowledge connected with the efficient handling of a largo steamr. Most of the cadets have been with the steamer about 18 months, about ten of them being from Pangbourno College, and the others from the training ships H.M.s. Worcester and H.M.s. Conway. Those who have come from the training ships served two years in early training and they are credited with one year of sea-time for that period. The quarters of the cadets are situated on the saloon deck, whore they also have their study in which the chief officer, Mr R. Cowthorpe, instructs them in navigation, eleven cadets making one class. They take their turns on the watch, in tho engine room and on the look-out. While in port two cadets are in each hold being instructed in the stowage and position of cargo. The lads from Pangbourno have also had previous experience at sea. having been for eight months on the training ship St George, a three-masted schooner, which makes three-monthly cruises from England to the Canary Islands. On joining the ship they pay a premium and the complete course of training is three years.

At the Foxton Police Court yesterday a young man named George Dunn was charged with theft and arson and pleaded not guilty. He was committed to tho Supreme Court for trial. Bail was fixed at £2OO and two sureties of £1(X) each. A male passenger by the Tahiti named McKnee refused to take the oath of allegiance when the vessel arrived at Wellington from San Francisco yesterday morning, and consequently he was not permitted to land. McKnee is proceeding through to Sydney. Pastor W. Gordon Turner is returning to his home town to-night for a short stay, and to-morrow evening will deliver a lantern lecture on “Life and work in the South Pacific Islands,” at 8 o’clock in the Oddfellow’s Hall. “With all due respect to Mr. ‘Pussyfoot’ Johnston,” remarked a commercial traveller to a Wanganui “Herald” reporter, “they won’t require his services in New Zealand to carry Prohibition next election. Those modern glasses in the hotels with their inch of false bottom will do the trick among the moderate drinkers,” he added. He also went on to state that the workers’ pint pot no longer contains a pint, but instead it has a large cavity at the bottom, and if the pot wore turned up the other way this could be used for a whisky glass. Between the said cavitv and the place where the ale should go there is also a thick layer of glass. Truly the whole outfit is a work of art and a disgrace to the trade.