LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 220, 3 September 1929, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The subject for the Bible study at the Baptist Church to-night is “God’s week, or are the six days of Genesis [ literal days or long periods of time?” The Mosaic account of creation is a mingled grandeur and simplicity, and has a remarkable fidelity to fact.

The Napier Borough Council decided last night that houses in the borough should all be numbered. The work will be undertaken by a professional enumerator, who will supply a complete register to the borough. The numbers will be paid for by the occupiers.

At the Napier Borough Council meeting last night, Cr. J. C. Bryant mentioned that the council had paid £907 for its carting contract for four months and stated that he knew of one man who had earned as much as £35 a week carting. Councillors considered that the matter required investigation, and it will bo taken up S:er date. gh an unfortunate misunder- ? the large posters exhibited in all parts of Hustings advertising Friday night’s concert in aid of the Earthquake Relief Fund announce that the mus'c at the Assembly Hall will be by the Napier Cabaret Band. The music is actually to be supplied by Mitchell’s Hand (Hastings), the members of which have agreed to give their services in the good cause for purely nominal remuneration, and who will play the very latest jazz music with the lilt that is irresistible to dancers.

According to a pamphlet which has just been issued by the New Zealand Alliance, New Zealanders during 1928 spent on intoxicating liquor £7,566,232, making a total of £33,405.925 during the past four years (1925, £B,£483,111; 1926, £8,525,051; 1927. £B, 831,531). Mr 11.I 1 . 13. Adams, of Dunedin, estimates tin.' expenditure by the people of New Zealand last year on drink as follows:—Spirits, £2,334 580; wines, £384,563; beer imported, £59523; beer, New Zealand, £4,787,56a. Expenditure per head (including Jiaorjsj, 2s Jld,

Australian mails ex-Kairanga and Ulimaroa, are due at Hastings at 12.15 p.m. to-morrow.

The nett revenue of the Napier municipal tramways for the four weeks ended August 18 amounted to only £2 17/10, as against £l2 1/9 last year. For the 20 weeks ended the same date the nett revenue totals £553 1/9 as against £892 14/2 in 1928.

The cluster lights in Russell street, Hastings, have been favourably commented upon by visitors and in the near future a number of similar lights are to be installed in Napier. Last night the Napier Borough Council decided on the recommendation of the borough electrical engineer to indent twelve standards at an approximate cost of £2B 10/- each.

On the motion of Mr C. Lassen, the Hawke’s Bay Rivers Board to-day authorised that the sum of £lOOO be spent on strengthening the Twyford and Raupare banks between the breaks The chairman (Mr W. G. Jarvis) stated that the department, when granting a subsidy for repairs, was desirous that work of a permanent nature should be carried out.

The Trinity College examination results (as published yesterday) were not quite correct. In the A.T.C.L. the successful candidates were C. B. Ingram (piano), May Adeline Flanders (piano), and also Peggy Mabel McKay (elocution). Elfrida Tims, Freda Lily Sharp, Sylvia Rossiter. Alice Louisa Heffernan and Mary Cattanach (all piano) were successful in the higher local examination.

“I want to see that all our dealings with the Napier Harbour Board are just as advantageous to this council as they are to the board,” said the Mayor, Mr. J. Vigor Brown, at lasi night s meeting of the Napier Borough Council when the question of specifications regarding the subdivision of the 28-acre block was under discussion. “Nearly every time we have dealings with the board we seem to get the worst of it. Mv experience with the board is that we always lose. We must remember that the board is always looking for something.”

To-morrow at the Hastings Courthouse, Mr A. M. Mowlem, S.M., will deal with the following business:— Police sheet charges. One failing to supply particulars of endorsement on motor license to local authority, one of negligent driving, one ot failing to notify change of address, one breach of Dog Registration Act, two of allowing cattle to wander and three maintenance cases. The civil list consists of 55 cases, including 17 judgment summonses. There are no defended civil actions.

A splendid tribute to the work ol Nev? Zealand graders of dairy produce was paid by Mr W. Grounds, speaking at Tatuanui (Piako County) last week. He admitted that occasionally cheese graded “finest” here might open up as only “first” grade at home, but usually the grading was upheld. Ho had heard a prominent Tooley Street buyer in London say: “I take my hat off to the New Zealand graders. They do their work well. ’ ’ That opinion was borne out by three other big buyers present.

Judgment by default was given in the following cases heard at the Napier Magistrate’s Court this morning:—N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Ltd. v. W. Elliott £67 10/4, costs £4 13/9; Alien’s Ltd- v. J. Kane £l2 4/6, costs £2 14/-; Commissioner of Taxes v. Arthur Joseph Yeo, £9; T. B. McDonald v. J. Mumby £2 5/-, costs £1 3/6; T, B. McDonald v. H. Davey, £2 5/-. costs £1 7/6; T. B. McDonald v. 11. G. Boyce £2 5/-, costs £1 3/6; T. McDonald v. W. Hogg £2 5/-, costs £1 7/6; A. and G- Townsend v. Thomas Hadley, 15/costs.

