Local and General.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 245, 29 September 1922, Page 4

Local and General.

The inward ’Frisco mail ex-Tahiti will arrive in Hawke’s Bay this afternoon .

A telegram from New Plymouth states that a proposal to borrow £19,000 for the extension of the trams to the suburb of Westown was carried by 1022 to JO5.

On Monday, says the Christchurch Press.. Mr. W. E. (“Pussyfoot”) Johnson was Dr. Thacher’s guest at morning tea at the Dominion Hotel, where the visitor was shown over the bars. Well, ehe-erio! “It is a moveable, feast really,” stated Mr. J. R. Kirk referring to the meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Education Board at the boards’ conference to-day. He said that the northern members, to get to the meeting, had to depend on “the weather, the Union Company, and the Union Company's stokers.”

Last Saturday’s football match at Dunedin between Otago and Otago University has resulted in £6-10 being handed to the Mayor for the assistance of the unemployed. Another £l6O from the receipts of the match will be given to the widow of an ex-Otago representative player. Any factor that tends to relief in the present cost of living is welcomed, therefore householders in Hastings will be interested in the announcement of the Napier Gas Co., Ltd., that the nett price of gas is now reduced to 7s lid per 1000 cubic feet. In pre-war times the local price was equal to the best ruling in other towns of like population, but the announced reduction places the price of gas lower than any of the four capital centres of the Dornin iop.

A romantic story lies behind the fortune of £25,000 which has just fallen to Mrs Nicol, daughter ot a farn\ worker, of Stoneykirk, Stranraer. While working at the Gretna munition factory during the war she met David Nicol, then serving in the Canadian Forestry Corps, and they were married. It was not until she heard from a firm of Toronto solicitors that he was dead, and had loft her a fortune, that she learned ho was a rich man, and a son of the late Sir Thomas Nicoi. of Toronto.

A final reminder is given that the employees of Borthwick, Ltd., will hold their annual dance at the Paki Paki Freezing Works this evening, when lovers of’ the “light fantastic ’’ are promised a most enjoyable time. The R.G.S. Orchestra will supply the music, and a first-class supper provided. Due regard has been paid to the floor, which is in perfect order, and the hall has been elaborately decorated. ’Busses will run from Havelock North and Hastings Post Office at 7.15 and 7.30 respective-

For many months past (states the “Southland Times”) the Invercargill Chamber of Commerce has been working to secure direct shipments of overseas cargo to the Bluff, and the first fruits of their efforts appeared when the s.s. Orari berthed at the Bluff. The vessel, which is carrying cargo direct to Bluff at main port rates, will discharge 2825 tons of general cargo, of which 1515 tons were shipped at Liverpool. 430 tons at Bristol, 404 at Manchester, and 476 at Glasgow. The shipment of this quantity of cargo under the conditions mentioned means a saving of between £5OOO and £6OOO in freight. Dr Chater Charlton read a paper before the Health Conference at Sydney a few days ago, in which he dedared that 75 per cent of mental cases were accounted for by defective teeth. Rheumatism, gastric ulcers, gastritis and many other diseases had been traced to the same originMothers should clean their children s teeth. The child could not do it. A child of two might as well be given a violin as a toothbrush for its own use. Only dentists too lethargic or lacking in discrimination, he said, would extract a tooth for any other reason than that it was septic. The practice of extracting devitalised teeth was holding the profession all over the world like a vice. If persisted in. future generations would be like birds —without teeth.

An arrangement has been made hy the Farmers’ Union with the Returned Soldiers’ Association to appoint two prominent and experienced members of the union as honorary advisers in connection with the settlement of returned soldiers upon the land. Their duties will be to visit soldier settlers, observe and advise upon their method of farming, advise them about the purchase of seed, implements, manure, stock, etc., inform them concerning farming matters about which they may be ignorant, and* generally keep an eve on their operations with a view to assisting them. The selection of two members is meant to”allow of one being available in the event of the other not being so.

The Railway Department announce that in connection with the Napier Park races to-morrow the 4.10 p.m. Napier-Waipukurau train will run to Hastings only, and that the usual 5.8 p.m. Napier-Hastings train will run through to Waipukurau, leaving Hastings at 6 p.m., arriving at Waipukurau at 8.6 Letters only for the United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, posted after the Vancouver despatch on 25th inst., and posted here not later than 8.30 a.m. on Wednesday, the 27th idem, were forwarded by s.s. Manuka from Wellington, connecting with Orsova at Sydney. This mail is due London (approximately) 11th November Attention is drawn to the sale of blood-stock to be conducted by Williams and Kettle, Ltd., and to be held Wednesday, morning of the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club Meeting, 4th October, starting at 9.15 a.m. sharp at Tattersall’s Stables, Market street, Hastings. All the horses to he offered arc hy the well-known leading sires who have made names for themselves both on the turf and as sfres, amongst them being All Black. Merry Moments. King Mark. Kilboy and Espatero. Mr Alfred Reid will again be in .-liarge of the hammer.