LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21277, 2 September 1932, Page 10

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Promising Fruit Season „ There is a fine showing of blossom on paragon peach trees in Henderson orchards at present and plums aro also well advanced. Last season was not particularly good for stone fruits, but if the present promise is fulfilled, the coming season should prove more than , usually prolific.

Remarkable Fishing Picture 'The secretary of the Tauranga DeepPea Fishing Club, Mr. E. Munro, has re ceived a letter from the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, returning grateful thanks for an excellent coloured photograph of a striking catch of sword fish at Mayor Island. Lord Bledisloe says:—" It is certainly a remarkable picture, illustrating a fino and unprecedented fishing achievement. As 'I now have two copies, 1 contemplate sending one to His Majesty the King."

Legislators as City Councillors Membprs of Parl'ament occupying the position of city councillors does not meet with the approval of the Wellington Ratepayers' Association, according; to its latest annual report. The report states that councillors' duties to their Parliamentary constituents very often clash with their duties to ratepayers, and that the association is of the opinion that when a councillor becomes a member of Parliament he should resign his seat on the, council. No man, it is urged, can serve two masters.

Relief Workers' Football An unusual request, that the customary ground fee of 6d a player bo not required from two relief workers' Association football teams, was received by the City Council last evening from the Auckland Football Association. The latter stated that the teams had entered for its midweek competition, and that there was a prospect of two more being formed. The request was granted, the superintendent of parks to satisfy himself of the bona fides of persons excused from payment. Appeal For Gramophones Gramophones are still required for sending to a number of the relief camps in the Auckland province, and a further appeal for the gift of machines was made yesterday by the Metropolitan Unemployment Relief Committee. In response to an earlier appeal, several good machines were received and sent to camps. There are still a number of camps in isolated places where some means of entertaining the men in the evening is desired, and the committee is anxious to, fill this want. Reading In Tramcars The attitude of serious inquiry which increasing numbers of the public have taken up toward a study of world affairs since the commencement of the economic and financial difficulties has frequently lieen the subject of comment. Evidence of this mental trend was provided in an Auckland tramcar yesterday, when three-people, two men and a woman, seated in one row, were each seen to be deeply engrossed in a book. The titles of the books were:—" Germany: Fascist or Soviet;" " Tho World's Economic Crisis;" and " God in the Shadows. 1 '

Two Lucky Recoveries Anyone who lost such a small object as a £1 stamp between the Supreme Court and the city might naturally make up his mind that he had seen the last of it, but, fortunately for him, a clerk who lost the stamp took a more hopeful view of his loss and set about searching the streets he had been over. His optimism was rewarded when lie picked up the missing stamp in front of the Northern Club in Princes Street. But his day's good luck held further. Not only had he lost the stamp, but also a sum of 15s. This was recovered later in the day near the Court by someone who had heard of the loss.

Signs Across Queen Street Three, applications for leave to suspend calico signs across Queen Street were declined by the City Council last evening. One related to a concert and tho others to a boxing tournament and a football match. The Mayor, Mr. G, W. Hutchison, said tho practice was being overdone. The signs flapped about and became untidy in a day or so, and he had had complaints from occupiers that their premises were invaded by workmen for the purposo of fastening the signs. It seemed to him, said the Mayor, that this form of publicity should be reserved for events of national or provincial im portance. Sombre Trees s-t Schools

"I think we are inclined to go in for too sombre trees in our school grounds," remarked Mr. J. C. Thomson at a meeting of the Southland Education Board. "There are too many pines, which shed their needles into gutters and spouting. I should like to see more ornamental shrubs and native trees planted. There is tho koromiko, the lancewood, the kowhai and tho rimu. All these are beautiful trees and would lend charm to a school's surroundings. It is often thought that the jed pine is a difficult tree to transplant, but if it is taken from the forest together with another tree and the two are planted together tho roots of one seem to assist the other. I have seen a rimu four feet, high transplanted in this way." Colonial Relics Several gifts of interest have lately been made to tho Old Colonists' Museum. One is a breech-loading rifle found on tho site of the Gate Pa and bearing identification marks, which are taken to indicate that it was carried by a member of H Company, 56th Regimont. The donors are Masters L. and C. Rousell, Bank Run, Tauranga. Mr. Robert Peaco, of 73 Shortland Street, has presented a stove patented and cast, in Auckland in 1886 by Mr. Robert Peace, senr., and an old camp oven. Mr. F. Hussey, of 49 Pah Road, Onehunga, has given five medals, awarded to 11. and J. Goodfellow for livestock by the Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Association in 1876. Ratepayer Admonished

A novel decision, that .a ratepayer be "severely reprimanded" for a breach of tho by-laws, was made by the City Council last evening. The citizen in question had proceeded with alterations to his promises in Pitt Street without the formality of obtaining a permit, and the council, at its meeting three weeks ago, had "directed" him to appear before the Works Committee and show cause why he should not be prosecuted. The committee reported that he had duly appeared. It recommended that no legal proceedings bo taken, but that he bo ''severely reprimanded for his fiction in commencing tho work under review without first obtaining a permit." The committee further recommended that the city engineer be instructed to prosecute in all cases of flagrant breaches of the by-laws. The report was adopted.