LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 70, 6 March 1930, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The annual picnic of the Hereworth Boys’ School. Havelock North, was held at Puketitiri to-day.

The Napier wool sale will commence at 7 o’clock this evening, in the Municipal Theatre. The Hawke’s Bay Fruitgrowers’ Association is busy in Hastings today loading apples for export to England by the Tamaroa, due ■to sail from Wellington next Tuesday. The will total between 15,000 and 20,000 cases.

Tire annual general meeting of the Hastings Football Club will be held in the Chamber of Commerce rooms on Monday next at 8 p.m., when club members, supporters and intending member s are cordially invited to be present

"To be concise, the examination will separate the wheat from the chaff," said a speaker at last night’s meeting of the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce when referring to the matter of a commercial test held undei the auspices of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. Members were glad to hear that .handwriting was included in the test, one member saying that most handwriting was comparable to spiders’ tracks.

The usual weekly euchre party and dance, under the auspices ot the Hastings Labour Party, was heldl ni the Trades Hall last night. The winners of the card prizes were:Eadies- Mrs Beswick 1. Mrs Miles 2, Mrs Thornton 3, Mrs Corcoran lucky number. Gentlemen: Mr H. Cadman 1. Mrs Searle 2. Mr Hague 3, Mrs Laredo lucky number. The winners of the Monte Carlo dance were Miss Cadman and Mr Marchant.

In connection with the invitation from the Hawke’s Bay Cricket Association for a Poverty Bay representative team to play a match in Napier at Easter, the Poverty Bay executive resolved to advise Hawke’s Bay that every endeavour would be made to send a team at that date, but that it would he impossible for a visit In be made earlier, owing to I lie pres sure ot the local competitions; definite aih'i e would be forwarded'later.

At the Municipal ConfereiHe at Invarcatgiil, the report cf the Falliierstoh North Committee un the Utban ulid Farm Lands Bating Bill, was con siderod, and on the motion of Mr. Skoglund, it was unanimously decided that the Bill be not approved. (See page 8 for Minister’s explanatory statement in regard to the Bill mentioned.]

The Empire farmers arrived in Palmerston North last evening, and were accorded a civic welcome. This morning they inspected Massey College before leaving for Woodville.— Press Assn.

The H.B. Electric Power Board gives notice that power will be cut off in the following areas from 1.30 p.m. to 2.30 p.m, to-morrow for alterations to lines: Pukahu, part Havelock, Middle road.

The Labour representation committee has endorsed the following nominations for Wellington seats: Central, Mr. P. Fraser; East, Mr. R. Semple; South, Mr. R. McKeen; Suburbs, Mr. I. Brindle; North, Mr. C. H. Chapman.—Press Association.

A public meeting to protest against the erection of the fruitgrading shed in Karamu road, opposite the Hastings High and Central Schools, .will be held in the Assembly Hall, Hastings, to-night at 8 b’clock. All parents and others interested in the welfare of the children attending these schools are particularly asked to attend.

Entries for the Hawke’s Bay Autumn Show, which will be held on March 19 next, closed last evening, and although the figures were not available today, the indications were that they would be quite up to those of former years. The society should have a really good show, and some excellent competition should be witnessed in the main sections of the show.

Thomas Henry Wise, who commenced business eighteen months ago as the New Zealand Trust and Executors Agency Mortgage, finance and General Investment Association, with capital of £5, was convicted on Tuesday on a charge of false pretences and today at Auckland was sentenced to si* months’ imprisonment by Mr F K. Hunt, 8.M., who said that the probation officer's report was a bad one.— Press Association.

A League of Mothers has been. formed at, Waikaremoana among the Maori people, the result of advice given by Lady Alice Fergusson on her recent visit. A club has been formed to promote the well-being of the Maoris there, called the J’ikinga Club (onward and upward). The chiefs Waipatu and Mahaki are in full concord on the matter. The object of the club is to beautify the pas and generally to improve the living conditions and surroundings of the Maori people.

A society of British manufacturers, with a ..view to advertising British goods, has arranged for a fleet of 30 British motor-cars to tour New Zealand, Hastings being included in the itinerary. They will arrive in Hastings on Friday, 28th inst.. when a public meeting, presided over by the Mayor, will be held for the purpose of emphasising the claims of British manufactures on the Dominion support, and the mutual benefit to be derived from it. The party will leave Hastings for Napier on March 29th.

At the Supreme Court at Masterton this morning, Athol George Buckley, who was found guilty yesterday, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on a charge of perjury arising out of a motor fatality last October at Mnsterton. Buckley pleaded guilty to obstructing the course of justice and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, concurrent with that imposed on the perjury charge. Mavis Jacobsen and Grace Christina Jacobsen, who pleaded guilty in the Lowen Court to charges of perjury in connection with the same case, were admitted to probation for three months, on condition that they pay the costs of the prosecution and that they keep away from dance halls during the period of probation;—Press Association.