LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 35, 25 January 1932, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke’s Bay County Council rates unpaid after February 14 will bear an additional charge of 10 per cent. The St. Joseph’s Tennis Club extends a general invitation to a dance in the Hastings Trades Hall on Thursday evening. The New Zealand Shipping Company advise that their Royal Mail steamer Remuera arrived at Wellington at 7.45 p.m. on Sunday. Passengers for Napier arrive by to-night’s express. As March 26th is Easter Saturday, it has been decided to dispatch the Rangitiki from Wellington for London at noon on Thursday, March 24th. instead of Saturday. March 26th, as previously notified. Primary schools throughout the Hawke’s Bay Education Board’s district open for the present school year on Monday, February 1. The Hastings High School begins the school year on February 2. Yesterday’s excessive heat was responsible for a record attendance at the Havelock North swimming baths. Throughout the day crowds disported themselves in the water, which reached a temperature far above the average. For throwing a stone at a car in which Mr Thomas Andrews, manager of the Renown Collieries, was riding, R. I£. Lewis, a labourer, and one of the men included in the mine dismissals in December, was fined £3 at Huntly on Friday. The new bridge on the HastingsHavelock road is complete. Work on the sidewalk was finalised this morning. It is hoped that those interested in beautifying the banks in the vicinity will be able to go on with their scheme at an early date. “We prefer to go to perdition on our own horses, and in our own way, rather than be driven in a closed coach by the Treasury.’’ stated Mr LI. D. Acland. president of the New Zealand Federation, at Methv.en when criticising the establishment of the exchange pool. Advice lias been received from the Australian Insurance Institute, Melbourne, of the following passes by Napier students in the life branch of the 1931 examinations:—B. W. Burkitt, part 2, section (a), part 2, section (f); M. M. Arthur, part 1, section (b), part 1, section (c). “In my young days we were taught to grow only things that we could eat. Perhaps that is why my modest efforts at horticulture now seldom meet with any .success,” remarked the DeputyMayor, Mr J. K. Archer, in opening the annual show' of the Canterbury Sweet Pea, Carnation, and Gladiolus Society. “In the year 181 b the price of wool was 114 d a lb. That will make you sit up,’’ declared Mr H. D. Acland, president of the New Zealand Sheepowners’ Federation, at Meth ven when commenting on the relationship between gold supplies and commodity prices. There was a moment of awed silence. Then a voice (hopelessly): Wish we could get it now. The Wellington Gliding Chib’s new machine, imported from Australia a few weeks ago, crashed yesterday, crumpling one wing beyond repair. The glider was being towed by a motor cycle, a member clinging to each wing as a tyro was in the cockpit. It rose about 8 feet and one man let go his wing, but the other kept hold and despite the efforts of the pilot, the machine crashed on one wing and turned over. Modern methods of winning kauri gum are being employed at Tomarata, nears Wellsford north of Auckland. The spear and the spade still play their part in the operations but the laborious manual effort of the past has been eliminated hy the introduction of mechanical shovels. As a result of this innovation the operators claim a vast reduction in the cost of securing the gum, a. fact, they say, which will do much to rehabilitate an industry suffering from the effects of low export prices. Something of a swimming prodigy was brought to light in Westport recently, when the two and a-half-year-old son of Air William Keesing, the champion diver, gave an exhibition in the swimming bath of the town. The feat was hailed as something of a marvel by those who saw it, and, appropriately enough, this very young swimmer is a nephew of Mr Norman Batchelor, the well-known Christchurch swimmer. His mother, a sister of Mr Norman Batchelor, was also once prominent in competitive swimming in Christchurch. As an illustration of how a high rate of exchange stimulated production and output, Mr I) Jones, chairman of the New Zealand Meat. Producers Hoard, in his address on exchange at Methven. cited the cases of Australia and the Argentine. In 1930, he said, Australia exported 823,000 cwt. of butter; in 1931. with the exchange at 30 per cent., the exports of butter amounted to 1,247,000 cwt. Similarly with the Argentine—in 1930 its exports of butter were 314,000 cwt. ; last year, with a hi.di exchange, they were 427,000 cwt.

