LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 16, 3 February 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Week-end Bivouac. Officers and N.C.O.'s of the let. Battalion, Hawke' s Bay Regiment, will hold a week-end bivouac at Dannevirke tn the coming week-end, Eebruary 6 aud 7. Training and instruction wiil oe carried out at the camp on the racecourse, and the camp will be tstruck on the evening of February 7. Havelook Success. . In the classes for picklea and preserves at the Feilding show yestefday • Mrs L. W. Goldfinch, Havelock North, seoured first for collection bottled fruit, second for bottled tomatoes and for marmalade, third for plums and for jellies, and highly commended for chutnev. January Rainfall in Napier. Despite the fact that January was a particularly sunny mouth, with 242 hours of sunshine, it was also one of che wettest experienced fof some years. The total rainfall was 4.69 inches, an amount which has been exeeeded only five times since 1905 for the month of Januafy. On January 23 Napier people experienced the hottest day, the temperatufe in the shade being 87.8 degrees Patea's Doubie Dlstinction. A doubie distlnction for the port of Patea was claimed by Mr R. J, Watt, at the Patea County OoUncil jubilee luncheon. Patea was th6 world' s greatest cheese port, he said, and was the oldest harbour in the southern hemisphere because "Tui'i's canoe landed there, "and that must have been the oldest passenger vessel south of the Line."Sharp Earthquake Shock, A 6harp earthquake shock, sufiicient co cause the town clock to strike one peal, was experienced in Hastings this morning at 6.12 o' clock. In the opinion of Mr H. de Denne, official fecofder, che quake was purely a local one ; it was foliowed several tremors, The seismograph recording wsds five on the Hossi-Forel scale It is a coineidence chat it should be exactly six years ago to-day that the district Was visited by the disastrous 1931 earthquake. Surf Among Parkeft Cars. Foaming surf swirling round the wheels of parked cars, towels and cushions floating .out to sea, people rusbing frantically to save their possessions — this was the ecene on the Opunake^beach .about mid-day on Sunday, when the crest of a particularly high tide swept unexpectedly up the beach. Hundreds of 'Cars Were parked on the beach, drawn by the Taranaki s-wf championships, and though the officials had made allowance for a normal tide when allocating the parking area they were not prepared for such unusual conditions. No damage was done, and the water soon subsided, but several motorists had anxious moments as they tried to get their vehicles out of the danger zofie, Debt, Promlse and Prayer. Rcminding the Minister of Lands, the Hon. F. Langstone, of the Labour Party's promise tO lightCn the Maori' s debt burden, Eru Ihaka, paramount chief of Ihe Aupori tribe, speaking at Te Kao, North Auckland, exhorted the Government to give them their daily bread. "My prayer," said fiemi Huifcera, a yoUng man of the tribe, "is give us work, and we will earn our daily bread." "Don't you Worry about your debt burden," said the Minister. "The British Empir© cannot pay its debt to America, so why should you in Te Kao worry about your small debt? Your work is to make Te Kao the most successful native settlement in New Zealand. You play your part and co-operate with the Government, and we will do our part." * Play on Sunday. Week-end cficket is becoming increasmgiy popular, not only in Hawke' s Bay but elsewharo in the Dominion. However, it is Uot given official recognition, though naturally associations encourage the playiflg of the games, which are of the "fi'iendly" fariety, similar to fche familiar Village Green games in the Old Country. The playing of fix-st-class matches, especially representative tixtures, oU a Sunday is very rare, and for this reason fche forthcoming Kirk ,Oup match between Hawke'e Bay and Poverty Bay at Gisborne will be unique, the fcwo associations having agreed to play fche match on Saturday and Sunday next, thus enabling the Hawke' s Bay fceam to return on Sunday night. Dangerous Peno*. When the Eaiiway Department recently fenced in the railway yards at the Pukehou station a large strainer post was placed right out on the edge of the bitumen on the main road. The fence was continued along the side of the road close to the bitumen. The action of the department in obtruding the fence on to a busy road has been unfavourably commented upon by motorists, who claim that even though the survey shows that uhe fence in its correct position ift a source of danger to travellers. ResideUts in the locality are considering approaching the H.B. County Council to see whether they can have the post put farther back oS the road

Air Mail at Lfiiicion Air-mail despatched from Wellington on January 11 and Auckland on January 12 arrived at Londott on January 29,— Press Association. Visitors to Cape. 'Since November 1 a total of 1764 pernxits have been issued to visitors co the gannet sanctuary at Cape Kidnappers, and a total of 1566 names have been recorded in the visitors' book. Each week sees many people making the trip to the sanctuary, which is unique in fche Dominion. Cricket as Usual. Although the flawke's Bay senior cricket representafcives will be in Gisborne on Saturday next playing Poverty Bay for the Kirk Cup, senior cricket in Napier and Hastings will proceed as usual Technical O.B. will ldse the services of four players, Napier H.S.O.B., Rugby, United and Hastings two each, while M, A. O'Brien, United, will be playing in the Plunket Shield fixture( Wellington v Auckland, at Auckland, Coronation Seats. 'Ihe following advc/trsement in the London "Times" will give some idea of the few hours' rental asked for coigns of vantage from which to view the Coronation. procession, and these are probably by no means the highest : "Coronation. — 'Best pOsitxon Oxford Street, St. James'js. — ^Private rooms from 35gns. ; seats 7gns. ; covered standing, 3gns. (children) ; private Suites with view from Oxford Circus to Piccadilly, restaurant, wireless, 150 gns., 10 to 15 people," "Road Hogs" Abroad* "In contraat to the paucity of trout at Taupo the 'road hog' is very prolific on the highway between Rotorua and . Taupo," stated an Aucklander who had jnst returned from a fishing holiday. "Many motorists Were raising the dust (at epeeds of 50 and 60 miles an hqur. The roadmen who are carrying out the sealing work are courtesy itself. They give every assistance where detours are necessary. Indeed, 1 actually saw a large number of Mr SeMple's 'gentlemen in dungiarees,' but mighty few 'gentlemen' dilving motor-cal's-— or 'ladies' either," he add> ed feelingly, Given yp ay the sea* Commonplace objeetg whicn appear in unlikely places often give rise to much speculation as to how they, got there, This is the case with a key to a ship's locker shown to a reporter »at the Hastings Railway Station this morning, This was found in a truek of gravel brought from Awatoto. Evidently it had been lost overboard from a ghip at sea at some time and been washed Up and embndded in the gravel on the beach. The key was well rusted and appeared to be old, It Was tied to a thick piece of twine, well worn by the waves, and this was attaehed to a piece of rounded wood sUch as is used to prevent a small key from being lost. Fire tiestroys Nay. Nearly 30 tons of hay fcresn in from the fields Was lost in a fire which destroyed a barn, a cowshed adjoining it, and a milking plant On a farm at Happy Valley, Brooklyn, yesterday. While the barn was burning from end to end a cat tried repeatedly to hreak throUgh the fiames in an attempt to rescue four kittens for which she had yiade a home in the warm hay a few days earlief. One of the litter Was brougiht out alive by firemen from ihe Brooklyn station, It Was badly scorched and crying so piteously that they killed it to saVe it further suffering. Despite all etforts to '"'get the others out they perished. The fire oocurred on the property of Mr E. G. Elliott, a dairyfarmet, whose place is aboUt two lixileS doWn the Happy Valley road from Brooklyn.