LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 303, 7 December 1931, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

From to-day until further notice the Rcdcliffo Bridge will be closed daily from 6 p.m. till 4 a.m., as repairs are being made to tho structure. A. sale of work will be held in the Hastings Baptis 1 Schoolroom next Thursday. The stalls will include plain, fancy and art work, cakes, lollies and flowers. The catalogue of wool to be offered at the first Wellington sale for the season, to be held in the Town Hall to-morrow, comprises 23,268 bales, as compared with 17,19-1 bales at the corresponding sale last year. The over-popular Frivolity Minstrels will give a concert in the Havelock North Village Hall to-night, in aid of the school funds. The Frivs. have practised a completely new programme for this performance and the 40 artists should be given a rousing reception. Tc..ders for the reinstatement of tw« wards and special services block at Napier for the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board now close at noon en Wednesday, December 9, with Messrs. C. Tilleard Natusch and Sons, Dickens street, Napier, acting for the associated architects, Napier.

All persons still in possession of web belts, loaned after the earthquake, are asked to return them immediately to the Drill Hall, Hastings. The 1931 whaling season, on the North Auckland coast closed last week. During the winter and summer operations carried out from the base at Whangamumu 53 whales were captured. The catch this year was very good compared with the last few seasons, and the whales were in good condition. Great interest was evinced by many local owners of radio sets who heard the broadcast from Napier Wesleyan Methodist Church last evening, in the solo rendered by Miss Dorothy Symonds, who sang Liddle's “Abide With Me.’’ The rendering was beautiful, and the reception exceptionally good. Next Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Unicorn, opposite the Havelock North War Memorial, the Misses Eleanor Adkins and Elizabeth Matheson will hold a sale of china, metal and leather ware. The fine work of these two ladies is well known, and the public should be there in large numbers. Eleven dairy cows out of a herd of 43, the property of Mrs Chalmers, of Horahora, were found electrocuted on Friday morning as a result of a hightension line breaking. The cows were turned out on Thursday night, and everything appeared in order on Friday until the eleven carcases were found lying in a paddock. The Napier-Gisborne main highway will be closed to all traffic between the top of the Elbow and the Tutira Post Office for bridge repairs for approximately one week from to-day (December 7th). Traffic must detour via Dark'-’s Spur, turning off at Kaiwaka Road (top of Elbow) in the south and Tutira Post Office in the north. At Saturday’s _ meeting of the Hawke's Bay branch of the Farmers’ Union it was resolved to nominate Mr. J. H. J oil as a member of the Howard Estate Ad—' Boar' 1 wa nointed out that the Dannevirke branch had already nominated Mr. J. Livingstone, but the opinion of tho meeting was that tho union should be represented by a Hastings mcmbei. The centenary of the Great Roman Catholic charity, the Order of the Sisters of Mercy, falls next Saturday. The occasion will be celebrated by Catholic gatherings in New Zealand. The order was founded in Dublin by Mother Mary Catherine McAuley, on December 12. 1831. Pioneers of the Sisters of Mercy arrived in New Zealand in 1850. The Hastings Citizens’ Band delighted a big crowd at Queen’s Square last evening, when an open-air recital was given. This is the first of what will be a series of concerts given throughout the summer months. The band was in excellent form, and a splendid selection of music was rendered under the baton of Conductor C. Bryant, every item meeting with tho appreciation of the crowd. The sum ef £4 3/8 was collected during the evening. Although the license of the Radio Broadcasting Company of New Zealand expires within a few weeks, no announcement has yet been made regarding the constitution of the Broadcasting Board, which is to assume control The radio listeners’ organisations recently received a communication from the Post and Telegraph Department asking for the submission of the names of persons to act on the local advisory committees which are to be established. Four charitable bequests totalling £3OO are contained in tho will of the late Mr T. J. Bush, who died in Wellington on November 19. A sum of £lOO is bequeathed to the vicar and churchwardens of St. Peter’s Church. Willis street, for the rebuilding fund. A similar sum goes to the directors of the Wellington Masonic Hall Ltd., for general purposes, and amounts of £5O are to be paid to the Lovin Memorial Home, Berhampore, and to St. Mary’s Home, Karori. The following telegram has been sent by Mr. W. E. Barnard, M.P., to the Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Downie Stewart: — “There is grave discontent here over the work of the Rehabilitation Committee. I have conferred with numerous business people and also with the Napier ” Committee. At their request, I invite you to visit Napier next week to view the ruined business area and to receive representations. I would urge that you do so if possible, as the earthquake problem affecting Napier can only bo fully appreciated by personal inspection. ’ ’ An unusual mishap occurred to Captain McGregor, of Hamilton, the wellknown aviator, while stunting over Pahiatua He had just done two loops and a turn at 3000 feet and started on a downward spin when interested spectators below him saw a shower of dark objects fall from the aeroplane. The lid had flown off his tool box and its contents, spanners, a grease gun, a helmet rope and tarpaulin had fallen out. The objects came to earth in gardens and on the roofs of houses all over the north end of the town, and a telephone wire in Main street was severed by a falling spanner. Captain McGregor was on his way to the airdisplay at Palmerston North and spent the night at Pahiatua. A novel and extremely interesting Christinas card has been issued by tho staff and pupils of tho Hastings High School. It consists of an eight-page illustrated folder containing seventeen small pictures of scenes immediately aftei the earthquake and during tho months since. Nearly ail the pictures have Sptoal reference to >:«e school itself and to its eff .Tts to carry oc under the emergency conditions ti nt it has been subjected to since February 3. One set of pictures consists of illustrations taken within the first week or two after the earthquake, tho second consists of pictures taken in and about the marquees and tin sheds, and tho third set show's scenes of more or less normal activities at the school.