WAIPUKURAU

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 279, 9 November 1931, Page 5

WAIPUKURAU

NEWS AND NOTES. (Special Representative.) The Wapukurau Town Band played a very enjoyable programme in the main street on Saturday night, creating a very welcome interlude in the evening’s shopping activities. For displaying in the Municipal Theatre during the patriotic shopping campaign this week a fine array of Empire Marketing Board posters has been received, also matter suitable for uso by shopkeepers who have linked up with the window feature. The official cards have been issued to some 50 shopkeepers and involve 75 windows for special inspection. The fire alarm sounded on Saturday in Waipukurau was in consequence of a hedge becoming ablaze, between the home of Mr H. Sargisqn and the District High School, in Hinemoa Terrace. The Fire Brigade quelled the outbreak, but 30ft. of the hedge was destroyed.

The N.Z. Manufacturers’ Federation has advised that a donation of £5 will be available for the N.Z. goods window display competition, the awards being £2 10/- first prize, £1 10/second, and £1 third. Definite entries for the N.Z. window display are required to be in the hands of the hon. secretary (Mr H. B. Smart) to-day. The other window display attraction is a N.Z. and British Empire one.

Under the auspices of the Hawke’s Bay and East Coast Aero Club a series of flights with British aeroplanes is to be held this week, commencing on Tuesday. It is noticeable that in anticipation of the New Zealand and Empire Shopping Week, a number of shopkeepers are paying attention to the removal of grass, etc., in the vicinity of their premises, and are, generally, endeavouring to make the town presentable for the occasion. The Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union lias arranged a temporary rest room in premises adjacent to the theatre and opposite the Memorial Park Gates. The rooms will be under the supervision of .Mrs Staines and will be open to the public from to-morrow. Children will be cared for and parcels may be left. A cup of tea will be available at a small charge. The sacred cantata “Daniel,” which was presented here by the choir of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church recently, with conspicuous success, was enjoyed by a large congregation assembled in the Presbyterian Church at Hatuma yesterday. Arrangements in connection with the displaying of school ess t ays in the theatre were left in the hands of Mrs Cook at the recent meeting of the N.Z. and Empire Week organisation. Other displays will include Maori, Women’s Institute, Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union, Angora rabbit, Marketing Board poster features. It was reported that Mrs J. K. Lee had undertaken to give an all-British cooking exhibition in the theatre on Wednesday afternoon. The secretary of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Association has advised having arranged with the Department of Industries and Commerce to have five films forwarded to Waipukurau for screening during the present N.Z. and Empire Shopping W’eek festival. The Rev. Canon E. D. Rice, who, with Mrs Rice, returned early last week from several mouths’ absence in Fiji, health-recruiting, conducted the holy and choral communion services in St.' Mary’s Anglican Church yesterday morning. Nurses Blair, Trotter and Dillon Waipukurau Hospital, and Nurses Higgins and Lunt, Waipukurau Hospital (previously of Napier Hospital), have been successful in passing the hospital final examinations. “I am inclined to think that, if it were not for the Chinaman, we would often be rather short of vegetables,” said Cr. J. H. Kibblewhite, at the meeting of the Waipukurau CountyCouncil on Saturday, when a letter from the White New Zealand League was under discussino. It was agreed that the chief objection was not to Chinese, hut' to other aliens. However, it was decided to support the League. “Central Hawke’s Bay has never shaken off its reputation for wealth,” said the chairman of the Waipukurau County Council (Mr A. C. Russell) at a meeting this morning, when it was mentioned by Cr. L. M. Monckton that the Waipukurau Hospital Board received a Govermnet subsidy of only 15/6, compared with one of £1 6/6 received by the Napier Hospital Board. “How are you going to get men to .work in the hot sun for 10/- a week, when the cook, who has the easy work, gets the award rate of £4 or £5? asked Cr. L. M. Monckton at the meeting of the Waipukurau County Council on Saturday, when single men’s camps were under discussion. “I don’t know about the cook having the easy job: He has to do his work, but the others can please themselves,” replied Cr. W. J. Edgecombe. The chairman (Mr A. C. Rusesll): “The trouble is that, if these men don’t get decent food, they’ll squeal!” Mr H. Baker, of Onga Onga, who has been receiving treatment at the Waipukurau Public Hospital for a poisoned hand, returned home during the week. The friends of Mrs C. Beuck (Onga Onga) will he pleased to know that she is progressing very favourably after her operation. Miss Morris, of Palmerston North, is at present staying in Onga Onga.