LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 62, 31 March 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Creetlngs to Centenarlan. Greeting^ and congn'atulations have been extended by the Mayor, Mr G. A. Maddtson, on behalf of the citizens of Hastings, to Mr Geo. Lines, of St. George's road, upon his celebration of his 100th. birthday. Dearer Shooting Lioetice. The yearly fee for a licence to shoot both native and imported game has been inereased from £1 to £1 5/- in the acclimatisation districts of Auckland, Bay of Islands, Hobson, MangonuiWhangaroa, "Whangarei, Rotorua, East Coast, Waiapu, Tauranga, Hawke's Bay, Feilding and district, and Wellington. In other districts the fee remains £1. Still. in Australia, Joe Hall, the Australian boxer, who hau a sorie% of bouts in New Zealand, and who was brought over to New Zealand by the Hawke's Bay Boxing Association, is still in Australia, and has not gone to England, as was rumoured. Writingi to a friend in Hastings recently, Hall said that he had signed contracts for a series of bouts in Australia, and was hopeful for a return bout with Alf Blatch. £I would like to come back to Hastings,'' he writes. "Remember me to all my friends, and give them my best wishes." Patient Caller. A caller at a Fendalton home, Christchurch, recently, finding his friends out and wishing to let them know that he had calied, found that he had no pencil or paper with which to leave a noteCasting about for some means of leaving a message, he thought of the shingle drive, and printed in small stones, "Smith calied, 10.30 a.m." across the verandah. The work took nearly half an hour and involved the use of more than 200 tiny stones, biit the message was unmistakable. It stood out in bold relief and could be read almost from the front gats. Milk in Schools. A copy of the terms and conditions under which milk is to be supplied for consumption by children in the free-milk-in-schools scheme has now been received by the Mayor, Mr G. A. Maddison. It is Mr Maddison's intention to call as soon as possible a meeting of the special committee set up by representations of the various schools in Hastings and the surrounding districts to arrange for the calling of tenders and other matters regarding the scheme. Bees Fumfgated When quarantine restrictions were placed on New Zealand vessels at Samoa recently it was decreed that all mail matter should be placed in the fumigater for three hours before being deiivered to the postal authorities. An apiarist . of Samoa, wishing to improve the breed of his bees, imported two Italiam bahded queens. The insects arrived in a special container, . accompanied by severai others for company, all alive and in good order. However, the colony was placed in the fumigntor with the mail bags, with the result that the bee farmer received a consienment of dead bees. Bronze Press Medals. Three big bronze commemoration medals for the Press representativea from New Zealand at the Olympic Games held in Berlin last year have been received by the New Zealand and Olympic and British Empire Games Association from the German org)anising committee of the Games, with a request that they be handed to the persons concerned. The difficulty is that as far as the information in the possession of the New Zealand Olympio Games Association goes no Press representativea from New Zealand were at the Games. It was decided at the annual meeting of the association to hold the medals meantime, pending instruotions as to what should be done with them. A Populsr Attraotlon. A very popular attraction to visitors to Napier during the Easter holidays was the Tom Parker Fountain on.. the Marine Parade. Each evening the Marine Parade was thronged with visitors vxewing the pretty spectacle an'd souvenir phptographs of the fountain were in great demand. Notwithstanding the railti on Sunday night, there was a very large number of carg lining both sides of the Parade, so that the occupants might obtain a good view of the fountain. Napier Munfcipal Baths. The very warm weather on Easter Monday and the very large number of visitors to the town were responsible for a very large attendance at the Napier Municipal Baths. Not only was the maui bath well patronised, but a record for the number of hot salt water baths taken in one day, was established, no fewer than 88 persons taking these baths, an increase of five on the previous highest figure. Of Monday's large total 76 were visitors from overseas and many partsJ of New Zealand, including Rhodesia, South Africa, Hungary, Wellington, Auckland, Palmerston North, Wanganui, Masterton, Gisborne, Dunedin, New Plymoutb, Dannevirke and Cambridge.

Now Zealand Composers. Not one of the songs oung in the class for New Zealand composers at the New Plymouth competitions was written by a man born in New Zealand, commented the judge, Mr Harison Cook, Alfred Hill, for instance, being born in Australia. However, they passed for New Zealand composers. There were so many good songs written by New Zealanders that he wondered competitors did not trouble to find them. "As Ever— Ever New,'» By far the most conspicuous entry in the Napier municipal visitors' book is that made this morning by Sir Harry Lauder, who passed through on his way to Taupo. In addition to his signature this world-famous comedian has drawn a most realistic caricature of bimself, and across the page in the book is this reference of his addressed to Napier: "As Ever — Ever New." Napier's visitors' book was inaugurated in 1934, when the Duke of Gloucester was in Napier. Procession of Cars. The remarkable volume of traffic on the main highways during the Easter holidays is being commented upon on all sides, especially by those people who themselves contributed to tbe big erowd on the move. One Hastings resident informed a Herald-Tribune reporter this morning that he had never known such heavy traffic on the main south road aa there was on Friday. Betyeen the hours of three and five in the afternoon he was passed by 386 cars while on his way to Dannevirke. "They were all. cars from outside the Hawke's Bay province," he said. "It was just like a tremendous procession from the time we left Hastings till we reached Dannevirke. At one stage I stopped to let a long stream of cars go by over a narrow portion of the road, and I thought I would never have the chance to get going again for hours."