LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 73, 10 March 1930, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The annual general meeting of the Celtic Rugby Football Club will be held in the H.B. Jockey Club Rooms to-night (Monday) at 8 o’clock. Club members, supporters and Intending members are cordially invited.

Gannets are protected birds and should not be molested. A young one near the Napier breakwater yesterday attracted some attention, being unable to fly. On inspection, its tail feathers appeared to have been clipped.

Under the will of the late Mr. William Evans, of Timaru, £950 is left to various churches and charitable institutions, including £lOO to the Salvation Army, £lOO to Dr. Barnardo’s Homes, and £2OO to the Jubilee Institut for the Blind, Aucklaud.— tress Assn.

The -Waimarino Labour Representation Committee passed a resolution protesting against the policy of the Government regarding Samoa and asking that the present policy be changed to one of conciliation, with a view to restoring harmony, also that the present Administrator be recalled.—Brers Association.

With a view to testing out reception at a high altitude the H.B. Radio Society will hold a special demonstration to-morrow night at To Mata peak. Interesting results are anticipated, and a special receiver is being taken up. Motor-cars leaving Magnus Motors, in Russell street, at 7.30 p.m. will convey members to the peak. The Society is doing its best to further the interests of listeners, and it is to be hoped that all those interested in radio will come along.

When the Minister of Public Works makes his promised visit to Hawke’s Bay he will have many matters brought before him by the Hawke’s Bay County Council. The chairman (Mr F. B. Logan) at to-day’s meeting of the County Council stated that the Minister was to have been coining to the district since the beginning of January, but no definite date had yet been notified as to when he would arrive “Cabinet Ministers running to Auckland or Christchurch to meet overseas people sems to me to be u waste of public nioney,” he said, “when there is so much else for them to do.”

Jeremiah O’Reilly, alias James Kane, before Mr. A. A. George, J.P., at Hastings to-day pleaded guilty to being in a state of intoxication. Senior-Sergeant Dempsey stated that the defendant had been previously convicted on two occasions. He was a drink addict and bought methylated spirits and wine from the grocers. He had bought a ticket through to Marton, and he would be glad to see him go. O’Reilly, a cripple, pleaded for a chance, and said he would leave by the 3.30 train to-day. Ho was convicted and discharged on condition ho left the town by the next train. A public meeting was held in Stratford on Saturday, convened by Messrs Dickie, Wilkinson, and Poison. membeis of Parliament, for the purpose of considering the present position ot the Taranaki Scholarship Fund. A esoluiioh was passed as follows—“ This ihseiihg tesehtj an. attempt io divert any part or the Opaku Endowment and is also of opinion that more scholarships should be granted to Taranaki students, and that such should be substantially increased and varied and made available at Massey College, and that greater publicity should be given to the availability of scholarships.— Press Association.

The letter portion of the inward ’Frisco mail is due at Hastings by mail train this evening!

The Department of Agriculture advised the H.B. County Council to-day that African boxthorn had been gazetted a noxious weed.

The Hawke’s Bay County Council to-day agreed to make a grant of £3O towards the upkeep of the Hastings cemetery.

Owing to pressure of business, it has been decided to hold special justices’ sittings at the Hastings Magistrate’s Court on Tuesdays, beginning with to-morrow.

Burglars on Saturday night entered Martin’s drapery shop, Thames, by forcing the back door, and obtained a sum estimated at £3O, part of the takings. The shop was secured at noon and the theft discovered at midnight.—Press Association.

The annual meeting of the Hastings Football Club will be held in the Chamber of Commerce Rooms, Queen street, at 8 o'clock to-night for the purpose of electing new officers and discussing general business. Supporters and members are cardially invited.

Support for Sir Thomas Sidey’s suggestion that the school summer vacation should be taken in February instead of at Christmas was given by the South Taranaki branch of the Educational Institute which decided to send a remit to the annual conference of the institute.

A protest against the new regulations providing that probationer teachers must pass a special entrance examination before being admitted to the training college was passed by the South Taranaki branch of the Educational Institute. A motion was passed asking that the regulations bo postponed till next year, or that exemption be granted for the subjects passed in matriculation or teachers D examination which were the forfner examination.