LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 64, 9 March 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

<* —-— • Croquet Match On the Waipukurau Croquet lawns on Tuesday a B team from Waipawa played a return match with a Waipukurau B team, the latter winning by 48 points to 40 after a very enjoyable afternoon's play. Results were as follow, Waipukurau names being mentioned first: —Mesdames F. Staines and H. Rcckin beat Mesdames Grcnsidc and Fox, ip—lB; Mesdames W. G. Bryce and H. M. Keir lost to Mesdames Clark and Fleming 8—17; Mesdames F. Staines and H. Reckin beat Mesdames Clark and Fleming, 14 —13; Mesdames Bryce and Keir beat. Mesdames Grensido and Fox, 26 —10. Whippet Racing The committee of the Napier Whippet Racing Club decided last evening to hold a meeting at Waipukurau on Easter Saturday, half the proceeds to bp donated to the unemployed. The. Borough Council is to be asked to grant the use of Russell Park for the occasion. An attractive programme of four events has been arranged tentatively, the prize money totalling £24. The principal attraction will he the Hawke’s Bay Cup. Waipukurau is admirably located for the meeting as entries are expected from Palmerston North. Feilding, Wellington, Napier, and possibly Auckland. A meeting is to be held next week with the object of forming a sub-branch of the Napier club in Waipukurau. Artillery Band Concert —To-night. The public of Waipukurau and district is given a final reminder of the popular concert to bo held in the Municipal Theatre this evening, at 8 o’clock under the auspices of the Wellington Artillery Band, which has arranged a. really .first-class programme for the occasion. A number of well-known local artists arc to assist. Not only will there be combined selections by the band, including several fantasias and novelty sketches, but cornet and euphonium solos, also a cornet, duet, while much humour will be - interspersed throughout the evening’s entertainment. The 7th Battery songsters should be well worth hearing, and the community singing is certain to prove very enjoyable being under the capable leadership of Sergeant W. 11. Bowman (deputy-conductor of the band) ami Mr Lon Wood. Popular prices are being charged, viz , circle Is and downstairs 6d, with reserved seats 6s extra, therefore it is expected that the theatre will be well filled. The band items include the following: Humorous fantasia, "Pop Goes the Weasel’’; nautical.; "A Sailor’s Memories” humorous march. "Jolly Coppersmith”; cornet duct "Besses o’ th’Barn,” (Bandsmen Newton and Bagnall); euphonium solo, "Jonny Jones” (Bandsman R. Fenton); cornet solo, "The. Rosary” (Sergeant W. H. Bowman); humorous novelty "The Band Rehearsal”; accordion solo, "Silvery Waves” and humorous interlude (Gunner J. Prentice and his Battery Songsters); Highland dance, (Miss Davies); banjo and guitar duct, (Bandsmen A. E. and E. A. Irwin); and humorous songs (Mr Len Wood).

lief that is represented by this latest legislation, indeed, is not in itself comparable to the effect it wdll have on the loan market. There is a hopeful note in Mr. Roosevelt’s inaugural speech regarding "the means by which the storm of depression must be ridden out, and it is based on confidence. That confidence can best be restored by the diversion of money into legitimate avenues of employment as distinct from the so-called gilt-edged securities, which are always the refuge of the least confident class of investors. Every cut in interest rates is a step towards recovery,' and the debt conversion legisla- ' tion of the Government saves this session of Parliament from unredeemed economic uselessness.” The “Press” has always advanced the view that State and local body interest payments should be lowered, urging conversion loan efforts for not only New Zealand domiciled securities but those overseas, as our greatest burden lies in the direction of the large sum payable abroad for interest. It is obvious that in its moral effect lies the special value of the recently enacted legislation, lower interest rates being calculated to influence the money market in a manner favourable to the State, local bodies, and borrowers generally, also serving as a great stimulus to trade development. A well planned scheme 4 of primary and secondary development is, however, long overdue in this country, involving fuller and more profitable use of the Dominion s man power.