LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 29, 18 February 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Accordeons Donated. Air. C. E. Tattersail, ot Pakowhai, has generously donated to France House two abcoirdeons. The bbys of Prance House had been anxious to, have accordeons for some considerable time, and tbe generous donation of Mr Tattersall ig very muoh appreciated both by ihe boys and the truSteea Migration Questioir. The Gisborne Cham.ber pf Commerce has decide'd to invjte the Hoh. W. E. Barnai'd, Speaker of the House of Representatives, .to Visit Gisborne for the purpose of.giving an address on immigratioh, following & discussion at the Ohamber's monthly meeting on the subject of migratioh. Other lbcal bodies in Poverty Bay are to be asked to support the invitation. Patients before Pigs? "The point is that we haven't got enough money to house our patients as fchey shouid be hoUsed, let alone the Banatorium pigs. When We have fioused our patients prdperly we can consider housihg the pigs pfop'erly, but the patients must eome filst and the pigs afterwjirds," said Mr it. A. Fraser, the farm advisory inember of the Waipawa Hospital Board yesterdaw, when Mr L. Gleiiny urged that better eccomihodatien should be provided for the pigs at the Pukeora ganatofium farm. Nor a Crotindless Question. "Is your dwelling house fixed to ihe soil?" Senior-Sergeant A. Pender asked a witness during a case at the Napier Magistrate's Court thds ihorning. At this apparently aimless question Mr E, j. W. Hallett, fof the accused, remarked: "You don't suggest that accused, was going to steal the house do you?'' The senior-sergeant retorted that tbe charge was breaking and Cnterihg, and that he had in mind the l^gal detinitioh of a dwelling-house. The Cbok's Christntas. At the meeting pf the Waipawa Hospital Board yfcsterday the chairman Was expiaiinihg hpw one inember of the staff bf. thd Rathbojae Maternity Home had left the bbhfd, Withbut iiotice on beiug paid hef wages^Up to thd end of JaUuafy Befbfp the Christmas holidays. "That'a the treUtment we gpt for tfymtei tb be bbnsidefhtb*" he added. Anothef .habthbbf ; „ "I thiiik ,ybu got bff jblly lightly. My Station, Cook did ihe Samb tHiUg,', bui in additibn to clearing oUi t^th his Christmas pay he caine back ifi Such a state that I had to waste quite a lot of good whisky to get him back to norma! again." Barid iiippbriiri Eiateil. Supporters of the Hastings Citizena* Band were feeling elated this morning as the result of the Buccess achievfed by the band at the New Zealand banda championship coixtest at Nelson last evehihg; Though the Hastings band was placed only third in the streetmarch contest, it was beaten by two Agrade hands in a helfi of |9, Hastings heading ihe list bf B-grade bands hy quite a satisfactory margin. .Hastings gained third place ' in the first test in the B-grade, but the points will not be anhdUhced until after the second test has been decided. The quickstep has yet to be decided. Kauri and Whisky. New Zealand's kauri trees have gained a wide reputation for the excellence of their timber , and the wood has been put to rnany uses. At a receiit NbW Plymouthi Rotary Club gathering the Itev. i. D. MeL. Wilsori told of an unusuai use he had seen kauri put to in Irelaiid. He paid a visit of inspection to a latge whisky distillery tHere ahd was surprised to see .great vats made from kauti timber. He Was told that other timbers had bebh tried, none was as suitable as the kauri wood. City Fathers Arralgnetf. K is not often that the" Mayor, borough councilors and burgesses of a local body are prosecuted for an oifence but at the Te Awamutu Magistrate's Oourt the partieS natned above were, defendants in a prosecution by IVIr G. H. Webfe, hpxious w.eeds ihspeclbr of the Raglan County Goiincil, wbo successfuliy maihtained that the Mayor, fcouncillors and burgesses of the borough of .Te Awamutu, being .the occupiers of certain lands in the borough of Te Awamutu, Pirongia West district, had failed to clear the land of ragwort and kepp it clear. The Magistrate, Mr. F .H. Levien, eommented that the defendants were referred to as the Mayor and borough councilors; actually the burgesseS bf the borough should be inclu'ded, khd h4 amended the claim accordingly. Farmers All The fact that.most of the membera of the Waipawa, Hospital Board are also fatmers was evidenced when one member casually asked a question in regard to the qiiality of the ewes boiight as shbwn in the fdrm advisory rhember'a report* irhich Was presefited to the board yesterday. The questioti was therely as to ihe quality bf the Sheep purchased* biit it started a fusiilade of questiohs, crosg-questions, advice and remarks pertaining tb ihe value bf sheep, the suitability of different classes of sheep for ihe iype of country on the farm, and various other aspects of the same question, hospital matters being completely fbrgotten lintil thb chairman recalled the mehibers' attention to the btisiness in hand;

Teachers Return. Included among the passengers on the mail train this morning were a number of school teachers who were leaving for various parts of the Dominion on their returfi. to their respective schools. Though the school year does not begin until Mareh 1, the teaching staffs have to asSembie next Monday to make arrangements for the re-opening of the echodls. Napier Competitions Society. A challenge ciip to be competed for by Gisborne attd Hawke's Bay entrants only has beeii donated to the Napier Competitions Society by Miss Joane RainO, of Wellington for competition at the society' s forthcoming Easter festival. The cup will be awarded to the competitor gaining most points in the dancing sectibn, eight ahd under eleven years. Useful Elephants. "The only animal I've ever seen tackle that stuff," was the comment of a Whakatane man on Sunday mornittg as h© watched cirpus elephants tearing convolvulus out from fcrass and eatihg it. A farmer nearby said that he would like to see them on ragwort; he wouldn't miiid giving the man farming next .tb Mm an elephant of twd if they cleaned up that weed. Another man pointed tb a slump of ragwort growing ofi the Pliff face opposite the reclaimed area and Buggested giving an elephant to the borOugh couhcil. New Plymbuth Reunion Hastings Will .in all probabiliiy be .represented at a speciai reunioh of Old Bbys of tlie New Plymouth High School at Easter, for which a speciai prograinme has been arranged to commemorate the twenty-fifth year of service by Mr W- H. Moyes as principai of the school. The programine will bonsist of a gathering of Old Boys at the school on Easter Saturday morning, a cricket match between two teams of Gld Boys ih the aftefnoon, a smoko concert in the evening in the school gymnasium, a church service on tho Simday morning, and the annual ball in the assembly hall bn ihe Monday night. Present itidicatibhs are that. about 460 Old Piipila Will he present for the reunion.