LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 78, 15 March 1935, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

ll:o New Zealand Shipping Company's M.\. Rangitane berthed at Wellington at 11.30 a.in. yesterday and passengers lor Napier arc arriving b\ express to-day. Alter a severe buffeting off the coast, three destroyers attached to the visiting Australian naval squadron the Stuart, Voyager and Ven-detta-arrived at Auckland from Russell yesterday afternoon and joined the cruisers Canbeira and Sussex. The destroyers came down at a reduced speed owing to tin- heav\ gale—Press As.s,l. i here have been : i-.s in Welling t<>n during the last week as to the prospect of organised Labour placing ti tandidute in the field to contest the Wellington Mayoralty with Mr. T. A. HiMop. Now it is definitely st;ite<l that l.ttbour will pul upcandidate for the Mayoralty, but so far the selection, if made, has not been announced. Mr. Semple's name, however, is prominent. J lie continuance oi hooliganism in tiie reserves in Hustinga is still causing concern to the municipal authorities, and the police have now undertaken to help the council in suppressing the nuisance. Larrikins have been making themselves especially ofiensive in the Victoria Square vicinity, and it was reported to the council at its meeting last evening that a good deal of damage has been done to borough property. The desirability of controlling pedestrian traffic on the footpaths in the business area of Hastings, especially on Saturday nights, was mentioned by Cr. A. F. Redgrave at last evening’s meeting of the Hastings Borough Council. Other councillors agreed that it was time that something was done to persuade the public to keep to the pedestrian traffic rules, and the meeting resolved to take the matter in hand To have estimated to within £1 In a total expenditure of more than £5OOO on public works is a remarkable feat, but it was done recently by the Hastings Borough Engineer, Mr C, E. Evans. Better still, Mr Evans was on the right side, for in reckoning up the cost of a schedule of road surfacing he estimated that it would cost £5256, but it was actually £1 less. The estimated cost of completing the programme authorised by ; the council for this year is £2llO. The amendment made in the Com- I panics (Bondholders Incorporation) Bill by the Legislative Council was agreed to by the House of Representatives yesterday. The Minister of Finance, Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, explained that the amendment dealt with the proceedings of the commission -which were to bo private. Originally it was provided that no report of the proceedings was to bo published in any newspaper save with the consent of the commission. The amendment removed the words “in any newspaper’’ and made the prohibition general.

An undertaking that before the session ended an opportunity would be given for a discussion on unemployment and that a day would be set aside for that purpose, was given by the Prime Minister. Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, when relying to a question by the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. M. JSavage, in tho House, of Representatives yesterday. Mr. Savage said that representations were being made to members concerning the unemployment problem, and he considered an opportunity should be given to discuss the whole question. What was admitted by the Prime Minister as unfair shipping competition was the subject of a deputation yesterday from the Federated Sea men’s Union to the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes and tho Minister of Marine, the Hon. J. G. Cobbe. After hearing tho views of the deputation Mr Forbes mentioned that the Government had been “forcing the pace” in an effort to secure an agreement with Australia in respect of the competition to British shipping from subsidised foreign vessels, and ho expressed the hope that when the Australian Ministerial delegation visited New Zealand early in April some definite co-operative action would be taken bv both countries.

An inspection of the scenic reserves on tho shores of Lakes Rotorua and Rotoiti will be carried out during the next, few’ days by Mr. K. M. Graham. Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Auckland district. The object of his visit as far as he had been informed, stated Mr. Graham, was a general investigation of the shores of the two lakes, with special attention to the possibility of their use by the public, including anglers. Problems of landing and picnicking would also he considered. Although during his visit the question of access to anglera would be considered in its place, this would only be studied in relation to other factors. Inspection of the banks of fishing livers, Mich as the Waikato and Kangafaiki. could not possibly be conducted in the- short lime available for the present v i.-it. stated Mr. Graham. Young “socialistic economists” now in the employ of the New’ Zealand Government were, criticised by Mr. H. O. Mellsop, »tesident cf the Auckland provincial cvecutive of the Farmers’ I mon in an address. These young men, he said, had obtained all their fads ir on ine hooks of the past, memorised them, and were now dishing out the : :i f oinia! ion to our leaders. The books d :lie past had dealt -with a situation Kased on scarcity, but to-day the situai .on was different in that, it was a time j 'I plenty; vet there was still poverty, a i di-'iess. Some of these young i''ommiists, san! Mr. Mellsop. had worn i :e;tul brains. They could read two pages of a book and then repeat what they had read without making a slip, t’heir memories were so good that it j was pot necessary for them tn n«e their brains at all j

