LOCAL & GENERAL!

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 77, 14 March 1935, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL!

On March 21 and 22 there will be a sitting of the Arbitration Court in I Napier. His Honour, Mr Justice , Frazer will preside. "Some people think that the Maoris never saw a moa, but here is evi- . deuce that they did,” said Bishop Bennett when explaining last evening, ; at a meeting of the Hastings Histori- j cal Society, the meaning of the word j to rau o piopio, meaning a piopio , made of the feathers of the moa It was announced at a meeting of ; the Dunedin City Council last night that the Drainage Board had floated a | loan of £151,000 for renewal purposes I at per cent, at the long term oi 29 years. This, it was claimed, was the most outstanding loan floated by any public body in New Zealand for many years.—Press Assn. Reference to the “official assassinee” in the Police Court at New Plymouth by the prosecution in a theft case did not mean that the matter was serious enough to involve the State executioner. It was merely a slip of the tongue for a less fearsome individual, the deputy official assignee in bankruptcy. From an authoritative source it is stated that the reopening of the police training depot at. Wellington is under consideration and that it is hoped to start training the first batch in the not distant future. The depot was closed for reasons of economy in July, 1930. The strength of the force since has been maintained by the engagement of temporary constables, who have been made permanent if found satisfactory. The Bush Rugby Union has nomiI nated Mr S. 8. Dean, chairman of the management committee of the New Zealand Union, and Mr G. Maddison, of Hawke's Bay, as delegates to I the Imperial Rugby Conference to be held in London later in the year. The New Zealand Union has not yet called for nominations for these two positions, although the question is under consideration. Enrolments of students since classes commenced at the Auckland University College on March 4 are greater by 7i per cent, than those recorded at the corresponding period last year. The increase is more than accounted for by I the reopening of the Teachers’ Training College, whose students are prov.ding about 15 per cent, of the total, i Although, therefore, there has been a i slight decrease in the total number of I students apart from teachers, a feature I of the enrolments has been an increase I i in tho number of engineering students. | | The Janie Seddon returned to port ' at Wellington on Tuesday evening I ' alter locating the fault in the inter-| . island telephone cable. This was I found to be exactly where the engini eers predicted, 1.3 miles off the Lyall Bay shore. About 500 yards of cable were lifted from a depth of sixty feet, and the ends were bouyed. The damaged section of the cable was lifted on board, ami the .Janie Seddon returned to the spot yesterday with a new section to replace that lifted. As anticipated, the damage to the cable was found to be due to chafing on the rocky bottom, the protective covering ' having been worn through. The Anglican I’nmate, Aichbisnop J Averill, has issued to all Auckland i city an! suburban mayors, members of | local bodies, army, navy and air force officers, consuls and prominent citi- J zens an invitation to attend an official : national service of thanksgiving in St. I Matthew's Church on Monday, May 6, on the occasion of the commeinota- I tion of the silver jubilee of King George’s reign. The church holds 2IKJO persons and it is expected that it will be filled. The service will be as near- i lv as possible similar to that in St. Paul’s London, but the Auckland service will be held ]2 hours earlier ami | actually will be the first in the Ent- ] pire. Next month Bishop Bennett's .Maori choir, which won the inter-district ' championship lor Maori choirs held at . Omuhu last year, is to travel to Torere, in the Opotiki district, to defend its title, and on March 28 will give a concert in the Hasting* Assembly Hall for the purpose ot raising fluids for the trip. The choir consists ot thirty voices. In announcing the choir s intention to go to Torere, Bisbop Bennett, speaking at the Hastings Historical Society’s gathering last night, said to the audience: I hope you will try to be present. 1 can assure you that you will get geod value for your money, and that you will feel happy for having helped the choir along its way. Mr 11 G. Dickie, M l’., who in ; leader of the Parliamentary Delega- , | tion to attend the Conference of the ‘ j British Empire Parliamentary Assoi elation tn London, stated at West-, i mere that all the expenses of the delei gation would be paid by the associaj tion and not by Parliament. He j wanted the point regarding the puy- | meat of expenses cleared up definitely. ! He had been a member of the assoI eiation for many years, and had paid j his subscription like every other memi her. It was from the fund created by th tse subscriptions that the New Zealand delegation’s expenses would he paid. It was not a case of the l>oI minion Parliament contributing for somebody to have h “joy-ride” at the | expense of the taxpayer. A < oniplaint that file l.oudim police iioi<’ not real he-man police at all, ami I that thin politeness compared poorly! with the roughness, gruffness, and i rudeness of American police, was once j made by that comically philosophical | Aniciji;in lomedian, Will Roger.-. \ ||. icsideiit who Iclf Ills bicycle* -taml. im. against the newly-painted walls ol the Municipal Buildings this morning was reminded of W ill Rogers s I disapproval ot official urbanity . When ' th. owner of the bicycle came out of the building he discovered that the trafficinspector or some other official bad, I administered a silent reproof by taking : the bicycle and putting it in the nearby j biccycle stand, which, by Hie way, the 1 | owner bail nut noticed. Ihe leeeon was! not lost upon ihe culprit .