Local and General

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 203, 11 August 1927, Page 4

Local and General

The 1928 Brass Bands’ Contest is to be held in Christchurch from February 18th to 25th. Mr. E. Jackson, bandmaster of the Brisbane Municipal Concert Band, has been appointed adjudicator.

The New Zealand Shipping Company has received advice to the effert that the Remuera, en route from Auckland to Southampton, sailed from Colon on the afternoon of Friday last.

Telegraphic advice received by the Auckland office of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company states that the Mamari, which is making for Bahia Bianca with her bows stove in is escorted by the steamer Matakana, another unit of the company’s fleet.

Registrations at the Labour Department unemployment bureau, Wellington, for the week ended Monday last totalled 344, a decrease of 46 as compared with the previous week. The applicants included married men and 245 single men.

A resident on the Havelock North hills reports that at 11.5 o’clock on Tuesday night, the pervading silence was broken by a muffled noise which resembled a subterranean explosion. It was accompanied by an earth vertical movement, which made the house windows rattle, but there was no rocking movement of an earthquake nature.

The annual report of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company records a successful year’s operations. Butter manufactured last season was 25,772 tons, an increase of 15.7 per cent over the past season, cheese 5286 tons, casein 767 tons, and milk powder 4114 tons. Land, building and plant, excluding the colliery, are now valued at £1,131,224, issued capital £1,303,799, and paid up capital £1,000,039. The reserve has been increased to £28,585 19/3, The total average price paid for superfine butterfat during the season will be 16.176 d.

As showing the great care exercised by the Imperial War Graves Commission in investigating all possible clues which may lead to the identification of unknown soldiers buried in scattered graves of France, the Hon R. F. Bollard last night reported that two New Zealand soldiers’ graves that been identified as the result of consulting the dental reports on the New Zealand medical files for details to correspond with the full sets of false teeth found in two graves. The two soldiers were proved to have belonged to a Canterbury regiment, and were killed on March 9th, 1918. Mr. Bollard would not divulge the names, but said the mother of one of the soldiers was still a resident of Methven.