LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 234, 15 September 1934, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The Hamilton Borough Council has received 64 applications for the position of assistant>traffic inspector. A sub-committee has been appointed to reduce the number to 12.

New Zealand was flooded with commissions sitting in odd corners like fowls in a barnyard and all that was needed was another commission to see what the others were doing, said Colonel S. E. Closey in an address on social credit at Stratford.

A Hastings competitor at the recent Hawera competitions, Miss Pat Over, was successlul in winning a number of events in the dancing section. She won the silver cup for the aggregate number of points in all dancing classes, beini; placed in all sections in which she entered except the character dance

A further letter from Air A. E. Jull, M l’., read at the Havelock North Town Board meeting last night advised that he had decided to ask the Local Bills Committee to recommend that the Hastings Alilk Bill be not proceeded with this session, as neither the Hastings Borough Council nor the Havelock North Town Board was in favour of it. The letter was received.

A heavy caitgo of New Zealand produce was carried by the Akaroa when she left Auckland yesterday for London In addition to between 80,000 and 90.1XM) boxes of butter the cargo included cheese, wool and the first ship, ment of chilled beef to leave the Dominion by a Shaw, Savill and Albion vessel. The Akaroa also had about 20 passengers and a quantity of mail.

After having issued meals to both adults and children for the past 14 weeks, from June 12, the Hastings Good Cheer Food Depot closed down yesterday. The depot supplied thousands of meals of cooked rations in feeding children during the presens winter, and the work it has carried out in this respect can hardly be imagined, so huge is the total amount of meals and food issued.

A middle-aged witness tn a case at the Magistrate’s Court, New Plymouth, walked 22 miles to be present. He started at 4.30 a.m. and arrived at the Court at 10.30 a.m. When he

came to give evidence Mr, W. H. Woodward, S.M , told the man he could sit down, but he replied cheerfully: “It is all right; I think I can stand on one leg.’’ He did so in an examination which lasted nearly 00 minutes.

The retrospective payment from April 1 of the 5 per cent, increase in tho salaries and wages of public servants remains a delayed pleasure. According to the officers in charge of Government departments in Auckland there had been no official advice when the additional amount would be paid. While some hope was held that payment would be marie before the end of the present month, there was an opinion that tho back pay would not be available until next month.

Very rarely is the skirl of the bagpipes to be heard on the Auckland station, but on Thursday evening the scene at the departure of the limited express was enlivened by their strain. The occasion was the departure of the 'Thistle Association football team to play for the Chatham Cup tn Wellington to-day, and their friends of the St. Andrew’s Pipe Band had gathered to give them a send-off. The Thistle team, the finalists for the North Island, will meet Christchurch Thistle, the South Island finalists.

The intfux of visitors in anticipation of the New Zealand amateur boxing championships, which are to take place in Hastings next week, will commence this evening, advice having been received by the secretary, Mr. J. Stickland, of the Hawke’s Bay Boxing Association, that a party of five from the Motueka-Riwaka district, in the South Island, would" be arriving by the mail traih. Tho party consists of three boxers, a trainer and a delegate. As the three-day tourney does not commence until Wednesday the real rush of visitors to Hastings will not set in until Monday or Tuesday.

“It's the finest and fairest method of conducting the draw that I have ever had anything to do with,’’ declared Mr J. Stickland, secretary ol the Hawke’s Bay Boxing Association, to a ■'Tribune’’ representative last evening when questioned about his part iu Hie draw lor the New Zealand Amateur boxing championships, which are to take place in Hastings next week. The draw was made in Wellington under the supervision of the appointed officers of tho New Zealand Council. Air Stickland was greatly impressed with the method adopted, the procedure being simplicity itself yet ensuring that justice is done to every comixititor.

There was an unusually large attendance at the meeting of the Auckland City Council op Thursday night. On the floor of the council chamber were seated 17 members of the junior branch of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. At the opening of the meeting, the Mayor, Mr. G. W. Hutchinson, said he had invited members of the junior chamber to be present. It was of value that members of such organisations should attend council meetings, as they might find some inspiration towards future civic service. If councillors wished to invite members of other organisations to attend council meetings, he was sure they would bo made most welcome.

A novel exhibit to be included in one of the special window displays arranged in Hastings in connection with the New Zealand Amateur Boxing championships, which are to take place next week, is an outsize in boxing gloves The specimen in question was brought back from Wellington by Mr. J. Stickland, secretary of the H.B. Association, and it is said to have been specially manufactured for the use of the Italian giant. Primo Camera. in the ccurse of his world's championship series of matches. With the exception that its weight is the same as the average used by boxers of normal physique it is almost twice the size of the arcrugr, glove,