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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18758, 15 July 1935, Page 6

Of the 1725 presented, 1415 pupils in the Hawke’s Bay Education Board's district were successful in the proficiency examination last year, states the board’s annual report. The percentage of passes among the 1341 candidates from public schools in the district was 01.95: of the 100 candidates from tlr 1 Napier Intermediate School' 85/55 per cent, were successful; and 81.92 per rent, of the 177 private primary school children presented gained certificates. Twenty-seven secondary school pupils also sat,' 17 being successful. The average age of those gaining proficiency at public schools was 13 years 7.months; at the Intermediate School, 13 years 9 months; and .at private primary schools, 13 years 8 njoiftlrs.

While standing near an open life Miss A. llnrgoss of Niagara, Southland, received severe bums when her dress caught fire. - She- was admitted to the Southland Hospital, her condition being serious. The official list of weights for the. first day of the Poverty Bay Turf Club’s steeplechase meeting gives Tahoma 9.13 in the Park Hurdles, and Blygain 7.1 k in the Tramway Hack Handicap. In the telegraphed list published on Saturday, Tahoma was shown at 10.5 and Blygain at 7.11. A defendant whose name was suppressed appeared before Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., to-day on a charge of attempting suicide" by slashing himself with a razor. Senior-Sergeant Wade remarked that the defendant had been depressed because be had been unable to secure work. The defendant was ordered to come up for sentence within 12 months if called upon. Mr. A. Gordon Hultquist, the. official Labor candidate for the Bay of Plenty seat at the next general election, is having very successful meetings in the course of his second tour of the electorate. During the past week, the candidate spoke at Matawai, llomebrook School; 'le Wera, Motuhora, and Motu. and will .-peak at B-akauroa School this week. Despite the heavy rain during the past week, every one of Mr. Hultquist’s meetings were well attended. Commenting on conditions in general in Mexico, Dr Stanley Foster, of Christchurch. District Governor of Rotary in ' New Zealand, on his return to Auck- , land stated that during the short time at their disposal the visitors had little opportunity of sizing up the situation, especially as the newspapers were all in the native language. The leading newspaper printed a sheet each day in English, hut this was devoted mainly to the Rotarian news and baseball scores. , Generally the main impression was that of a very hard-working peasantry tilling : their fields with wooden ploughs and - oxen and toiling from first light- of , dawn. Their lot was in strong contrast to that of the residents in well equipped modern cities.

Jwo cases of notifiable, diseases were reported in the East Capo health district for the week ended noon to-dav, one of typhoid and one of tuberculosis. Two deaths were also reported from typhoid and tuberculosis.

A fine .of 10s and costs was imposed bv Mr. E, L, Walton, S.M., to-day on Frederick' Lloyd, of M a kauri, for being in’possession of a firearm, a single shot rifle, for longer, than seven days without having the rifle registered.

The- new clock at New Brighton has been running (satisfactorily ibr ysojne days and the tower will present an attractive appearance when tinted with the colors approved by the council. The tower will have a background of light sandstone, with pillasters of a lighter shade to tone with the buttresses, which will he dark brown, relieved with light green. The dome will also be green.

“It is a very great shock 1o mo; 1 should think there arc plenty of secondhand ones about,” commented Mr. K. D. Mosley, S.M.. in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court, when a man charged with using a motor vehicle not equipped with a rear-vision mirror gave as his explanation that the mirrors were not procurable in New Zealand at the, time. A shiomont had arrived recently from Australia. added the letter addressed to the court, and a mirror had been fitted.

Though the event might go to South Africa, Australia was making a bold bid to have the British Empire. Games held there in 1936, said Mr Raymond Sheath, the retiring president, at the annual meeting ol the. New Zealand Bowling Association. He thought that to have the games in this part of the world would benefit New Zealand, for many visitors were certain to come here. He: suggested : that- they, should show their goodwill to Australian bowlers by making a small gift toward the. Empire Games’ funds. The council agreed to contribute £25 if the games were held in Australia.

The opinion that grape growing ana wine-making were at the present time among tho few profitable industries connected with the land in New Zealand was expressed by a number of those engaged in these, occupations in the Auckland district. The vineyards of the To Kauwhata and Henderson areas now present their least attractive, appearance, but the cellars of the wine makers are stacked high with (lie maturing produce of the past four seasons, and there aro many indications of a wellestablished industry with great possibilities for the future.

