LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 103, 12 April 1933, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The “Hawke’s Bay Tribune” will NOT be published on Good Friday or Easter Monday. Banks in New Zealand will close at Easter on Good Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. A special general meeting of the Hastings Ladies’ Golf Club will be held tonight in the Chamber of Commerce rooms. A full attendance is requested. A grand trophy ball will be held at Haumoana on Easter Monday, a free ’bus leaving Westerman’s corner, Has 4 tings, at 7.45 p.m. for the hall. Members of the Hastings Women’s Community Club are asked to note that the annual general meeting takes place on Wednesday, April 26, when the election of officers and committee will take place and the annual report and balance-sheet read. Several motions will be submitted for discussion. A deputation from the Hawke’* Bay Centralised Relief Workers’ Association waited on the Unemployment Board yesterday. The deputation expressed appreciation of the promptness with which the Government had taken up the Napier village settlement scheme. The board expressed sympathy with the scheme and appreciation of the manner 1b which the deputation had stated its case.

Only one case of infectious disease was reported in Hastings last month, compared with four in March of last year. The Hastings R.S.A. was granted permission by the Hastings Borough Council last evening to sell poppies >n the streets on Saturday, April 22. Miss Nola *Luxford will broadcast a programme from K.F.I. Los Angeles on Easter Sunday at 7.30 p.m. New Zealand time. Members of the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand will observe Easter holiday from April 14 to April 18 inclusive. The Havelock North Sports Club will hold a dance in the Village Hall on Easter Monday night. A free ’bus will run from Westerman’s corner at 7.45. Another water pool has been formed, and several additions made to the greatly admired rock beds at Cornwall Park during the past month, greater use having been made of the artesian water supply available. The following figures show the total number of consumers, ranges, etc., of the Hawke’s Bay Electric Power Board, the figures in parenthesis representing the increase during the past month:—Consumers 2465 (7), ranges 438 ( —), milking plants 136 (1), hot water systems 482 (1). At the instance of the Rev. J. A. Asher, the Napier Secondary Education Board last night recorded a vote of congratulation in favour of lan Bickerstaff, who-notched three new records at the annual athletic sports conducted by the Napier Boys’ High School. The boy’s father was an interested old boy of the school, said Mr Asher, and it must be gratifying to Bickerstaff's parents and to the headmaster that the boy had done so well. An appeal for assistance in securing the more rapid development of the goldfields of Central Otago was made at a public meeting at Dunedin. It was decided to request the Premier and his colleagues to take such steps as will enable prospecting and goldmining to be carried on under normal conditions and without the limitations and restrictions imposed by the prohibitive section 35 of the Finance Act. Mr. W. A. Bodkin, M.P., said that an immense field was waiting development, there being ten times more gold in Central Otago than had ever been taken out. —Press Assn. Holy Trinity Church, Gisborne, which was damaged in September by 'quakes, will be reconstructed in brick if the parishioners accept the vestry’s recommendation. The diocesan architects report that the brickwork is exceptionally sound, that the September damage was due mainly to the front wall not being secured to the roof principals, and that the lowering of the roof and reinforcing will render the structure completely 'quake-proof. Synod offers three-quarters of tho restoration costs as a free grant providing the present building is not demolished. —Press Assn. “Continuity of its members Is essential to this board if it is to work officially in tho best interests of the district,” said the chairman of the Hawke’s Bay Electric Power Board, Mr T. E. Crosse, yesterday, when expressing the hope that the borough members of the board would allow themselves to be nominated for a further term. Messrs W. Harvey, A. Hobson, S. Ashcroft and L. J. Harvey announced that they were willing to stand for re-election, while a member stated that he understood that Mr Henry Hill, who was unavoidably absent from yesterday’s meeting, was also willing to serve for a further term if elected. Arrangements for the Easter Anglican conference in Nuhaka of Maori representatives from many parts of the North Island have been completed, and the natives of the Nuhaka-Wairoa district are looking forward to a most impressive gathering on Thursday. The programme includes provision for addresses by the Bishop of Ao-tea-roa, the Bt. Rev. F. A. Bennett, by the Minister of Native Affairs, Sir Apirana Ngata, and by Maori members of Parliament apart from the Minister. Saturday will be set apart for the discussion of matters pertaining to the general welfare of the Maori race. The Maori council will meet on this day, and a discussion of Maori rating burdens will ta"ke place. A reunion of past and present students of Te Aute College is among the other fixtures. The Foresters’ Hall, Napier, is to be the scene of this year's competitions festival, which comemnccs to-morrow, Thursday, at 7.30 sharp. The entries ♦otal over 1000 and many visiting competitors are making a first appearance. Special programmes will be presented at all sessions, and the afternoon and evening sessions will contain all the costume items. Admissions during the day time are Is for adults and sixpence for children. Evening prices are, front seats 2s and back seats Is. Competitors must obtain passes from tho office each time they have to appear. Parents or those responsible for the dressing of juveniles in the dancing and costume items must also obtain tickets which will bo issued at reduced rates. There will be no free admissions. There is a keen demand for season tickets, which admit one to every session, except tho demonstration, for 10s 6d. These are obtainable from the secretary, Foresters’ Hall. The monthly meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Electric Power Board was held in Napier yesterday afternoon. The chairman, Mr T. E. Crosse, presided over Messrs W. Harvey, A. Hobson, C. C. Smith, L. J. Harvey, S. Ashcroft, E. J, Herrick, R. Harding and J. Ellis. In his report the engineer, Mr H. L. Benjamin, reported that a total of 12 new service lines and alterations had been completed during the past month, including the supply of two lights in the Inner Harbour channel An alteration had been made to the range at the Hastings Memorial Hospital by the fitting of new elements. This had considerably increased the efficiency of the range, which was now giving every satisfaction. During the last three weeks power had failed for a few minutes on some of the Power Board feeders on four different occasions. On one occasion the failure was due to a fault on the Government system near Waipukurau. On the other occasions the failures were due either to trees touching tho lines, or to overload on tho main feeders. Both these matters were receiving attention.

