LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 46, 10 March 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Bankruptoy Petition. A petition jn bankruptcy was filed with th© Official Assignee at the Napier Oourthouse to-day by Willxam Edward Jones, of Wakarara, wood merchant. Wellington Mail, Owing to an alteration iu the leaving timo of a goods traixi which takes xnail to Wellington from Napier each night, the last mail for Wellington has now been delayed half-an-hour. The usual mail train leaves Napier at 4.30, but a later train, formerly leaving at about 6 p,m., is now scheduled to go at 6,33. Pakowhai Road Metalling. Six tenders were reoeaved by the Hawke's Bay County Council for the metalling of the Pakowhai road in preparation for sealing next summer.. The acceptance of a tender will be finaliged by the council at its weekly committee meeting on Monday next. The work involves the laying of 6750 yards of red metal which will be taken from the Redcliffe quarry. Hawke's Bay Regiment. Oifficers and N.O.O's. of the Hawke's Bay Regiment assemble to-day at Dennevirk© for a short course of instruction befor© the annual camp of the regiment, which commences on Saturday. The advance guard in charge of the preparation of the camp to receive the 250 men who are expected to be under canvas next week, assembled on Monday. Tbe camp will be broken on Saturday week. No Commimication. Telephcmic and telegraphic communication between the Hastings-Napier districts and Waikaremoana was severed this morning owing to a breakdown in the ljne somewhere north of Wairoa. The telegraphic engineer at Napier was unable to throw any light on the matter this morning because the trouble had occurred outside his district, but he did not think the breakdown would be likely tq prevent communication for long. Oxford Groupers to Sajl, Oxford groupers leaving Wellington for England by the Rangitiki on £aturday are Mjss Mary Rice (Waipukurau), Mra F. Wheeler (Feilding), Miss E. Middleton (Wellington) and Mesgrs Jan Macphail and R. Stegant (Hawke's Bay) and Mr G. Warren (Australia) secretary to Mr Ivan Menzies. These members hope to attend house parties in Loiidon, also in Oxford in June and July. Napier Rotary Representatives. Three members of the Napier Rotary Ulub, Rotarians P. Ashcroft, J. D. Briasco and W. S. Holland, who will all be visiting the Old Country, will attend the Rotary International 1937 Convention at Nice on the French Riviera in June next. The convention will open on June 6 and will conclude on June 11, during which time the further development of the Rotary movement will be discussed. Maori Canoelsts. Something new in the way of sporting attractions for Hawke's Bay is being arranged by those staging the special sports meeting at Clive during .Easter. This attraction is canoe-rac-ing. Mr Ike Robin reports that he has definitely arranged with the Waikato Maoris for a party of 12 expert canoeists to take part in the meeting, and they will brlng with them three canoes. The visitors, who will comprise six men and six women, will be taking part in several Maori tournaments before coming to Clive. New Zealand Artxsts, The desire of many New Zealand artists to establish themselves abroad, so that they were iost to their own country, was criticised by Mr. S. J, Lamorna Birch, R.A., when passing through Christchurch. ' Mr. Birch praised the endeavours of young artists to obtain training and experience in Europe, hut he considered that many failed^ to realise how much excellent material there was for artists in the Dominion. The quality of the work he had seen in New Zealand was very high, but he thought that there was an opportunity for more figure work, The life of the people of New Zealand could be as distinctive a subject for its artists as the landseape of the Dominion. Gruesome Trade Survives. "One of the oldest industries of the world, that of head hpnting, is still carried out by the natives in Ecuador and, what ip more, they have coxnmercialised it," said a former Lyttelton resident, Mr Edward S. Whitham, to a representative of the Christchurch Press, in discussing his experienceg in some of the South American republics, He stated that there was a time when the activities of ihe head hunters had no savour of commercialism, but the growing dexnand from tourists and other souvenir hunters had ohanged all that. Smuggled out of Ecuador, dried heads, shrunk to the size of a grapefruit, and mysteriously preserved, could be brought jn some republics, being marketed through subterranean channels. They were, of course, never offered openly on the markets, but if "one knew the run of the ropes" they could be acquired, the ruling price being about 20 guilders.

Testing of Siren. Many people were misled yesterday afternoon at Port Ahuriri into tbmking there was an alarm of fire, but it was merely that the siren at the Port fire station was being tested at intervals from 3 to 4 p.m. and again at intervalg jn the evening. Labour's Regard for Soap Box. A promis© that Labour candidates who have reached the rank of Cabinet Ministers do not intend to forsake the "soap box" during the next eleetion campaign was given by the Hon P. Fraser, Minister of Education, at the civic function to the Prime Minister. "The open aix meetings at street corners have been wonderful schools, at least, political kindergartens, and even universities, for many Labour representatives," said Mr Fraser, "and the same procedure will be adopted by Cabinet Ministers, as well as others, at the next eleetion." In His Father's Footsteps. In extending a welcome to Mr Forbes McHardy on his taking the place of the late Mr Nairn, the chairman of the Patangata County Council, Mr C. Pattison, at yesterday'g meeting of the council, said that it was encouraging to see young men coming t'orward to take up local body work. He, the chairman, had joined the Patangata County Council when Mr McHardy' s uncle, Mr L. H. McHardy, was chairman and the McHardy family had the name of see* ing a thing through thoroughly onc«. they started on it- He had much pleasure in welcoming Mr Forbes McHardy to a seat at the council table.