LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 196, 2 August 1934, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

Charged with failing to send? his child to school, Bob Raugi was convicted and lined 10/- and £1 18/- costs by Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., at the Hastings Magistrate’s Court this morning.

The Mayor of Hastings, Mr G. A. Maddison, acknowledges with thanks receipt of £3 10/- from the New Relief Workers’ Association, being the proceeds of the .Sunday night concert; also £1 from Dalgety and’ Co., Ltd., towards the Mayor’s Copper Trail Fund,

The Taurauga Acclimatisation Socioty has liberated 181 young pheasants during thu past lew weeks in various parts of the country. Tho birds were purchased from Gisborne, Auckland, Rotorua and local breeders- Tho society intends purchasing more birds for liberation.

With the commencement of the dairying season only a few weeks away in most parts of the Auckland Province, reports indicate that pastures are, on tho whole, backward. This is the result of a winter that has been cold and wet. The prolonged spell ot dr.v weather in the late autumn left farmers with stock that were not in the best of condition to withstand tho feed shortage of the winter.

Of the total of £1,810,175 involved in the Auckland City Council’s mam lean conversion scheme, only £136,050 remain to come in. ’J he total value of the debentures received up to Tuesday was £1,673,525, or 02.45 per cent, ot tho total amount to be dealt with So far 71 ot tho 130 loan issues emhruced in the conversion scheme have been completed, so that the outstanding sum of £136,650 is spread over the remaining 59 issues.

General regret at the impending departure of his Excellency the GovernorGeneral, Lord Bledisloe, from the Dominion was expressed at the annual meeting of tho New Zealand Forestry League in Wellington. "Though his departure will be deeply regretted by all patriotic citizens, for he has been a true ‘guide, philosopher, and friend' to all, I. feel,” said the president, Mr. E. Phillips Turner, ‘‘that our league has still greater reason lor regret as it loses a patron who has given most valuable assistance to that cause which is ono of the chief leasons tor the league’s existence.”

The port Ahuriri Bowling Club has elected the following officers tor this year: Patron, Mr. J. P. Smith; president, Mr. H. Mayo; vice-presidents, Messrs. R. V. McCarthy and R. Boyd; secretary and treasurer, Mr- J. R. Taylor; solo selector, Mr. J. Johnson; auditor, Mr. E. C. Brie; ground superintendent, Mr. F. I.'. Logan; delegates to Hawke's Bay Centre, Messrs. F. D. Logan and T. M. Courtney; committee, Messrs, W. W. Lockwood, T. M. Courtney, C- F. Johnson, G. B. Poppelwell, A. Clegg, E. O, Pirie, R Kennedy, G. Riddell.

An unusually clear display of the Aurora Australis was visible tn Dunedin last Monday evening. As seen by observers at the Beverley-Begg observatory, it presented a striking spectacle, extending right over the southern horizon in tlm form of a gigantic arch. Later, a crescent formation split up into several irregular streamers of pearly light, tinged with yellow and reaching over tho southern sky. It was noticed that the stars shining through the aurora suffered remarkably little diminution of light. Tho , phenomenon is supposed to be occasioned by particular types of activity on the sun, and, more especially, by those which are associated with sun spots. The necessity for remodelling the Tourist Department along tho lines of the Railway s Department so as to give scope for business organisation in the development of New Zealand's tourist industry was stressed by Mr. H. HSterling, chairman of the Railways Board, in an address at Auckland. There was much concern in New Zealand to-day over the possible restriction of exports, Mr. Sterling said. It was necessary to face up to the position and, while endeavouring to obtain the best bargain possible for primary producers, to exploit other avenues as well. Few countries in the world were better endowed by nature than New Zealand. There was a delightful climate and, in addition, pre-eminent attractions of appeal to tourists, all within a comparatively small area. The encouragement of a greater volume of tourist traffic, with which New Zealand was equipped by nature to deal, would mean an immense gain in revenue.