LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 282, 13 November 1929, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

The earthquake relief fund now totals £141,869 14/5, says a telegram .from Wellington.

Phil Barkley’s orchestra will be in attendance at another bright United Dance in tho Bandroom to-night.

The Marama, from Auckland, arrived in Sydney at. 5.30 o'clock this morning.

The Hawke's Bay Scouts who took part in the International Jamboree in England, are due to arrive in Hastings by this evening's mail train.

A full-grown grey seal, with flappers as long as a iqan’s arm, came ashore at Te Awanga yesterday. A man who discovered: it killed it and skinned the carcase.

The Hastings Citizens’ Band gave an open-air concert in Victoria Square last evening, when they played a number of selections. The audience was not numerous, but the programme was much enjoyed.

The Hastings Poultry Society will hold a meeting in the Trades Hall, Karamu Road, on Thursday next, at 7.30 p.m., when Mr. Hart will deliver a lecture on tho Game fowl. AU interested are invited to be present.

During 1928 specie aggregating £618,100 was exported from the Dominion, while the figure for 1929 stands so far at £515,000, making a total of over £1,000,060 for the twenty-one months to date. These are the highest figures yet. recorded, states the Government Statistician.

Several claims against Quarterly Dividends Ltd. and National House Purchasing Ltd. were set down for hearing yesterday in the Dunedin Magistrate’s Court. In each case the plaintiffs claimed 95 per cent, of the money paid in by them. Counsel for the plaintiffs stated that settlement had been made of all claims.

A social evening, given by tho Hastings Women’s Choir and Orchestra, will be held in the Presbyterian Schoolroom, Market street, to-night, with competitions and impromptu items. Members are asked to bring along all music, and in addition a contribution towards the supper. A very enjoyable time is anticipated.

Despite the adverse weather conditions on Saturday afternoon the garden fete at. the Napier Girls’ High School realised the sum of £l6O, with a further amount still to come in. The Board of Governors considered this a wonderful result, and passed a resolution conveying the board’s congratulations to Miss Arthur and the staff and girls of the school.

At the League of Nations anniversary banquet to be held in the Guildhall, London, to-morrow, tho manuscripts of Captain Reginald Berkeley’s “The Lady of the Lamp,” and of Mr. R. C. Sherriff’s “Journey’s End” will bo offered by auction for the funds of the League of Nations Union. The League will celebrate the tenth anniversary of its foundation.

The session just concluded lasted 19 weeks and 2 days, and in that time 52 public Bills were passed, one was reserved for the signification of His Majesty’s pleasure, and 40 were dropped or otherwise disposed of. Five private Bills received the Royal Assent. There were 37 divisions, 14 being in the whole House and 23 in committee.

No. 5 Highways Council forwarded to the Patangata County Council yesterday, a circular advice received from the chairman of the Main Highways Board in regard to the maintenance of main highways during the Xmas, holiday period. It. was suggested that where heavy traffic was involved, tho surfacemen and graders bo kept at work—in some cases extra work be carried out.

The Hastings Fire Brigade was called out at 12.15 this morning, but tho alarm turned out to bo a false one, originating from the automatic box at the corner of Heretaunga street and Willow Park road. This makes tho second false alarm given this week, the first coming from a box in Gray’s road. These stupid pranks are cither perpetrated by drunken persons or by evilly mischievous people, who are liable to a heavy penalty if convicted.

Entries for the garden competitions in connection with the Hastings Horticultural Society close on Tuesday next at 5 p.m. Tho gardens will be judged between tho close of entries and the Rose Show, to be hold on Saturday, November 23rd. The first prize will bo a handsome cup, to be won outright, and the second prize will be plants to the value of 10/6, donated by Messrs. W. H. Walker & Sons. Points will be given for cultivation, variety, colour, rotation of crops, tidiness and artistic arrangement.

Tho development of motor transport in New Zealand continues apace (states the Government Statistician). According to the registrations of motor-vehicles, the number of motor cars has increased from 119.212 at 30th September, 1928, to 137.203, or by 15.1 per eent., as at 30th September last. Over the same period motor trucks and motor omnibuses showgains of 16.1 and 6 per cent, respectively. The imports of motor vehicles during the twelve months ended September last showed an increase of just over £2,000,000, or 90.4 per cent., while tho value of motor spirits imported increased by approximately £400,000, or 23.9 i>cr cent.

The usual weekly euchre party and dance will be held in the Trades Hall to-night.

Two maritime anniversaries fell on Saturday last. Twenty-seven years ago, on the morning of Sunday, 9th November, 1902, the Huddart-Parker Company’s steamer Elingamite struck the Three Kings in a dense tog and 45 of her passengers and crew lost their lives. She had about 180 persons on board. Members of the Main body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force will remember the day because 15 years ago the German cruiser Emden was destroyed at the Cocos Islands by H.M.A.B. Sydney, which loft a large convoy of Australian and New Zealand transports to pursue the raider.