There is no reason to suppose that the Summer Time Bill, read a second time in the Legislative Council last week, will be seriously challenged when it makes its appearance in the House of Representatives. Tho proposal is to advance the clock half-an-hour as from 2 a.m. on the second Sunday in October until 2 a.m. on the third Sunday in Marell. In essential detail the measure conforms to the Act of last year, with the difference that it seeks power to make daylight saving permanent in New Zealand. The clauses relating to exemptions have been retained.

To-morrow’s Napier Shopping Week events are the girls’ skipping race and children's tricycle race in Emerson street, near Marsden's book shop, at 11 a.m. The children’s concert and community sing takes place every day at the Majestic Theatre from 12.30 to 1.30, when admission is free. On Thursday at 10.45 a.m. the free train will leave Hastings for Napier, when everyone who has a Shopping Week Booklet may travel free of charge. At 3 o’clock on Thursday afternoon there will be another balloon ascent, when prizes will be given to all juveniles who capture the balloons.

Two charitable institutions in New Zealand will benefit considerably under tho will of the late Mr James Aloir, who lived for somo time in Auckland. The approximate net value of the estate for probate purposes is £llOOO. The Auckland organisation which will benefit under the will is tho Leslie Presbyterian Orphanage. Tho Widows’ Oprhans’ and Aged Masons’ Fund of the Masonic Lodge of New Zealand will benefit in a similar manner and tho remaining third of the estate will bo invested for tho Parish Council of Insch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

A number of Hastings girls have been practising assiduously for some time for their presentation of a new dance number, “The 'Varsity Drag," to bo included amongst tho items in the earthquake relief entertainment in the Hastings Municipal Theatre on Friday next. The performers are under the capable guidance and direction of Miss Jean Ballantyne, which fact alone is sufficient to ensure the dancers’ success. Those taking part are :-—( Black). Misses Jean Ballantyne, Helen Bell. Andrey Hobbs, Molly Hogg, Jessica Saunders, ami Gretchen von Dadelszen; (rod). Misses Phyllis Candy, Ethel McGregor. Bonnie Simson, Miriol Small, Nellie Waugh and Wyvern Williams. Another feature of the programme will be song ami stories al. the piano by Miss Jessie Marks. Miss Marks' reputation for bright and clever entertainment is so outstanding as to require no further comment. Box plans for this production are now open at Fail's aud filling fast.

The Makura, from .Wellington, reached Sydney this morning.

Solicitors’ offices in Napier and Hastings will close at 12.30 o’clock to-morrow for the Rugby match.

A hearty welcome is extended to all to hear Mr. Harry Isaac in the Nelson Street Hall to-night, at 7.30.

The annual general meeting of the Heretaunga Cricket. Club will be held to-morrow night in the Y.M.C.A. rooms, Market Street, Hastings, at 7.30 o’clock.

A meeting of the Hastings Citizens’ Band will be held at 8 o ’clock to-night in the Bandroom, to discuss the running of a monster bazaar at a future date.

The Supreme Court opened at. Masterton this morning before Mr, Justice Smith. As there were no criminal cases on the calendar he was presented with white gloves to mark the occasion. His Honour congratulated the district on the absence of crime.— Press Association.

The monthly meeting of the H.B. Rivers Board was held in .Napier today. Present:—Messrs W. G. Jarvis (chairman) W .W. Smart, C. W. Hellyer, J. A. MacDonald, G. Latham, G. Purves, T. Donovan and C. Lassen. The main business dealt with appears under the heading of “Rivers Control.”

Seventy delegates from all parts of New Zealand assembled at Christchurch to-day to discuss the question of religious education. All the principal Protestant religious bodies were represented, being welcomed to the city by tho Mayor, the Rev. J. K. Archer; Bishop West-Watson presided. Addresses were given by various Sunday school leaders. —Press Association.

In connection with Napier Shopping Week, competitions were held yesterday both indoors and on the Parade. The winners were as follow:—Singing, boys under 12: Don Sutherland 1, Melville Rogers 2, Jack Stone 3. Thirteen competitors. Girls, under 12 years: Mary Sinden 1, Vera Murrow 2. Eighteen competitors. Boys tyre race: Ron May 1, O. Anderson 2, Ronald Rigby 3, Jack Patton 4.

The standing committee of the New Zealand Alilanco passed a resolution expressing disappointment with tho reply of the Prime Minister to a recent deputation. It considers that the inability of the police adequately to enforce the law requires the attention of Parliament, and that the question of granting brewery licenses calls for administrative action on the part of the Government as well as control of the consumption of liquor in cabarets and dance hall/. The Alliance claims that the present Parliament is no less favourable to reform of the licensing law than last, notwithstanding tho Prime Minister’s view to the contrary.—Press Association. ■