LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 40, 3 March 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Wh^karire for OverhaUl. The Napier Harbour Boaid's dredger Whakarire left Napier yesterday moin"ing for Wellington, wliere she will undergo her annual overhaul and survey. It is expected that the overhaul will take about five weeks. Vermin Destruction. Advice regarding the destruction of vermin by trap and poison was given to the Hawke's Ray Acclimatisation Society at its meeting in Napier last evening in a letter from the Auckland society. The information was given in reply to a recent request for it following recent indications that destruction of vermin would soon become uecessary by law. His One coif Bali. Breaking through the crowd which surrounded Sir Harry Lauder in the entrance hall of the Mldland Hotel after his arrival in Welington yesterday morning, Mr. R. Nimmd introduced a mau closely associated with golf in the city. After a warin handshake, Sir Harry, who seemingiy cannot suppress the humour that is in him, said, "l've still got ma bali I" Photograph of School Pupils. The jubilee of the Hastings Stieet School, Napier, will be celebrated in May next, and arrangements are well iu hand suitably to commemorate the event. Three hundred of the present pupils were photographed in the Sound Shell, Marine Parade, yesterday afternoon. The photogiraph will serve as a valuable record of a milestone in the history of the school. Record Enrolments. Enrolments of new boys at the Napier Boys' High School this year l.ave exceeded all other years, 150 boys baving commenced at the school for the first time on the opening day, compared 1 with 125 last year. The total number 1 of pupils attending at present is 355, j but this number is expected to reacb , the 365 ra ark when the first weeu is ! completed. The total roll of 370 last year is greater because of the number, of boys in higiber forms who left last year to take up eir.ployment. Sheep Carrying Completed. The annual tapk of the Pakura, a Richardson Co's vessel, engaged in the sheep-carrying trade between East Coast ports is now nearing completion, most of the large' movements of sheep having been completed, and the vessel will arrive in Napier to-day week to dismantle her 'tween decks. Each year fche Pakura carries several thousand sheep, saving the necessity of droving them for long distances, particularly those from the Gisborne district to the Waikato, with the result that tbe t.'ansport is completed in faster .time than by the older method. and the' sheep arrive in better condition.