LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 174, 8 July 1932, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

Decision in the Hunter will case was reserved by the Court of Appeal.

On account of the pressure of space to-day’, the Kiwi letters are unavoidably held over until to-morrow.

A reminder is given that entries for the ploughing events at the Patangata and Elsthorpe ploughing matches, will close with the honorary secretary, Mr W. A. Tod, Otane, to-morrow, at 8 p.m.

Applicants for relief from the Hastings Red Cross Relief Depot are asked when filling in their applications to give fully detailed particulars of their names and addresses. The work of the people at the depot will be made much easier if care is taken in this matter.

An enamelled badge of the Incorporated Sanitary Inspectors’ Association, dated 1883, was picked up in a Hastings street some time ago, and was handed to the Hastings Borough Health Inspector, Mr C. Carrell, who is secretary of the New Zealand organisation. Mr Carrell would be pleased to meet the owner of the badge and to restore it to him.

Members of the Hastings Orphans’ Club are flnaljy reminded of the Scots night korero, which is to take place in the Assembly Hall to-night, when the “piece de resistance” will bo “piping in of the haggis” in full Scottish custom. Deputy-Chief Orphan E. V. Simpson will preside over the korero, for which a special Scotch programme has been arranged. An appeal is made to all Orphans to attend.

It is generally admitted that there Is an overlapping in the activities or the various institutions and public bodies administering relief in this and every other district, and a proposal is now afoot in Hastings to co-ordinate the operations of all those bodies, with a view to minimising the overlapping. The proposal is that each institution nominate one representative to form a central executive, which will control the distribution of all food, money and other donations given for those in need. The executive will, briefly put, bo the purchasing body and, without submerging the identities of the various organisations now in existence, will be respon Bible for the distribution of everything required for the relief of the needy. By this means it is hoped tn ’-<> able to do away with any overlapping. It would also mean equal distribution and ensure all needy families of assistance. A meeting has’been convened tor next Tuesday at 3 o’clock in the Council Chambers, Hastings, and ’t hoped that nil those interested will attend.

A Kia Toa “500” evening will be held in the Friendly Society'a Hall, Hastings to-night (Friday) at 8 o’clock.

Miss Jean Ballantyne announces that the second term for her dancing classes commenced this week.

An old-time dance will be held in the Hastings Trades Hall to-night to aid the funds for the unemployed.

At the Stratford poultry and cagebird show Mr Robert Forster, of Hastings, was awarded twelve firsts and one second for canaries.

The Heretaunga Group Herd Testing Association will hold its annual meeting in St. Andrew’s Hall, Hastings, tomorrow at 1 p.m. Mr. Hume, Dominion organiser, will address the meeting.

Art unions were opposed by the Dominion conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union at its meeting in Wellington yesterday. The general opinion was that the raising of funds by means of art unions was uneconomic.

Secretaries of sports clubs are requested to send in teams for insertion in Friday’s issue not later than 10 a.m. on the day of publication, otherwise they may be left out.

Hartley de Gerald, aged 13, arrived at Suva to-day from Vancouver on a six weeks’ tour of Fiji. He is the son of a Chicago banker and has travelled 50,000 miles since the age of six unaccompanied.

The monthly exchange stall of the Hawke’s Bay, Sherendcn and Mangatahi Women’s Division it the Farmers’ Union will be held to-morrow in a shop kindly lent by Mr. Gilbertson, opposite the Pas-a-Dena Tea Rooms, Hastings. The meat stall will have lamb and turkey, etc.

The Mahora School Committee will hold a “500” card tournament and dance at 7.45 o’clock this evening in the school. There will be good prizes, a good supper, and good music, and the general public are invited to be present and help the school funds.

Members of the Orange Lodges in Hastings are reminded by advertisement that a church parade is to be held in Napier on Sunday next in the Methodist Church. Visiting members are also invited to attend. The ’bus will be leaving the “Tribune” corner at 10 o’clock sharp.

An account of mission work in Malaya will be given to-night in the Nelson street Hall, Hastings, by 'Mr. W. Bliek, who has worked as a missionary amongst the lepers and prisoners in Malaya for thirty-three years. His address will be of special interest to those who study missionary work in foreign lands.

The West Coast Rugby Union desires to have a match with the Canterbury Union for the Ranfurly Shield, on August 27. But it also desires that if Canterbury loses the shield before that date it shall have an ordinary representative match with Canterbury. The Buller Union also is desirous of playing Canterbury for the shield.

A farmer now on relief works, who met his creditors at Auckland yesterday with a deficit of £1935, said that in 1920 he had £4OOO, but had since walked off two farms, and had lost everything. His present earnings were about £2 a week. He lost his first farm owing to the slump, and the second because, before he took it, it had been unoccupied for six years and infested by ragwort. The creditors made no decision.