The Hawke’s Bay Education Board ; has forwarded to the Department of Education au application by the Napier Intermediate School for the erection ol I an extra room as an art room. 1 “Was he a friend of yours?” aske.i > counsel of a .Maori witness in the Ar--1 bitration Court at Hamilton. “Oil. , yes! Sometime good friend and sometime bad friend,’’ was the unusual re- ' piy. As the Napier Intermediate School I Committee is not subject to biennia 1 | elections, it has been decided by the I Hawke’s Bay Education Board to hoi 1 the election of three members by school ■ committees on May 1, and on May 6 I six members b-,- parents of pupils. I ' A slight coll sion occurred at the in--1 let-section of Eastbourne street mid 1 Railway road nt 8 o’clock this morning I between one of Mr Colin Newrick’s I taxis and a car driven by a man named I'try, of Kaponga, Taranaki. Neither I vehicle was damaged mid no one wtts | hurt. The blooming of apple trees for the I second time this season has been Te- ' ported from several suburbs of Auck- | land. An even more unusual event ! to have a tree bearing fruit and being lin blossom again, A case of thL i strange combination is an old pear tree , on the property of Dr. J. P. Hastings, j in Ponsonby road. I No action was taken this morning by I the Hawke’s Bay Education Board conj corning the suggestion by the Taranaki | board that to relieve eye-strain white 1 paper should be replaced with paper of a light green shade. The deputy-chair- ! man, Mr J. 8. Wauchop, said that th<> i combination of tinted paper and of the I ink used might intensify eye-strain I Other members .agreed, and the lettei i was “received.” The Te Rchunga School Committee has asked the Hawke’s Bay Education Board to have the school there raised to the status of a district high school. The application was considered at the board meeting this morning, and it was decided to defer it for 12 months. Meanwhile, the Minister of Education will be at Napier within the next few weeks, and in all probability this matter, among others, will be brought to his notice. “I think the board will stick tn white as the colour for bridges,” sail Mr M. H. Wynyard, motorists’ representative on the Main Highways Board at a meeting of the Automobile Association (Auckland), when the use of yellow paint on North Auckland bridges was discussed. The touring manager, Mr R. E. Champtaloup, reported he had been advised that the board was proposing to standardise the colour of bridges. “After an accident a repaired car may be just as good as previously,” said a witness in a collision damages claim at New Plymouth, “but if the public knows it has been in an accident nowhere near the value can be obtained.” The magistrate, Mr W. H. Wood ward, added, “The unreasonable public.” A witness on the other side later said confidently that such depreciation would be negligible. “Only the slightest stigma,” he added. A canvass for new members for the Taradalc public library was last night decided upon by the Taradale Town Board. The deputy-chairman, Mr J. A Wainscott, pointed out that the library contained well over 3000 volumes which included works by all the popular authors. There was also a valuable collection of reference works, of which the district could be proud. The library was deserving of a much greater patronage, and he hoped that the canvass would result in many new members being obtained.

The following letter from the Department of Education is to be sent to all teachers in the Hawke’s Bay Educa tion Board area:—“Complaints have reached both the department and the Railway Department recently of mi--I behaviour of pupils travelling on certain lines. The department is fully aware that most principals and headmasters take steps to ensure adequate supervision, either by teachers or by sohool prefects, of children travelling by rail, but apparently in certain cases this has been insufficient. Occasionally, too, instances of misbehaviour brought to the notice of the school by the railway authorities appear to have been dealt with rather leniently. Any misbehaviour resulting from a laxity in this direction must bring discredit upon the school concerned and upon the education system as a whole.”