LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 190, 1 August 1930, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The Legislative Council adjourned yesterday afternoon until August'l3.

Tho H.B. Hunt Club will meet tomorrow (Saturday) at the Tikokino crossroads, at 11.30 a.m.

To-night the grand opening of the Coliseum Skating Rink will take place in Napier, opposite tho Masonic Hotel, at 7.30. A full band will be in attendance.

The return of postal revenue for tho second quarter of 1930 gazetted last night amounts to £395,516, and for tho corresponding period of last year it was £386,084. For the Telegraphic revenue for similar periods the figures arc:—l93o, £214,745 ahd 1929, £210,462. Shillings and pence are omitted.

“We aro not doing it to get anything out of it, but if wo can carry warmth and comfort to some homes in Wellington wo shall have accomplished something worth while,” said Mr. G. Potherick, in moving at yesterday’s meeting of tho Wellington Hospital Board that for a month the board co-operate, as a trial, with tho Rotary Club in providing household fuel to needy families. Tho motion was carried.

The following estimated traffic receipts of Imperial and International Communications Ltd.- for the six months ended June have been supplied by the Eastern Electric Co.:— January, £519,485; February, £460,402 January, £519,485; February, £460,052; March, £492,316; April, £456,120; May, £466,279; June, £413,471; total, £2,807,723. For ' the similar period in 1929 the figures are: January, £566,062; February, £501,319; March, £538,757; April, £515,816; May, £501,670; June, £484,525; total, £3,108,149.

July weather in Napier has been exceedingly wintry, for the morning temperatures have been in most cases very low. The prevailing wind during the month was also from tho south and south-west, and these, coming off the snow,kept tho atmosphere on the cool side. Frosts were recorded on nine mornings, and one or two of these were severe ones. The appearance of snow one evening also reminded Napier that winter was still with us. The most pleasing feature of the weather has been the rain fall. Rain was recorded on 20 days during the month, when a total of 4.31 inches was recorded. The highest fall was on the 22nd., when over 1$ inches fell. This July has been tho wettest since 1927, when sin. were recorded. In 1928 only 1.44 inches fell, and in 1929 there was a fall of Sin. For the seven months of this year 15in. of rain has fallen. This is Sin. less than for the same period of last year.

Only one caie oi infectious disease was reported in Hastings during the month of July. In the same month in 1929, 12 cases were reported.

An offer to place her house at the disposal of the Bed Cross Society for the use of needy unemployed has been made by a Wellington woman.

In the ploughing match results published last evening, in Class B, M. Bunn was stated to have been awarded second place. This should have read Maurice Breen, of Mahora, Hastings, , The Hastings Lodge of Buffaloes will hold another old-time dance in the Citizens’ Bandroom, Warren street, this evening. Mr. P. Bennett, a specialist in old-time dance music, will provide the music, and the ladies’ committee have the supper arrangements in hand.

The Hawke’s Bay amateur boxing provincial championships tournament will be held in the Drill Hall, Hastings, next Thursday night. On the showings of the amateurs will depend their chances of representing the province at the New Zealand amateur championships tourney to be held at Palmerston North later jn the month.

There was a decrease of 219 on the previous week in the number of unemployed registered in New Zealand for the week ended last Monday, according to a statement by the Minister of Labour, the Hon. S. G. Smith, yesterday. The week’s total was 5360.

Cr. A. H. D. Mayne has given notice that he will move at the fortnightly meeting of the Napier Borough Council the following resolution:—“That a return be furnished monthly to the Mayor and councillors showing under the various headings the expenditure for the month as compared with the estimates fixed for the current year.”

“Although the market prices have been considerably lower this year than the previous season, yet the increase in production in the Dominion will, to a certain extent, compensate for the lower butter-fat prices," says the twenty-second annual report of the Shannon Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd.

