LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 279, 9 November 1931, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

A meeting of Labour Party supporters will be held in the committee rooms, Warren street, Hastings, tanight, at 8 o’clock.

The Defence Committee of the House of Representatives recommended on Saturday that the petition of Robert Foster Laing, Napier, who asked that he be awarded a war pension or compassionate allowance, be referred to the Government for consideration with a view to providing free medical treatment for the petitioner. An inscribed plate in recognition of services performed after the fiawke’s Bay earthquake on February 3 is to be presented to the steamer Northumberland in 'Wellington by the Navy League next Thursday. Plates have already been presented to H.M.S. Veronica and to the steamer Taranaki, which were at Napier when the earthquake occurred.

A grand entertainment by Havelock North and Maraekakaho ' performers will be given in the Havelock North Village Hall to-morrow (Tuesday), November 10, at 8 p.m., in aid of the funds of the Hawke’s Bay group of Toe H. The entertainment is a very fine one, and in -iew of the objects for which it is arranged, there should be a packed house.

A correspondent writes to the “Tribune” expressing thanks for giving him, in Saturday’s issue, particulars of the approximate cost of an election in New Zealand. He says that he is sure that the information will be of great use to many of our readers. The information given was that election expenses are expected to run up to about £71,500, exclusive of the many thousands that will have to come out of the pockets of the candidates and party funds.

A report was current in Napier last evening that one of the Hawke's Bay Aero Club’s planes made a bad landing at Waimarama yesterday and damaged a wing. There is no foundation whatever for this report. The plane was engaged in passenger flights and eight trips were made (luring the afternoon, after which the plane was flown back to the aerodrome. The club has a good landing ground at Waimarama, and passenger-flying there is very popular, the planes being piloted by the club’s own skilled and by now very experienced pilots.

The art union organised by the New Zealand Native Bird Protection Society, and drawn in the middle of September, yielded a profit of £13,500 for the society’! funds.

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Society will hold a cabaret to-morrow evening in the United Hall, Hastings. Members and their friends are invited.

A heavy setting of all varieties of fruit is reported by Gisborne growers. Stone fruit crops should be particularly heavy, while a record apple export is confidently anticipated. About the only exception is gooseberries, which may be in shorter supply than usual.

The Stamp Duties Amendment Bill, which institutes a duty of 5 per cent, on all overseas passenger fares, came into force last Thursday, when shipping companies were notified that all passages booked as from that day would be subject to the new duty.

A general meeting of all United and Reform supporters will be held in the Trinity Methodist Schoolroom, Clive Square, Napier, to-night, at 8 o’clock, to,appoint committees to further the candidature of the official Coalition candidate, Mr. J. S. Butler. A full attendance is requested.

Attention is drawn to the advertisement in to-day’s issue asking for the return of a lost cigarette case. There are special circumstances in regard to this matter, and it is hoped that anyone knowing the whereabouts of the missing property will make no delay in replying to the advertisement.

The Hastings High School Old Pupils’ Association will hold its annual meeting in the school at 7.30 p.m. on Thursday next, November 12. AU members are particularly requested to attend, and to bring along with them any old pupil who is not a member of the association.

Two masters of the Auckland Grammar School will take charge of the party of secondary school boys which is to leave New Zealand on December 28 for a four weeks’ tour of New South Wales and Victoria. Sydney, Melbourne, the Jenolan Caves, Canberra, and Newcastle will be visited.

On Sunday afternoon the Salvation Army band, under the baton of Bandmaster E. Sawyer, gave another of their musical treats to the patients and staff of the Hastings Memorial Hospital. Visitors and others who were present greatly appreciated the thoughtfulness of the Army band in providing an excellent programme of music. The extensive gardens of the hospital grounds are now in full bloom and are the admiration of the mauy visitors to the institution..

A tragic example of the results of an apparently harmless scratch from a nail has been provided by the death in the King George V. Hospital, Rotorua, of a child, Audrey Emily Jones, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mansel Jones, of Hinemoa street. The child apparently suffered a slight scratch from a nail and became infected with the germ of tetanus, which is stated to be particularly virulent in all thermal districts. The progress of the disease could not bo arrested, and on Monday the child succumbed.

The Hawke's Bay County Council to-day agreed to a request from the Hawke’s Bay Rivers Board that all plans of new bridges should be first submitted to the board before any further action was taken by the Council. Cr. N. P. Eriksen said that there was no doubt that the board was entitled to see all plans of bridges before they were built, because the board had control of the river. Cr. C. C. Smith agreed that such an action on the part of the council was only common courtesy.

Attaching a hose to the end of the exhaust pipe of his car, a Wanganui farmer inserts the other end of the hose in rat-holes and uses the gases from the running engine as an effective poison. In most cases the rats are not killed outright, but are so troubled by the fumes that they rush from the holes toward fresh air, Most of them are in a stupid condition, and are easily caught and killed by a fox terrier which watches the proceedings eagerly.

Further resort to reserve fund securities for general revenue purposes will be made by the Government, according to a section of the Finance Bill (No. 4), which was introduced in the House on Saturday. Under the Hawke’s Bay Earthquake Act of this year’s emergency session, the Minister of Finance was empowered to sell securities held in the London Reserve Fund for the purpose of providing up to £1,500,000 for the purposes of the Act. Section 4 of this year’s Finance Bill sets out that it is desirable to authorise the sale of the balance of the securities, and the Minister is empowered to transfer from the Reserve Fund Account to the Consolidated Fund a sum not exceeding £550,000.