The. total expenditure of tho Hawke’s Bay Education Board last year on the conveyance of children to school was £5489 10s 6d, according to the annual report submitted by the board to the Minister of Education. Altogether, conveyance was approved for a total of 979 children. Seventeen contracts for the conveyance of children aro now established in tho board’s district, 16 schools being concerned. Tho grant for boarding allowance was reinstated, after a lapse, of over three -years, as from the beginning of the third term, 1934, and payment of the sum of £IOB 15s in respect of 32 children who wore boarded away in order to attend school was made for that period.

Special arrangements had to be made in view of the shortage of accommodation for such a huge influx of visitors to the recent International Rotary Conference at Mexico City, stated Dr Stanley Foster, of Christchurch. To meet this difficulty as many as 3000 of the Rotarians lived on their trains ill a vast “Pullman City," special buildings being erected in the vicinity of railway sidings. A vast amount of preliminary work was done during tho week before the conference at Cuernavaca, 50 miles from Mexico-, by a fine modern highway crossing Pass at 10.000 ft. The main business was then undertaken in Mexico City itself, use being made of the splendid palace of fine arts, which had an auditorium capable, of seating over 2000.

Increased business has created a shortage of skilled factory labor for New Zealand manufacturers, and that shortage is paradoxical when it is considered that there are so many workless youths, said Mr A. W. Nesbitt, secretary of the Wellington Manufacturers’ Association, to a Dominion representative. The Wellington softgoods manufacturers have been. unable to get machinists and soft goods factory workers and have combined to advertise in other parts of the Dominion to ascertain if there is any surplus in other centres. The position, he said, was due 10 the increased output of the Wellington factories and not to any alteration in the numbers of workers ordinarily available. Mr Nesbitt- said one firm of manufacturers had started in Wellington two years ago with a staff of six girls. To-day 80 girls were engaged in the .same business.

An amusing and characteristic letter from Mr. Bernard Shaw is in the possession of Mr. Colin Lamb, the New Zealand architect who has recently returned from abroad. Soon nftei Mr. Shaw had come back from Russia Mr. Lamb was offered a position by the Soviet Government as an industrial architect in Moscow. He wrote to Mr. Shaw saying that he was anxious to get on when in Russia, and asking for letters of introduction which might enable him to get out of the rut as a mere assistant and gain a better position. The following reply was received from Mr. Shaw’s secretary: “In reply to your letter of the 23rd instant, Mr. Bernard Shaw asks me to say that men who are determined to get on are shot in Russia, and that introductions are considered bourgeois. Better leave all that behind in England.”

Grave concern is being expressed by the. electrical trade in Auckland at a proposal now bring considered by the Auckland Electric Power Board that it should open a retail department and sell electric stoves and water heaters to consumers for casli or on deferred payments, as well as hiring electric stoves to consumers at a low monthly rental. It is understood this proposal has been discussed with firms m Auckland dealing in electrical stoves and other equipment, and that it lias yet to come before the board for final endorsement. The attitude taken up by members of the trade who were questioned on the possible etteet. of the board’s proposal was that the board was seeking to tn-ko advantage of its privileged position to sell equipment on terms which no private trader having to meet, taxes and other charges incidental to Ids business could hope to give. "Ever since 1912 I have been travelling round the world,” said Mr .1. Trail Shinpcru of Melbourne, who arrived at Wellington by the liner R.uahinc from Loudon. He added that lie had visited in that time a great- many countries, including Great Britain. Germany, Austria. Czechoslovakia, Spain, Portugal, the United States, Canada and Switzerland. His opinion, said Mr Shippcn. was that England was not giving Australia and New Zealand the consideration they deserved, as far as trade was concerned. The quality of the lamb and mutton sent- Home was excellent, superior to anything 'but. the English Southdown mutton. But. lie maintained that it was not sufficiently advertised or pushed by salesmen overseas. The visit of ,tho Prime Minister to England had done a' great deal of good, in that it was excel lent- publicity, hut he held that, more money should be spent- in advertising. The sale of butter in cartons wqs an excellent idea. There seemed, too, to ho a good market tor • New Zealand apples.