Local and General.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 90, 24 March 1924, Page 4

Local and General.

The Hastiugs Chamber of Commerce will hold its monthly meeting this evening at 7.30.

The Hawke’s Bay Education Boar J states that the inquiry to have been held into matters in connection with the Havelock North School by the Educational Institute will not now be uro cecdcd. with.

Rain fell late in the afternoon on Saturday in Hastings, interfering with the cricket and bowling, but it came down in good earnest at about 6.30 and continued until 9, after which it cleared up. The rainfall for the 48 hours ending 9 o’clock this morning registered 1.45 inches.

This afternoon an old lady named Miss Maddison collapsed on the pavement outside Thompson and Son’s butchery establishment, Heretaunga street, and she was carried into Messrs Peters and Co’s drapery premises next door, where she was attended to by the ladies of the staff, under whose care she soon recovered sufficiently t<> be removed in a taxi to her home by Constable Horne.

Saturday’s warm rain, following upon the recent drenching, which the country had experienced, hag led people to believe that the succulent mushrooms would raise their heads above ground and sacrifice themselves to the table requirements of the searchers after that delicacy. However, although mushrooms were in evidence, they were not at all in the abundance that was anticipated and so a considerable amount of disappointment was felt by those whose enterprise carried them afield.

The Hastings Orchestral Society, realising the necessity of caring for instrumentalists who are not sufficiently advanced to enter the society as playing members, is instituting an auxiliary orchestra for th© purpose of training musicians who, when sufficiently advanced in orchestra experience, will be transferred into the senior orchestra as vacancies occur. This will mean that in the future all intending members of the society proper will have had some practical knowledge of orchestral playing, and the experience will be valuable for the student instrumentalist as well. A meeting of all interested will be called at an early date when details will be explained. The auxiliary orchestra will be guided by the conductor of the Orchestral Society, Mr. Donald Parkin, and matters relating to its management will be controlled by the society’s committee who have appointed the secretary. Mr. P. J. S. George, and the conductor to make preliminary arrangements.