About 400 attended a meeting in Oamaru at which the aims of the New Zealand Legion were outlined by Messrs H. L. Paterson, C. E. Barrowclough, and James Begg, all of Dunedin, Mr. J. R. Gaynor, of Wellington, and the Rev. F. Milner. Many members were enrolled. —Press Assn. The Commonwealth and Dominion Line announces that an order has been placed with Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Newcastle-on-Tyne, for a new motorship for the Australian and New Zealand trade. The vessel will have a length of 486 feet, beam of 05 feet, a service speed of 16 knots and five insulated hatches.—Press Assn. Tho schedule of road surfacing work, which was authorised by the Hastings Borough Council for this season, has been completed and, according to tho report of the Borough Engineer (Mr C. E. Evans), presented at the meeting of the council last evening, the gangs were now repairing earthquake damage in a number of places on the bitumen surface roads. The damage was mainly brought about by the openig up of the water mains and sewers. The decision of the judge who presided over the claim brought by the Hawke’s Bay Electric Power Board against Messrs Borthwicks, Ltd. has not yet been made known, but it is expected that he will give his decision after Easter. The law suit was commenced at the Supreme Court at Napier, but was completed in Wellington, where various legal aspects of the case were discussed. The question of the liability of tenants of Government properties was again mentioned at the meeting of the Hastings Borough Council last evening, w-hen the Municipal Association’s solicitor advised that in his opinion the tenants were liable to be rated. Tho particular property in question is that of the Post and Telegraph buildings in Queen street, and the council decided to take legal steps to have a test case heard. The presence of two men who have worked during the season at freezing works and were styled "free labourers” by the men on the job, was responsible for a strike of 100 relief workers at Southern Crescent, Wellington, yesterday morning. The men approached the Unemployment Bureau and were sent back. Officials who went to the job were asked to transfer the men elsewhere, but this was refused. On other jobs similar complaints were made, but the relief workers continued to work pending an instruction from their union. It is stated that 125 men who were employed at the freezing works during the season are now drifting back to relief jobs, owing to the approaching close of the freezing season. —Press Assn. “He is a drunken degenerate, having a bad record with 25 previous convictions,” said Sergeant Claasen at the Napier Court this morning, when Hugh Cleary pleaded guilty to a charge of using bad language. “At about seven o 'clock last night he was having an altercation at the Port with another man over the harbour question, and becoming very heated, his shouting could be heard for a considerable distance.” “With your bad record it is hard to know what to do with you,’’ said Mr G. W. Venables, J.P. “I am prepared to take out a prohibition order,” said Cleary. “What is the good of that, because you have about a dozen charges against you for procuring liquor?” Cleary was convicted and fined £5, in default three months’ imprisonment. “I intended to pay it back,” said Bernard Aloysius O ’Donnell, when pleading guilty at the Napier Court this morning to a charge of theft of 1/6 from a married woman at Port Ahuriri. Sergeant Claasen stated that early in the afternoon the accused called on the woman in question wanting to sharpen scissors or small tools. She gave him some to do, for which he charged sixpence. She gave him a florin, and being unable to change it, he said he would go to a shop and return with the change in a few minutes. He failed to put in an appearance after half an hour, and the woman informed the police. When accosted by Constable Prater, defendant was under the influence of liquor and did not have tho change in his possession. In sentencing O ’Donnell to 14 days ’ imprisonment, Mr G. W. Venables, J.P., said that men of his type were a menace to women and the community would be well rid of him.