LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23044, 23 May 1938, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Air Mails Due To-morrow Air mails despatched from London on May 5 and May 8 are being brought to Auckland by the Huddart-Parker motor-liner Wanganella, which left Sydney on Friday night and is duo here to-morrow morning. The vessel has IQ3 bags of Australian mail for Auckland. Short Court Sitting Proceedings in tho Police Court on Saturday morning took less than five minutes. Only two cases were called, and in each instance Messrs. D. Donaldson and Y. A. Coyle, J.P.'s, who were on the Bench, granted remands which were requested by the police. There were only two spectators in the public gallery. "Men to Lick Stamps" "You cannot get boys to lick stamps now, you have to get men," said Mr. S. Edilson at a meeting of Hawke's Bay fruitgrowers. "Stamps should be abolished," he said. Inspection stamps came in for a good deal of criticism and a remit favouring tho abolition of stamps and the substitution of labels was passed by the meeting. Orakei Beach "bather"

There was only one "bather" at Orakei beach yesterday morning when the tide wa3 high. A small girl, in her eagerness to paddle, dashed from a motor-car to tho water's edge, tripped, and took what was almost a perfect dive into four feet of water. Tho child seemed to be in difficulties so her father, fully clad, waded out and brought her ashore.

Mount Eden Citizens' Service A citizens' service at tho Mount Eden Congregational Church on Sunday was atttended by the Mayor of Mount Eden, Sir. R. J. Mills, and the newlyelected councillors of tho borough. In his address the Rev. Frank de Lisle stressed the obligation of every Christian to express his religion in practical avenues of community service. Mr. A. Hooton, a member of the council, was tho organist. Schools Reopening All primary and district high schools in Auckland will reopen to-day for the beginning of tho second term. Tomorrow the five grammar schools, Seddon Memorial Technical College, Sacred Heart College and St. Cuthbert's College will resume, and on Wednesday the second term of the Diocesan High School for Girls will be started. King's College will start its second term on June 1. Hawke's Bay Fishing. The muddy nature of the seas in Hawke's Bay and the possible presence of drift logs has been responsible for a curtailing of Napier's fishing industry recently. One prominent Napier fisherman states that it was only possible for line boats to work in the bay, while net trawlers generally were going to a point beyond Cape Kidnappers and working the terakihi grounds. He could not say how long it would be before Hawke's Bay fishing returned to normal.

Inquiry into Mangere Disaster The hearing of evidence at the preliminary inquiry into the cause of the crash of the Lockheed air liner Kotare at Mangere on May 10, when Commander C. M. Duthie and SecondOfficer W. J. Peel were killed, has been completed. Squadron-Leader E. G. Olson, who is in charge of the. inquiry, said yesterday that there remained only his report to be added to the evidence, which will be submitted to the Minister in charge of the Air Department, the Hon, F. Jones. Blessing the City

The ceremony of blessing the city, which has been celebrated in different forms on Rogation Sunday since the fifth century, was performed at St. Paul's Church yesterday morning. The celebrant was the vicar, Canon Cecil Watson, accompanied by a cross-bearer, thurifer and taperers. A short service was held on the grass plot at the south side of the church and prayers were offered for the Mayor and City Council, the University, the Supreme Court and other bodies, the ceremony ending with the asking of a blessing.

Hospital Board Chairmanship Although hospital boards are now elected every three years, no alteration has been made to the section of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act which provides that a board shall elect a chairman from among its members in June, "or as soon thereafter as may be," in each alternate year from 1930 onward. The effect in the case of the Auckland board is that the Rev. W. C. Wood, who was elected chairman in June, 1936, and who retained his seat as a member at the recent poll, will continue in office until next month, when an election will be held. Shelter lor Bobby Calves The necessity for some suitable shelter being provided by farmers for bobby calves while they are waiting at the farmers' gates to be picked up by the motor-lorries was stressed by a member at tho annual meeting of tho Okato branch of tho Farmers' Union. Barbed wire fences, he said, provided no shelter. Members pointed out that it would bo difficult to know where to draw tho lino. It was considered the position could bo well safeguarded by tho Society for tho Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and it was decided to bring tho matter beforo the Farmers' Union's representative on that body. A Whale's Spout Corroction of what ho said was a popular belief that a whale spouted water after rising to tho surface of the water was mado yesterday by Mr. M. G. Lee, when giving a lecture on whaling at tho Auckland War Memorial Museum. Mr. Leo said it was not water but air which tho whalo released. After staying down in tho ocean depths for a time which might bo anything up to 45 minutes tho mammal rose to tho surface to tako in more air. That which was in its great lurigs would bo expelled, and since tho time of being submerged had made it hot it caused a kind of cloud when it merged into tho cold surface air. French Sloop's Departure

After a visit of 10 days, tho French sloop Rigault do Gonouilly will leave Auckland this morning at 11 o'clock for Lyttelton, Akaroa and Dunedin before she sails from New Zealand on Juno G for Tahiti. Over tho week-end Captain Planto and his senior officers arranged two gatherings on board to return hospitality to thoso who had helped to entertain tho ship's officers and men during their stay. A reception was held on board on Saturday, and yesterday Captain Planto entertained tho French Consul, M. Andro Pouquet, and prominent citizens and members of the services to dinner on board*