LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 240, 29 September 1930, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Small American. Australian and English mails are due at Hastings at midday to-morrow.

The New Zealand fishing season, with the exception of that in the thermal regions will open on Wednesday next.

The N.Z. Shipping Co. are in receipt of advice that the Rangatane sailed from Southampton for Auckland on September 26.

The Jewish Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) will commence at sunset on Wednesday of this week. The fast will extend until sunset on Thursday.

Four hours’ rain .fell at Lake Coleridge yesterday and the level of the lake was maintained during the week-end. The economy measures still continue, and Christchurch is without street lights at night (Press Association.)

At tho Hastings Police Court tomorrow several charges will be preferred against motorists. They inclue one of speeding, one of driving at a speed dangerous to the public, fout of having motors without lights, and one of driving a car without a tail-light.

To bo used for tho erection of homes for married blind people two and threequarter acres of land have been given to tho Jubilee Institute for the Blind at Auckland. The gift has filled a long-felt want, states the annua! re port of tho institute, as such cases had hitherto been prevented from coming to the institute because of the difficulty of obtaining housing for their wives and families. Valuable ideas for the work and welfare of the blind have been brought back by the Director of tho Jubiless Institute for the Blind, Mr Clutha N. Mncaeiizie, who has recently spent some tine in inspecting institutions for the blind in England. The result lias been most gratifying, states tho annual report of tho institute, nnd tho director’s efforts arc much appreciated by the board.

Provided tho weather is fine, tho Hastings Croquet Club will open tho season on Wednesday when a large attendance of players is expected.

To-night at 8 o’clock, at Takapau, Mr W. Tucker, Reform candidate for the Waipawa seat will address the electors. The Rt. Hon J. G. Coates, Leader of the Opposition, will also speak. To-morrow meetings will be hold at Pukahu, at 6.30 p.m., and at Raukawa, at 8 p.m.

A grand benefit social and dance (old time and modern) will be held in the Clive Public Hall on Wednesday next. Walden’s Orchestra will supply the music. Nash cars will run from Hastings and Napier, returning after the dance.

Mr A. E. JuU United candidate for the Waipukurau seat, will address the electors in the Waipukurau Theatre to-night at 8 o’clock, and to-morrow he will speak at Hntuma, at 6.45 p.m., and at Otane at 8 p.m.

The Government seaplane, Cutty Sark, piloted by Squadron-Leader L. M. Isitt, loft New Plymouth for tho Hobsonvillo base, Auckland, yesterday. It hud been delayed at New Plymouth for several, days owing to rough weather.

Tho Hastings Free Kindergarten will hold a “shop” on Saturday, October 11. “Kindergarten Day.” The locality will bo advertised inter. Cakes, sweets, produce and flowers will be sold, and there will be a Fran tub for the children.

Tho Hastings Chamber of Commerce invites members and others interested to attend an address by Mr James Fletcher, of Auckland, at the H.B. Jockey Club rooms, Hastings tonight at 8 o’clock. The suoject will be “Certain Phases of the Economic Position in New Zealand To-day.”

The bakehouse and shop of the Star Bakery, Heretaunga street, Hastings, which caught fire on Saturday last, were insured for £7OO in the United Insurance Co. The insurance on the stock and fittings is not yet available. The brigade wishes to thank Mr. T McGuire for the light refreshments provided.

Never have the prospects tor a successful fishing season been more bright in South Canterbury than they are at present, in the opinion of close observers of tho rivers and streams in the district. Fish in goodly numbers and condition have of late been seen in all tho rivers. The absence of heavy floods during the winter months, has had the effect of bringing the fish up th’e streams steadily with tho result that tho waters everywhere are well stocked. ,

Although she has given up the idea, temporarily at. any rate, of swimming Cook Strait, Miss Lily Coppiestone has planned a full summer of long-dis-tance attempts. Her first will be a swim down the Waikato River from Cambridge. She hopes to make at least 30 miles, and expects to bo in tho water for' seven or eight hours. The swim is to take place early in December. At Christmas time Miss Copplestone will swim from Tauranga to tho Mount, a sea swim of three miles.

It is expected that there will be a very strong display of pedigree Friesian dairy cattle at the Royal Show at Hastings. The loading Auckland Friesian breeders are sending teams, and competition will bo keen throughout. In the mature bull classes such grout show-ring winners as Hanley Netherland Bvttorhoy, 1929 Royal champion, Hobson Ensign Pontine, 1928 Roval champion, Posch of Oakview, Franklin Show champion, 1930 will bo competing.

