LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 304, 10 December 1929, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The Napier wool sale opens at 9 a.m. to-morrow.

The Marama, from Wellington, reached Sydney at 8.30 o’clock this morning.

Australian mails ex s.s. Vlimaroa from Sydney to Wellington, are due at Hastings at 12.15 p.m. to-morrow.

The Rev. Edgar Ward, of Auckland, who claims to have discovered a cure for tuberculosis, has received a cablegram from Buenos Aires asking for liberal supplies of his formula, and another cablegram from England contained a largo order.

The parents of the children attending Paki Paki School are notified that a special meeting will be held in the school on Wednesday next, at 7.30 p.m., to discuss the school picnic and prizes. It is hoped that there will he a full attendance.

The question of the erection of new premises for the district nurse at Hastings is to be discussed when an officer of the Health Department confers with the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board on a number of other matters. A gift of a large quantity of seedlings has been made by Mr. W. H. Walker and Sons. Nurserymen, of Hastings, for planting in the grounds of the Hastings Memorial Hospital. The gift was accepted with thanks by the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board yesterday.

Three letters expressing thanks for treatment received at the hands of the medical superintendent, matron and staff of the Napier Hospital were received yesterday by the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board. The writers spoke in terms of the highest praise of the skill and kindness shown by all engaged in treating them.

At the last meeting of the Main Highways Board, plans for the construction of a new bridge in the Manawatu Gorge in place of the existing structure which is in a very bad state of repair, were approved. The design adopted is a reinforced concrete arch bridge of 80 spans on mass concrete piers. The new bridge will be erected alongside the existing bridge and the construction is to be put in hand at an early date.

A donation of £4O and four dozen tins of tobacco for the inmates of the old men’s ward at Napier Hospital has been made by the National Tobacco Co., Napier, towards the Christmas fund. Mr. G. Husheer, the managing director of the company, in forwarding the gift expressed the hope that many more would follow. The Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board yesterday accepted the gift with thanks.

We acknowledge receipt of a copy of the 1929 “Setndian,” the Napier Boys’ High School magazine. It is a worthy publication, full of very entertaining and humourous reading. All branches of school life have contributed their notes, and twelve photographs add to the general interest. The articles appearing in the open column are specially interesting, some of them being written by wellknown men in Napier.

Some time on Sunday, before the Hon W.. B. Taverner’s premises were entered, the branch office of the Dunedin Savings Bank in Cargill road was burgled and a large safe dynamited. No money is left at branch offices, the burglars, only haul being a loaded revolver, which, with fuse, detonators, a cold chisel and a jimmy was found in the scrub near the St. Hilda beach, m which direction a num ran who was chased from Mr. Taverner’a office. —Press Assn,

All accounts in connection with the Hastings Band carnival should be posted at once to tne organiser, Box 321, Hastings.

A large English mail via Panama ex Mataroa from London to Wellington, is due at Hastings on Friday next at midday.

Ladies are invited to meet at the Mahora School at 8 o’clock to-night to make arrangements in connection with Parents’ Day.

There were 8702 bales of wool offered at the recent wool sale in Wanganui. 7563 were sold, the proceeds totalling £118.028 5/5.

“The Christmas Seal,” a 2d stamp (a penny being for postage and a penny for the anti-tuberculosis fund) will be on sale at post offices throughout the Dominion to-morrow.

The sum of £4l 18s 4d was collected for admission to the Napier Municipal Baths during November, being £l4 12/5 less than the amount collected for the corresponding month of last year.

At the Napier Magistrate’s Court to-day, a young girl, Ivy Frederick, was sentenced by Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., to 12 months’ reformative detention on a charge of being idle and disorderly.

' Four ships which sailed from the Dominion during the week ended December 7 took shipments of dairy produce totalling 826,718 boxes of butter and 87,632 crates of cheese. Of this huge quantity 119.750 boxes of butter were for Halifax, the balance of the butter and the whole of the cheese being for England.

The list of cases set down for hearing by Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., at the Hastings Magistrate’s Court to-morrow includes tho following charges: Alleged assault, cutting the corner, negligent driving, failure to report an accident; also eight maintenance cases. There are also 55 civil plaints. Including ten judgment summonses and five defended actions. A petition in bankruptcy was hied at the Supreme Court, Napier, today, by Herbert Harold Timms, engineer, of Napier. There is a total deficiency of £l5O 18/1, which amount is owing to unsecured creditors. The unsecured creditors are: J. J. Niven and Co., Ltd. £5l 8/2, A. G. Sutton £35. T. W. Timms £39 2/-, G. E. Williams £lB 9/5, Dr. Fitzgerald £6 18/6.

