LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 28 September 1927, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Two Norwegian whalers, the Star 9 and Star 10, sailed from Aden yesterday for New Zealand, states a cable message.

Dr. Mercer, of the Government Health Department, accompanied bj Mr. A. C. Fawcett, Hastings borough health inspector, was engaged to-day in making an inspection of the town.

There is one policeman to every 1312 persons in New Zealand, and the upkeep of the force costs 5s Bid ioi each inhabitant. No State in Au? tralia has so economical a force Vic toria being the closest with its cost of 8s Oid an inhabitant.

Passengers to the number of 264 - 597 were carried by the railways in the Hawke’s Bay district in the year ended March 31, 1927, and 422,194. m 1926, a decrease of 157,597. The passenger revenue amounted to £9B 816 4s 6d in 1927, and to £130,270 3s fid in 1926, a decrease of £31.4’53 19s.

A meeting of parents of pupils and ex-pupils was to have been held ni the Hustings High School this even ing with a view to forming a Parents ’ League for the purpose ot furthering the welfare of the school. On account of the bad weather, however the meeting has been postponed ’ until Thursday. 6th October.

At Nelson Park yesterday after noon the final match in the nth grade Bugby competition, was played be tween teams from the Napier Boysand Hastings High Schools. After a keenly contested game the Hastings team won by 16 to 9. The Hastings High School is to be congratulated on winning this competition for threi years m succession.

Owing to the wet weather las’, night the public meeting which was to have been held in the Y.M.C.A. Hastings, to form a Hastings commit tee to run the Hawke’s Bay Labour Day sports at Farndon in conjunctom with the Napier and surrounding di„ trict, had to be postponed. A meeting will be held in Begley’s Building on Thursday. Sept. 29th, at 8 p.m. All interested are invited to attena.

When the casket placed in the foundation stone of Knox Presbyterian Church at Waimate. South Can terbury 50 years ago was removed it was found that the cork had rotted away and the roots of a nearby ties had filled it. However a number cd coins, bearing dates from 1816 to 1873, were found, to a total value of £2 Ils 54d including a fourpenny pieces of dark parchment were dis covered, the leaves being all pressed together. New records are to ba plaed m the same casket and reinser ted in the foundationstone, which is of Oamnru stone uud bears the date Jdareh 12, 1874. ’

“1 refrain from calling it a gambling machine,” humorously remarked Rotarian Dr. M’llruith at a Gisborne Rotary Club meeting last week, when dealing with the totalisator- _ “1 understand,” he said, “that it is a means of encouraging the breeding of good horses by people who will never own them.”

At Flint (U.S.A.) a new law has been instituted which, in part, reads: “It shall be unlawful for any person to drive an automobile on the streets of Flint while being subjected to the embraces of any other person; it shall be unlawful to embrace the driver.” A successful charge of driving to the common danger was recently secured in England against a motorist for a similar procedure. The Hastings Lodge of Manchester Unity Oddfellows will celebrate its forty-ninth anniversary on Thursday next at the Oddfellows’ Hall, Market street. The District Grand Master and his officers will be present and also representatives from the lodges throughout the district. A cordial invitation is extended to visiting and attached members. Candidates for initiation arc requested to be in attendance at 7.30 p.m.

A final reminder is given to intending exhibitors at the Hawke’s Bay ■ Agricultural and Pastoral Society’s forthcoming spring show that all entries, with the exception of horses, cattle and sheep, close today (Wednesday), September 28. Entries may be made either with Messrs Wilkinson and Jones, Queen street, Hastings, or at the society’s office, Tennyson street, Napier and copies of the schedule may be obtained from either office.

During the thunderstorm last Thursday at Wanganui two ladies playing on the Seafield links had an alarming experience (reports the ‘ ‘Chronicle’ ’). A match was being played between the Seafield Ladies’ Club and a ladies’ team from Waverley, and ‘wo players were standing on a green preparing to putt when a flash of lightning struck the iron pin to which the flag was attached. The flash tore up the ground for nine. feet as if a plough had been through it, and a sheep at the edge of the green was killed instantly, but the players were uninjured except for shock.

Although a man might have littla excuse for casting thrift to the winds and waywardly thinking that every thing in the future will look after itself, there is cause for mild optimism at present, and a hopeful view of things, said Professor H. Belshaw in a fecture at the Leys Institute, Auckland. He added that the conditions prevailing did not warrant wild optimism, nor anything approaching ecstasy. ’ Summer was approaching with its abundance of sunlight, and that should bring a derided improvement after the dullness of winter. Economic conditions in England were showing signs of renewed life, and the general outlook gave grounds for predicting that the new season would be better than the present.

The boundary bridge on Hie Te Aute road, Havelock North, is said to be causing trouble to traffic. This bridge divides the Hawke’s Bsfy county and the Havelock township and collapsed about December or January last. A temporary bridge was laid alongside and the road barricaded off and the traffic diverted. Motorists coming towards Havelock North at night time cannot see this bridge until right m to it, and some exceedingly narrow escapes have been reported. Timber was laid down as a protection and at least three times this has been broken. Last night a car struck the timber and knocked it into the creek below, the car pulling up on the extreme edge. A new bridge is urgently required,