LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 213, 23 August 1927, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The Hastings Chamber of Commerce meets at 8 o’clock this evening when the proposed amendments to the Bankruptcy Act will be considered.

Superintendent W. Keith, of the Hastings Fire Brigade, acknowledges with thanks the receipt of £2 2/from Mr. A. A. George, in acknoweldgment of the services of the brigade at the recent fire in the Olympia Cabaret.

A meeting of creditors called this morning in the bankrupt estate of Thomas McElroy, labourer, of Hastings, resulted in only two creditors being present, and it lapsed for want of a quorum. The liabilities amounted to £259 6/5, and there were no assets.

The Court business in Hastings to-morrow will consist of one charge of having no lights on a vehicle after dark, four of having no reflectors at the rear of bicycles, and one of selling adulterated milk, in addition to 60 civil cases, including ten judgment summonses and ftve defended actions.

Twenty-two thousand cases ot oranges, the largest shipment of the season to date, arrived at Auckland from Cook Islands on Monday morning. The vessel's previous record cargo was 17,000 eases. In addition to the oranges, the Waipahi brought 1000 cases of tomatoes, 500 cases of bananas, and a number of coconuts.

In order to overcome unemployment among teachers, the Education Department has in recent years, limited the number of entries to the profession, last year’s number being reduced to 400. The number of probationers required to make up the leeway has now been determined by the department, which has authorised education boards to appoint 600 probationers next year.

Through the zeal of the Old Students’ Association the baths at the Gisborne nigh School are shortly to be provided witli a pair of handsome iron gates, to be erected in memory of those old boys of the school who fed m the Great War. The approximate cost of tlie gates is £260, and the association has guaranteed £lOO, the Education Department being asked to subsidise this in an equal proportion.

Interviewed regarding the Agricultural College, the Hou. O. J. Hawken said the t'ublic Woi'its Department had been instructed to discontinue work in connection with buildings operations as a result of the Palmerston North Borough Council seeking to impose conditions from the Government before exercising its option over the McHardy property. The Government, he said, would not accept the gift of the borough with conditions attached to it.

“It is not now the policy of Government to provide public timepieces in post office buildings, and it is regretted that the provision of accommodation in the new post office building in Napier for a public clock cannot be agreed to.”—So read a letter received at the meeting of the Napier Borough Council last evening from the secretary, General Post Office, Wellington, in reply to representations recently made by the Council. The letter was “received.”

In reply to an Auckland “Star” representative, Mr. L. Conlan, the legal member of the Rugby Appeal Council, which heard the Ranfurly Shield appeal, stated that as a lawyer acquainted with very many cases hinging on the interpretation of “residence” he had to admit that the Hawke’s Bay case was a strong one. But the council had to be guided by the general spirit and intention of the N.Z.R.U. rules as established by Rugby practice.

‘‘Well, have you anything to say,” asked His Worship (Mr. A. M. Mowlow, S.M.) at the Napier Magistrate’s Court, this morning, when Alfred George Tattle pleaded guilty to being drunk in Hastings Street. “There’s nothing to say —I was drunk, that’s all,” replied the man in the dock. “Yes, as you say, you were drunk, and that’s the stone end of it.—Fined £l, in default three days,” remarked His Worship.

The Napier Borough Council was advised last evening that the Local Government Loans Board had decided to sanction the Council’s proposed loan of £4,225 for the relief of unemployment. The chairman of the board stated in his letter that notification of the sanction was being given to the Hon. iMinister of Finance and that application should now be made to Superintendent, State Advances Office, for the consenting Order-in-Council—The Mayor stated that the necessary papers had been forwarded-

Matters of the utmost importance to the primary producers of the Dominion are to be the subject of special inquiry in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France, and South Africa by the Director-General of Agriculture (Dr. C. J. Reakes) while absent front New Zealand as its representative at the Imperial Agricultural Research Conference which is to open at London on October 4. According to a statement made yesterday by the Minister of Agriculture (Hon. O. J, Hawken), Dr. Reakes will leave on Saturday next for the conference, which is expected to result in greatly aiding the advancement of research wors throughout the Empire and the coordination of this work to the best advantage of all concerned.

At the valedictory gathering in the Hastings Y.M.C.A. rooms last night, Mr. Gladstone Hill said he was glad to observe the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes side by side on the walls. He would like to' see the British and the Americans come together in mutual understanding. He had no time at all for the “Gor darned Yankee” that one meets in the course of travelling, but he assured his audience that the type was not in evidence in the United States, where he was submerged in the general fine character of the American citizen. America has its great problems in the negro and the welding together of the many races of her population tnto American citizenship. The two people should be known to each other' and it was extraordinary how little was known of New Zealand in the States. New Zealand should advertise her attractions, and entice American visitors to her shores.