Judgment by default for the plaintiff was given at the Napier Court this morning by Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., in the following undefended civil actions. 0. Crews v. E. J. Rasmussen, £4, costs £1 5/6; Bullivant and Merrick v. L. Lorrigan, £45 5/4, costs £3 11/6; S. C. Moss v. A. Patterson, £1 12/6, costs 9/-; Official Assignee, in the estate of J. Wakely v.- A. Gurbes. £1 13/-, costs 12/-

The subject of an address to be given this evening by Mr. Nagel at the mission now being held in tho Nelson Street Hall, Hastings, will he “A Crowned Head and a Crowned Foe.” Increased interest has been shown by the general public during the past weeks and everyone should make the best of a great opportunity of hearing two ' interesting and powerful speakers.

The Napier Amateur Horticultural Society’s carnation and pansy show will be held in the Foresters’ Hall, Napier, fo-morrow (Wednesday), commencing at noon. Some good prizes and trophies are offered and there should be good competition. Carnations should be of splendid quality, while there is also likely to be a good display of other blooms. Entries closed to-day.

A general meeting of shareholders of tho Heretaunga Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., will be held in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Hastings, on Saturday next, December 14, at 1.30 p.m., to confirm the action of the directors in the purchase of the land, building, plant, machinery and supply of the Waipukurau Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., and to increase the capital of the company to £75,000.

We have received from the Hawke’s Bay Rivers Board a beautifully bound and clearly illustrated prospectus of the flood control scheme for the Tutaekuri and Ngaruroro rivers for which Messis Hay and Rochfort are the engineers. It sets forth the Board’s and the engineers’ arguments in support of their contention that Scheme “A” provides the best solution for the problem of controlling tho flood-waters of the rivers named.

Auckland Grammar School, holders of tho Heathcote-Williams Shield, premier cricket trophy among the secondary schools of New Zealan has boon challenged by Christchurch Boys’ High School, and the match will take place at Auckland on December 16 and 17. This is the first challenge recorded since 1926, and, in the words of Mr. W. H. Winsor, honorary secretary of the New Zealand Cricket Council, it is gratifying to note the revival of interest in the shield.

At the Havelock baths on Wcdncs day night next will be held tho first of a scries of three inter-club carnivals for tho Rainbow Shield. Tins competition is confined to the fleretaunga, Mahora and Havelock Clubs, the shield being won at the end of the season by the club with the greatest aggregate over the three cfniivals. Individuals “cut no ice” —club spirit predominates, rivalry is keen and the pick of the district is competing. All events are handicapped and a full programme of swimming, diving and novelties is offered. Funds realised gc to the H.B. Centro to assist in the sending of a Hawke's Bay team to the national championships. A ’bus will leave Westerman’s corner at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday.

A final reminder is given of the fine musical recital to bo given in St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Hastings, this evening at 8 o'clock. The choral numbers are by well-known composers of a high standard and the vocalists will be two or our younger singers, Miss B. Bullen and Mr. Dudley Hawthorne. As a violinist Mr. V. Mummery is always pleasing and he will also be associated with -Mr. W Robertshaw (’cellist) in a particularly interesting arrangement as a trio for organ, violin and 'cello of Widor’s favourite “Serenade.” The programme will bo under the direction of the church wganist, Mr. Lance Craig, and the offertory will be devoted to a special church fund inaugurated by the choir. Details of the principal numbers appear in our advertising columns.

The Hastings Borough Council meets on Thursday night, and again on the following Thursday.

Taranaki Oil Fields report:—Gisborne No.* 2 well: Running drill pipe into well and circulating mud; veryslight show of oil in return mud (Press Association.)

The Hawke’s Bay County Council yesterday approved plans for thpee concrete bridges on the NapierWairoa road, between Tangoio and Tutira. The ywill cost £7OOO in all. Motorists will be pleased that the frequent cause of wet wenther delays on this road should soon be rectified.

A magnificent specimen nf a moose head, splendidly mounted, and shot by Mr. E J Herrick, of Hastings, in South Westland’ is at present on view in the window of Mr. T. F. Pickett’s mercery establishment. Heretaunga street E. Tho stag is said to bo. the finest of its kind shot in New Zealand.