LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 281, 12 November 1929, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

African boxthorn has been declared a noxious weed by the Hawke’s BayCounty Council.

Australian mails, ox s.s. Ulimaroa, from Sydney via Wellington, are due at Hastings at 12.15 p.m. to-morrow.

In connection with the social held last Wednesday, the competition for the Morris chair was won by Mr B. OKaue, of Hastings.

A deputation from the Hawke’s Bay War Relief Association is to wait upon the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board at its next meeting to discuss the question of returned soldier cases.

Since the Wellington Free Ambulance service was started two years ago, 11,746 cases have been handled, entailing a machine mileage of 125,105.

The second of the United dances — the first will long be remembered as the jolliest held for some time—will be held in the Band-room to-morrow (Wednesday) night.. Phil Barclay’s orchestra will provide the music.

The Napier Radio Society was yesterday granted permission by the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board to instal a permanent receiver, an amplifier and equipment in the children’s ward for a loud speaker, which will form the nucleus of the main installation of radio in the hospital.

Taranaki Oil Fields report: At the Gisborne No. 2 well the erection of rotary equipment was subjected to some delay due to unfavourable weather. Kotuku No. 1: Test hole has been dismantled and plant erected on the new site; drilled to 17 feet.—(Press Association.)

Woolgrowers in all parts of the Dominion look to Thursday next as the day on which they will be given some basis on which to form an idea as to wool prices for the coming season. On that day the first sale on the New Zealand 1929-30 roster opens at Wellington.

In the Supreme Court at Wellington, before the Chief Justice and a jury, Peter Mclntyre, waterside worker, aged 66 years, was awarded £554 8s against the Canadian Knight and Whippet Motor Company for injuries received by being knocked down in September by a motor-van driven by a servant or agent in their employ. The verdict was for the full amount claimed.

From information furnished by the inspectors of stock in the various districts in the North Island, the average lambing for the current season in that part of the Dominion is estimated at 87.56 per cent., compared wth 84.61 per cent. last year. The 1929 annual sheep returns show 8,820,536 breeding ewes, and from these figures the number of lambs this season is estimated at 7,723,523. Experience has shown that these estimates are usually very close, being if anything on the conservative sid. The South Island figures will not be available until next month.

The list of cases set down for hearing at to-morrow’s sitting of the Hastings Magistrate’s Court includes one charge on each of the following counts :— Alleged theft, cycling without lights, breach of prohibition order, failing to stop when called upon by police officer, dangerous speeding (3), crossing railway line when track not clear, having an unlicensed wireless set, breach of Sale of Foods and Drugs Act, selling icecream deficient in milk-fat, and three maintenance. There are also 41 civil cases, including four defended actions and two judgment summonses.

Forty-three pages of a. small notebook closely and laboriously written in Old Maori—the manuscript of the most interesting recording of the history of New Zealand is constituted in tjiis manner. It was compiled in January, 1849, by Aperahama Taonui, a chieftain and a tohunga of the Ng:iphi tribe of North Auckland. By chance the manuscript came into the possession of Mr George Graham, of Auckland. Mr Graham now intends to make a complete translation of Aperahama’s history, with its valuable genealogical tables of important families of the Ngapuhi.

A scheme for deviating the railway through Hamilton between Frankton and Ruakura was discussed yesterday at a conference between Hamilton borough representatives and lending railway officials, Messrs Widdop. Rodie, Casey, and Roussel. Hamilton traffic is greatly hampered by the railway, with six level crossings in the town, and the need for further outlets is urgent. The railways officials apparently were not in favour of the scheme, stating that American railways are now endeavouring to bring lines and stations to the middle of the town, whereas the Hamilton scheme will divert the lino to the outskirts.

A loan of £5OO from the funds of Ac New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association to assist the Wellington Association to purchase a spectators’ stand, was agreed to on certain condition's at last night’s meeting of the New Zealand Council. The only objection to the granting of the loan came from the representatives of the Canterbury Association.

Having assisted in promoting the export of pork by expending £54,680 in subsidies, Cabinet has decided to discontinue the export bonus after the end of the present month. This means that the subsidy will be paid on all pork shipped to the United Kingdom up to and including November 30, and noti afterwards.

New Zealand gifts for inmates of the leper settlement on Makogai Island, in the South Pacific, will be despatched by the Tofua from Auckland on November 30. The honorary organiser ol the gift scheme is Mr D. L. Thomas, of 14 Domain Road, Mount Albert, Auckland, who requests that all parcels should be sent so as to reach him by November 28. At a fully attended protest meeting of the South Canterbury branch of the Public Service Association the following resolution was unanimously carried:—“Members of the South Canterbury section of the Public Service Association view with disgust the action of the Government in failing to consider the interests of public servants in the matter of salary adjustments on the score of economy, while at the sajne time voting an eleventh-hour appropriation of £lOO to each member of Parliament.”

A prominent member of the Kahutia Bowling Club at Gisborne has offered to provide a valuable trophy for contest among the bowlers of the Dominion, the gift being in memory of the late Sir James Carroll. He was the pat-on of the club and gave the land on which the rinks at present stand. The matter was discussed at last week’s meeting of the New Zealand Bowling Council, and was referred back to the Kahutia Club for further details.

Judgment by default was given at the Napier Magistrate’s Court this morning by Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., in the following cases:—W. J. Gilhooly v. Edward Milne £4, costs £2 15/6; B. J. Nicholson v, R. J. Love £2B 9/-, costs £4 3 6; Kennedy, Lusk and Morling v. Newton Mitchell £2 2/-, costs £1 3/6; Dolan and Rogers v. Tira Ariki Hone £3 16/6, costs £1 9/6; A. Richards v. Jimmy Kemp £5 18/2, costs £1 17/6; same v. W. Rawiri £54 4/3, costs £4 18/6; same v. Heke Manihera £lB 8/-, costs £3 1/-; McGruer's Ltd. v. V. Martin £3 16/9, costs £1 7/6; same v. T. J. Horne £2 12/6, costs £i 4/6; D. S. Laing and Son, Ltd. v. N. P. Nelson £2 2/6, costs £1 3/6. Judgment summons: D. Martin/ was ordered to pay Limbrick’s Ltd. £5 16/6, at the rate of 2/6 a week, in default six days’ imprisonment.