LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 275, 3 November 1933, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The Aorangi, from Auckland, arrived in Sydney at 6 o’clock this morning.

A few days ago we published a story, taken from an English exchange, of an alleged mysterious monster, of prehistoric size and appearance, seen in Loch Ness, in Scotland. Now comes a copy of the "Fishing Gazette,” which states: “We were much amused to see an illustration in a London newspaper, showing a tree trunk, somewhat resembling a horse in shape, that has been floating in Lock Ness and came ashore at Foyers. It is believed to be the explanation of the ‘monster’ reported to be in the loch.”

An appeal made by a lady over 2ZH, Napier, on Wednesday night, for financial assistance for the destitute of Napier, has met with a generous response from a resident of Hastings. The lady or gentleman wrote to His Worship the Mayor (Mr. C. O. Morse), enclosing £l, to be handed to the lady who spoke over the radio, to distribute as she thinks fit. As the donor of the money omitted to sign his or her name to the covering letter, Mr. Morse does not know whom to thank. He requests, however, that publicity be given to the generosity of the Hastings resident, who may rest assured that the donation will be gi'af-l'ull' received bv the lady cuucwaed.

A Hastings boy Vaughan Hallagan, put up an excellent performance in the St. Patrick’s College sports in Wellington on Wednesday by winning the senior mile race in smin. 7 4-ssec.. and running second in the senior half-mile.

The building referred to in Wednesday’s “Tribune” as the new offices of Messrs Mossman and Co. will be occupied by Messrs Mossman and Co. and the Hawke’s Bay Building Society. The building is owned by the Building Society.

Sittings of the Supreme Court will open next year as follow: —W’ellington, February 5; Palmerston North February 6; Napier, February 12; New Plymouth, February 12; Wanganui, February 19; Gisborne, February 20; Nelson, March 20; Blenheim, March 13.

Returns received by the Census and Statistics Office show that fhe estimated areas sown in cereals during the 1933-34 season will be: Wheat, 294,500 acres; oats. 336.500 acres; barley, 27,500 acres. It is estimated that 22,350 acres will be planted in potatoes.

There was a better tone in the Wellington market yesterday. Prices w'ere generally steady on a good demand. The feature of the day’s trading was the activity in New Zealand refrigerating shares. The fully-paid went above par for the first time in a very long period.

A large number of passengers will reach Auckland from overseas next week by three passenger liners, two of which are from England. The HuddartPnrker motor-liner Wanganella will arrive from Sydney next Wednesday. The following day the New Zealand Shipping Company’s liner Rotorua is due from London and the Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Akaroa is scheduled to arrive from London and Southampton a day later. The Rotorua has over 150 passengers and the Akaroa over 100.

West Coast sawmillers and timber exporters are optimistic of the result of the removal of the tariff and primage duty on timber exported to Australia. In conversation with an “Argus” reporter one big sawmiller said that it should have a big effect on the timber trade of the West Coast, as it would mean, as far as he knew at the present time, a difference of about two or three shillings a hundred feet on the price of New Zealand timber in Australia. “All we want now,” he concluded, “is a bit of an export market for red pine.”

“Englishmen and Australians seem less depressed by the depression than New Zealanders, 1 ’ said Mr. C. F. Cotter, of Christchurch, on Ins return from a tour abroad. “They have not ‘got right down to it’ in the same way, and they seem to have more confidence and optimism in working to make things better. New Zealand is depressed by the outlook of the people on their troubles. Australia is busy and confident, and Britain is enjoying much brighter times —factories are busy, and the people are getting back to employment.”

“Our Governor-General deserves the thanks of every New Zealander for his sound advice and the vital interest he takes in the promotion of New Zealand and the Empire’s welfare,” said Mr. Albert Spencer, president of the Auckland Provincial Employers’ Association, at the annual meeting of the association, in commenting upon present world problems. “It is a sign of the stressfulness of the times that Archbishop Averill and others of our clergy are courageously calling attention to the pressing need of combating the difficulties that afflict civilisation to-day,” he added.

Shopkeepers in Hastings report that there is big demand this year for fireworks of a harmless type. The cheaper lines of crackers are mainly sought after, but there is a marked tendency on .he part of adults to purchase the more colourful display varieties. The so-called “bombs” and excessively noisy articles have met with little demand. Citizens should bear in mind that it is an offence, to quote a bylaw, “to set off fireworks or explosive material in or on any public place, or so near therto as to endanger, annoy or frighten passers-by.”

The Canterbury Rugby Union has ahead}' received an application for a Ranfurly Shield game next season. At a meeting this week of the general committee of the union the finance committee reported that a request had been received from the Marlborough Rugby Union for a match at Blenheim for tho Ranfurly Shield early next season, the net proceeds of the match to bo devoted to the Marlborough Union’s ground funds. The recommendation of the finance committee that the request be held over for the consideration of the incoming committee was approved.

Two fine instances of generosity in the service of the Anglican Maori Mission were cited by the Bishop of Ao-tea-roa (the Right Rev. F. A. Bennett), in the course of his sermon at St. Mary's Church at Hawera. He said that a settlement, Wainui, in the Waikato, an elderly Maori woman gave a site for a church and the sum of £l5O. TheO site was accepted with thanks, and later she returned and added the sum of £l5O to the gift. In another locality in the Far North, the Maoris felled kauri trees sufficient to build a church and carted it by bullock teams to the sawmill, where it was prepared for use, and the whole building was erected and finished free of debt.

A case in which the plaintiff was a Chinaman and the defendant a Maori gave rise to some amusing comment between two counsel and tne Magistrate in the Lower Hutt Court. The case concerned a building erected by the plaintiff on the defendant’s land, and the point was whether it was a fixture or not, and counsel for the defendant (Mr. E. P. Bunny) remarked jocularly that seeing the case was between a Maori and a Chinaman, it should be referred to the League of Nations. The Magistrate (Mr J. S. Barton, S.M.) thought that it might come before one of the delegates of the Institute of Pacific Relations, and counsel for the plaintiff (Mr. C. A. L. Treadwell) hoped that relations would be pacific afterwards. A little difficulty has been experienced by the. Labour Department in securing sufficient married men for the metalling work on the Hangaroa-Waikare-moana road, says the P.B. “Herald.” Recently the Public Works Department received instructions to proceed with five miles of metalling on that road, and it was hoped to make a start this week under tne co-operative contract

system based on an average earning of 10/- a day. Unemployment subsidy.was to bo secured, and married men were to drawn from the unemployment bureau. On inquiry yesterday it was learned that to date only six married men had been secured, whereas there was room for 35. and that these would l>- < nt out to the job next week, prob-