Local and General

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 177, 12 July 1927, Page 4

Local and General

White figures on & brown background will SB fhe colour of number plates carried on motor vehicles next year. Tenders have been called for 180,000 plates for use in New Zealand as against 171,000 last year.

The Hou R. F. Bollard stated today tfiat the applications for the position of films and posters had been narrowed down to 25, and a decision would probably be made this week.— (Press Association.

A bounty of £5506 10s was paid during the past financial year to the Onakaka Iron and Steel Company in respect of 3671 tons of pig iron manu factured at the company’s works at Onakaka, Nelson. In the previous year the bounty amounted to £4554 18s 2d in respect of 3578 tons of pig iron.

The time for applying for the two positions vacant in the Hastings borough inspection department, closed yesterday. For the principal office of building and health inspector, at a salary of £350 a year, 19 applications were received, and for the position of inspector of traffic and nuisances, at a salary of £275 a year, there were 97 candidates.

A petition asking that the importation of “shoddy” woollen materials and clothing should be prohibited and the duties upon the better class of woollen goods slightly increased is being circulated among employers in the textile industries by the Auckland Manufacturers’ Association.

Any member of the Hastings StarrBowkett Building Society wishing to become a candidate for the office of director, is notified, by advertisement in this issue, that notices of intention to become a candidate must be in the hands of the secretary, Mr. H. P. Stratton, on or before Saturday, 16th just.

Anglican Church services are held at intervals for the Parkvale people in Masters’ hop kiln, but the residents are desirous of building a little church of their own. With the object of commencing a fund for this purpose, a concert and dance will be held in the hop-kiln next Thursday evening, for which the modest charge will be 1/- for gentlemen and 6d and basket for ladies.

The annual plain and fancy dress ball in connection with the Clive School, will be held in the Public Hall on Friday evening next, the grand march commencing at 7.45 p.m. sharp. In addition to the ordinary programme of dances usually submitted, two folk dances wil Ibe an added attraction. The floor has been reserved for the children up to 10 p.m. after -which it will be available for adults.

The Magistrate will sit in Hastings to-morrow morning at 10 o’clock, when he will deal with the following business:—Police: One charge of drunkenness, one of cycling without lights after dark, and four maintenance cases. The civil list consists of 47 cases, including 9 judgment summonses and three defended actions. Amongst the defended cases is one in which one man claims £2OO damages against another for alleged assault, and it is anticipated that the hearing of this action will be lengthy.

From nine to twelve small cheese factories in the Wairarapa and Hawke’s Bay districts would be going into liquidation within a month or six weeks, said Mr. E. W. Garner, secretary of the Lepperton Dairy Company, at the annual meeting last An authority who had just returned from those districts had reported that the bigger co-operative concerns, with their smaller overhead costs, were freezing the little companies out, while the proprietary factories were creeping. There were several companies in the same position in his province, too.

Fossils found in Burnt Hill, North Canterbury, have interested Professor R. Speight. His attention was directed to the hill by Mr. G. Bassett, and his son, who collected fossils there. Professor Speight, as a result, visited the hill several times, an 4 made collections on his own account. He stated at a meeting of the Canterbury Philosophical Institute that Burnt Hill might prove to be very rich in fossils; it might hold one of the most interesting beds of fossils in New Zealand. Those fossilferous rocks, he added, belonged to the Miocene Period, in the Mid Tertiary Era, when eruptions occurred in Canterbury over fairly wide areas.