LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 56, 22 March 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Law Office Holidays. The offices of eolicitors, members of tlie Hawke's Bay Law Society, will be olosed from Good Friday, March 26, to Sunday, April 4 (both. dates inclusive), for the Easter holidays. Technical Banrj Concert. The Napier Technical Memorial Band gave an enjoyable concert in the Sound Shell, Marble Parade, last evening. In consequence of the indisposition of the conductor, Mr Frank Lloyd, the baton was wielded very satisfactorily by Mr George Jensen. A collection was taken up in aid of the band funds. Railway Excursions. The railway excursions last week-end were both well patronised. The excursion train which came from Auckland on Saturday brought 100 passengers, and the Sunday excursion train, Napier to Palmerston North, wliich left Napier yesterday morning and returned last evening carried 200 excursionists. Fine weather was experienced by both lots of travellersJunlor Choirs Entertain, A very pleasing entertainment was given in the Napier Sound Shell on Friday evening by Madame Mercer and her junior choir and the Napier Intermediate School Ghoir, assisted by the danre pupils of Miss Betty Davia. The audience was a large once, and the varietv given to the entertainment by ohe dance items rendered the whole entertainment most enjoyable. 7ire in Refrigerator. The two atmospheric extremes of heat and cold were found in a small compartment of a butcher's shop at Gtahuhu when the Otahuhu Fire Brigade was summoned to suppress an outbreak. Smoke was observed in the shop and the firemen found the electric motor in the refrigeratingj chamber' buming. The motor was damaged^ but there was no structural loss. Theft on Mariposa. While the Matson liner Mariposa was in port at Auckland the cabin of a steward was ransacked and among other small articles which were missing was the eteward's discharge book. Under a new system operating among American seamen each man must retain his discharge book and produce it on application for work. Without it his chances of seouring employment on another ship would be remote. The Word "Cellophane." The word "Cellophane" is not, as some suppose, a generic name for any type of transparent cellulose sheeting, but is the registered trade mark of British Cellulose Ltd. and used to denote the brand of transpai'ent sheeting supplied only by them. The firm writes from London with reference to the misuse of the word in the "H.B. Herald" and points out that "tacit acquiescence in misuse of our trade mark might eventually endanger our rigihts thereunder." Milk For Schools. Advice has ksen received by the Mayor of Hastings, Mr. G. A. Maddison, who is also chairman of the Hawke's Bay Education Board., that the details of the form of tender for the supply of pure milk to schools in and around Hastings may be expected to come to hand either this afternoon or to-morrow morning. It was Mr. Maddison's intention to call a meeting of the special committee eet up to control the scheme immediately upon Teceipt of the information, but owing to its belated arrival he does not expect the meeting to be held now until aftqr the Easter holiday period, • Aviation Problems Abroad. "What impressed me while abroad was that Australia and New Zealand do not provide many of the technical problems that aviation has to face in the United States and England," said Flight-Lieutenant W. S. Armstrong, a member of the Royal Australian Air Foi'ce, who passed through Auckland by the Mariposa on his return to Sydney after two years overseas. FlightLieutfcnant Armstrong) instanced the "icing up" of the wiugs of aeroplanes in cold and stormy weather which often resulted in machines being (weighed down by ice to a dangerous degree. That particular problem, lie added, appeared to have been efficiently dealt with in the United States by the use of "de-icers." Napier's Fishing Grounds. Fishermen of Napier report that very poor fishing is being experienced in local water® at the present time — a state of affairs said to be existing throughout the whole of New Zealand. Gurnard was the most popular fish for the nets of the trawlers, while schnapper and grouper were to be found mostly in the vicinity of Wairoa, where most of the line-fishermen headed at present. "No one knows why fish suddenly becomes scarce," said a fisherman this morning. Their movements are as mysterious as life itself. There was a movement in England recently with the object of determining the factors which prompted fish -to come and go in various waters, but I don't think it has found out much yet."