LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 138, 25 May 1928, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Mails which left Wellington on the 24th April t per Tahiti via San Francisco, arrived at London on May 22nd.

The meeting of St. Andrew’s Winter Club, which was to have been held this evening’ has been postponed owing to the illness of the lecturer.

Owing to the wet state of the grounds, no primary school football matches will be played to -morrow. The matches arranged for Saturday have been postponed until June 2nd.

Two crops of apples in a single season have been grown by Mr N. Parker at his property in Maxewll road (says the “Marlborough Express,”) Ono of his trees, of the “Lady's Finger” variety-—an early apple—produced a crop which was picked at the beginning of December, and a second crop is now ready to be harvested.

The Hastings Borough Council concluded the business of their ordinary meeting at about 8.45 last night, when they went into committee on consideration of tho annual estimates, on which they were occupied until after one o’clock this morning.

"Wo have no mosquitoes in Hasting—they are all at Napier,” commented the Mayor at the meeting of the Hastings Borough Council last evening when measures for the extinction of mosquitoes were received from the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board

Following i s the result of the election for two vacancies on th e I’ublic Service Appeal Board:—G. A. Morris (Auckland) 3126. A. S, Houston (Wellington) 2992, C. de R. Andrews (Dunedin) 1512. H. C. Holme (Auckland) 1032. Messrs Morris and Houston were declared elected. The two defeated candidates were the sitting members.

At the fruitgrowers’ conference in Hastings yesterday, an orchardist said that the Department of Inlard Revenue had sent him an account for Id due on his tax. He sent the penny and a receipt was duly forwarded costing the Department a penny each way for postage, to say nothing of the stationery and the clerical work involved.

An Eltham resident is the possessor of a diminutive Bible (says the “Argus.”) It measures eno and threequarter inches in length, one inch in width, and half an inch in thickness, and contains 276 pages. It was published by David Bruce and Son. of Glasgow, in 1896. This Bible has been in the possession of Mr T. W. Bond, of Ngaerc, for the last twenty years.

In the Supreme Court at Christchurch thi s morning. Francis Marion Bates Fisher, a former 'New Zealand Cabinet Minister, petitioned for divorce froflj his wife Esther Alice Fisher, on the grounds of mutual agreement to separate. Mt’s Fisher cross-petitioned on the same grounds and obtained a decree nisi, to be made absolute after three months, the husband to pay the wife’s costs on the highest scale.—Press Association.

A benefit euchre party and dance will be held in the Hastings Oddfol' lows’ Hall on Wednesday evening next in aid of a genuine case of sickness and distress. The committee are sparing no effort on their part to give a real good night’s entertainment, modern and old-time dancing. Excellent prizes for the Monte Carlo and waltzing competition, also for tho euchre. With Walden’s Band in attendance and a sumptions supper provided all that is now desired is tho generous support of the public. A Hastings radio enthusiast has informed the society of the Hawke's Bay Radio Society that last night he picked up, on about 418 metres, the whaling ship C. A. Larsen which was then 100 miles N.E. of Welling, ton. The operator was calling a friend in Wellington, and his voice camo through very clearly and in fair volume. Tho announcer stated that the ship would be on tho air again tonight at 7.30 o’clock.