LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 306, 10 December 1931, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

The official count for the Hawke’s Bay electorate was commenced at the Hastings Courthouse this morning. The Maraekakaho Presbyterian Church will hold a "shop” in aid of its funds next Saturday in Market street. Vegetables and farm produce will be specialities on sale there. A dance in aid of the hall funds will be held at the Clive Hall this evening, "Nash” cars will leave Hastings and Napier for the hall, returning after the dance. A general meeting of shareholders of the Hastings Star-Bowkett Building Society will be held in the Chamber of Commerce rooms to-morrow (Friday), at 8 p.m., when appropriations amounting to £l5OO will be held, £lOOO of which is by ballot, free of interest. At the Hastings Magistrate’s Court, before Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., yesterday afternoon, Arthur Alfred Lambert claimed £27 10/- from David Ormond Smith, being balance allegedly due on sale of five cows. Judgment was given to plaintiff for the full amount claimed, with costs totalling £6 6/-. The fate of George Errol Coats, who was convicted of the murder of Phillis Avis Symons at Wellington on November 11, will not be finally decided until the death sentence'has been considered by the Governor-General. It is understood that the. final decision concerning the carrying-out of the sentence or its commutation to life imprisonment will be made within tho course of a few days. “The multitude of inspectors travelling about tho country, sometimes at cross purposes, is a great waste,” declared Colonel T. W. McDonald, at a meeting of the Wellington Education Board yesterday. Waste did not occur in tho Education Department alone, but in all departments of State, he said. He thought that there should be an investigation by a competent tribunal into the whole question of travelling inspectors nn<] expenses, Dr. J. W. M'llraitb. rhicf inspector, said that where ni-iiiev wrs at stake there must he solve mi'l ;>« New Zealand spent four •■■’"•<-n nrnnds on educat’tn aniiiie'ly it could not do without some check.

Since the paying out of reimbursement claims in connection with earthquake damage was begun on Tuesday, the Public Trust Office at Hastings has done fast work. Up till the time when the office closed yesterday afternoon, 330 claims totalling £5lOO had been paid out. On the first day there were 130 claimants for a total of £2lOO, and yesterday 200 claimants for a total of £3OOO. One woman voter, who was taken to a polling place in a motor-car at Palmerston North on election day, said that she enjoyed the ride very much. It was the first time that she had been in a motor-car for 18 months. Most of her time was taken up attending to the family, and she was having a hard struggle. The driver said he took the woman by the longest possible route he could find back to her home so as to give her the pleasure of an extra few minutes in the fresh air. Allegations that the Town Planning Board had been responsible for delay in the issuing of building permits at Napier were challenged by Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M., chairman of the Hawke'a Bay Rehabilitation Commission, in addressing the Wellington branch of thu Town Planning Institute last evening. Mr. Barton said the accusation was without foundation. In no case had the Town Planning Board been responsible for a day’s delay in the issue of a building permit. An interesting sidelight on the benefits of hydro-electric power was provided by a reference by Mr. 8. Teed in an address given to the New Plymouth Rotary Club. Lighting charges In Toronto were such that the accounts were so small that small tradesmen were not worried more often than every two or three months. The unit of power cost id, whereas in New Plymouth it was 6d. “That is something that might be looked into here,” he said.

Two young men appeared in the Stratford Court clad in rather striking blazers. The magistrate, Mr. R. W. Tate, viewed them with apparent disapproval but said nothing until an offender stepped forward without a coat. “Have you not a coat?” questioned Mr Tate. “I left it across at the shop,” was the reply. ‘ ‘ Then go and get it, ’ ’ Mr. Tate said. “There have been two men hero in extraordinarily vivid garments and now you come without a coat. ’ ’

