LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 302, 5 December 1931, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Dancers are reminded of the dance to be held in the Trades Hall, Hastings, to-night. There will be good music, and supper will be provided. A meeting of the Freezing Workers’ Union will be held to-morrow (Sunday) at 2 o’clock in the Hastings Trades Hall. Mr A. McLeod, of Wellington, will be present. In an endeavour to give as much work as possible to unemployed men before Christmas, the Napier Commission is at present working upon a scheme to assl-t owners of sections in the business area of Napier to clear away the debris which has remained there since the earthquake. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday of next week the Misses Eleanor Adkins and Elizabeth Matheson will hold a sale of artistic china, metal and leather work at the “Sign of the Unicorn,” opposite the War Memorial, Havelock North. Those who have attended these sales before know that they can expect wares of an unusual, beautiful and useful nature. A rumour which has been circulated in the South Island that the Post and Telegraph Employees’ Association had carried by postal ballot a motion in favour of expending £lOOO upon propaganda of a political nature, and that the money had been used to support Labour candidates was denied yesterday by the general secretary of the association (Mr J. H. McKenzie). The Hawke’s Bay Rehabilitation Committee is to hold its next meeting to deal with applicants for assistance under the Hawke’s Bay Earthquake Act on Tuesday Week, December 15. It is expected by the chairman of the committee, Mr. J S. Barton, that at the meeting the largest number of applications yet before a single meeting of the committee will be considered and sittings will have to be held both day and night to complete the work within ii,j wuek.

The Niagara, from Auckland, arrived at Sydney at 5 a.m. to-day.—Press Assn. The Hawke’s Bay County Council notifies that the Redclyffe bridge will be closed for repairs to all traffic on Monday, December 7, and onwards, from 6 p.m. to 4 a.m. until further notice. At the Napier Court thia morning, before Mr A. M. Mowlem, S.M., William Taylor, charged with drunkenness and resisting the police, was convicted and sentenced to one month’s imprisonment. The first Wellington wool sale of the 193132 season will open in the Town Hall at 9 o’clock next Tuesday morning, December 8. The limit set by the New Zealand Wool Committee for the sale was 30,000 bales, but the maximum quantity offering is expected to be slightly over 24,000 bales. “I had occasion recently to ask some college boys to name the twelve Apostles,” said the Rov. J. Lawson Robinson in the course of his sermon at Christchurch on Sunday. “It was amazing to find that most of them could not get past Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.” Five planes left Wellington to-day for Palmerston North, where an air display is being held. The pilots are Messrs G. D. M. Goodwin, O. M. Duthie, E. Lloyd, E. J. Scotlann and S. R. Meachem. Mrs Goodwin accompanied her husband, and the secretary of the Wellington Aero Club, Mr A. W. Nisbet, accompanied Mr Duthie. A quantity of timber, believed to be the remains of a forest buried jos ago, was unearthed by a machine-dig-ger which was being used in connection with sewer excavation at Sackville street, New Plymouth. The timber is well preserved and of small dimensions at the depth reached. When dried it burnt with a strong sulphurous smell. A little girl aged eight years was badly bitten and mauled by an Alsatian dog at Lower Hutt a few days ago. The child was so severely injured that she had to be operated on at once. The dog is stated to have torn her arm, tho muscles of which were hanging from tho arm. Her car was also badly bitten. Tho associated architects, Napier, notify intending tenderers that the time for the receipt of tenders for the reinstatement of two wards and special services block at Napier for the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board has been extended, and will now close at noon on Wednesday, December 9, with Messrs. C. Tilleard Natusch and Sons, Dickens street, Napier, representing the associated architects. That rabbits are definitely established on mauy properties from Patea up to and including Otakeho, near Opunake, was the news conveyed by Mr. H. R. Denize, district stock inspector for the Department of Agriculture, in a letter reporting to the South Taranaki branch of the Farmers’ Union. Tho report was definite confirmation of isolated statements and rumours that have persisted in South Taranaki recently. “The historic sympathies as well as the interests of the Irish people call for reliance on the principles of right and justice rather than armed force. Now they have the opportunity to help a great effort to reduce the instruments of war and to promote international justice and peace.” In these words the League of Nations Society of Ireland concludes an appeal to Irishmen in New Zealand to give their wholehearted support to the world-wide movement for reduction