Saturday was the hottest day this year, the temperature reaching 88 degrees in the shade, which is equivalent to 118 degrees in the open. The next hottest day this year was on January 10, when the temperature reached 86 degrees n the shade. The minimum temperature during the week-end was 49 degrees, and the weather was so cold that in the higher parts of the back country there were slight falls of snow. The hills were fairly well covered early this morning, and a motorist reports that the ranges visible on the way from Waipukurau to Hastings had a good fall of snow on (heir crests. Au amusing incident was observed at Banff by Mr E. It. Guinness, who returned recently from a tour of Canada and England. Mr Guinness had finished a round of golf at Banff Spring, Alberta, and was passing the first tee on his way back to the clubhouse, when he noticed on the tee a man carrying a large how and a quiver full of arrows. The man fitted a shaft to his bow and shot it well over a hundred vards down the fairway Ou returning to the clubhouse. Mr Guinness asked a spectator if the man was sane. “Sane.” replied the individual, “sure, he’s sane —he’s n millionaire! ’ Mr Guiunes said he discovered that it was quite a hobby in America to shoot one’s wav round a links, and it appeared that millionaires were partial to it.

The Ulimaroa, from Wellington, arrived at Sydney at 7 o’clock this morning.

Members of Karamu and Kahuranaki Lodges are reminded of the picnic on Sunday next. Those requiring transport should notify any member of the committee or ring ’Phone 3966 before Thursday.*

rhe Christchurch Free Kindergarten ssociation has decided to re-open its seven schools and make an attempt to carry on in face of the situation caused by the recent decision of the Education Department to withhold all capitation and other grants.

Tenders returnable by February 1 to Messrs. McCulloch, Butler and Spence are called for the purchase of stock-in-trade of a Gisborne ladies’ outfitter. Details are available at the Napier office of the above named firm.

The Hastings High School will reopen on Tuesday. February 2. The principal will be in attendance at the school for enrolling new pupils on Friday, January 29. from 2 to 5 and 7.30 to 9 o’clock, on Saturday from 2 to 4 o’clock and on Monday from 2 to 5 o’clock.

’"This business of hanging on until the last possible minute has become far too frequent of late,’’ said counsel at a bankruptcy meeting at Stratford, protesting against the practice of men in hopeless financial positions carrying on until they exhaust every possible asset and then filing in bankruptcy.

Luder the will of the late Mr Charles Surfleet of Allanton, Otago, £lOOO. and the residue of the estate, estimated at £750, is bequeathed to the Presbyterian Social Service Association for the Ross Home. Other legacies are: £BOO to the Salvation Army, Dunedin, and £BOO to the Otago Hospital Board. — Press Assn.

The Trades Tlall “500” tournament and old-time dance was again largely attended on Saturday night. The winners of the cards were: Ladies, Mrs, P. Walden 1, Mrs Marshall 2; gentlemen, Mr Laredo 1, Mrs Tine (playing as gentleman) 2. The music for the dance was supplied by Mrs Hearne. The Monte Carlo was won by Mrs Hayward and Air Spears.

“We welcome you as a great warrior, uho has come from overseas to beat the land speed record on the Ninety Mile Beach, which figures so largely in the history of our people, and we will be very proud if you are successful,” said Wairama Maihi, the veteran Alaori chief of the Rarowa tribe, in welcoming Mr “Wizard” Smith at the feast in honour of him and his party at Ahipara on Friday.

During the course of the cricket matches at the Palmerston North sportsground on Saturday afternoon, Holz, a nicmbcf of the Old Boys’ team, had one of his fingers broken at the knuckle. The ball that broke Hulz’s finger was the first ball of the match and was trundled by Berquist, of the Palmerston team. Holyz immediately retired and cycled to the public hospital, where he had the fractured joint attended to.