LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 305, 11 December 1929, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

The usual weekly cr.chre party and dance will be held in the Trades Hall to-night. Whooping cough is prevalent in afid around Christchurch at present, and some of the smaller schools have had to be closed.

A spiritual meeting will be held in the H B. Jockey Club rooms tonight at 8 o’clock, with Mrs. Harris Roberts as medium. An open invitation is extended to the public.

The matriculation examination at the Hastings and Havelock North centres concluded yesterday afternoon. Out of 68 candidates there were only two absentees.

The Clive Grange school children will hold a concert at the school on Friday next, commencing at 7.45 0.m., the proceeds to go towards the school funds.

As difficulty is expected in securing sufficient accommodation for boarders at the Napier Girls’ High School when the new year opens, the Board of Governors last night appointed a sub-committee to make arrangements for additional accommodation if it is found necessary.

Arrested at Hamilton, Leonard Parker, alis McKay, alias Lyle, alias van Brunt, appeared at the Gisborne Court this morning and was admitted to probation for two years for obtaining goods by false pretences from a motor garage proprietor.—(Press Association.)

Tlie Clive School Jubilee will be celebrated on December 13, 14 and 15. There will be a procession, and exhibition by the pupils a grand jubilee ball, a monster sports meeting at Farndon Park, a jubilee dinner, and finally a massed church parade.

The British Legion is sending to the Australian and New Zealand exServicemen’s Leagues as souvenirs, replicas of the immense Victoria Crosses made of Flanders poppies which decorated the tables at the dinner to the Victoria Cross heroes on November - 9.

An excellent programme has been arranged for the annual Convent School concert, which will take place on Thursday, December 19, in the Municipal Theatre, Hastings. An operetta., “Princess Crystal,” will be staged, which will excel the performances of previous years. There will also be songs and dances.

The dangers that children are liable to in the streets are graphically illustrated on a series of blotters issued by the Shell Co. of New Zealand Ltd., a set of which has been sent to us. This company is very active in the “Safety First” campaign and already has distributed over a quarter of a million of these blotters to schools throughout the Dominion.

Root disease in strawberry plants has long been a problem to worry growers, and at a recent meeting of the Strawberry Growers’ Association in Auckland, it was decided to send an urgent petition to the Department of Agriculture, requesting the appointment of a fully qualified research investigator to inquire into the trouble.

“The number of marriages recorded for the first nine months of 1929 (8047) shows an increase of 376 over the corresponding period of last year,” states the Abstract of Statistics. “The marked recovery is significant, and more particularly so at the present tune, as it reflects, to some extent at least, that psychology 'of optimism which precedes or accompanies greater activity in business conditions.”

At a recent meeting of the Wellington Division of the Reform Party, Mr. C. A. L. Treadwell moved “That this Wellington division of the Reform Party, recognising that the welfare of the country materially depends on peace and progress m its industries, affirms the principle that it is essentially part of the Reform Party’s platform that the industrial side of the country's progress shall receive the constant attention and assistance of the Government.”

The Wellington College Board of Governors, at a meeting yesterday, received a letter from Mr. John Gallie, Kelburn, advising that he had paid to the Public Trustee £lOOO to be invested in the common fund, the net amount of the interest thereby derived, to be paid to the board free of any charge whatsoever for the establishment of a College bursary to perpetuate the memory of bis two sons who made the supreme sacrifice in the Great War. They were Captain Oscar E. Gallie, D. 5.0., M.C., R.F.A., and Captain Victor J. Gallie, M.C., C. de G., R.F.A.

“The Reform Party,” said Mr. H F. Johnston, the Reform candidate for the Hutt seat, “is out to get into its ranks all sections of the community We want here the support of workers and employers just as much as the Labour Party does at Home. It was his endeavour to in corporate in the Reform Party ns many workers as possible, and to shape the industrial policy both for the employer and the worker, giving the latter his due reward in the profits of industry. (Applause.) Mr Johnston added that ha was receiving from different interests all over Now Zealand communications supporting Ida policy for industrial progress.

A rooster attacked an eighteen months old child in Hawera a few days ago and as a result of infection arising from wounds inflicted on the head the child died in hospital.

The nett earnings for the wharfage department of the Napier Harbour Board during November totalled £5,775, being a decrease of £906 on the amount earned for November! 1928.

The third 15,000 kilowatt unit at Arapuni will be in use for the first time for drying purposes before Christmas and the turbine is expected to be ready for the distribution of current about tho middle of January.

Notice is given in another column that entries for all events including car races, at the forthcoming motor sports meeting, to be held on the Napier Park racecourse on New Year’s Day and January 2, close with the secretary on Saturday next, the 14th inst,.

The Boy Scouts, escorted by the Hastings Citizens’ Band and the Fife Band, will march to the Hastings Assembly Hall next Friday for the lantern lecture by Commissioner Cooksey, in which he will depict the Scout Jamboree movement in England. Hakas will be given by the Jamboree party, with a sing-song and Dominion hakas by the Hastings and Havelock Scouts. The Mayor (Mr. G. F. Roach) will occupy the chair.

During November a total of 60,259 tons of shipping arrived at Napier, as against 69,750 for November, 1928. The comparative trade figures for the two periods are as follows, those for 1928 being in parenthesis:—lmports: General cargo 8,689 tons (9,249). Exports; General 2,238 tons (3,141) ; wool and flax 5.555 tons (7,594); beef, 3 tons (1,062); mutton, 17,214 carcases (25,259); lamb, 25,220 carcases (35,238). ’

A proposal which it was considered might offer a final solution to the problem of finding a suitable alternative service for conscientious objectors to military service was cordially approved by the Auckland Presbytery yesterday, when the following resolution was cairied: “The Presbytery of Auckland welcomes the proposal that when exemption from 'vy service has been granted to conscientious objectors the alternative service should be work at the orphanage institutes of the denominations concerned.”

Some good-natured talk took place at to-day’s meeting of the Napier Harbour Board when a letter was received from the Napier Borough Council thanking the board for its letter in connection with the mosquito nuisance and in regard to the reclamation of the Ponds at the Port. “The council apparently appreciates what the board is going to do with the reclamation of the Ponds,” said Mr. A. E. Jull (chairman). “Councils are sometimes like Governments—they do some funny things.” said Mr. J. C. Bryant. “What else can you expect,” said Mr. Jull, “when you have some funny people on them.” (Loud laughter.)