LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 53, 13 February 1934, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

It is now expected that the Rangitiki will arrive in Wellington on Thursday evening instead of on Friday morning.

The New Zealand Shipping Co. has received advice that the m.v. Rangitata, which left Auckland on January 19 for London, arrived at and sailed from Kingston on the 9th. instant.

There has been a general increase of prices throughout New Zealand for oatmeal and oaten foods generally. Some brands of oatmeal on new price lists show £3 a ton increase, and several breakfast foods show a 5 to 7} per cent, advance.

There is a fascination about old coins that gives them an appeal to many who are not able to go in for extensive collecting, but who retain an unusual coin when it comes into their possession. Mention of a half-crown 99 years old has led to the unearthing of others. One of these, in the possession of Mrs. D. P. O’Leary, of Clarence street, Northcote,, is 117 years old, having been minted in the reign of George 111. Many old coins come into the bands of the sellers of art union tickets and on Saturday one of these received a shilling minted in 1745 with the head of George 11. upon it. This coin is of almost pure silver and very soft, but is very little worn. A feature of this coin is that the milling is cut at an angle across the edge and the strokes of the mill are set very widely apart.

The possibility of sharing a £1,000,000 fortune is engaging the hopes of a family at Matatoki, near Thames. It is stated that Mrs. K. Noble, wife of a relief worker, believes she is a granddaughter of a Mr. Walsh, who died in the United States recently leaving an estate valued at £1,000,000. Mr. Walsh is said to have served in the Maori Wars before going to America, end following his death inquiries concerning his family were made in New Zealand. Claimants in Auckland stated that the report from Thames was premature. Negotiations were being conducted through a Dunedin solicitor, but it was not even known whether the New Zealand Walsh family was related to Mr. Walsh who died in America. The amount of the estate was not known. “We know nothing yet,” said one representative of the family, “and I would know if anyone does, since I have the papers and am in touch with the solicitors. We might know something in a week or two.”

“What are the ages of the children?” asked Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., of a man who appeared in the Waltara Magistrate’s Court charged with failing to send two children to school on dates in November last. “Let me see, its Reginald and Teddy, isn 'i it?” said the man, scratching his head. “Reginald would be about 14 and Teddy 13, I think. That -would be about right, would it not?” he said, turning to the attendance officer. “That is correct,” the officer affirmed

“That was not a bad guess,” the man continued, “considering that I have children and 40 cows to keep tally of.” The intercolonial passenger liner Wanganella was delayed for over two hours in reaching Wellington yesterday morning from Sydney. When nearing the New Zealand coast about 4 a.m. a heavy banket of fog was met with and the ship was unabe to pick up the Karori Rock. .Speed was necessarily reduced and the liner, which otherwise should have been at the Queen’s Wharf by 7 o’clock, was not berthed until after 9 a.m.. The 259 travellers on board had a smooth trip across the Tasman. Special stock trains, running daily from Taneatua, have taken over 100,000 sheep bred in the Poverty Bay and Tokomaru Bay districts to the Waikato since Christmas. Several thousand cattle have also been transported from the East Coast to the Waikato. Tl stock has been readily absorbed, and at sales held at Waingaro, Te Anga and Morrinsville during the last week, 37,000 sheep and over 1000 head of cattle have been sold. The transport of sheep from the East Coast to the Waikato will continue until the end of February.

Considerable changes have taken place recently at the beach at Sumner through the drifting of great quantities of sand. The protective wall at the Scarborough end of the beach is practically covered over, and the drift toward Cave Rock is gradually climbing to the top of the ornamental wall along that part of the beach. At the east end of the beach there lies buried a depth of ten feet of solid masonry. The waves now never reach the old sandhills. Further west, thousands of tons of send have drifted by sea and by wind alongside the causeway and the deep channels near Shag Rock have entirely filled up, so that the approach to this rock may now be made at all states of the tide.

“Putting men into one-design racing machines and training them to be slick sail handlers and shrewd tiller jugglers never yet made yachtsmen,” said the chairman (Mr. G. R. Curtis), at the meeting of the New Zealand Yachting Council at Christchurch. “We have men in our Sanders Cup crews to-day who can’t splice an eye in the end of a rope. A yachtsman is supposed to be an amateur sailor, capable of keeping his boat up to concert pitch, of getting the best out of her under all conditions, and beating the other fellow, when it conies to racing, by good seamanship as well as by good tactics, and not merely by knowing just what you can do under the Yacht Racing Association rules.”

A striking tribute to the popularity of Archbishop Redwood, the veteran Roman Catholic prelate of Wellington, who will shortly celebrate his diamond jubilee, was paid by Archbishop Mannix, of Melbourne, in a sermon at St Patrick’s Cathedal, Auckland. “It i; ten years since I came from Melbourne to assist in the celebrations of the golden jubilee of the venerable Arch, bishop of Wellington,” Archbishop Mannix said. “Ten years have gone by and all of us seem to have got ten years older, with the exception, perhaps, of the archbishop. His faculties remain unimpaired, and he has a stronger place than ever in the affection of people of all creeds throughout New Zealand. His fame has reached far beyond the bounds of the Dominion. ”

The decision permanently to set aside the islands of the Kermadec Group, which are part of the Auckland land district, for the preservation of native fauna and flora, has been gazetted. An area of 275 acres on Sunday or Raoul Island, the principal island of the group, is not included in the sanctuary. Under section 359 of the Land Act, 1924, the Governor-General may from time to time set apart temporarily any Crown lands as reserves. Under section 300 of the Act, land temporarily reserved may, at the expiration of one month, but not later than six months, after the publication in the New Zealand Gazette of the notice of temporary reservation, be permanently reserved. In the present case the notice of temporary reservation was published in the Gazette on December 7, 1933. | A German flag which formerly flew on a planter’s residence in Samoa has been presented to the German barque Magdalene Vinnen, at psesent at Auckland, and is now used as the ship’s ensign. The flag was presented to the vessel by Mr. D. Glenfield, an employee of the Auckland Harbour Board, and who was a member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force which occupied Samoa. The flag is blue, white and red, in three horizontal stripes, and is similar to the German merchant flag. It was one of three flags which flew over the German planter’s house, and when the planter was interned the flags were hauled down, being brought to Auckland. \A flag not seen on the barque on her'former visit is the Hitler flag at the masthead. It is a red flag with a white circle in the middle, and in the circle is the swastika.