LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 107, 19 April 1933, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

The. general meeting of the Celtic Football Club will be held at 7.30 this evening in the Favourite Hall, Hastings A rink from the Hastings Bowling Club, skipped by F. King, journeyed to Gisborne at Easter to take part in the Burton Cup tournament, but were not successful in winning the trophy, their record being 5 wins and 4 losses. Manchester Unity Oddfellows and candidates for initiation are reminded that the Hastings Lodge will hold its fortnightly meeting at the Oddfellows’ Hall, Market street, Hastings, on Thursday next, 20th inst., at 7.30 p.m. A decision to issue a challenge for the Ranfurly Shield and, on its acceptance, to send a representative team to meet Canterbury, the present holders, was made at a meeting last night of the management committee of the Wellington Rugby Football r nion.

Thp Karori Hockey Club will hold a general practice on Thursday afternoon at Nelson Park, Hastings. The annual general meeting of the Hastings Basketball Association will be held at 7.30 this evening in St. Matthew’s Hall, Hastings. It is estimated that the total exports 'of apples from New Zealand this season will be about 1,400,000 eases, compared with about 1,600,000 cases last season, AH hockey matches of the Hawke’s Bay Association set down for the open, ing tournament on Thursday and Saturday have been postponed to the following week. The Associated Banks have been informed from London that the Bank of England will not accept English silver coin from Australia and New Zealand—Press Assn. The annual general meeting of the Hastings Free Kindergarten will be held on Monday, April 24, at 3 p.m., in St. Andrew’s schoolroom. All nominations must reach the secretary not later than Saturday, April 22. Attention is drawn to an advertisement appearing elsewhere that the Hastings brunch of the Bed Cross Society’s annual general meeting will be held in the Borough Council Chambers to-mor-row evening at 8 o’clock. The Kahuranaki Rebekah Lodge willhold another of their popular “500” curd tourneys in the Friendly Societies’ Hall, Warren s.reet, on Friday, April 21, at 8 o’clock sharp. There will be the usual good prizes and supper. Sentence of six months’ imprisonment was imposed on Frederick Charles Dauby, aged 35, a cook, who pleaded guilty at Wellington to obtaining £6 il/- by false pretences from a furniture company by means of a valueless cheque.—Press Assn. Mr J. Muggeridge, B.Sc. Govern, merit Entomologist, will give an address on the biological control of insect pests, followed by an address on farm crop diseases, by Mr Cunningham, Government Mycologist, at the Maraekakaho Hall to-morrow afternoon at 2 o c-ioek. “During my period of responsibility difficult tunes have been with us. Somebody has to be blamed for them, and that person has been me,” said the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. G. it. Forbes at the Waikari (Canterbury) sports yesterday. “If it is only the blame, then it does not matter, tor we shall see things through,’' he added. “We have problems, but they can be overcome, they are merely to test us and find out what stamina we have ” A dance was held in the Haumoana Hall on Easter Monday evening under the auspices of the Haumoana Beach Improvement Committee. Although the crowd was not as large as anticipated a vi rj enjoyable time was spent. Great credit is due to Mrs Estaugh and her energetic ladies’ committee, who worked so tirelessly to make the dance a success. Cameron’s orchestra supported excellent music and a sumptuous supper was provided. Shortly before 1 o’clock this morning fire totally destroyed a live-roomed house near the Black Bridge at Haumoaua. The premises were owned by Mr C. Jensen and were occupied by Mr and Mrs C. Blythe and family. The outbreak spread with surprising rapidity, and the occupants were unable to save anything. The cause of the outbreak 'and particulars regarding insurances are not known at present. An indication of the vigorous neasuies being carried out by the Aucklanu Acclimatisation Society to exterminate hawks, stoats and weasels is given in the annual report of the Bj. ciety. The sum of £378 was spent by the society last year in bounties for the destruction of 14,951 hawks. Over the past 11 years, 144 972 pairs of hawks’ feet have been sent to tho society, £3897 being paid in rewards. During the past year 5219 tails of stoats and weasels were sent to the society, royalties paid on a basis of 1/- a tail amounting to £394. Easter traffic at the Hastings railway station was very heavy this year, and the returns show a decided all-round increase compared with the holiday period twelve months ago, despite the fact that the vacation was three weeks later in the season this year. The total number of tickets sold was 802 this year, and last year 600, the roveI nue being £664 17s 7d and £469 2s Id : respectively, an increase in revenue of £195 15s 7d. The details are as foli low:—Ordinary tickets sold 307 (last year 237), revenue £l4l 18s lOd (£lO2 6s 7d); excursion tickets 495 (363), re- ■ venue £496 8s 9d (£366 15s 6d). A Hastings business man who has just returned from a fortnight’s holii day in the Taranaki district, informed a “Tribune” representative this morn- ' ing that the dairy farmers were findI ing things extremely difficult in that district. He mentioned that one farmer ' was getting a daily output of 80 to 90 ' gallons of milk, but his cream cheque , worked out at only 16/8 a day. ' Another farmer, who traded his equity . in residential properties in Wellington . for a farm in Taranaki, mentioned to the visitor that for the past twelve months he received only £9O, though he > was milking, and hand-milking at that, some twenty cows a day. I Three good heads were secured by a •norf-xr zn-F ilirno rl nor.qf fi IkpTS fmm

party of three deer-stalkers from Hawke’s Bay on Mahia Peninsula during the Easter holidays. -The best was a 17-pointer and the remaining two 16pointers, all being good specimens. The party reported that although deer were plentiful, there was a scarcity of firstclass heads, and this would be more marked as time went on owing to the fact that there was evidence of inbreeding. With three rifles a large bag of deer could have been obtained, but the stalkers were content with bringing down only the best specimens.—P.B. ‘ ‘ Herald. ’ ’ This season Gisborne has exported approximately 8600 cases of , fruit, almost entirely apples, with a few pears. The remainder of tho season should ; produce a further >3OOO cases of apples to bring the season's total exports up to 12,000 cases, or only about half last year’s tally. Tho latest shipment to leave Gisl orne was last Thursday, when 805 cases of apples were loaded for the United Kingdom and 4.7 cases for the Continent. The main varieties in tho United Kingdom consignment were Sturmers and Granny Smiths, with also some Doughertys, Koine Beauties, and Simmonds’ Winter, while the small quantity of Continental apples comprised 'Doughertys and Sturmers.—P.B. ‘ ‘ Herald. ’ ’