LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 75, 10 March 1933, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

Cailinan broke the Hawke’s Bay and Poverty Bay records for the pole vault in the decathlon held last night at McLean Park, Napier. He recorded 10 ft. 6 in., the previous best figure in both provinces being 10 ft.

Those interested in furthering the candidature of Mr. G. A. Maddison for the Hastings Mayoralty are reminded of the meeting to be held in the Assembly Hall this evening at 8 o’clock. It is certain that a large and enthusiastic audience will gather and a cordial invitation is extended to all sympathisers to be present.

In reply to an inquiry from the Hawke’s Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society the secretary of the Hawke’s Bay Education Board advised that schools are allowed four days in the year for which the school committees may grant & holiday for any special local function, and suggested that the society should get in touch with -the individual committees in connection with the granting of a holiday to the school children for the autumn show on Thursday next.

After a four days’ visit to Napier, the flagship of the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy, H.M.S. Diomede, under the command of Commodore. Burgess-Watson, D. 5.0., left this port at 2.30 o’clock yesterday afternoon for Wellington. The public of Napier took great interest in the cruiser while she w-as berthed at the Breakwater, and when she was open for inspection on Wednesday afternoon, a large number of people took the opportunity of paying her a visit. Napier people were not slow to offer their hospitality to their naval visitors, the result being that the officers and men of the cruiser should leave this port with some happy recollections.

A tribute to the efficiency of Maori dairy farmers, who comprise practically the whole of the suppliers to the Ngatiporou dairy factory, on the East Coast, is contained in a letter received from the company’s London agents, which states inter alia: “We are very pleased to say that the quality is an improvement on that "which we have received in past years and is one of the finest butters we are receiving at present. It has just the right percentage of salt and we are glad to note that you are keeping the colour quite pale. A great fault with a lot of New Zealand butters is that the colour on receipt is much too high and frightens buyers away.”

The monthly meeting of the Taradale Town Board was held last evening. The chairman, Mr. J. Williamson, presided over Messrs. J. B. Wainscott, J. Gilmour, O. Anderson, C. H. Williams, W. H. C. Howard and the clerk, Mr. W. G. Jarvis. Tire discarded lighting set, switch boards, etc., which were previously used in the town hall before the advent of hydro-electricity are to be sold by tender. An offer was made from the Machinery Exchange to purchase the equipment for £5, but the board was of the opinion that it was worth more than that amount. Accounts totalling £541 4/1 were passed for payment.

Two rare native articles which have been in the possession of a Maori family at Whangamumu, North Auckland, for several generations have been submitted to the Akarana Maori Association for an opinion. One is an exceptionally finely fashioned reiputa, or whalebone pendant, 7in. in length and one and three-quarter inches wide, with a representation of a human face at the lower or pointed end. It is commonly believed that reiputas of this type went out of fashion among the Maoris some 90 years ago. Even when they were popular, they occurred only among certain tribes. The other article is a delicate ear pendant, 6in. which is a particularly fine specimen of kahurangi greenstone.

At a o f the Hastings Retailers’ Asso^.i^i ori) h e id yesterday, it was resolved c ] ose all business premises at, noon on Thursday next for tho Show instead of 12.30 as usual. At the meeting of the Otago Rowing .Association it was mentioned that it had been reported that the New Zealand Council had agreed to the interprovincial eight-oar race being rowed over a course of two miles. This was ridiculous, as the rules distinctly stated that the course must be three miles. It was decided to writo to the New Zealand Rowing Council requesting that the race bo rowed over a course of three miles as stipulated in the rules.—Press Assn. Still another aspect of the motor camp was brought to the notice of New Plymouth citizens at a public meeting of ratepayers. A woman ratepayer had something to say on the matter of rates and their ''incidence. She then asked what benefit such ratepayers as those conducting boarding-houses received from a body that also administered the camping site which took so much trade from them during the holiday season. People that would otherwise spend their money in board went to the motor camp. “They even bring their own bread,” she said. Interesting information was supplied by Mr A. Atkinson at a meeting of the Council of the New Zealand Forestry League, in connection with the glowing of walnut trees. Two varieties, the Paradox and Royal, evolved by Luther Burbank, he said, had shown phenomenal growth', being 80ft. high at fourteen years. The Institute of Forest Genetics, California, was now experimenting with these trees, and reports showed most promising results. Walnut timber, said Mr Atkinson, was in great demand, and even the stumps of felled trees of imitation walnut wore being exported from Australia, the value of which had already exceeded a million pounds sterling. A large and handsome wreath of Auckland-made artificial poppies and laurel leaves will be placed on the Cenataph in Whitehall on Anzac Dayon behalf of tho Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association. The wreath, en closed in a box of New Zealand wood, left Auckland on Wednesday in the custody of Mrs. Dawson, wife of Colonel T. H. Dawson, vice-president of the association. Mrs. Dawson is about to pay a holiday visit to England, and will arrive in ample time for the Anzac Day celebrations. Made by disabled ex-soldiers in the association’s w r orkshop, the wreath bears in its centre the badge of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association and the words: “From Auckland Returned Soldiers.”

