LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 97, 5 April 1933, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

Mr. Walter Nash, Labour M.P. for Hutt, will give an address in the Hastings Assembly Hall on Monday evening next. Entries for the Havelock North Easter sports meeting close with the secretary, Mr. L. A. Meads, on Saturday, April 8, at 5 p.m. The Haumoana Miniature Rifle Club will hold its annual general meeting to-morrow evening in the Haumoana Hall. The Christchurch City Council has resolved to .ban further Socialist Party meetings in Cathedral Square, as the Socialist Party will contest the municipal elections, and is therefore classified as a political party. The Kahuranaki Rebekah Lodge will hold their “500” card tourney on Friday next, April 7th., in the Friendly Societies’ Hall, Warren street, at 8 o’clock. There will be the usual good prizes and a good supper. Hastings High School Old Pupils are reminded of the dance to be held in the Favourite Hall on Thursday next, April 6, at 7.45 p.m. This dance marks the commencement of the association’s social activities for the coming winter, and it is hoped that all Old Pupils will make an effort to attend. Last year the Hawke’s Bay Acclimatisation Society liberated 200,000 rainbow trout ova in the streams under its jurisdiction. This was a generous number, commented Mr R. M. Chadwick, at last evening’s meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Acclimatisation Society, though in certain years they had handled 300,000. A letter was received from the Department of Internal Affairs quoting five shillings per 1000 for 100,000 or over, and six shillings far lots under that figure. Mr 11. Ashby said he would like to see more rainbow ova put into the northern streams of the area than last year. Discussion arose as to the number which should be released this year, and it. was finally decided to purchase ova-

Manchester Unity Oddfellows arc reminded that the Hastings Lodge will hold its fortnightly meeting at the Oddfellows’ Hall, Market street, on Thursday next, April 6', at 7.30 p.m. The women of Hastings are invited to the Trades Hall to-morrow at 2.30 p.m. for the purpose of witnessing a demonstration of the art of making boys ’ knickers. The annual meeting of subscribers to the Taradale Public Libraray will be held at 7.30 o’clock to-morrow night. The report and balance sheet will be submitted and the committee elected for the coming year. Writing from Ilfracombe (North Devonshire) in February to a New Plymouth friend a housewife says: “How cheap your New Zealand butter is! It is selling here at. lOd per lb., whilst our local butter is 1/6. 1 intend buying yours in future, as ours is not worth the difference.’’ What was left of the Hawke’s Bay and East Coast Aero Club’s Spartan •plane after the erash at Taumarunui recently, was brought to Hastings yesterday. The ’piano is almost a total wreck, only the engine and two wings being intact. The club will now have only three ’planes in use. Work is to be started in Wellington shortly on a new Y.M.C.A. hut for boys, probably at Petone. The funds will come from £l2OO subscribed by Now Zealand soldiers during the war for the erection of a memorial to the war work of the association. The trustees are Sir Andrew Bussell, Mr. J. L. Hay, the president of the Y’.M.C.A., and the national treasurer. A shipment of about 20 brace of stubble quail has been landed from Australia by the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society. The stubble quail, a common b'rd in Egypt and adjoining countries, is similar in many respects to the true New Zealand quail, a bird which is almost extinct. The Game Committee of the Society has not yet decided whether to hold the stubble quail foi breeding, or to release them. At a meeting of the Canterbury Rugby Union, members suggested that a remit be sent to the New Zealand conference to the effect that no Ranfurly Shield game be played before the end of July. Early games disorganised club competitions, they said. Minor unions came in with challenges after major union fixtures had 'been arranged. “We should wait till we lose the shield before we move such a remit,” said Mr. S. F. YVilson. “It would not look well from the holders,” said the chairman, Mr. McPhail. The matter was held over. —Press Assn. “It is this co operation that helps the school along,” stated the head master (Mr W. B. Roe) in his monthly report presented at the meeting of the Parkvale School committee last evening when making mention of the wonderful assistance given by certain members of the Parkvalo Swimming Club, and the fact that the sdiom won the Eduucation Board’s shield for swimming. “Even if the school does not win shields, the children aro taught t oswim, and in this way they get splendid exercise. Then again, it may be the means of saving a life in the future.’’ A special function was held at Chineniutu pa, Rotorua, to entertain the visiting Australian swimming team, O. Griffiths, F. Griffiths, V. Besomo and C. Phillips. There was a large Maori gathering. A specially carved Maori shield was presented as a gift from the Arawa tribe to the New South Wales Swimming Association and it was suggested by Mr. Tai .Mitehell, who made the presentation on behalf of the Ohinemutu Swimming Club, that the trophy be allocated for the New South Wales 100 yards championship. The gift was made in recognition of (he interest taken by the team in developing Maori swimmers.—Press Association.

