LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 60, 27 March 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

No Papir dh Moaday, The Herald-TribtlfiC will not be publishefl ofi MOhday. The next lsstie Will be ea Tuesday. H,Si Ohlldren's Homea. Pending the re-dpening of the achoOlS no visitors will be allowed at the Hawke's Bay Children 's Hdmes. visitors to Napier. Napier '8 etreets, Marine Parade and other paris of the toWn werd thfonged With visitors this morning. On no previdus OCcasion havd the Easter holidays attracted so many Visitors tO the town. The postponement of various Sports gatherings and Other otitings iiicreased the throng in the streets and increased the nuihbef df eafS cdhveyihg Sihall partieS to various pafts Of the towns Napier Entertainment, Napier folk were favoured OU Thursday night by a splendid concert and dance programme givexi in the Soundsheil, Marine Parade, by s nuffibef of kftists whd had c6me to Napier as Cdmpetitors for the Napier competitions, which had to be postponed under inStfuctiona from the Health Departtnent. The programme waa arranged by Mr, S. P. Spiller, and taken aE roiind wai prdbably the most delightful yet given iii the SOuiidsHelt. Sports Pbstpofied. Acting on the advice of the Health Department, the Clive Sports Committee has decided to postpoiie until Saturday, April 17, th§ Sports and regatta Which wefe tO HaVe been held at Clive on Easter Mdfiday. This step is being taken as a - preOautiohary measurd against the possible spread of infantile paralysis. The danCe which Was to havd b§eii held at the AsSeffibly Hail, Hastings, iii cdnjiinCtibn With the sports hds beOn postponed. AribtHCr Hastings Papeh The Hastings JDaily Tribune is the ttame of a neWspaper broUght inta the HOraid-Tribune office tO-day, It is a bright newsy journal carryihg aU adequate quota of foreign and loeal news: It is particularly interesting in that lesS thaii three months haV6 passdd sidce the HaWke's Bay Tribune whs merged with the mdrring pUblication and becaine the Hawke's Bay HeraldTribitne. It shoiild be rehiarked, howevefj that the papdr Brdught in came ffom Hastings, Nebraska, U.S.A., and styles itself the "Voice of Nebraska's Great South West." PrUltgfowers Organising. A geiieral ineeting bf fruitgrOWera wiU be held in Hastings next Wedhfesd4y to OfghnisC st HaWke'S Bay branch of the New Zealaiid Pruitgrowers ' Industriai Unibn of Employers. "The faCt that the f ruitworkers ' agreement is operative until September 30 next will provide ample scope fOr diseussion" states a circular letter being sent to groWers, "and it behoves every orchardiet to attend this ifleeting and beeoiae a member of ihe union itt otdet that United actidn may be ass siired When the hgreement is due idi reconsidefatioil. ' * Many TraveUihf. fieavy trainfl Wero the order on Tuesday evening and again yesterday on the Napier-Wellington , line, and it is expected that the returne fof the Easter holiday period will reveal an ihcrease OU thoSe of last yehr, despite the plea for restrictidn of movdffient of people on aCcount of infantile paralysis. Both the south-bbund trains on Thursday were packed to their utmost, and yesterday 's mail traiiis and special expresses averaged about 14 carriages, each of which was packed, this applying to incoming, as well as outgoing tt'affie. The motor iervlces also reporfc a big rtish of business, supplementary setvieeS being Well patronised.

Change In Business Practice. (tl remember the time when business was very different from what It is today," said the Speaker of Ihe House of Eepresentatives, the Hon. W. E. Barnard, during an address to the Christchurch Business Men's Club. "There was competition, but it was of a very friendly kind, and there was a place for every business man» To-day there are CUt-throat practiceS Whicb would never have been conntenauced 25 or 30 years ago, When there Wefe uot the conditions to force them." Mr. Barnard 's contention was that increased population would offer business men the opportunities at present denied them.