LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 301, 5 December 1929, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The value of this year's crop of rico in Australia is estimated to bo worth £200,000. An English mail ex S.S. Ruahinc, from London via Panama, is due at Hastings at 12.15 p.m. to-morrow. A general meeting of the Hastings Retailers will be held in the H.B. Jockey Club’s rooms this evening, commencing at 7.30 o’clock sharp. An Advisory Committee is to be set up to meet once a week at Canterbury College, in order to help boys to find the employment most suited to them. Over 6000 bales of wool have been consigned from the Waipuknrau Railway Station during the present season. A feeling of optimism prevails among the business community of Hastings, and a record Christmss is anticipated. The total rainfall at Whapa Whana during November was 3.24in5. Rain fell on eight days, the heaviest being on November 7, when 80 points were registered. Although the catalogue for the next Napier wool sale closed last night, the Gisborne allocation has been extended till Friday. “Prompt day” for this sale will fall on December 28. The various business places in Hastings arc now busy preparing for the Christmas trade rush. The window displays this year promise to eclipse all previous efforts. Hawke’s Bay primary schools will close for the Christmas holidays on December 20 and reopen on February 3, 1930. The secondary schools eioso on December 13, and open again on February 4, 1930. Mr Moss Davis purchased at auction in London Maori curios which originally belonged to the Hocken collection. They included a tomahawk, fish spear, largo bone tiki and rare neck ornaments. They are being sent to the Auckland museum. Those who have not yet availed themselves of the opportunity of attending the Cameron-Nagel Mission in the Nelson street Hall would do well to come to-night, and hear Mr Nagel speak on a subject entitled “Found in the Wilderness. Mr Nagel will also be the soloist. The new ferro-concrete bridge over the Pareora river on the main Christchurch-Dunedin highway was officially opened to traffic yesterday. The estimated cost of the bridge, which was constructed by the Public Works Department, was £15,000, but the completed cost was £11,400. Of this amount the Highways Board is finding £7,600. The Parliamentary Committee investigating the education system led by the Hon. H. Atmore arrived in Oamaru yesterday. The members lunched with the Rotarians and inspected the Waitaki Boys’ and Girls’ High' Schools. They took evidence in camera last night and left to-day for the Otekaeke special school, thence to Christchurch. “By the way, I hope you all ~ake iodised salt,’’ counselled Sir Lindo Ferguson at the public meeting at Christchurch, called to set up a division of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society. He added that marvellous results in goitre treatment had been obtained in institutions where the systematic use of iodised salt was practised.

“Whilst I was in Australia I had the opportunity of seeing the Commonwealth Parliament opened at Canberra under the control of the new Labour Government, and I found that the Federal members, of Parliament were strikingly unanimous in condemn ing federation.” said Mr M. J. Reardon, who returned to Wellington on Tuesday. “They have their State grievances, and the residents of Canberra—Civil Servants and everybody else-—were unanimous in condemning what they called the ‘bush capital,’ or the ‘capital in the wilderness.’ ”

A member of the Auckland Harbour Board, Mr A. M Laing, who has just returned from a trip to the Old Country, advises the board to send someone to Glasgow to make inquiries into that City’s sewerage. “It would dispose of our sewage in such a manner that instead of il s being a menace it would be made useful,” he said. “In Glasgow the city 's refuse is used for manure. I went through the woiks; it was one of the things that interested me most on my tour. .1 had always wondered how a big city disposed of its refuse, but could never find out definitely. There was absolutely no odour, and special trains were taking the treated mi nure to country districts.”

Mr G. W. Allsopp, of Auckland, who has just returned from a world tour, was evidently not impressed with Mexico. To use Mr Allsopp’s own words, Mexico was “hell on earth.” The small towns there, he said, contained few other buildings but saloons, where people of a low class spent their days and nights, drinking, gambling and dancing. There were bandits in all parts of the country and the tourists W'ere warned not to pick anyone up. “To give any one a lift in Mexico'would have been stupid,” Mr Allsopp said. “If a man rides with you in your car, the chances are that, he wilt knock you over the head, or that another car will drive up alongside you, and your companion will thrust a revolver into your ribs. If you are lucky they will ’cave you your car after robbing you of anying worth while, but the chances are that they will drive off in it, and that it will later be found abandoned and possibly destroyed.”

