LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 10, 27 January 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Health Camp Donation. A donation of £1 6/-, being half the proceeds from the raffle of a Christmas cake, has been received by the Mayox of Hastings, Mr G. A. Maddison, from Miss Irene Neag)e, Brown Owl, Cafeteria, towards the funds of the Children' s Health Camp. Motor-Cyclist Injured. As the result of a motor-cycle acci-, dent on the main road between Waapulcurau and Hastings, Mr William J. Inge, aged 27, is' at present an inmate in the Hastings MemOrial Hospital. The inujred man, who received a lacerated knee, is making satisfactory progress. Acorns from England. A shipment of acorns Jiarvested in Windsor Park and forwarded io the Automobile Association (Auckland) by the Automobile Association in England^ to be pianted this year in commemoration of the Coronation of King George VI., will arrive .by the Tamaroa in February. Mount Ngaurohoa Again Normal. After a period of activity, Mount Ngaurohoe is now almost normal. Owing to low-lying clouds, g'Ood views oi the summit of the moimtain have been rarely obtained during the last lew days, but the manager of the Cbateau Tongariro said1 that ash and smoke were no longer lssuing lrom the erater, although steam still hung above the peak. Losses on Trams It was disclosed in the Mayor's statement to the New Plymouth Borough Council on Monday, covering the ratmg position, that continued heavy losses are being sustained by borough ' trams and buses. The serviqes have cost ratepayers £58 per week over and above revenue for^a 22-year period, but the weekly bill is rising, and in the next year £123 a week will have to be provided to maintain the present services. Traffio Jam. A serviee car which stalled exactly in the centre of the intersection of 1 Emerson and Hastings streets, Napier, was responsible for a minor traflic jam at 11.30 this morning. An embarrassed driver made all efforts to start his vehicle once more, while a line oi traffio was held stationary in all directions from the intersection. Confusion reigned for some time until, with the help of a constable and several bystanders, the stalled vehicle was pushed out of the way. Status Defined. Where a tennis player is a mpmber of more than one club, he can play for one club only in inter-club games during a season, according to a ruling given last night at a meeting of the management committee of the Hawke's Bay Lawn Tennis Association. Such a player must indicate at the beginning of each season the club for which he or she desires to play in inter-club . matches. Where no notification is given of this, then the first club match played in will be taken as the indication. Australian Surf Team. \ In addition to their demonstration of life-saving and surf work at Westshore on Sunday week, the team of Australian surfers and life-savers, at present on a tour of New Zealand, will compete against Napier swimmers at a combined club carnival to be held in the Napier Municipal Baths on February 6. It is thought likely that a polo match will be arranged, and it is also suggested that the visitors give a ^demonstration on the Napier beach on Monday, February 8. The latter event may not be held, however, as jt is thought that the several appearances may be too strenuonus for the swimmers. Three Jnquests. Napier''s coroner has a busy day booked for him to-morrow, when three inquests will be completed. Tbe dev ceased persons in respeet of whom the inquiries will be pursued ar6 the late Mr Timothy McCarthy, of Port Ahuriri, who died a few weeks ago; the late Mr Norman Edward Christoffersen, who met his death when a lorry went over a bank on the Ahuriri Lagoon recently ; and the late Miss Beulah Bray-Green, who died at the Napier Hospital at the end of last year. In" all three cases medical investigations have had to be pursued before the inquests could be completed. intruder in Cupboard. An uninvited guest who went to the cupboard and quickly ate everythinq within reach, was anything but a welcome visitor to a home at Wanganui the other evening. The head of the household was absent at the time, and an his retjurn he was told about tho intruder, whose identity the wife had guessed, and he was advised to search in the kitchen. It was evident the giood things in the cupboard were still boing enjoyed, and on the door being gently opened there was disclosed an oposBum. Great care had to be exercised in getting tbe aiflmal out from among the glassware and crockery, but evenfcually it was induced to enter a sugat bag and was carricd outside to be liberated. A

Affiliation Granted. Two new texmis clubs have been formed in Hawke's Bay recently, both having been granted affiliation with the Hawke's Bay Lawn Tennis Association. They are the Port Ahuriri and Clive Tennis Clubs Napier Bartd an Absentee. The Napier Citizens' Band will not be competing at the band championship meeting to b© held at Nelson • next month. It was originally intended to enter for the B Grade competition, but circumstances have 'arisen which have caused the project to be abandoned. Movements of Vesseis. - The New Zealand Shipping Co., advise that its Rotorua, en route from London to Wellington and the Rangitihi, en route from London to Auckland sailed from Panama on January 23. Th© Ruahine, homeward bound, sailed from Caracas Bay on January 24. Slur on Scots. The omission of any commemorative reference to the birthaay of the Scottishi poet Robert Burns from the scheduled programme of tlie four main stations of the National Broadcasting Hervice was criticised at annual celebration of the Franklin Burns Club, at Papakura, Negiect Expiainea. "No wonder the defendant overlooked the matter of the licence," observed Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Hamilton Police Court, when a Poac and Telegrqph inspector stated that a woman charged with failing to hold a licence for her radio explained that owing to her family of nine she had overlooked the matter Hard court Tennis Tournament. An application made by the Hinemoa Lawn Tennis Club to the Hawke's Bay Lawn Tennis Association to hold a hard-court tournament at Dannevirke durihg Easter is to be referred by the association to the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association. This matter was considered by the management committee of the Hawke's Bay association at its meeting iast night. Constitution Test, The fine constitution of Waikato pigs has often been praised (says tlie vVaikato Times") j and a piglet who escaped from the loading pen at the Morrinsville sale demonstrated that the favourable comment had not been misplaced. For nearly ten minutes the animal evaded a veritable army of pursuers, diving about among the many pens with effortless vim. It was only when he became ' caught between . the slats of a sheep pen that the errant piglet vvas returned to custody. K$ng Crisis. London was somewhat '"'thunderstruck" when the King crisis developed, according to Dr. G. I. Miller, of Ashburton, who returned on the Niagara after taking a post-graduate course in medicine. Dr. Miller was in London when the climax came. Little else was talked about, he said, during the few days before the abdication was announced. Crovvds gathered continually in Downing street, often blocking the thoroughfare. However, it seemed that th© whole affair was a sort of "nine days' wonder," for almost as soon as the climax had passed it was out of the thouglits of most people, who "settled down" ta a busy Christmas period.