LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 163, 25 June 1928, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

There was a record export of lamb this 5ea50n —6,047,836 carcases.

Over 10.390 trains run on services in the North island every week.

An endeavour is to be made by the Auckland Acclimatisation Society to import chukor partridges and snip from India.

Mr. Douglas Mill arrived at the Wigram Aerodrome. Christchurch on Saturday afternoon at 4.20 o’clock, having flown from Hawera via Blenheim, where he stopped to refuel

The Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Meat Co.. Ltd., notifies shareholders that the Whakatu Freeing Works wil] close down for the season on Friday next, June 29th,

Entries for the Hastings Poultry Society’s show close this evening. The secretary wli] be at the Club room from 7 to 9 o’clock to receive entries.

A new system for the distribution of pheasants has been adopted b’ the Auckland Acclimatisation Society. It is proposed to liberate the birds on large, sui.ible blocks of land insteac of, as in the past, on email areas.

The Premier has announced, in connection with the’ opening of the Parliamentary session, on Thursday, that the Address-in-Replv debate would be initiated by Mr F. Waite, Clutha. and Mr A. Bell. Bay of Islands, would be the seconder.

New Zealand as an inhabited country. was. in more senses than one, the ' most isolated country in the world, said Sir Frederick Chapman in an address to the Utago Historical Association. Although its area was considerable, so much had to be deducted for mountain ranges that its available acreage was less than its measured area suggested, and its timber and mineral reserves were not so great as had often been erroneously assumed.

The following were elected members of the Hawke’s Bay A. and P. Society to-day;—Msesrs R. M, Ferguson, Napier; Chas. Bosser. Paki Paki ; A. C. Russell, W’ainukurau; H .H. Brace Hastings; E, Meredith, Okawa; Mrs. J H. Macniven. Haumoana; Messrs. A D. Morris, Napier; Miss Maclean, Napier; Messrs H. Bradford, Eskdale; A H. Annnn. Havelock North; S Charlton, Hastings: E. M Nelson, Whnkamarumarn; G. F McHardv. Waipawn : Mrs. Lucy Talbot, Hastings; Mr. J. D. Glennv Hastings: Mrs. F. M. Griffiths, Hastings; Messrs J. H. Hopcroft. Clive; Harstons> Ltd., Napier; Mrs A. L Crawford. Hastings; Messrs. T. Burns, Clive; G. Fusza.rd. Greenmeadows; T Parker and Co. Ltd.. Napier; E. J. Elliott, Greenmeadows.

The Auckland Aero Club has n<” a total membership of more than 130. Thirty-one. including two women, have applied for instruction in aviation.

The New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company’s pay out for the senson from June 1927 to May 1928. was £3,541,912. against £3,120,274 last season.—Press Association.

“There is no better work on earth than that of cheering the sad hearts of those laid aside by sickness,’’ states the anual report of the Waikato Sunshine League.” The hospital belongs to the people, and it is the people’s privilege and duty to hti, the sick folk.”

The newly appointed officials on the express trains, whose business is to attend to the requirements of passengers, commenced their duties today. A smartly-uniformed youth, with the designation “attendant” in silver lettering on his cap and on the lapels of his coat, was travelling on the Napier—Wellington mail train this morning.

Mr. H. E. Holland. leader of the Opposition, will be in Hastings tomorrow and will give an address in the Assembly Hall at 8 o’clock on the Labour Party's policy. The land question, bankruptcies, urcr »oyment .and other topics will be ..ealt with by the speaker. Mr. Holland will be pleased to answer any questions.

To taste fruit in the Isle of Wight grown by himself in New Zealand was the pleasant experience of a member of the New Zealand bowling team at present touring England. Mr T. Horton, of New Plymouth was able to purchase in shops Cox’s Orange .Pippins from his own orchard at 1/per lb.

Tn order to commemorate Mr. Bert Hinkler’s remarkable solo flight from England to Australia in 16 days, the Numismatic Society of Victoria has issued a medal, the medal, at particularly handsome one. of silver, and 2m. in diameter, was designed bMr. C. Douglas Richardson, the sculptor. On the obverse is a portrait bust of the airman.

“We trust to the luck of the ballot box to produce a statesman.” said the Rey W. D Morrison Sutherland in the course of a sermon in Auckland (reports the Star). “to the chances of a competitive examination to produce a great soldier, and throutine of the civil sen-ice for the chief clerks of the Empire. Yet there are many people who are reluctant to trust God.”

The Hastings Citiens’ Band's old. time dance, held last week, was a pronounced success, there being a large attendance The music was supplied by Mr. and Mrs. Horne <• Mr. W. Bennison. Mrs. Speens playing an extra, whilst Messrs. • Brvant and C. Batt discharged the duties of M’s.C. Following are the results of the competitions.- Waltzing, Mr. Greene and Miss Fitzgerald Ist., Mr. J. Unwin and Mre Stevens 2nd.; Monte Carlo waltz. Mr, C. Bryant and Mrs McCombe let.

Apparently visitors to the United States are not regaled with liquor as is the popular belief. In a letter from Chicago to a friend in Auckland the chairmen of the Auckland Harbour Board. Mr. H R. Mackenzie, wrote;—“l have not had a drink since arriving in America, and no one has asked me to have one Other people who have returned from here have said that the place is full of liquor. That hac not ben our experience.”

The large quantity of apples left in Gisborne this year ,on account of the fact that several ,thousn nd cases were of a size too large for shipment overseas. threatened to cause a glut on the market, but the growers are overcoming the difficulty by . shipping to other ports of the Dominion, says the Poverty Bay “Herald.” Several markets were tried nnd it was found that the best results were obtained at Dunedin, to which city a number of consignments have been sent recently. while ti is anticipated that more will be going forward in the near future.