The coastal steamer John’s crew was paid off at Wellington to-day and the vessel will be laid up until some agreement is reached by the owners and the union in regard to manning. For several trips a fireman has been refusing to obey the master’s instructions as to hours of work, and the company has tried to have the man signed off and replaced. The union entered into the matter and the ship has been laid up until settlement is reached. —Press Assn.

Napier is not too well endowed with sports grounds, and in an endeavour to improve the position the Mayor (Mr J. Vigor Brown) has written to the Napier Harbour Board suggesting that the borough be given the 22 acres of swamp at Port Ahuriri known as the South Pond. If this were done, it could be reclaimed cheaply and beneficially by unemployed workers and, in addition to providing a sports ground where one is badly needed, would enhance the value of the Harbour Board’s lands at Port Ahuriri.

A sentence of three months’ imprisonment was imposed upon Arthur Weir, a labourer, aged 50, who was convicted in the Napier Police Court this morning by Messrs A. E. Renouf and A. E. Bedford, J.P.’s, on a charge of being found without lawful excuse, but not in circumstances which disclosed the commission or intent to commit any other offence,, in the Napier railway yard. “He is in a filthy condition and a good clean up will do him no harm. He is also a methylated spirits addict,” said Senior-Sergeant W. Pender, prosecuting for the police.

The Hastings Basketball Association is doing everything possible to raise the funds proportionately due by them to help cover the expenses of a team representing Hawke's Bay to travel to the New Zealand tournament at Invercargill. To-morrow a fair is being held in the Assembly Hall, opening at 10 o’clock, and stalls of all kinds are being run by the different clubs. Afternoon tea will also be obtainable at a small charge, and it is hoped that all will help towards the success of the fair. In the evening there is to be a dance at a very moderate price, and all are assured of having a good time.

Some indication of the damage that an electrical storm can do to a power board’s supply system was given liy Mr. N. G. McLeod; chief the Thames Valley Electric Power Board, at a meeting of that body. In reporting on the effects of a recent storm Mr. McLeod mentioned that in the Matamata district two cable boxes and eableartvere damaged, ns well as several transrawers. while nine 3000-volt insulators and five service meters were destroyed, and 37 11,000-volt fuses blown. During the same storm five farm motors were burnt out, five sets of mains and wiring, and sixteen water heater elements destroyed, and fifteen ironclad motor switches broken down. Some low tension load-covered cable was punctured at Waharoa, and nine low tension arms and an 11,000-volt copper line were broken.

According to a notice in yeserday’s Gazette, no person will in future bo permitted to take more than 15 trout in one day in the East Coast Acclimitisation district.

When the Makura cleared Sydney Heads yesterday for Wellington she ran into a forty-mile-an-hour southeast gale with mountainous seas and fierce rain. The weather is very dirty.

The farmer’s £1 is now only worth 10/8 in the Dominion, compared with 20/- in 1914, according to a statement made by the Hon. A. Hamilton, Minister of Labour, to the annual conference' of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union last night.

The importation from California of grass seed, including lucerne, clover seed and millet seed, ground fruits, plants, onions and other vegetables is prohibited by an Order-in-Council published in yesterday’s Gazette. Attention is drawn to the fact that the importaion from California of cattle, hay, straw or chaff (whether used as packing for goods imported into New Zealand or otherwise) is prohibited by Orders-in-Councils under the Stock Act, 1908. The importation of sheep, goats, swine and dogs from any State in the United States is similarly prohibited.

Remits expressing the opinion that the time had arrived when there should be a complete review of all tariffs on British goods with a view to having them reduced, and that there should be an automatic reduction proportionate to the exchange rate ruling for the time being, were carried at the annual conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union yesterday. Following the passing of the remits, the president, Mr. W. J. Polson, M.P., said that a cablegram would be sent to the adviser attending the Ottawa Conference ns representative of the Union, Sir Francis Boys, and the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, asking them to do all in their power to secure for the farmers what was wanted by the union.

The performance of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in the Municipal Theatre, Hastings, on Monday and Tuesday next, will be the third with which Mr. A. Stanley Warwick has been associated, and bids fair to be most highly interesting. There is no doubt that Hastings citizens are most keenly interested in the forthcoming performance by their own boys and girls, and it is hoped that the school funds will greatly benefit from the production. lu a performance of this nature it is essential that the utmost keenness must prevail, and there is no doubt that this has been the keynote of all the rehearsals. Last year some of the students were seen in a one-act play which was given with much spirit, and this paved the way for this more elaborate performance. The beautiful Mendelssohn music, which will be played by a full orchestra under Mr. Harry Cooper, should prove a very great attraction also. The plans may be seen at Fail’s, and early booking is advised. Patrons are asked to note the tims is 7.45, not 8 p.m.