Local and General

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 210, 23 August 1926, Page 4

Local and General

Members of the Canterbury Education Board have decided that the office of chairman shall be held for a term ot one year, instead of two as prescribed in the Act.

During their tour of the district yesterday, the visiting Auckland Rugby team called by invitation at Otatara, where they were very hospitably entertained by Airs. 'Perry, who wgs a most gracious hostess.

The days for the distribution of clothing by the Hastings District Nursing Association will be, until further notice, Tuesday and Thursday of each week between the hours of 10 a.m. till noon and 2 till 4 p.m.

A Dunedin Press Association message states that a garage at Brighton, with a large service motor bus, owned by A. F Knowles, was destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. A bucket brigade saved Knowles’s house.

Yesterday, prior to their return homo, a number of the visiting Savages from Gisborne and Wairoa were driven round the district and were very appreciative of the many fine views of the district, especially from the Havelock hills.

There are not many local bodies in the Dominion that have money to invest in the loan securities of others The Wanganui City Council, however’ seems to be in that happy position, as it has proffered to take up £2o,ooo’s worth of the Wanganui-Rangitikei Electric Power Board’s £50,000 issue of 5j per cent debentures.

The Supreme Court opened at Gisborne this morning before Mr. Justice Ostler. His Honour congratulated the district on the lightness of the calendar. True bills were returned in two criminal cases. Oscar Lunn, for breaking, entering and theft, was given probation for one year.—(Press Assn.)

A fancy dress skating carnival was held in the Olympia Skating Rink, Hastings, on Saturday evening, when there was quite an array of costumes of original and attractive designs. Mr. W. J. Jaeger, who acted as judge, awarded the prizes as follows: Most original lady’s fahev dress, Miss Tong (Bunny Carnival); most graceful couple, Miss-Tong and Mr, W. E. Elliott. The management announced that there will be another fanev dress carnival next Wednesday evening, when prizes will bo for the best lady’s fancy dress, best gentleman’s fancy dress and most original gentleman’s fancy dress. All the prizes won will he presented next Wednesday evening.

In passing sentence at Wellington on Thursday upon several young men who appeared on numerous counts of wrongful conversion to their own use of motor cars the Magistrate said: “I don’t think that I can grant probation to any of these boys. The charges are serious ones, and a large number of cars have been converted. When this class of offence first came under notice it was probably treated with a certain amount of toleration, but when the offences became more frequent, tlie Government passed a special section of the Act to deal more strictly with them. So great of late, however, has this class of offence become that it lias developed into almost a public scandal. If these offences continue in this way, it may be a question whether in every case a term of imprisonment will not have to he imposed. ’’ The Rev. Mr. Bennett, in introducing an item on the programme of the Maori pageant last week at Wanganui suggested that there was nothing like a haka to produce physical fitness. He said that the Government had introduced drill to the schools of the Dominion from Sweden, but here, in this country, there was a form of drill and play combined that was much more effective in creating physical giants. He thought Maori hakas were superior in that respect to Swedish drill, and he thought that hakas would bo greatly appreciated by students of physical culture. Later, when the performers of the haka made their appearance, it was apparent that a number of them had profited by the exercise, but there were other members in the team who looked as if they had heen fed on glrixo and had been strangers to hakas for n very long time. Their “good' cnr-lilion. ho- or. did not dctrvi from their 'mt perform- ■ : am! tho - U “hmdil’ uui Herald.)

A boy named Wallace Lacey, aged 7, has been missing from his home at Aromoho, Wanganui, since 9 o’clock on Saturday morning. He was lastseen on the bank of the river and drowning is feared.

The Court of Arbitration has issued an order for the purpose of applying the Apprentices' Act and the orders made thereunder to those employers ot apprentices who are not bound by an award or industrial agreement, and who are at present outside the scope of the Act.

Two huge tanks, each of 10,006 gallons capacity, which are to be used tor the storage of bulk petrol, have arrived at Frankton. These are the first to be erected locally, and belong to the Vacuum Oil Company Storage tanks for other companies are expected to arrive shortly.

Private advice received in Auckland during the past few days was to the effect that Tooley street importers refused to establish credits in the name of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Export Control Board, as required for the purposes of compulsory control, but were prepared to do so through their agents in New Zealand. The matter was referred to the secretary of the board, Mr. T. C. Brash. “Letters of credit required by the board for the carrying out of its policy as from September 1 have been definitely arranged for,” said Mr. Brash. “A number of them have been cabled to New Zealand and others are on the way.”

An unusual case of missing mail has just been received at Blenheim. Four local residents have been surprised in the course of the last few days by receiving from the chief-postmaster correspondence posted in one instance as long as 16 years ago. When a guard’s van on the railway was being repaired at Picton recently the workmen discovered four letters that had been posted in the late fee box that was fitted in the van. Apparently there was some defect in the box, or at any rate there was an unsuspected opening which allowed the letters to slip away into some corner, where they were overlooked. After many journeys up and down the line the letters have at last been delivered by a scrupulously methodical service.