LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 215, 25 August 1927, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The amount collected for the relict of the unemployed in Havelock North is £23. To augment this amount a committee is being set up to organise further activities.

A meeting ot ex-pupils o. Mahora School was held on Monday evening, but owing to the small attendance it was decided not to hold a re-union this year. Probably arra. gements will be made to hold the function early in the season next year.

In the Compensation Court at Gisborne, before Mr. Justice Ostler, Alice Frances Stebbmg Moore claimed £1350 compensation from the Hawke’s Bav Education Board, for one rood. 8.14 perches, and two ttages, taken for an extension of the Gisborne Main School. The claimant was awarded £990 and £4O costs.

A meeting will be held in tho Hastings West School to-morrow evening, commencing at 7.30 o’clock for the purpose of forming a tennis clnb at Ebbett Park. It is proposed to lay the courts down in bitumen and they will he available for recreation all the year round—for tennis in summer and basketball in winter.

“You are just looking for an easy living, and so long as there is someone to stand you a drink then you are all right,” said Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., to a young man who appeared before him at the Magistrate’s Court this morning. “The sooner you get out of this part of the country the better. That is for you to decide, but if you want to stay here and fact the music, I can assure you it will be music.”

“The next time you want to fight just think of the ring,” was the advice given one young man by Mr. A. M. Mowlem. S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court in Napier this morning, when a promising amateur boxer made an appearance at the Court for fighting, or endeavouring to tight, in the public street.—The mo inflicted w. s about the price of a ringside seat for a professional bout.

A statement that “Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Ebbett, of Townshend Street, Hastings, left on a tour of the North Island,” appeared in our issue of 12th hist. This paragraph, which was evidently supplied by some malicious person, is absolutely untrue, as Mr. Ebbett, whose wife Qmd recently has not married again, as was insinuated. The person who is responsible for the misstatement is evidently unaware that it is a criminal offence to wilfully cause the publication of untruthful statements iu the Press.

A caucus ot the Reform party wa» held yesterday to discuss certain matters relating to Government legislation. No information was forth coming as to the nature of the busi. ness transacted, but it was learned that it had nothing to do with the proposed amendments to the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, which haw not yet been drafted, or to the rumoured abolition of education boards.

"Whenever men like you have been proved guilty of using filthy language before ladies I have long made up my mind that imprisonment is the only cure,’ declared Mr. A. M Mowlem, S.M., ut a sitting of the Magistrate’s Court in Napier this morning when Robert Cook, a kitchen hand, aged 22 years, was sentenced to 14 days imprisonment for using obscene language in a theatre last evening. On a charge of being found drunk, Cook was convicted and discharged.

The Havelock North Scouts enter tained the Girl Guides at a social in the Village Hall last evening. This was in return for the Guides' enter tainment last year. A large numbci were present and a happy time spent in dancing and games. During the evening the two swimming cups donated to the club were presented to Scouts Butler and F. Coates by chairman of the Scouts Committee. »Dr Reeve. Recitations were rendered by Scouts Rickards and Murphy, and songs by Mr. A Webb. Mrs Webb and Guide Millar presided at the piano

A request that the Government should consider the removal of -he present duties on maize, pollard, and barley in order to assist pig breeders was made to the Finance Ministethe Hon. W D Stewart, yesterda.i by a deputation representing thosenftiged in the industry. The Ministe said the Tariff Commission had full,considered the position in regard i< maize and he had no doubt the nosi tion a s regards pollard and baric had also received consideration There would be ample oppoftnnity f n: making further representations when the tariff resolutions were presented to Parliament

"1 don't think 1 ever saw Hawke’s Bay looking better,” said the Mayor (Mr G. A. Troup) Lo a “Dominion’ reporter yesterday. Mr. Troup has just returned to Wellington from .> week-end visit to this district, and he expressed the opinion that the outlook lor the man on the land was oi the brightest. “The whole country looked like a sheet of emerald green, and the paddocks along the railway were simply crowded with lambs. I never saw so many lambs in my life before. There should soon be ample opportunities for all men who wane work, anj so bring to an end the unfortunate conditions which have been prevailing for the last two months.”

At the Hastings Courthouse vester day, before Mr. A. M Mowlem. S.M Charles J. Starnes, of Hastings farmer (Mr. Hallett) sued Willin’:!. Woolatt Gray, of Havelock Non. farmer (Mr. Holderness) for £75. claim on a promissory note, anjudgment was given for plaintiff, q. confession, with costs £l6 2/1. The defendant (Gray) entered a counter claim for £122 18/8. alleging tha. Starnes sold Gray some land, wit l potatoes ready to dig, on conditio' that they would turn out fit for con sumption and marketable on digging. It was claimed that the potatoes wer< not fit or marketable, and the omoii'i: Stated was claimed ns a loss. Aftehearing lengthy evidence, His Wor ship gave iudgment for Gray for the full amount of the counter-claim with costs £l2 4/.,