LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 305, 9 December 1931, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

The balance-sheet of the Gear Meat Perserving Co. for the year ended November 30 was circulated yesterday, and a satisfactory feature is that the dividend of 10 per cent, is maintained out of profits. A motor collision occurred near Taradale yesterday, between a delivery van, and a lorry carrying wool. The delivery van ran into a ditch and sustained severe damage to the front wheels, whilst the lorry was also damaged. A schoolboys’ boxing tournament is being held at the Parkvale School, Hastings on Friday in the schoolgrounds and it should attract a large attendance of parents and boxing en thusiasta. The sport is becoming in creasingly popular among schoolboys and some very promising youngsters will be seen out in the ring. In ad. dition to those bouts, however, there will be exhibitions by well known amateur and professional boxers. With the completion of tno official count in., the Mid-Canterbury electorate, the Minister of Agriculture, Hon. D. Jones, has lost his seat by 136 votes. His position, however, is slightly different from that of an ordinary member of Parliament wh, loses his seat, for actually he will remain a member of th e Ministry until he formally resigns, although this action cannot bo delayed once the official count has been completed. Prominent officials of the P. and O. Company aro at present in New Zealand, and aro making a tour that will include calls at th e principal centres. The party includes Mr A. W. Gent, from the head office of the P. and O. Company in London; Mr W. Service, passenger superintendent of Messrs McDonald, Hamilton and Co., managing agents for the P. and O. Company for Australia and New Zealand, and Mr E. A. Lamb, passenger superintendent of Messrs Gilchrist, Watt and Sanderson, Ltd., managing agents for the P. and O. branch service. Mr C. N. Harbottle, passenger manager for the New Zealand Shipping Company, is conducting the party.

The funds of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind will benefit by over £lOOO as a result of the successful fair which concluded at Auckland on Saturday. The annual general meeting of the Hastings branch of tho League of Nations Union will be held in St. Matthew’s Hall to-morrow (Thursday), December 10, at 5.45. “Tip Toes’’ is the title given this year to the recital to be given by the pupils of the Max Studio of Dancing. The performance will be on December 15 in the Hastings Assembly Hall. All persons still in possession of web belts which were loaned by the Defence Department to the Relief Committee, are asked to return same not later than to-night to the Drill Hall. Hastings. The rehabilitation of Napier will be discussed at a meeting of the Wellington branch of the Town Planning Institute this evening. The chairman of the Rehabilitation Commission, Mr J. 8. Barton, S.M., will deliver an address on town-planning legislation as applied to Napier. A gang of workers are employed cleaning ditches, trimming hedges and cutting grass on the Havelock-Hastings road. More men could well be employed levelling the bumps on the deviation road, which carries a great amount of traffic pending the opening of the new bridge over the old Ngaruroro at Havelock. Motorists will learn with great satisfaction that the new bridge on the Hastings-Havelock road is to be open to vehicular traffic on Monday r Cyclists have been using the hr Ige for some days, and are appreciative of the fact that the necessity for climbing the paths up the banks is now obviated. The official opening has not yet been arranged. Manchester Unity Oddfellows and candidates for initiation are reminded that the Hastings Lodge will hold its next meeting at the United Hall, Lyndon road, on Thursday the 9th inst. at 7.30 p.m. Included in the business at this meeting will be the installation of officers. The following meeting, which falls on Christmas Eve, will be held on the 17th inst. Swimming enthusiasts in Hastings will be particularly interested in next Friday’s big carnival at the Maddison Baths, when the Rainbow Shield will be competed for. An excellent programme has been arranged, and it is certain that there will be many splendid contests. The carnival will begin at 8 p.m. and patrons should be, early to get seats. Some little time ago at the H.B. Farmers’ tea room a children’s party was given that proved a great success. Next Saturday evening tho “Farmers’’ will give another party —a ’Xmas party this time—at which the pupils of the Misses Grantham and Patston will take part and Mrs. Barley will sing. Tho party will begin at 7.30 o ’clock. The Wellington police have been advised of the detection of four forged Bank of New South Wales £1 notes which have been passed in shops in Auckland during last week. It is believed that the notes were some of thos e circulated in Auckland last April. They bear the same number, “E 931885,’’ and have the same differences from the genuine note. It is thought that a man, aged about 40, is circulating the notes. Tire Hastings Baptist annual sale of work will be held in the Baptist Schoolroom, Karamu road, to-morrow (Thursday), December 10, commencing at 2 p.m. The sale will continue until 10 p.m. There will be the usual stalls, details of which will be found in the advertisements. There will also be a Christmas tree for the children. In the evening there will be musical items and various competitions for which prizes will be given. In the Napier Magistrate’s Court yesterday, a claim for £lB for cases of wine alleged to have been sold on the day before the earthquake was brought by the New Masonic, Ltd., against J A. Gromann, a traveller, of Wellington. The defendant urged that he was not liable for payment on the grounds that delivery of the cases of wine had not legally been made to him by the plaintiff, because, up to the time of their being destroyed in the earthquake, the cases had not been nailed dow’n. Judgment was given for the plaintiff, however, for the sum of £l5, with costs, the Magistrate ignoring the technical point urged by the defendant in favour of the rules of equity and good conscience.