LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 214, 24 August 1931, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The Hastings District Scots ’ Society will hold an ingleside in the “Favourite” Hall this evening.

Dancers are asked to keep in view the ball to entertain the visiting Wellington hockey team on Thursday next.

The Earthquake Rehabilitation Committee is to sit, commencing on September 8, and will consider all claimJ that are ready and right for hearing from Hastings and Napier.

Sixty-eight divorce petitions were set down for hearing in the Supreme Court at Auckland last Thursday, and about 50 of these were disposed of by Mr. Justice Herdman and Mr. Justice Smith.

The opinion that, in the future, not only would the standard of a nation’s culture be judged from its books and its works of art, but also from the quality of its national broadcasting, was expressed by Mr. J. E. Strachan at a meeting in Christchurch. He said that, in a few years, by listening to the material broadcast from a nation’s stations, a fair idea of the standard of culture of the nation would be obtained. M?. Strachan is a pioneer radio experimenter and has, since the earliest days of broadcasting,' taken a keen interest in that subject.

A rather sensational motor smash occurred at the corner of Heretaunga street and Gray’s road at about 8.30 o’clock this morning when a car driven by Mr. L. Bone, in attempting to avoid a collision with a motor-van, carried away the verandah posts of the baker’s shop On the corner. It appears that the van was on the southern side of the street and that it swerved to the left to go into Gray’s road or else to turn. Mr. Bone was driving into town, and, seeing that a collision was inevitable, he attempted to turn to his left and get clear. He struck the verandah posts, however, and the verandah completely collapsed to the ground. Mr. Bone was not injured, but his car was damaged to some extent.

According to th# annual report of the Manawatu Aero Club, that club proposes to hold a pageant during the coming spring, and there is every possibility that the New Zealand Air Force will co-operate in making the event a worthy and well-organised exhibition of modern aircraft manoeuvres.

Keen inquiry for invitations for the South Island re-union and dance to be held in Hastings on Wednesday, September 2, is reported by Mr. Jas. W. Shaw, hon. secretary. Acceptances from Wairoa to Waipukurau and Takapau gives some indication how the annual re-union promises to be a bigger success than ever. Although the committee has reduced the price of the tickets to meet the times the dance will be run as in the past and there will be the best of everything.

James Thomas Toomey, aged 85, a clerk employed by the Postal Department, was charged to-day at Christchurch with the theft of £34, the property of the Postmaster-General. Accused was remanded to September 1. The police said that the sum involved was £4OO altogether, but it was not known if Toomey was concerned in all that amount. Bail was allowed in £2oo.—Press Association.

For its size, Hawera must be one of the most musical towns in the Dominion. It has three school bands and orchestras, a junior band of boys, a brass band, an orchestral society of 70 performers, and a male choir. Borne measur of this town’s musical standards may be gauged by the fact that Mendelssohn’s “Hymn of Praise” has been given there by a choir of 100 voices with full symphony orchestra.

The Wilhelmsen line motor vessel Temeraire arrived at Napier and anchored in the roadstead at four o’clo-’t yesterday afternoon to discharge cargo from the Continent and hardwood from Western Australia. She arrived from Lyttelton, and was to have berthed at the Breakwater, but owing to her deep draught, it was decided that she proceed to Auckland to discharge there, and then return to Napier. She accordingly sailed again at 10 o’clock last evening, and is expected to arrive at Napier again about Wednesday. Local authorities finance will be materially assisted by the decision of the Main Highways Board to increase the maintenance subsidy on roads. Following a conference with Mr. F. W. Furkert. chairman of the board, the Prime Minister stated that the board would increase the maintenance subsidy to £3 to £l, compared with the present £2 to £l. This has been decided on on account of the difficulties of local bodies in collecting rates and the realisation that roads must not be allowed to go back. “Long faces are becoming just as fashionable as long dresses,’’ said Canon Percival James in the course of his sermon at St. Paul’s ProCathedral, Wellington, last evening. “So far from going about with gloomy countenances, our faces should be wreathed in smiles,” he added. “ ‘Count it all joy when you find your selves beset by various trials,’ St. James tells us. Instead of bemoaning our common lot we should be congratulating each other on the opportunity for showing our mettle. I wish we could rule out the word ‘depression.’ ”