The Karamu-Kahuranaki “500” tournament and old-time dance on Tuesday night, resulted as follows:— Cards: Ladies, Miss K. Laredo 1, Mrs. Pine 2; gentlemen, Mr. Heyward and Mr. Low (tie) 1. The aggregate prizes were won by Mrs. Ashworth and Mr. Overend. Tuesday next is the commencement of a further series. The Monte Carlo was won by Miss B. Symes and Mr. Marquand.

According to a Wanganui exchange, pending Police Court proceedings, there will involve an appeal to the Treaty of Waitangi in relation to its reservation to the Maoris of certain sources of food supplies. This will be the first occasion of invoking the treaty in those parks, where the Natives feel that their rights are being more and more over-ridden in the interests of acclimatisation societies and itinerant anglers and shooting parties.

Notice was given in the House of Representatives yesterday of intention to introduce the following bills:— Local Elections and Polls Amendment Bill (Mr. J. McCombs), Hawke’s Bay County Empowering Bill (Mr. H. M. Campbell). The following bills wore introduced and read the first time:— Auckland City and Motuihi Empowering Bill (Mr. M. J. Savage), Invalid Pensions Bill (Mr. J. O'Brien). The Bent Restriction Bill was reported from the Legislative Council without amendment.

A school teacher, with a B.A. degree, Charles Edward Bradman, alias Jackson, was sentenced at Auckland to twelve months’ imprisonment for a series of false pretences in Cambridge, Auckland and Whangarei. His counsel said that Bradman, through a small offence, had lost his Government employment, then fell back on his musical talents to make a living, but was unemployed again through the advent of the talkies — Press Assn.

The English mail which missed the Niagara at Vancouver on her) last voyage reached Auckland yesterday morning on the American steamer Golden Coast. She carried 400 bags of mail from the United States. Thirty-seven bags of this consignment should have reached Auckland by the Niagara on July 14th. They had been carried from England to New York on the Berengaria, but missed the Niagara connection at Vancouver. The Golden Coast is one of the vessels subsidised by the United States Government to carry mails to Now Zealand.

Every important local body in the Wairarapa district was represented in a deputation which waited on the Primo Minister, Hon. G. W. Forbes, yesterday with a request that the present railway over the Rimutakas should be replaced by a tunnel deviation, calculated to cut eight miles off the mountain route. The Prime Minister said the question of the deviation would be considered by the railway commission. A note had been taken of the deputation’s representations and it would be sent to the commission.

There is no chance of increased capitation allowances to school committees this year, according to a reply by the Prime Minister, Hon. G. W. Forbes, to a deputation which waited upon him yesterday. Mr. Forbes said the shape of the country’s finances would not permit of a further grant for the purpose. The Minister of Education, Hon. H. Atmore, said the whole question was one of finance. A total of £50,000 was required, but the reorganisation to be brought about as a result of the Education Committee’s report would make more money available. No promise, however, could be given.

August, which starts to-day, was originally known as Sextilis, and was the sixth month in the pre-Julian Roman year. Its present name was given to it in honour of the Emperor Augustus. The preceding month, formerly known as Quintilis, had been given the name of July after Julius Caesar, and Augustus decided to have the month of Sextilis re-rhristened in his own honour, because of the great good fortune that had happened to him during that particular period of the year. July, however, contained thirty-one days, whereas August contained only thirty, so in order that August might not bo, deemed in nny way inferior to July, an extra day was added to it.

The Samoan Immigration Order, 1930, was gazetted last night, and comes into operation on August 11 next.

The executive of the Auckland Primary Schools Association passed a resolution that the recommendations of the Atmore report in the direction of centralising control are not in the best interests of education, and will discourage the valuable services now rendered by school committees and householders.—Press Assn.

Sentence qf four months’ imprisonment and the cancellation of his driver’s license for five years was imposed on John Joseph Evans, a farm hand aged 22. in the Supreme Court at Palmerston North to-day, accused being found guilty of intoxication while in charge of a car, and by an act of omission causing bodily injury to Alfred Hickey. The case is the sequel to the accident on Mt Stewart, when Evans’ car collided with Hickey’s motor-cycle, Hickey subsequently dying—(Press Association.)