A reminder is given to intending exhibitors in tho stock classes, viz.: horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs, at tho Royal Show, that entries for these classes close on Wednesday, October 1. For tho special convenicnco of country exhbitors, tho secretary Mr A. M. Retemeyer. will be in attendance at Mr F. C. Wilkinson’s office, Queen street, Hastings, to-day, and on Tuesday and Wednesday for tho purpose of receiving entries.

In the course of his annual review of the activities oi the Waipukurau Chamber of Commerce, the retiring president (Mr. A. C. Holms) stated that there had been an average attendance of 20 members at the monthly gatherings of the newlyformed Luncheon Club, under a rotary system of chairmanship. Brief addresses had been delivered on the respective occasions by Messrs I{. McLean (Mayor), H. W. C. Baird (Hastings), N Kettle (president of the Napier Chamber of Commerce) and J S McLeod (president of the Hastings Chamber), being highly appreciated. The membership of the Chamber, with which the club is incorporated, now totals 90.

“People who take life with any degree of responsibility cannot be indifferent to the spread of .ho cocktail habit,” said the Rev J. R. Blanchard (Wellington) in tho course of an address to a meeting of tho League of Mothers at Greytown. Mr Blanchard declared that many young men and women were being embarrassed by hostesses who provided cocktails and did not provide soft drinks ns an alternative. They were being made to feel unsociable if they did not accept. Hostesses who allowed that sort of thing were comnrtting an offence against the courtesy which was due from them to their guests and were acting in a manner highly unworthy of tho requirements of sociability.

Entries arc coming in apace for the stock section of tho Royal Show, although one or two animals which would have lent interest to this section will not be included. Mr J. W. Harding, Mount Vernon, has had tho misfortune to lose his champion Clydesdale mare Alma a frequent winner in the best company, Alcssrs McNicol, and Co., Cambridge, also reports a loss of one of their best draughts. However, notwithstanding those defections, there is every prospect of the Clydesdale section being a really outstanding one. In every other stoek section too, numbers and quality both seem certain to be higher. The secretary, Mr A. lit. Rotcmeyor, will bo in attendance at Mr F. C. Wilkinson’s office, Queen street. Hastings, to-day. to-morrow and on Wednesday' for tho purpose of receiving entries nnd subscriptions. Entries, of course, can also be made nt the Hawke’s Bay' Agricultural and Pastoral Society’s office, Church Lane, Napier

The Maunganui, from Wellington, arrived in Sydney at 7 o’clock this morning.

An increase in the retail price of petrol, making first grade 2s a gallon, is expected in Christchurch on October Ist. —Press Association.

At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association, at Christchurch, a notice of motion to increase the fees of the directors from £lOOO to £l5OO was defeated by an overwhelming majority after a keen discussion.

A further adjournment was granted this morning at Now Plymouth till October 14th of the hearing of the charge of manslaughter against Abraham Wally Mahoned Salamtm, on the application of counsel for the defence.—Press Association.

The rep. Rugby match, Taranaki v. Wellington at Wellington on Saturday marked the finest of the. playing career of 0. G. Porter. Questioned by a reporter as to whether he would be taking part in club football, he replied in the negative; ho would, however, take an active interest in the game.—Press Association.

Tho third round for tho E. R. White Cup was played on tho Takapau rinks on Saturday, the cup going to tho player with the best two net scores out of the three rounds. A tic resulted between A. Bayliss, 76—70, and S. F. Stevens, 77—09, the next best scores being G. Hodges. 76—71. The final in-ter-club match of the season will ba played on the Takapau links on Satur day against Mount Herbert, Waipukurau.

A quantity cf American mail for New Zealand which ordinarily would have reached Wellington last Monday by the Tahiti, which foundered on the way to America, was brought by the American steamer Golden Cloud. The Golden Cloud arrived at Auckland yesterday from Los Angeles. The mail totalled 612 bags. The usual United States Government subsidy paid to the shipping company in respect to the mail was £2BOO, which works out at £4 11/6 a bag.

Tho Black Orpington hen Te Kawau Princess, which broke all the world's records m tho Normanby egg-laying competitions by laying 361 hardshelled eggs in 365 days, has been sold to an American fancier. Advice has been received by Mrs M. Waddell that the fancier with whom she has bcm negotiating has accepted her terms. Tno price for the hen is £125 and Mrs Waddell has also agreed to sell a cockerel from this hen for £25. Both figures are f.o.b. Auckland next March.