LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 283, 14 November 1929, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

The Manuka, from Wellington, arrived in Melbourne this morning.-

The annual Pukahu School plain and fancy dress ball will be held in the hall on Friday next, at 7.30 p.m. 'There will be prizes offered for all classes of fancy dresses.

A special bounty of 1/- for the beaks and feet of shags will be given by the H.B. Acclimatisation Society from this date until. December 31. See advertisement for further particulars.

The Hastings Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club will hold its first sports meeting of the season to-night on Nelson Park, Hastings, commencing at 6.15. Children will be admitted free, and a most attractive programme has been drawn up.

Detectives yesterday raided a Chinese laundry in Riddiford street, Wellington, and to-day its occupier, by name Man Poy, was fined £5O for permitting the premises to be used for smoking opium. A young Chinaman was fined £l2 10s for smoking opium. These are minimum penalties.—Press Association.

With the epd of the present term, which will close the school year, Scots College, Wellington, as the Presbyterian Church College for boys, will cease to be. It will rc-opon next year as a Teachers’ Training College. Negotiations for the sale of tho college to the Education Department were completed yesterday.

The following are the results of last night’s euchre party and dance, held in the Trades Hall, Karamu Road, Hastings Ladies : Mrs. Carr and Mrs. Jones (tie) 1, Mrs. Marshall 3, Mrs. Pine consolation prize. Gentlemen: Mr W. Taylor 1, Mr. Stevens 2, Messrs'. Brewer and Giles (tie) 3; Mesdames Charles and Spears tied for the consolation prize. Special prizes were won by Mrs. Charles and Mrs. Beswick. Mrs. Horne supplied the music for dancing, and Mr. Giles acted as M.C.

Mr. V. C. Davies returned to New Plymouth from Auckland, bringing with him tho handsome Loder 75 guineas cup, which was won by tho firm of Duncan and Davies at Auckland recently. The cup is for the best collection of native trees, shrubs, etc. There were three entries, the winning exhibit being a magnificent one comprising over 500 specimens. The cup bears tho following inscription: “Offered to lovers of Nature in New Zealand to encourage the protection and cultivation of tho incomparable flora of the Dominion by Gerald W. I'l. Loder, president of the Royal English Arborieultural Society, 1926.” The cup is open for annual competition, but Mr. Davies states it is not the intention of his firm to compete next year, as he thinks the cup should go round. _ _

All the Kiwi essays which were held over from last week are appearing in to-night’s issue on Page 11. The Waikato Hospital Board to-day let a contract for the erection of a maternity ward at £12,440. —(Press Association.)

The weather is unfavourable for People’s Day at the Wanganui A. and P. Show. Rain set in steadily at noon and the outlook is most unpromising.—(Press Association.)

Grants totalling £51,432 8s Id for the repair of earthquake damage were authorised at a meeting of the Central Earthquake Committee which was held yesterday in Wellington.

The Hastings Poultry Society will hold a meeting in the Trades Hall, Karamu Road, at 7.30 to-night, when Mr. Hart will lecture on the Game Fowl.

At the usual weekly meeting of the Mahora Swimming and Life-saving Club held last evening it was decided that, owing to the weather, the opening carnival, which was to have taken place to-night, be postponed until next Thursday November 21st.

Reports from the Conservator of Fish and Game at Rotorua indicate that the trout fishing season was opened auspiciously at the beginning of the month. There were some good baskets obtained, and tho season promises to be a successful one.

Members of the Mahora Swimming and Life-saving Club are notified that an extraordinary general meeting of the club will be held at the school on Wednesday next, at 8 p.m. As there is an important matter to discuss, it is hoped that there will be a full attendance.

At a meeting of the Napier branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants held last night, the following resolution was unanimously carried:—“That the Napier branch of the A.S.R.S, views with concern the failure of the Government to restore wages cuts imposed on them while members of Parliament have received an increase in salaries.”

The much discussed difficulty of obtaining payment of hospital fees from Maori patients was again before the Waikato Hospital Board to-day, when it was resolved to write to the Native Affairs Department with a view to having part of the payments in compensation for confiscation of Maori lands earmarked for the payment of medical services to indigent natives —(Press Association.)

“Goat-raising appears to have a possibility if conducted on proper lines,” said Mr A. L. Nugent, when giving evidence before the Returned Soldiers’ Rehabilitation Committee in Auckland. An excellent cheese made from goats’ milk was being imported into New Zealand, and finding a market, he said. It was safe to say that the milk of the goat would be generally prescribed by doctors in preference to cows’ milk for rearing infants if reliable supplies were available.

Safe blowers were again active in Christchurch city last night. The scene of operations was the office of the Jarrah Timber Coy., in Moorhouse Avenue, where two safes were opened, one with gelingite. The burglars gained very little for their trouble, their total haul being only £4 in cash, and £1 in stamps. The men who planned the attack are evidently expert cracksmen.—Press Assn.

A new anaesthetic has been introduced into New Zealand by Dr. H. S. Billcliff, medical superintendent of the Ashburton Public Hospital, and administered in the Hospital for the first time recently. Dr. Billcliff, while in America, saw a number of operations in which the new anaesthetic, known as sodium amytal. was used, and he had been greatly impressed. The new substance is different from anaesthetics at present in use in that it is injected into the veins and produces anaesthesia in a quiet and peaceful manner. It was not suitable for every case, however, but he believed it had very definite possibilities. So far there had been no harmful effects from its use.

Speculation is, of course, busy with the names of prospective nominees for the vacancy in Cabinet caused through the Hon. T. M. Wilford’s appointment as High Commissioner in London (states the “Dominion”). Practically every member of the United Party has expectations, but there is only one vacancy. Mention

has oeen made or me names or two solicitors in the party—Messrs W. A. Bodkin (Central Otago) and \V. J. Broadfoot (Waitomo) — either of whom might be suited for the Ministry of Justice. Colonel T. W. McDonald (Wairarapa) has also been mentioned as a possible Minister of Defence, the portfolio of Justice to be taken over by the Attorney-Gene-ral (Hon. T. K. Sidey). All this s pure speculation, however. The appointment rests with the Prime Minister, and it is not expected that an announcement will be made for some time. It is interesting to note that the North Island has seven Ministers and the South Island six, including Mr Sidey. Leader of the Legislative Council, who is Attorney-General. Four of the United Cabinet hail from Otago,

Great success crowned the efforts of the younger members of tho United Party, who organised a dunce held in the Band Room. Hastings, last night. The evening was perfect, the music by Mr. Phil Blakesely’s orchestra was all that could be desired, the door was in perfect order, and the supper was good. The y’oung people danced with great enjoyment till after midnight. During the evening a member of the committee thanked all those wlrn had come—some from Napier ami some from Pakowhai as well as from nearer centres —and stated that tho dances were being < rganised with a view, not of making money, but tor the purpose of bringing young people together and thus forming a bond of union with the view that they were to look ahead and in time take up the task of the political work of the country, and to carry it on, he hoped, not solely for party purposes, but for the bettor government of their country Mr. K. flofe was acting-secretary and contributed several extras, while Mr. M Rofe was an efficient M.C During tho evening a committee meeting was held, when it was decided that another dance be held in a fortnight, and that, tho dances be called the “Black and White” dances, after the colours of the party.