The New Zealand Shipping Company advises that the Remuera arrived at Panama on December 3rd. A dance will be held in the Cosmopolitan Hall, Napier, to-night, with Walden’s orchestra in attendance. The next Dominion championship chess tourney will commence in Wanganui on Boxing Day. Fifteen entries have been received. The rabbitskins sale at Dunedin yesterday showed a serious price decline of from 30 to 40 per cent.— Press Assa. The New Zealand Shipping Co. advises that the Ruahine berthed at Wellington at 9 o’clock this morning. Napier passengers will proceed by express train to-morrow. Mails for Great Britain, Ireland and the Continent of Europe, via Panama, specially addressed “via Rangitiki,” now close at Hastings at 2.45 p.m. to-morrow. Notice is given, by the H.B. Electric Power Board that power will be cut off from Wharerangi and Taradale districts from 1.30 to 2.30 p.m. to-morrow for alterations to the line. A record dairying season is anticipated in the Wairoa district. There has been a gerat flush of feed and conditions generally have been of the best. Those interested in the continuance of the work of the school dental clinic in this district are invited by the Mayor to attend a meeting in the Council Chambers, Hastings, at 8 p.m. to-morrow (Friday). A stray, collarless dog, which was caught in the act of making an attack on some ducks at Cornwall Park yesterday, was handed over by the head gardener to Mr W. W. Adams, who promptly destroyed the animal, in accordance with his determination to do away with all such dogs, caught wandering in the Park. Cabinet Ministers since the Parliamentary session have been able to spare time for visits to various parts of the Dominion, but all returned to Wellington to-day to hold a series of Cabinet meetings for the discussion of important matter-, some of which follow from recent legislation. In the Police Court at Dunedin, Sue Hani, described as a market gardener and trafficker in opium, was fined £75 for being in possession of prepared opium. Geo. Wong and Young Poy, two of his employees, were fineti £lO for having in their pos. session an opium pipe and other utensils.—Press Assn. At a cost of about £30,000, and to contain 36 flats, a six-storey building is to bo erected on the corner of Montreal and Hereford streets, Christchurch. A syndicate of Christchurch business men is behind the venture, and a company is to be formed to finance it. The Hastings business area is much livelier than usual at this time of the year, and each day the streets are crowded with shoppers, especially of country customers who, realising that during Christmas week there is always a rush, are now securing their wants.

Mr W. E. Barnard, M.P., telegraphs from Wellington advising the following Napier passes in the shorthand and typing examinations:—Senic-; Miss W. Reid. Junior: Misses G. Angove, M. Watts, R. Puddle, E. Tennant, A. Lydford, E. Norrie, F. Walker, A. Wiig, I. Lowe, H. McDonald, M. Bain and E. Davidson. John Michael Gearschawski, a farmer, married, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment this morning in Christchurch on a chage of stealing 24 cauliflowers, valued at 17/-, from a neighbour’s section. The Magistrate, Mr. E. C. Lewy, said it was a mean theft, and the accused had a past record. —Press Assn. Why did men go farming! asked Dr Hilgendorf at a conference of representatives of different vocations at Canterbury College recently. The main reason probably was that men in the country lived full lives even if they did not have full pockets. The farmer was constantly struggling with Nature, in an endeavour to wrest something from her instead of from his fellowmen. The farmer enjoyed the pride, denied to some callings, of being a producer. The usual weekly euchre party and dance was held in the Trades Hall last night. Those who won the euchro prizes were: —Ladies, Mrs. Carr 1, Mrs Overend and Mrs. Gardiner (tie) 2, Mrs. Hill lucky number. Gentlemen, Mr. C. Robertson 1, Mr. A. Jellings 2, Mr. W. Taylor 3, Mr. A. Johnson lucky number. The Monte Carlo dance was won by Mrs. S. Anderson and Mr. P. Campbell, and the foxtrot competition by Mrs. S. Anderson and Mr. J. Nikera. Mr. and Mrs. Horne supplied the music, and Mr. Giles acted as M.C. The grand entertainment given last evening in the ■ Hastings Baptist Schoolroom, in aid of the Manurcwa Children’s Home, was well attended. Mr. K. T. Starkey, of Napier, contributed the major portion of the programme. With items from his pleasing repertoire of musical monologues, sketches, children’s recitations, etc., he proved to be a highclass entertainer, and his efforts won golden opinions from the audience. Vocal solos by Mr. J. Bell and Miss Mae Cunnold were excellently rendered and heartily applauded. Miss McHuteheon was their accompanist.

A review of what Reform had done in the way of humanitarian legislation recalled immediately the law relating to child welfare, said Mr. H. F. Johnston, the Reform nominee for the Hutt seat, last evening. Thanks to that legislative effort 6000 children otherwise unwanted, were fed, educated, turned out equipped for trades, and given equal advantage with their more fortunate brothers and sisters. (Applause.) Then there wcro the ante-natal clinics, of which the country was justly proud, the improvements made in the care of the mentally afflicted, and the Coal Mines Act of 1925, which Mr. H. E. Holland had lauded as the best piece of mining legislation in the world. There were, too, the dental clinics, and tho tremendous increase in the funds made available for education, the per capita cost rising from 27/1 under the | Liberals to 52/1 under Reform.