LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 81, 17 March 1934, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

The iuter-provmcial tennis match between Wanganui and Hawke’s Bay has been cancelled as Wanganui found it impossible to arrange for a team to make the trip With the change in the ministerial appointment to the Waipawa Methodist Home Mission Station, the station is to come under the supervision of the Hastings Circuit with the Rev. R. B. Gosiuli as the chairman’s deputy, and Missioner O. Jones in charge at Waipawa. The Havelock North Fire Brigade wishes to acknowledge the following further donations in response to their recent appeal:—Previously acknowledged £23, Anonymous £l, Mr. Ken Ellison £2 2/-, Mr. W. Bridgman £2 2/-, Mrs. Lowry North £l, Miss Lowry £l, Mrs. McHardy £l. The time for the mile run, which is held annually at the Napier Boys’ High School, was lowered yesterday by M. Smith, son of Mr C. C. Smith, Bay View, who covered the distance in 4mins. 55secs. The record existing until yesterday was omins. 0 LSsecs., established in 1911 by E. 0. Ruddock. Second place in the mile yesterday was gained by Bickerstaff. The treasurer of the Hawke's Bay Children's Home has received from Mr W. Husheer, a donation of £5O on behalf of the National Tobacco Co. Ltd. this continued valuable assistance ren. dered to the Hawke’s Bay Children’s Home is very much appreciated by the trustees and gives great encouragement m their appeal to the public for £lOOO. Mr Wilfrid Kingsford Smith announces that the following have consented to act as directors of Dominion Airways, which is to commence a service in September:—Messrs Ernest Davis, Marsden Caughey, Eric Rhodes, G. W. Hutchison, E. H. Boucher (all of Auckland), and C. J. B. Norwood (Wellington). Sir Charles Kingsford Smith would act in association with these men, making a board of seven directors. Mr Boucher is president of the Auckland Aero Club, and Mr Hutchison is Mayor of Auckland. The difficulty that New Zealand boys who are anxious to take up a seafaring career have in finding openings in the mercantile marine was again stressed in public, when Mr. J. Macdonald, a member of the Birkenhead Borough Council, moved a resolution that the Minister of Marine be communicated with. Other councillors readily endorsed the proposal, to the effect that the Minister be urged to make an endeavour to have at least one New Zealand boy on the articles of every British vessel trading in New Zealand. The motion was unanimously carried.

“Why didn’t you drive straight for him?’’ was the query put to a Blenheim motorist when he was recounting an experience he had had with a wandering bullock. Driving through the Kaituna, he had come upon the animal just round a bend, and had made a wrong guess as to which way it would move-—with unfortunate results to the car. “Cows always tend to move away from an approaching object, ” the man with experience said, “so that if you make straight for them they will get out of your way.’’ The motorist is storing the information for future use, but informed an “Express’’ reporter that he would rather someone else tried out the plan and let him know if it worked. The Australian Trade Commissioner in Canada (Mr L. R. Macgregor) recently stated in Sydney that Australian fresh fruits seeking the Eastern Canadian market met with transportation handicaps. Mr Macgregor mentioned that South Africa was getting a fair amount of fresh fruit into Eastern Canada, receiving it by way of London Even under such conditions the sea journey was shorter than from Australia through the Panama Canal. He indicated that there was a possibility of the Canadian National Line, a Gov-ernment-owned organisation, putting on a line of steamers, with refrigerated accommodation, to trade direct between Australia and Eastern Canada, but this would be a matter of Government policy. A start has been made demolishing the tower on the Victoria Arcade, Auckland. This has been an architectural feature of Auckland for over 50 years, and in its demolition there is demonstrated the quality of the workmanship of the early ’eighties. The workers unstepped the perfectly sound 40ft. kauri flagpole which has overlooked Queen street for so long; they then began to strip the lead roofing of the cupola, and from this it is expected to retrieve about five tons of lead. This roofing was well fastened down with heavy metal washers weighing about 31b. each, and held in place with strong brass screws. The tower itself, which is to be razed to the very foundations, was constructed of hand-made bricks, which show no sign of weathering. It it a matter of historical record that on the completion of the arcade all the special moulds for the terra-cotta work were destroyed, so that in some features the building is unique. In an address to the Christchurch women’s auxiliary of the Manufacturers’ Association, Mr F. L. Hutchinson, president of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation, said: “The present position of our industries gives cause for grave concern. Industrially we are undeveloped. have our indnstria’ era before us, Failure b develop internally ha scausOd, and is causing, New Zealand to lag behind other countries in recovery. People are realising this and it may safely be said that force of conditions will make this country to turn to manufacturing development with the same zeal that it has shown in developing the agricultural industry. There are signs of upheaval in men’s minds upon this subject,’’ he said, “and it is gratifying to find that our legislators are aware of this change and are turning their attention more than ever before to the great second line of defence against national eeo-l nomic stagnation.’’ I