Two young men appeared in the Stratford Court clad in rather striking blazers. The magistrate, Mr. R. W. Tate, viewed them with apparent disapproval but said nothing until an offender stepped forward without a coat. “Have you not a coat?” questioned Mr Tate. “I left it across at the shop,” was the reply. ‘ ‘ Then go and get it, ’ ’ Mr. Tate said. “There have been two men hero in extraordinarily vivid garments and now you come without a coat. ’ ’ “It was quite apparent that it would be nothing short of a crime to follow slavishly the old building lines in restoring Napier,” said Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M., chairman of the Hawke’s Bay Rehabilitation Commission, when addressing members of the Town-Plan-ning Institute in Wellington last evening. “The fact that rigjt through the business portion of the town we had an almost complete demolition of buildings, presented a unique opportunity for securing any improvements that involved the alteration of building lines, and a better lay-out.” Speaking of the helping or hindering of parents in regard to their children a story was told recently of a mother who went to see an educational authority about her boy. He was backward, and did not seem to get on or want to do things for himself. When they came in the mother took off the boy’s hat. Presently she took off his muffler, and then his overcoat. The authority said grimly (probably): “I suppose you take off his boots for him?” The mother replied cheerfully that she did, ! and the rejoinder -was: “And then she wondered that the boy was backword! ” ' A crisis in tramway finance was announced by the Mayor, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, at a special meeting of the Wellington City Council yesterday. He said that so far this financial year the loss was £13,000, and one of £20,000 fot the full year was threatened. To stem the drift the Mayor moved an increase from 3/- to 3/6 in the cost of the universal fare card, and said it was estimated to produce £12,000. After a long debate the moth a was carried by 8 votes to 7. Immediately afterwards a' rescinding motion was tabled by Cr. W. A. Appleton. Constant reference to “brown top” grass during the hearing of a farm dispute in the Supreme Court at Auckland led Mr Justice Smith to make inquiries about it. It was stated by a farmer witness and counsel that the seed of “brown-top” was largely used for lawns and for golf links. There used to be a substantial export of it from New Zealand to the United States, but that had been ended by the offering of a bounty for seed produced in the United States and the imposition of a duty on the imported product. A farmer who had had considerable experience of it said he had come to the conclusion that “brown-top” was not native to New Zealand, but was the acclimatised form of the English “red top.” It had very poor nutritive qualities, he said, and was very hard to eradicate. It would be impossible io maintain dairy cows on it. According to the London “Daily Mail,” Mr F. A. Mayer, one of the pioneers of short-wave and long-dis-tance telephony, talks to a friend in New Zealand every morning, the New Zealander replying in Morse, “as amateur telephony from that country is not allowed.” In order that the New Zealander could “hear himself,” Mr Mayer hit on the idea of recording the Morse in a gramophone recording machine, with a reproduction on the other side of his own voice translating the Morse. He then played the record over and broadcast it, so that the New Zealander was able to hear what his signals sounded like in England, together with Mr Mayer’s translation. “One pf the most interesting wireless experiments I have heard of for some time,” adds 1 the “Daily Mail” writer. The announcement of the annual dance recital of the combined Hastings and Napier classes of the Max Studio ; of Dancing and Physical Culture on 1 Tuesday next in the Assembly Hall, , Hastings, has already caused consid- , erable attention. Previous years’ pre- j sentations of the studio are remembered with pleasant recollections, and the production of “Tip Toes” will be well up to the standard of its predecessors. Ono of the most unusual and beautiful ballets included in “Tip Toes” is the Ice Carnival. Tiny Snowflakes, a wee • Snowball, the Spirit of Carnival, ice dancers with their muffs, etc,, and a speciality duo, all combine to make the ballet with its suitable Locking a most ( effective and graceful number. A very j clever Adagio duo is also to- be present- . ed, and the tap dance so much popularised bv American dancers, per medium of the picture screen, will also be demonstrated in a most attractive and * finished manner. Altogether the reci- I tai promises to be more entertaining i than usual. 1

“It was quite apparent that it would be nothing short of a crime to follow slavishly the old building lines in restoring Napier,” said Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M., chairman of the Hawke’s Bay Rehabilitation Commission, when addressing members of the Town-Plan-ning Institute in Wellington last evening. “The fact that rigjt through the business portion of the town wo had an almost complete demolition of buildings, presented a unique opportunity for securing any improvements that involved the alteration of building lines, and a better lay-out.”

Schoolboy “howlers” are not confined to primary school tests. The recent matriculation examination in New Plymouth produced a rather extraordinary answer to a question. The entrants were asked to describe Dickens ’ character Micawber. One bright youth boldly stated: “He was a wild man, inclined to bo savage. The Micawbers were a savage race who inhabited Ireland.” Gisborne is to lose an office of a Government department in the near future. The local office of the inspector of machinery is to be closed, and it is believed that the officer in charge, Mr W. J. White, will be transferred to Napier, which will be the headquarters for the Hawke’s Bay and East Coast districts, including the territory at present covered by the Gisborne office. Mr White is at present in Napier, engaged on the reorganisation work necessary in view of the change.—“P.B. Herald.” “The world buttons up its coat in fear when changes in the monetary system are suggested,” Dr. J. W. Mcllraith, senior inspector of schools, told tho members of the Wellington Education Board yesterday, when making a plea for more attention to be paid to the social sciences, as compared with the physical sciences. “We have students in abundance for the physical sciences,” said Dr. Mcllraith, but it was a question whether the educational system should not put more stress ®pon the social sciences. The world accepted every new invention, but wanted a public which would listen to the advice of exports in the social and economic sciences.