LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 221, 1 September 1932, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

An old-time danc? in' aid of the Registered Unemployed’s funds will be held in the Hastings Trades Hall tomorrow evening.

A typographical error in Tuesday’s issue made it appear that the price of admittance each night at the Hawke’s Bay Drama League’s festival would be 1/-. This should have read 2/-.

Station 2FC, Sydney, on Sunday evening will broadcast two items by the Now Zealand boy singer, Lex MacDonald. His fee is the highest ever paid in Australia.—Press Association

‘The country is never going to be rehabilitated until we reach a fair standard of land values,” said counsel during Assessment Court proceed ings at Christchurch. “If the department insists on keeping up these high fictitious values they will be doing the worst service to the country, Onh men like my client, who is not a speev later, but a genuine farmer, have suf-, ficient backbone to come to the Court and fight the high valuation. The farmer wants a fair and reasonable land value, based on the bona fide sale value under reasonable conditions.”

The meeting of parents of the Central School, which was to have been held to-morrow, has been postponed until Monday at 3t30 p.m.

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Society will hold a "500” tournament and dance in the Trades Hall to-night. Mrs Hearn will be at the piano, and patrons are assured of a good time.

The Hastings public are reminded that Mr J. A. Brailsford’s lecture on “The Present Crisis” will take place in the Pasadena Tea Rooms to-night at 8 o’clock.

Influenced by optimistic reports from many quarters the Sydney Stock Exchange was very active yesterday and prices firmed. Similar conditions obtain in the New Zealand share market.

A decision to order 35,000 artificial poppies from returned-soldier manufacturers in Christchurch was made at the monthly meeting of the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association executive committee held last evening. I'o-morrow night in the Maraekakaho Hall a plain and fancy dress ball will be held in aid of the Women’s Division of the N.Z. Farmers’ Union. Miss Patston and Miss Grantham will give exhibition dances, and Les Henry’s orchestra will supply the music. The annual South Island re-union and dance takes place next Thursday, September 8. The grand march commences at 8 p.m. Tickets may be bought from Mr H. B. Knight, chemist, or from Mr W. A. Williamson, bookseller.

The concert in the Hastings Municipal Theatre next Sunday is being arranged by the Resurgam Club. Many talented artists have been engaged, and the concert promises to be well up to the high standard of its predecessors. Patrons would be wise to book early.

Steady progress is being made with work in the new Blue Bath building at Rotorua, and there is a possibility that the adult swimming pool will be opened to the public at the end of October or early" in November. The building will not be completed until a later date.

An old-time dance and euchre tournament will be held in the Havelock North Town Board Hall next Tuesday in aid of the village unemployment fund. Novelty dances are on the programme, and also a Monte Carlo. Nimon’s have donated free transport, and a ’bus will leave Westerman’s corner at 7.45 p.m.

There were nine bankruptcies filed in Napier during the month just ended, compared with three in the corresponding month of last year. The occupations of the bankrupts were: An upholsterer, a contractor, a farmer, a builder, two hotelkeepers, a plumber and an electrician.

To show their appreciation of the Government in allowing the Kawarau dam to be closed, the gold seekers are presenting the Hon. C. E. Macmillan, Minister of Mines, with one and a-half oypces of raw gold. The closing of the dam enabled about £2300 worth of gold to be won by the unemployed, who took about 400 ounces from the river.

There was a good crowd at the Trades Hall last night for the euchre tournament and old-time dance. The card winners were: Ladies, Mrs Pine 1, Mrs Simpson 2; gentlemen, Mr Wilkinson 1, Messrs Neil, Ericson and Cheers (tie) 2. The Monte Carlo waltz was won by Mr Ericson and Miss Bishop, with Mr Johnson and Miss Gardiner 2nd.

A reminder is given of the special general meeting of members of the Hawke’s Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society which will be held on the Showground, Tomoana, to-morrow (Friday), at the conclusion of the committee meeting, which commences at 10.30 a.m. The meeting is to confirm alterations to the rules, providing for the election of junior members.

Included in the West Coast Rugby team which played Canterbury for the Ranfurly Shield on Saturday last was a full-blooded Chinaman, Arthur Fong, who played a great game as second five-eighths. This recalls the fact that back in 1916 one of the outstanding Wanganui primary school representatives of that year was a Chinese youth named Alec, Louis. He was powerfully built and was very fast, and was an exceptional place kick.

Onions are likely to continue dear until the situation is relieved by imports from Canada. The exclusion of Californian onions on account of foot and mouth disease in California defers arrivals from North America until early in October, when the Waikawa is due at Auckland from Vancouver with Canadian onions. Japanese onions are selling at about £25 per ton in Wellington, and quotations for Auckland district onions are in the vicinity of £3O per ton at Pukekohe.

Taranaki and the west coast of New Zealand generally have a name for the wetness of their climate, but it is nothing in comparison with that in the tea plantation districts of Ceylon. Emphasising the necessity of abundant rainfall for the tea plantations, ■ Rotarian R. W. D. Robertson, in the course of an address to the New Plymouth Rotary Club, mentioned that the average rainfall in the district referred to was 300 inches a year. During one night the speaker was on the island ten inches of rain fell.

Although the meetings at the mission tent in Hastings are not for amusement or entertainment, the bright singing constitutes an attraction for any in need of a tonic for soul or spirit, and the missioner, being Irish, is not without the usual Irish vein of humour. The subject to-night is “Noah —How Was He Saved?” and to-morrow Mr Carlisle will answer the questions “How? When? Why? What?” Community hymn singing commences at 7.15 and the mission service at 7.30. A question box is provided and the missioner is prepared to answer any serious questions which should be left in the box.

Few people seem to realise that it is an offence under the Rating Act of 1925 to fail to notify a local body of the fact that they have sold their property. The section in the Rating Act relating to the transferring of a property says:—Every owner or occupier of rateable property who sells oi who otherwise transfers the same or part thereof shall, within one month after such sale or transfer, give notice in writing thereof, together with the arne and address of the purchaser or transferee to the local authority in whose district the property is situate, and until he gives such notice he shall remain liable for all rates payable in respect of such property. Such notice shall not release him from liability to pay any rates due at the time such ,uotjce is given.

A big clearance of wool was made at the Sydney sales at. a further advance on opening prices Competition was very keen.

To-morrow the Bank of New South Wales will celebrate the 71st anniversary of its opening for business m Wellington.

The committee of the Hawke’s Bay Boxing Association will meet to-morrow evening to confirm the matching of Johnie Leckie and Ted Oxley. The bout will take place towards the end of this month.

The conference in Auckland of representatives of the eight building trade unions considered the possible effects on the industry of the ameuded Arbitration Act and resolved that the federations and separate unions in the building industry throughout the Dominion be asked if they favour a conference in Wellington to discuss the formation of a National Building Trades Federation and a common policy with respect to future awards or agreements. —Press Association.