of armaments. An interesting arrival at Auckland about the end of January will be the Finnish full-rigged ship Grace Harwar, which is on her way from Seychelles Islands to Auckland with about 3000 tons of phosphates for discharge at that port. It is very seldom that a large sailing vessel is seen at Auckland. The last “wind-jammer” to visit that port was the Finnish four-masted barque Olivebank, which arrived from Seychelles Islands on December 20, 1928. A sale of work in aid of church funds will be opened in the Hastings Baptist Schoolroom on Thursday, December 10, at 2 p.m. The stalls will be replete with goods marked at prices to ensure a quick clearance. The produce stall will include supplies of lamb and dressed poultry, and the jumble stall will be laden with articles for bargain buyers. A Christmas tree will cater for the children, afternoon tea will be provided. Musical items and competitions will take place in the evening. Contributions of all kinds gladly received, and will be called for by ringing ’phone 2167. “It is not necessary to have elaborate equipment for the acquiring of knowledge. What is required essentially is the will to learn,” said Professor J. Collie, M.A., Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, when speaking to the boys of Scots College yesterday. “This,” he continued. “overcomes other deficiencies and triumphs over various hindrances. Instance of this is found in the past, where boys without the modern facilities were able to attain to great heights of educational equipment and to serve tho world through this with efficiency.” “I have been offering eight shillings a day for farm labour, and nobody wants it,” said a Marton farmer to a Wellington reporter yesterday. The farmer said he could give employment without found at the rate of one shilling an hour, and a man could thus easily earn £2 a week. Unemployed men seemed to prefer to take their chances of getting two or three days’ work in the city, even if their weekly earnings did not total £2 a week. “As soon as the men who say they want work hear that the offer is one shilling an hour they retire,” said the fanner. “With the prices I am getting for my produce I cannot offer more. I object to paying unemployment tax when a man turns down £2 a week.” There is a most absurd rumour going the rounds of the district that a substantial reward will be given for the capture of the white butterfly that appears to be very prevalent this year. This morning the Department of Agriculture in Hastings was inundated with enquiries from children and even grown-up people as to how many butterflies had to be captured to secure a motor car. Several youngsters, when they were told that there was nothing in the rumour, became very upset and shed tears. Judging by the quantities of butterflies brought in by some of the boys, it is evident that they must have spent many hours on this wild butterfly chase. The Department of Agriculture state that there is absolutely no truth in the rumour that any reward whatsoever is being offered for these butterflies

A dance will bo held i* the ‘ ‘ Favourite’ ’ Hall to-night. Les Henry* s orchestra will play. Tho new floating dock for Wellington is reported to be off the Australian coast, some way past the port of Towns. Ville. It should soon be possible to estimate the date on which it will arrive in Wellington. “I do not claim that, if elected, I would be the perfect member,” said Miss Ellen Melville, woman’s candidate for Auckland East, in her final address to electors. “It is remarkable how many people expect perfection in ai woman candidate, when they will support almost any kind of man. For some reason they expect a woman to be a combination of archangel and encyclopaedia, and I claim to be neither.*' “Counsel for tho plaintiff has drawn a rather lurid picture for you," observed His Honour Mr. Justice Blair in summing up at the Supreme Cburt at Blenheim, in an action for damages arising out of a motor accident, reporta an exchange. “He has suggested to you that this man lay in the hospital for three months, and was racked by pain day after day, but it may not have been quite so bad as that, for we all know that some of these nurses do come along and Booths your fevered browl” The aversion of Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., of Christchurch, to the use of slang in the Court was well illustrated one day this week. On several occasions he pleaded ignorance of the meaning of expressions used by witnesses. “I was cleaning up the joint and found the bottles,” said one defendant. “Joint?” echoed Mr. Mosley. “Joint of beef, joint of meat, or what?” “The place, you know,”, amended defendant. The puzzled look left Mr. Mosley’s face and gave place to a smile. Again a little later the same defendant made another slip, but corrected himself just as Mr. Mosley was about to intervene. “I was caught in a pub, under age,” he said. “I mean an hotel.” A woman witness found that the expression, “nicking apples,” conveyed nothing to the Bench. “Nicking?” repeated Mr. Mosley several times. “Yes, stealing, you know,” came the explanation.