Notice has been received in Rotorua that the Tourist Department has been given control of the Waiotapu thermal region, which hitherto has been under the jurisdiction of the Lands Department. Mr. L. J. Bayfield, district manager of the Tourist Department, has strongly stressed the advantages of bringing this important tourist attraction under unified control. Although one of the most remarkable thermal areas in the district, Waiotapu has been sadly neglected for many years. It is only 20 miles from Rotorua, on the Taupo road, and a visit is well repaid. The champagne pool and the terraces alone are worth inspection. Mr Bayfield is endeavouring to obtain a vote for its development.

The February issue of the N.Z.R.S.A. Review is now on issue, and is of the usual high standard of interest and entertainment. One of the most important articles is a review of the recent conference on the civil rc-estab-lishmcnt of returned soldiers, and there is also an announcement of an excellent and profitable competition in connection with the Soldiers’ Civil Reestablishment League. Other interesting sections include an account of the trial of Swaboda, the German who was accused of murdering a corporal in the Otago Regiment; an article on the recent trans-Tasman flight; a review of several books on flying during tho Great War (included among the writers are James McCullen, C. R. Samson, of Gallipoli fame, and A. A. Kingsford, of the N.Z.E.F.); and several pages of district notes.

An amateur theatrical organisation which is to be known as the Hastings Comedy Players, and which will have as its chief object the assisting of deserving causes, has been formed under the direction of Mr. A. Stanley Warwick. The first performance will bo in aid of the Hawke’s Bay Children’s Homes, and is expected to take place within the next few weeks. The title of the play will be the well known and very popular comedy “The Man From Toronto,” and rehearsals with the following cast arc now in progress:— Miss Alix Rochfort, Miss Mary Rainbow, Miss Cecily Bell, Miss Zita Wright, Mr. Russell Moss, Mr. Sidney Chaplin. Mr. Warwick will act as producer, and also will take the part of Old Mr. Priestly. The Municipal Theatre has been booked for a two nights’ season.

The following prisoners were' sentenced at Wellington to-day by Mr Justice Reed: Edwin Edwards, grave assault on a male (three charges) two years’ imprisonment, concurrent, to bo followed by a year’s reformative detention; Robert William Reay, breaking, entering and theft, two years’ hard labour; James Cunningham Pa.rker and James Edward White, breaking, entering and theft, twelve months’ hard labour; Marsh Kaimoana, breaking, entering and theft at Wairoa, twelve months’ reformative' detention. His Honour remarked that the prisoner was an educated Maori, who attributed his lapses to liquor, and he would be well advised to leave it alone. Frederick Howard Davis, causing a person to receive a letter with intent to extort money, three years’ probation, he to pay the costs of tho prosecution, 25/-, and be debarred from attending picture shows for a year. His Honour mentioned the prisoner’s youth, and said that tho Probation Officer gave him a good character. The bombastic language in the letter satisfied His Honour that the prisoner should be treated as having the mental capacity of a child, and that he had been allowed to attend too many gangster pictures. —Press Assn.