LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 271, 31 October 1932, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

There will be no rehearsal of the “Our Miss Gibbs” production to-mor-row evening. There will be a meeting of the Drivers’ Union in the Hastings Trades Hall at 7.45 o’clock to-night. The Hastings Carnival decorations and lighting committee will meet tonight at 7.30 in the Borough Council Chambers. The two girls who recently came from Auckland and who appeared at the Hastings Police Court, were again remanded by Mr. H. W. C. Baird, J.P., this morning until Wednesday to enable further enquiries to be made. The vital statistics for Napier for October are as follow, the figures for the same month of last year being shown in parenthesis: Births 44 (27), deaths 19 (8), marriages 12 (15). The figures for the ten months of the current year are as follow; Births 338 (253), deaths 149 (122), marriages 120 (142).. The Hastings Master Bakers have come to an agreement that from tomorrow the price of bread shall be 6d over the counter and 6|d delivered. The agreement will apply to Hastings, Havelock North, Olive and the surrounding districts. This means that the “war” that has been taking place over bread for some time past is now ended.

At a special gathering of the Waipukurau bra..ch of the St. John Ambulance Association, His Worship the Mayor (Mr B. McLean) presented certificates to those members who had been successful in their first examination. As a mark of the branch’s sincere appreciation of the tutorship given by Dr. O. Baymond, Mrs D. Urquhart wresented that gentleman with a book and a propelling pencil, paying a tribute to the splendid service he had rendered the branch, and the assistance he had given at all times.

Great interest is being taken in the poll which will be held on Wednesday next, between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. when ratepayers in the Hawke’s Bay County will decide whether rating will be continued on the present system of rating on capital value, which has been the system in force for 50 years, or whether a change wjll be made to rating on unimproved value. It should be pointed out in order that ratepayers may go to the poll and vote, that a bare majority of the votes polled will decide the question. Those interested either in retaining the present system or in changing it should therefore make a point of recording their vote. A list of polling places has already been published.

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, tonight to take the form of a party for the children. The programme, which will be both novel and interesting, will consist of games and songs. There will also be a gift tub. Instrumental items and dancing will be contributed by the children. 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 p.m. dancing will be indulged in by the older members.

The annual meeting of the Hastings Ladies’ Golf Club will be held in the Chamber of Commerce rooms to-morrow at 7.30 p.m. Waipukurau and the surrounding country is looking exceptionally well, and on all sides there appears abundance of feed. The grass has come away well, and is very thick and fullbodied. Warm weather and welcome showers have indeed worked wonders in the past few weeks. As a sequel to the rioting in Wellington last May, the police traced the ownership of a coat with looted property in the pockets to Roy Alfred Byford, a farm labourer, who pleaded guilty to-day to charges of stealing coins and a brooch valued at £5 10/-, the property of Walter Smart, and three pairs of socks valued at 6 the property of Keans Ltd. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment.—'Press Assn. A distinct improvement in the financial market is revealed by the recent experience of the Auckland City Council, which in the past four months has sold debentures to a total value of £86,200. This is taken to indicate a greater readiness on the part of investors to take up local body securities, whereas some months ago they were inclined to leave their money on fixed deposit until they could see how the economic position was likely to develop. “I cannot help feeling that some social services are being taken too much for granted by the public, ’ ’ said Mrs. A. M. Bisley, of Hamilton, at the annual conference of Auckland branches of the Plunket Society. She quoted as an instance the fact that at the Waikato Show the society had arranged a rest room for mothers and a creche for babies. For a week six of the committee members worked each day from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., and at the end of the week the sum of 2/10 was found in the collection box. On Friday, November 18, at 7.45 p.m., a dance recital by the pup\ls. of the Barrie Studio will be held in the Municipal Theatre in aid of the H.B. Children’s Home. It is very fitting that the funds should bo donated to this charity, as Sir James Barrie gave the copyright of his famous book, ‘ ‘ Peter Pan, ” to a London hospital for children. Those who remember the recital staged by Miss Grantham and Miss Patston' two years ago will be anxious to see their pupils dance again. To quote the press, it was described as “the finest amateur performance that Hastings has ever been privileged to see,” and there is every reason to believe that the same high standard of work will be maintained in the recital on November 18.