The assistance given in the work of the Good Cheer Food Depot by the Mayor, Mr. G. F. Roach, was referred to by Mr. J. F. Jones at last evening’s meeting of the depot committee and others interested in welfare work. Mr. Roach had given the utmost assistance, and had taken the keenest interest in the scheme from its very beginning, eaid Mr. Jones, and was the first man to come to the committee’s aid. His help had been readily available at all times, and this year, when the committee had asked the Borough Council to provide a site, His Worship had once more come forward to fill the breach. Further than that, ho had set the ball rolling last year by granting out of his distress fund a sum. of £25 with which the committee had been enabled to buy all the necessary utensils, and the money that would otherwise have had to be spent on utensils was thus able to be spent on footstuffs. In moving a formal vote of thanks to His Worship, Mr. H. R. French remarked that co-operation was needed more today than at any other time in the world’s history, and when the chief magistrate of the town was prepared to lead the way as Mr. Roach had done, and as others had done, it was only fitting to say “thank you.” “Here we have a man owning several hundreds of acres, some of which he would not take £6O an acre for, and the whole of the proceeds from his various farms going to one secured creditor, whilst the unsecured creditors get nothing,” stated counsel at the Hastings Magistrate’s Court this morning when a Maori contended that he could not make any offer to. pay a judgment of less than £3O. He admitted that recently he had sold 1500 sheep and received £B6O, and that his wool cheque was in the vicinity of £4OO, but the whole of this money had been paid to a mercantile firm who held a mortgage of £3500 over his stock. He owned three racehorses, but they had not b.een raced for two years, and he had a car and a lorry, the latter not having been used for 18 months. It was pointed out that the defendant could not mortgage his land and was in the position of either going bankrupt or going to gaol. In the event of him adopting the former course he would be in the position of still owning the land, for it could not be affected by the bankruptcy proceedings, and he would be free of the unsecured creditors, to whom he owed in all about £250. The mercantile firm had refused to pay the small accounts because they considered that their security was not sufficient. His Worship held that the defendant, or at. least his agent, the mercantile firm, had received sufficient money to pay the amount claimed and consequently he gave judgment for plaintiff.

The Kia Toa Bowling and Croquet Clubs will hold a competition afternoon on Saturday, April 8. A general invitation is extended to take part. A special general meeting of the Havelock North Swimming Club will be held in the Town Board room at 8 o’clock to-night. The committee will meet at 7.30 to-night. At a meeting of the recently-formed Rotorua Trotting Club, it was decided to conduct a non-lotalisator meeting on May 20. Mr A. Tronson was appointed judge, Mr C. E. Goosman handicapper, and Mr H. Shaw starter.—Press Association. A reminder is issued of the annual meeting of the Hastings High School League, which will be held in Miss Ballantyne’s studio, corner of Market and St. Aubyn streets, on Thursday evening at 7.30 o’clock. AU parents and others interested *re invited to bo present. “The mallard ducl> are a nuisance. The always have a sentinal out and fly off at the first squeak,” stated Mr I‘. H. Stockwell, -jf Building, at the annual meeting of the Palmerston North branch of the Acclimatisation Society, when it was stated that this breed of duck was the bam- of sportsmen as the birds sat a mile away from the guns. Mr Bicknell, of Christchurch who has just returned from a business trip to the Islands, says that Rarotonga is suffering acutely from trade depression. The orange trees are going back through neglect and the copra market is dead. The population, however, are not starving, Nature supplying plenty of food—plantains, bread fruit, etc. Th e kindly climate makes the lot of the unemployed easier than it would bo in most other places. 'There is no work obtainable.—Press Assn. The Hawke’s Bay Acclimatisation Society recently asked the Minister of Internal Affairs to grant leave for inclusion in one of the larger alluvial gold art unions. At the monthly meeting of the society in Napier last night a letter was read from the Minister in which he expressed regret at not being able to approve. While not unmindful of the work carried out by the society, lie said, he pointed out that acclimatisation societies had statutory sources of revenue, which prevented his granting the request. “Bor a man to be classed as a bank--1 upt at the present time is often no disgrace at all,” said a memffer of the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association, in moving an amendment to one of the revised set of rules which was put before a meeting ol the association for approval. The section of the rule objected to was: “Any member of the committee of the association shall ipso facto vacate his office if lie becomes bankrupt...” It was not necessarily a crime fo be bankrupt to-day the speaker said. There were men holding high Government positions who were declared bankrupts and this was not to their discredit. The meeting moved for the rule to be qualified by inserting the words “at the discretion of the committee.”