I The Chevrolet saloon car stolen from 1 I outside a house in Eastbourne street last week has not yet been traced, in spite of exhaustive inquiries by the ’ police. The number of the car is * 85.737. 0 Light frosts were experienced in districts south of Auckland on Thursday j morning. At Pukekohe the frost was very light and no damage was done to crops or gardens. The third frost in 1 three days was experienced at Hamils ton, where three degrees were regis- ; tered. 1 The nett profit from the High School garden fete held last week, and or--3 ganised by the High School League. , was slightly more than £llO. Excellent ’ work was done by the pupils them- . selves, who sold more than £4O worth of tickets besides helping in other , ways. Strong support of the endeavours ol the New Zealand motor unions to have s the penalties, provided by the existing 1 law for the conversion of motor vehicles . substantially increased was given at i the conference of the Federation of i New Zealand Justices’ Association. A [ remit was reaffirmed urging the Min- . ister of Justice to take steps to have the punishment made more severe. The usual euchre tournament run by the Hastings New Relief Association last night proved another great success. Card honours were won as follow:—Ladies, Mrs. Marshall 1, Mrs. Pine 2; men, Mr. Kale and Mr. Langley (tie) 1. The committee wishes to 1 thank the manager of the Cosy Theatre 1 for a donation of four tickets as consolation prizes. “The response by sheep farmers in the payment of rates, especially arrears, has been absolutely wonderful,’’ said Mr. H. Marsland, clerk to the Raglan County Council. Mr. Marsland said that so far per cent, of the current year’s rates had been received, as against 45J per cent, for the corresponding period last year. In addition, 75 per cent, of arrears had been collected. A collision between two cars, one of which was driven by Mr. Robert J. Pattison, of Avenue road, Hastings, and the other by a Mrs. Grant, of Taradale, occurred at the Tomoana road and Fitzroy avenue intersection at about 6 o’clock last evening. Both cars were damaged, and Mr. Pattison’s two children, one aged nine years aud the other three and a half, suffered slight cuts from flying fragments of glass. A very enjoyable repeat performance of “Nice Goings On” was given in the Hastings Municipal Theatre last evening in aid of the Hawke’s Bay Children’s Homes, but owing no doubt to the public’s uneasiness as a result of recent earthquakes, the audience was disappointingly small. Nevertheless, the company carried out their programme with the enthusiasm and fine artistry that have characterised all their performances in aid of the Children’s Homes, and the audience thoroughly relished every item. It was 45 years yesterday since a disastrous hurricane at Samoa wrecked six warships in Apia Bay and caused the loss of about 150 lives. Of all the vessels in the bay when the gale sprang up on March 16, 1889, only one was successful in reaching the open sea and riding out the storm. It was the British warship Calliope, the boilers of which were fuelled with Westport coal. Besides the six warships, three American and three German, which were destroyed, two iron barques and eleven coasters, were wrecked. The presence of the warships at Apia was due to a dispute between Germany and the United States concerning the control of Samoa. It is an open secret among women that smart footwear often means smarting feet, and feminine expedients for the momentary relief of aching extremities are many and ingenious. An incident in a shoe store demonstrates the resourcefulness of the modern miss. Limping iuto the shop footsore, she sank into the nearest chair, and asked to be shown the latest in bedroom slippers. After fitting on the various selections of the shop girl for almost half an hour, thereby relieving her tortured feet, she bravely donned her seductive, fashionable and feminine high-heeled “twos,” and calmly remarked, “I will call another day.” What the tradesman gets on the shoes he is apt to lose on the slippers.

At a meeting of the Otorohanga County Council strong exception was made to the red tape methods of Government Departments, and instances were quoted. Members stated that to get half a dozen slashers for the use of relief workers these had to be obtained from Wellington, while authority to buy 1000 sheep could be obtained locally. One inspector was opening up bush country, when thousands of acres of open country were going back to ragwort and rabbit. Letters written to the Crown Lands Department asking for ragwort clearance had not been replied to. It was decided to write strongly to the Minister of Agriculture, drawing attention to the lack of initiative and to the red tape methods employed. “1 think we have had enough Royal Commissions,” said Mr. A. G. Lunn, president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, at a meeting of the council of the chamber, when a suggestion was made that the chamber should urge upon the Government the desirability of setting up a Royal Commission to consider the question of trade with the Islands, the throwing open of the trade to private enterprise, and the advisability of immediately disposing of the Government vessel Maui Pomare Mr. Harvey Turner also expressed the view that the time was not opportune for a Royal Commission. He said he did not approve of Government in business, but it was too late now to take the matter up. The problem of trade with the Islands and the suggestion that a Royal Commission should be set up were deferred for further consideration