LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 83, 20 March 1928, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The Maunganui reached Sydney at 5.45 o’clock this morning and the Marama an hour and a-quarter later.

Sheep are still being sent bv road from Poverty Bay to Hawke's Bay, and at present there ate four or five largs mobs, mostly wethers, on the road from Poverty Bay.

A periodical meeting of th e Hawke’s Bay clergy of the Church of England was held yesterday in Havelock North, at which the subjeci ui discussion was the work of the church in China.

Fishers at Arapuni are henceforth to be allowed to fish over the whole lake with a license from eitiher Auckland or Rotorua. Hitherto licenses from both districts have been required.

Taranaki Oilfields report:—Gisborne No. 1 well: Depth 2483 feet in Shale; 61 inch diameter casing to 2478 feet; slow progress due io continual caving. Gisborne No. 2 well. Rigging up operations retarded by baa weather.—Press Assn.

The Catholic concert at Hastings last night resulted in a £7O “house.” On this, as well as on the excellence of the entertainment, Father McDonald, who worked so hard in the organisation of the concert, is to be congratulated.

A Maori. Hirini Tihema. charged at Gisborne this morning with the theft at Takapau. Hawke’s Bay. of a motor-ear of the value of £4OO. the property of Hector L. N. Speedy, was remanded to appear at Hastings to-morrow. —Press Association.

At Onakaka there was every natural advantage stated a speaker at the Auckland Stock Exchange on Friday, and the iro nore deposits were estimated to yield over 20,wd,0G0 tons of highly saleable ore. With the proper plant this could be placed on the market at a price well within the world's best parity.

A suggestion that a verandah be erected at the Hastings railway station to make the facilities for unloading fruit in wet weather more favourable, was macle at the meeting of the Hastings Chamber of Commerce last evening. It was decided to hold the matter over pending some action being taken by the Fruitgrowers’ Association in the matter.

A special meeting of the Napier Borough Council is to be held on Monday evening next to consider matters in connection with the Criterion block. The leases of the various buildings ar© shortly falling due and a big improvement and rebuilding scheme is to be considered by the council.

Messrs A Simmonds announce the result of their onion growing competition as follows :—Mr. H. Shepherd, Riverslea road, Hastings, 1; Mr. 11. McNay, Napier, and Mr. D. H. Webb. Hastings (equal). 2, Mr J. S. Stevens, Napier, 4; Old People’s Home. Parke Island, v.h.c.; Mr. E. W. Jones. Ashridge road. Napier, v.h.c.

Judgment for the plaintiffs by default was given by Mr, J. G. L. Hewett . M. at the Napier Court this morning in the following undefended civil actions:... B. G. Nicholson v. J. Bachhelor £l2 costs £3 Is 0: Napier Gas Company and W. H. G. Brown 13/6 costs 10/-; Napier Painter’s Union v. F. Ericksen £1 13 costs 8/-; C. Brandon v. D. O'Connell 19/costs 10/-; J. 8, West and Co. v. J. P. Guillemot £3 10/- costs £1 4/6; V. Picone v. J. Talamona £63 12/9 costs £6 3/-.

As the outcome of long negotiations between King Te Rata, of Huntly. and the owners of land at Kawhia. where the historical landing of the Tainui Canoe took place, an arrangement has been made whereby Te Rata will have full control of the property in future. This is regarded in the light of a great advantage to the natives. Each year Te Rata and xis retinue make a pilgrimage to the sacred ground at Kawhia, and to the natives the ceremony has. been divested of much of its significance bv the fact that they did not own the land.

Next mpnth the Hastings Chamber of Commerce will have been in existence 21 years, and some consideration has been given to a proposal to mark the occasion bv the publication of a booklet to advertise the progress and the future prospects of the town. At the meeting of the chamber last night, the special committee set up to go into ways and means of doing this reported that to publish a booklet worthy of the importance of Hastings would be an expensive matter, and it regretted the finances of the chamber at the present time were not sufficiently strong to undertake the work. The meeting decided to reconsider th© booklet proposal at a later date.