LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 216, 26 August 1927, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The secretary to the Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital desires lo acknowledge with thanks the receipt of plants and bulbs from Mrs G R. Beamish, of Whana Whana.

The steamer Mamari leaves Bahia Blanca for London on August 30th. The advices received in Wellington are that the steamer suffered no under water damage abaft the collision bulkhead.

Officials of the A.S.R.S. and Tradesman’s Association at Addington Workshops give an emphatic denial to any suggestion that there is a possibility of a strike among employees there owing to transfers, or that such an action has ever been discussed by the men.

A private maternity hospital in Christchurch has been closed tor a week under the order of the Medical Officer of Health on account of a case of puerperal septicaemia having occurred in (he home. It is denied that any deaths occurred in connection with the home.

Although the weather was very bad on Wednesday, the ranger. Mr Kean, accompanied bv Messrs A 1). Hall and A. J. Anderson, liberated the first of the rainbow trout ova ,'n Waikaremoana. 50.000 in ail. Ruakituri rivers come next with a similar total, and about 175,000 will arrive from Tokaanu later.

Expert poultrymen do not like the bird that lays the double-volked egg. for it generally breaks down (savs a southern paper). The double-volk-ed egg comes ns an occasional surprise in most flocks • but a Wyndham hen recently went one better bv enclosing three yolks in one shell. This is certainly a raritv

“There’s a fortune,” said the organiser for a herd-testing scheme at Alton (Taranaki), “waiting for the man who can make a white ink capable of lasting on the black hide of a cow’’ (says the “Hawera Star”). This referred to the need of branding the dark-coloured cows when recording for testing.

Malcolm Nathanial Royd, said to have come from Waimate, was charged at the Christchurch Police Court today with attempting to enter premises in Manchester street last evening and remanded to September Bth. The police urged that bail be substantial, and it was fixed at £2oo.—Press Assn.

The New Zealand Society of Accountants has decided that the matriculation examination will replace the present accountants’ preliminary examination as from the end of 1931. The following were elected to the council: Messrs W. W. Reid (Otago). H. C. Robinson (Auckland). E J. Harvey (Marlborough. Nelson. Westland), W, D. Revell (South Canterbury). J. L, Griffin and R. Davis (Wellington); auditor. Mr E. W. A. Kellow.

“You can travel for thirty miles on the Glasgow tramwavs for twopence,” said the Rev. James Barr. M.P.. when in Christchurch. “Peonle always talk about Scotsmen a s if they were mean,” declared the speaker amidst laughter, “but that is the kind of thing that we do. As a result of that generosity in the case of the trams, and also a shrewd business sense and aptitude, during the first year, we have made an increase of revenue of £82.000."

At yesterday’s meeting of the Wellington Hospital Board some of the rents charged to people who were bein'’’ assisted bv the social welfare committee were referred to as a scandal. It was generally considered the committee was being exploited bv landlords. The amount paid in relief during July was about £4OO above anything paid in relief in the hospital’s history. It was noted that a large number of those receipt of relief were able-bodied single men. and some of them mere lads.

The school residence at Waikanae, together with the contents, was totally destroyed by fire last night, nothing being saved- The origin is a mystery.—Press Assn.

“There is to-day an insensate appetite for speed and an insensate desire to pass anything ahead,” said Mr W. R. Tate. S.M in the Stratford Court last week. The standard of care, he said, was so deplorably low in Taranaki that the. Courts were always being filled with motor cases that should never occur if due care was exercised. Mr Tate went ~n to say that any motorist who passed a vehicle already travelling at 25 miles an hour without knowing definitely that the road ahead was clear was guilty of negligent driving.

Another explosion in a stove yesterday startled the household of C. Rowlands. Currie street. New Plymouth and wrecked the stove and part of the cihmney. and strewed debris about the house. A voung daughter of the house suffered from shock and fainted, but soon recovered. Mrs Rowlands stated that she afterwards remembered when putting a shovelful of coal on the fire that she noticed what looked like a narrow piece of rubber in the coal. Before and after the explosion there was a strong smell as of rubber in the house. It is understood the coal came from Waikato, but which mine is not known.