LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 85, 22 March 1933, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

The annual meeting of the Swifts Basketball Club will be held to-morrow evening at 7 o’clock at 606W. St. Aubyn street, Hastings.

The annual general meeting of the Havelock North Football Club will be held in the Fire Brigade Station at 7.30 o’clock to-morrow evening.

Tho Dominion conference of the Auckland Methodist Church decided to observe the day of national prayer in conjunction with other churches on April 2. All Methodist preachers, congregations, and people are urged to co-operate.

The annual conference of the Justices of the Peace was opened this morning in Invercargill, delegates attending from all parts of the Dominion. The visitors were welcomed by the Mayor, Mr John Miller. The conference, which will extend over three days, is now considering remits. — Press Assn.

Mr and Mrs E. Just, who became lost on Sunday in tho hills behind PalmeMton North were found yesterday afternoon in dense bush by searchers. They were exhausted and wet through, but were well. Both spent an anxious 48 hours, being completely lost owing to mist. It was the firing of shots by the searchers that directed them to assistance.

The seven golfers who have been in. vited by the New Zealand Golf Association to offer themselves for selection for the Kirk-Windeyer Cup team have all accepted. They are: H. A. Black (Miramar). J. L. Black (Hamih ton), H. D. Brinsden (Titirangi), J. T. Hornabrook (Masterton), T. 11. Horton (Masterton), B. M. Silk (Wanganui), Rana Wagg (Hutt). These players will probably be required by the selection committee to play at the Auckland provincial tournament, which precedes tho cup games, and on their performances there the team of four will be selected.

The unusual spectacle of a motor-car parked on railway station platform was witnessed at Hastings this morning. The vehicle was drawn alongside a van attached to the mail train, so that an invalid, whose condition necessitated the use of a stretcher, could be more conveniently transferred to the train. The patient, a young lady, was undertaking a journey to Wellington for special medical attention, and by suspending the stretcher in the guard’s van.of the train, she would have a more comfortable journey than if travelling tn » carriage _

The winners of some of the competitions at the Puketapu sports on Saturday were Mrs Alex Stead, J. Smale and V. Sutherland, Hastings.

A quaintly worded note appeal's on the closed door of a Hastings shop. It reads: “Dr. Syntax went in search of the picturesque. 1 have gone in search of money. Back in eight days.”

On account of the change in the weather the Hastings Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club was obliged to postpone its final sports meeting of tho season until next Friday night.

The Manchester Unity Oddfellows are notified that the Loyal Hastings Lodge will hold its next meeting at the Oddfellows’ Hall, Market street, Hastings, on Thursday, 23rd March, at 7.30 p.m.

Provided there is sufficient inducement, the Havelock North Golf Club will run a bus from Hastings to the links on Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings. This club has already held its annual meeting and the local yesterday appeared in error.

Definite opinion that the fee charged for the inspection of machinery was excessive in view of the examination carried out by departmental officers, was expressed at a meeting of tho Wellington Chamber of Commerce last evening.

A motorist wishing to travel across the I'ernhiil bridge last evening was somewhat annoyed to discover that tho bridge was closed to traffic, ami that h 6 had to turn back and go through Pakowhai, thus adding twelve miles, to say nothing of extra time, to his trip. The motorist’s annoyance arose from the fact that the closing of the bridge had not been advertised.

A lecture oil Lenin, the leader of the Russian revolution and the w-ould-be maker of world Communism, will be given by Mr J. A. Brailsford, staff tutor of the W.E.A., at the Pasadena Tea Rooms, Hastings, on Thursday evening. The public are cordially invited. Those attending will be invited to enrol for Mr Brailsford’s course of six lectures on ‘‘Great Men and Women of Our Time,” but there is no obligation iu this regard to do so.

The council of the New Zealand Football Association last night received a deputation from the Canterbury Football Association in reference to the affairs of that body. The. meeting was held iu committee, and lasted an hour and a half. The proposals of the Canterbury Association were discussed, but no statement was made beyond that Soccer would be played in Can. terbury in the forthcoming season.— Press Assn.

A cloudburst on Mount Ruapehu caused serious flooding of streams. A large wooden bridge ovre the Whakapapanui River, one mile below Chateau Tongariro, was washed away, isolating the Chateau. Twenty-five guests there will be marooned until a temporary structure is erected. This will be done to-day, enabling motor traffic to cross pending the erection of a permanent bridge. There were heavy rain nad an electrical storm last night.

The serious fire which broke out in the Miranui flax plantations near Shannon on Friday night was not under control until Saturday night. Over 200 acres of flax has been destroyed, which represents a loss of approximately £-1000 to the owners. The heavy rain on Saturday night and on Sunday morning was of assistance in the fighting of the fire. In addition to the monetary loss to the company the destruction of 200 acres of flax has caused employees of the mill to miss six months’ cutting.

The balance-sheet of the Manawatu and West' Coast A. and P. Association, which was considered at yesterday’s meeting of the general committee, revealed a debit balance of £2465. The treasurer, Mr T. R. Hodder said that if depreciation of £ll2B had not been provided for, the debit for the year would have been £1337. The decrease in the association’s general revenue was £1341. A loss of £322 had been made on the 1932 Royal Show and a profit of £307 on the 1932 National Dairy Show.

Following a collision between a car and a light lorry on the corner of Fitzrov Avenue and Nelson street at 4.20 on Monday, a collision between a car and a lorry occurred at exactly the same spot at 4.15 o’clock yesterday afternoon. The lorry was travelling along Fitzroy Avenue towards town, and the car, which was driven by a woman, was going down Nelson street towards Tomoana. Nobody was hurt, but the car was somewhat damaged and its driver considerably shaken. The lorry bore the name of a Hawera owner.

A report of the recent fatality at Fernhill, which involved the death of a Maori boy who came in contact with an 11,000 volt electric line, is to be sent to the various schools of the Hawke’s Bay district by the secretary of the Hawke’s Bay Electric Power Board, the object being to warn children of tho danger of climbing up the electric towers. At the monthly meeting of the board held yesterday afternoon it was decided to send a letter of sympathy to the parents of the Maori boy who was killed.

Movements of stock from the Gisborne district to other parts of the Dominion appear to have ceased for the season, although it is understood that a mob of Wairoa sheep will be put on the road shortly for the Waikato. There has been such a largo amount of feed in the Gisborne district this season that farmers have not been forced to seek outlets to tha same extent as during the previous two very dry summers. Practically all the district’s surplus stock this season went to the Waikato and Hawke’s Bay, but the totals were considerably less than in oilier years.

A correspondent sends interesting confirmation of tho fact that mimosa and its kin are suspect as possibly causing illness, says a writer in the London ‘‘Daily Mail.” He mentioned that a French doctor advances the theory that ’flu begins to become widespread. in England about the time the first shipments of mimosa arrive from the Riviera. One of the numerous varieties of mimosa is Australia’s national flower, the golden wattle, and several varieties are common in New Zealand. It was declared by "Dr. E. N. Ward, curator of the Sydney Botanical Gardens, that researches show that many people living near wattles are always ill at certain seasons. The air around a blossoming wattle tree is soaked with pollen, according to Dr. Ward, which irritates lungs and throat: moreover. wattles growing near dairies and creameries cause a form of fermentation dangerous to health,