LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 230, 14 September 1935, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Whitebait Plentiful, Whitebait has been plentiful during the last few days in the Ngaruroro river at Clive. Budget on Tuesday. The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, stated in tho House of Representatives yesterday that he expected the debate cn tho Address-in-Reply would end on Tuesday afternoon. The Budget will bo introduced on Tuesday evening. Aeroplane Accidents Cost £2OOO. A warning to air pilots was given by Dr. W. F. Buist at the annual meeting of the Hawera Aero Club. When the federation was new, he said, and the pilots were inexperienced there were few crashes. As they grew bolder they tended to become more careless and a greater number of accidents occurred. Mishaps cost the federation £2OOO last year. , Theft From a Car. , A Hastings car-owner who left the door of Iris car open o,n Monday evening of last week suffered for his unwisdom by losing a small attache ease containing private correspondence and papers. The owner of the car advertised that if tho thief would return the stolen property no questions would be asked. Indeed, his magnanimity went even farther, for he offered a reward. So far, however, there has been no result. “Worth Fighting For.” “There is a lot of talk about pacifism in our universities, and if the younger generation will not fight an aggressor, then this country that is ours will belong to someone else,” said Captain W. Palmer, at a reception at Auckland given by A Squadron, Legion of Frontiersmen, to Captain Roger Pocock, the legion’s founder. Captain Palmer said the. Legion of Frontiersmen was composed of men, past their youth, who believed their country was worth fighting for. Drama League Festival. Six teams—three from Napier, two from Hastings and one from Otane — will compete at the Hawke’s Bay Drama League festival at the Hastings Assembly Hall on Thursday and Friday, September 26 and 27. Napier Repertory Players, who took first and second places in the Hawke’s Bay festival last year, have again entered two teams. Both the Hastings drama organisations will be represented and the Napier Girls’ High School makes its debut this year. Otane Women’s Institute will be the other competitor. The box plans will open at Fail’s Hastings, on Saturday, September 21. Health Stamp campaign. The Havelock North Town Board last evening decided to buy £2 10/w'orth of health stamps to assist the Health Stamp Campaign. The board also decided to co-operate with Hastings in any further effort in connection with the campaign. When the board was deciding how to assist the campaign, the clerk advised that the Taradale Town Board had decided to buy £2' 2/- worth of stamps. The chairman, Mr 11. R. von Dadelszcn, thereupon suggested that Havelock North purchase £2 10/- worth of stamps. “Havelock North is of more importance than Taradale,” smilingly remarked the chairman. War Injuries Recur. The class of applicant coming before the Claims Board of the Auckland Patriotic Association shows little variation through the years, except that lately the board has noticed a special emphasis due to the recurring nature of w-ar disability. The board reported to the association that it was receiving a number of applicants who had never before felt the need of such assistance, but who now found themselves developing a condition attributable to war injuries or illness. Economic conditions were driving them to seek relief from the association pending the consideration of their claims to a war pension. “Without question a fuller realisation of the facts associated with such cases is called for,” stated the Claims Board in its report. Branding of Exports. The fact that a New Zealand exporting house had recently been called upon to pay a penalty of 10 per cent, of the invoice value of a shipment of a New Zealand product to the United States was referred to by the Minister of Industries and Commerce, the Hon. R. Masters, in a letter received by the council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. The penalty had been inflicted on account of a breach of the United States Tariff Act, which provided that imported merchandise and containers must be properly marked to indicate the country of origin, the marking to be in legible English words. Instead of branding its goods with the words “New Zealand” the company penalised had used the letters “N.Z.” The council decided to thank the Minister for his reminder of this provision in the United States Act. Hawke's Bay Soil Survey. “The recent decision to have a soil survey made of Hawke’s Bay is undoubtedly a move in the right direction, and the only pity is that it was not made many years ago,” said Mr J. Wattie, managing-director of Watties Canneries Ltd., in an address to the Hastings Rotary Club yesterday. “1 consider,” he added, “that when this survey has been made and the information correlated we will be producing things that so far have not been thought of here. Hawke’s Bay is a very wide province with a great variation in climate and soil conditions, and I think that if we were to apply some of the methods and enteqjrise which have been employed in Australia, our efforts would not be confined to the production of meat, wool and butter. When one looks over the skyline of Melbourne and Sydney,” said Mr Wattie, “the progress Australia is making in her secondary industries is very apparent from the forest of factory chimneys towering above the miles of buildings ”