LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 8, 25 January 1937, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

Willow Blown Over Wires^ Tbe heavy wind in Hastings on Saturday morning ble.w down a large willow tree in Murdock road3 Hastings. Tbe tree struck a telepbone post and brok© six telepbone wires dislocating tbe. service in tbat area. Band Concert Continuing i.ts policy ot giving all tbe Hastings parks a ture, the Hastings Citizens; Band beld an open-air concert at Nelson Park last mgbt. Tbere was a fair attendance and tbose present appeared unusually quiet and appreciative. One great advantage whicb Nelson Park bas ior such a concert is tbe seating accomodation. Tbe collection amounted to £2 127- . Entrance to School. During the school hoiidays tbe path from tbe entrance gates of tbe Napier Intermediate School to tbe main entrance door and for some distauce on eitber side has been concreted, wbde a eircular flower bed with rustic stone borcier bas been set in tbe middie. Tbe result is not only a very improved appearance but does away witb t-he muddy, slusby patbs that had previously to be negotiated in wet weather Visit of Scafes Liner. Tbe Scales line steamer Bencruachan, which is due to load wool at Napier on February 8, is one of tbe largest vessels which at present visit tbe Napier Breakwater. Built at Glasgow in 1929, sbe bas a lengtb of 429 feet and a breadth of 58.9 feet, but, though Lloyd's Register sbows her depth as 30 feet, tbe vessel will be drqwing about 20 feet wlien sbe berths at Glasgow Wbarf. Her gross register is 5920 tons, Surf Team to Visit H.B. Hastings and Napier are to be visited next montb by tbe Australian surf team which is sliortly to tour New Zealand. Tbe team, comprising 12 of Australia's cbampion surfers and some ot tbe Commonwealtb's most outstanding swnnmers, will arrive in Napier on Sat- * urday, February 6, on wbicb night it is proposed to hold a swimming carniva] in wbicb tbe visitors will compete. On tbe following day the team will givp a display o tbe Westshore beacb and on tbe Monday they will visit Hastings to compete in a carnival. , The Value of Shelter to Farms. * ® "While wind plays a very useful role in imparting vigour and stamrrai to stock," said Mr F. R. Callaghan to tb© agricultural and forestry section of tbe Congress at Auckland, "westerlies occur with somewbat nndue persistence over tbe whole of the Dominion's southern dairying region, so that, particularly. in the spring months of the year, both grass growtb and stock requiro shelter. Tbere is no doubt tbat tlie dairy production of New Zealand eould be greatly increased were the value of shelter more fqlly appreciated," Railwav Excursions. The railway excursion whicb ieft Wellington on Thursday night and arrived at Napier on Friday morning, returning yesterday afternoon, brought a goodly number of passengers. Tbe visitors, some of whom were paying their first visit to Napier sinre the big earthiiuake, were all greatly impressed witb tbe new town and its many attractions and would have liked to prolong their stay had it been possible Tbe special train, however, wbicb left Napier on Friday night for Wellington for a week-end trip was hardly so well patronised as usual, but this was more than made up for by large number who departed by tbe south-bound express on Saturday raoruing. Amusing Experience. Mr Frank Price, formerly of tbe ' 'Herald-Tribune" staff, bu.t now in Sydney, bad a somewbat amusing experience on Boxing Day. He bad received an invitation to a wedding and to a reception and dance afterwards. Not knowing that there were two ohurches in Sydney of the same name, though belonging to different denominations, he made his way to the wrong church for th© wedding, and on arriv•ing found that a wedding was just about to take place. He waited, but when tbe names of bridegroom and bride were being called out, discovered that be was attending a different wedding from the one to which he bad been invited to. He attended the night reception and dance afterwards The Densest Population. When amateurs discuss countries and districts witb very dens© populations, their thougbts usually turn to places such as India, Japan and Cbina. Yet, if a circle were drawn with a radius of 40 miles and witb Manchester, England, as its centre, it would ©nclose tbe densest population for a. district of its size anywhere in the world. This fact was mentioned to a reporter in Christchurch by Mr. Harry Town, director and export manager of William Hanlon and Co., Ltd., a large furnishing manufacturing firm in Manchester, Mr Town said tbat hjs firm used solely cotton materials, and he was thus not very interested in the New Zealand wool market, but he explained what a huge population tbere was round about Manchester, vitally interested in New Zealand's primary products.