LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 270, 29 October 1932, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

There will be a meeting of the Drivers’ Union in the Hastings Trades Hall at 7.45 p.m. on Monday. There will be the usual Saturday night dance in the Hastings Trades Hall this evening. Mrs Hearne’s orchestra supplies the music. The Havelock North Town Board inserts a notice that Gilpen road, from Crasley street to Kaponga road, is closed to all vehicular traffic. The Kia Toa Bowling and Croquet Club will hold another of their popular “500” card competitions on Tuesday next. All are welcome, A large black and white Australian magpie was seen on Thursday and Friday in the trees next to the Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital, Hastings. The recent rain has prevented shearing operations in the Wellington district, but with improved weather conditions over the next few days, shearing should commence near Wellington. A sum of £1 15 1 - was raised as a result of a dance held recently in Mr W. T. woolshed at Pine Bush, Elsethorpe, in aid of the Wairoa Earthquake Relief Fund. The Hastings Carnival Committee invites competitive designs for a carnival poster. The competition closes at noon on Friday next, and conditions may be seen at the office of this paper. The week-end competition to be held by pilots of the H.B. and E.C. Aero Club at the Longlands aerodrome tomorrow will be an air-signalling and message - dropping contest. FlyingOfficer Gerrard will give his customary display of aerobatics during the afternoon. Visitors are welcome at the aerodrome at all times. Consent to play exhibition matches in Auckland on Monday was received bj wireless last night from the American tennis team, headed by Vines. They are passing through to Australia, but will return to New Zealand in February to tour the chief centres. A five-year-old boy, Harold John Martin, whoso parents reside in Riverbend road, Napier, is in a serious condition at the Napier Hospital as a result of being knocked down by a motor lorry in Riverbend Road yesterday morning. It is understood that the boy was in the act of waving to a friend on a passing bus, having just stepped off the footpath on to the road, when a lorry, driven by Mr, A. Jane, struck him. The unfortunate boy was admitted to the hospital at about midday yesterday, an operation being performed immediately. The hospital authorities reported this morning that he was suffering from a fracture of the skull, and that there was no change in his condition, which was considered seriouz, ...

The annual meeting of the H.B. District Nursing Association will be held on Monday at 2.30 p.m. in theWesley Hall, Hastings. An application is to be made to the New Zealand Broadcasting Board to broadcast reports of the hnals of the New Zealand bowling tournament in Wellington in January, The Hastings High School League will hold a social with cards, concert items and dancing, in the Bandroom on Wednesday, November 2, at 7.45 p.m. Rona Olsen will give her final lecture in Hastings on Sunday night at clock in the Ritz Tea-rooms. Her subject will be: “The Three-fold Man in Operation.’’ Written questions on psychological subjects will be answered. A concert in aid of the Puketapu parish funds will be held in the Fernhill Hall on Tuesday evening, November 1. The concert will include many novel items of dancing and singing and will be followed by a dance. What became of the lost ten tribes of Israel? Is the British nation descended from them? These questions will be answered during the public address to be given in the Friendly Society Hall, Warren street south, Hastings, to-morrow evening. “Keep up the optimism of Gallipoli, which helped us to do the impossible and maintain the pushing power of the Western Front, and we will win through all our troubles,” said MajorGeneral Sinclair Burgess in the course of an address at a returned soldiers’ re-union in Gisborne. In the report of the discussion on Cr. Slater’s motion regarding playing tennis on Cornwall Park on Sundays, it was stated that the motion was defeated by five votes to two. This was incorrect, the voting being six against, as followsCis. Simmons, Baker, Donovan, Cohr, Smith and Loach. The Hastings Methodist Sunday School Anniversary will be celebrated to-morrow, October 30th, morning, afternoon and evening. Special singing by the scholars and choir will be a feature of all three services. Preachers: Revs. D. J. A. Shaw and A. H. Scrivin. Conditions are very promising for the opening of the fishing season in Rotorua and Taupo districts, which takes place next Tuesday. The weather has been fine since last Tuesday, when it cleared after a spell of showery weather lasting ten days. The streams in the Rotorua district are now almost back to normal and the lakes are at their usual level for the time of year.

After being blocked for several days by big slips, the Opotiki-Gisborne main highway, via Waioeka, is again open, and service cars have resumed their normal running. As there is still a great deal of spoil to remove, cars have just sufficient room to get past. Further heavy rain would be likely to cause more slips.

“This country with its small population is over-governed, over-staffed, over-taxed, and requires drastic curtailment of expenditure, and all Government departments overhauled,” said Mr Albert Spencer, president of the Auckland Provincial Employers’ Association, at the annual meeting on Thursday. “The national expenditure up to the end of the last financial year has increased to about £28,000,000. This gives a good indication of the failure of the Government to reduce its overhead expenditure.” Owing to heavy rains in the back country early in the week the rivers have risen and become discoloured. The fishing this week-end will be confined to the Tuki Tuki, it having gone down considerably, and will be quite in order for anglers. Last week-end good results were achieved, some very fair baskets being taken. Mr Leon Fail landed six very nice fish, averaging three pounds. Mr W. Nimon was also one of the fortunates, finishing up with a very nice basket, including a well-conditioned fish which turned the scales at five pounds. The majority of the fish were taken on the fly spoon. A meeting of the committee of the Hastings Horticultural Society was held last evening, when arrangements were finalised for the forthcoming Rose Show to be held on Saturday, 12th No-, vember in the Assembly Hall. The season has been an exceptional one for roses, and the show promises to be one of the most successful yet held, u is expected that this season’s entries, which close on Wednesday, 9th November, at 5 p.m., will constitute a record. In addition to competitive entries, there will be a number of very attractive trade exhibits, and a produce stall in charge of Mrs H. M. Wilson. After being delayed for five days on account of the freezig works dispute last week the New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Remuera sailed from Auckland early on Thursday afternoon with passengers, mail, and cargo for London, via Panama. The Remuera took 82,000 boxes of butter and 6500 crates of cheese from Auckland, her full cargo of dairy produce being 100,000 boxes of butter and 21,000 crates of cheese from New Zealand, In addition she had frozen meat and general cargo. One of the most disastrous shipwrecks on the New Zealand coast the loss of the Wairarapa, occurred 38 years ago yesterday, on October 28, 1894. The Wairarapa was a passenger steamer of 1786 tons, bound from Sydney to Auckland with 230 persons on board. At midnight, in thick weather, she crashed into the base of an almost perpendicular cliff on the north-west side of Great Barrier Island. Of those on board, 137 were drowned or died from exposure. Only two of the vessel’s six boats could be launched, and in them about 60 persons escaped to land. When day broke some who had clung all night to the rigging were able to reach the rocks by a land line, but many had been swept off by heavy seas before that. To uphold the old traditions of celebrating Hallowe’en, the Hastings and District Scots’ Society has arranged for the Ingleside to be held in the Favourite Hall, Warren street, on Monday night to take the form of a party for the children. The programme, which will be both novel and interesting, will consist of games (such as “Dookin” for apples, chasing the bun, etc.) and songs. There will also be a gift tub. Instrumental items and dancing will be contributed by the children according to the custom of olden times. The committee have gone a long way in their endeavour to give the children a good treat, but they wish it to be clearly understood that the treat is intended for children of members of the society. After 10 ptm. dancing will be indulged in by the older members,