LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 78, 19 April 1937, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

Bankruptoy Petition. A petition in bankruptcy has been filed by Frank Crowthall, of Wairoa, master buteher. This is the first petition for the month to b© filed in the Napier dietriot. 1938 Band Contest. The Mayoi of Palmerston North, Mr A, E. Mansford, has received advice i'rom the secretary of the New Zealand Brass Bands Association ratifying the decision to allocate the 1938 band contest to Palmerston North, Stamp-Vending Maohine for Taradale. Residents of Taradale who have for some timo past been agitating for a stamp-vending machine for their district will be glad to learn that the postal ' department has now installed such a machine at Taradale, and has thus provided a much-needed xxtility.,

CotnpHmentary Licenoes A complimentary licence for the shooting season is being presented by the Wellington Aeclimatisation Society to the Minister of Internal Aft'airs, the Hon. W. E. Parry. At a meeting of the council oi the society it was stated that Mr Parry was more keenly in-. terested in aeclimatisation affairs than any Minister previously. Although it was not the practice of the society to gtant coJHiplimentary licences, it was able in this small way to acknowledge his interest. A complimentary licence has also been sent to Loi'd Galway. . The Arehiteot's Work. "Assessing the total value of Imxie ing in New Zealand to-day, practising architects are entrusted with 8 per cent of public buildings and 5 per ceut. only of private houses throughout the Dominion," coxxnnented Mr B. C. Ohilwell, in a paper contributed to the conference of the New Zealand branch of the Boyal Sanitary Institute. He said that when the public became better acquainted with ihe principles of town planning and the valu© of archiI tectnre, the disparity would no doubt be lessened. Two Deaths a Day "There are two deaths in Sydney's streets every day on an average, and : for every person killed by traffie there are some injured," said Mr Eustace Kussell, an Invercargdll solicitor, who returned from an AustraEan holiday by the Wanganella. The speed of motor : traffie in the hxxsiest 6treets amazed : him,, he said. It was a corunion thing i to see vehicles dashing through ; streets at high speeds, but when Syd-. ' ney residents were told that greater care would reduce the accident rata I they said the traffie would never get through if it had to gp mere carefully. No effort such as was being made in New Zealand to ebeck aceidenta appeared to be made. ,

The Duty of Motorrsts, "I do not think it necessary for a motorist, providing he is takiixg rea- ; sonable care, to sound his hoxrn at every ; corner he turns," said Alexander Hun- ; ger, who was charged in the Te Aroha Magistrate's Oourt with driving in a > negligent manner in Rewi street. He added that there was a certaxn responsibility on pedestrians to keep a lookout when they were crossing the raad. , "Yes, but appaEently you just grazed ; the coat of one," remarked the Magjistrate, Mr F. H. Levien. "You have no right to give 'close shaves.' Just a bare toot of the horn would have put you. 'on side.' '> Defendant wa: fined £1 and costs. Wastlng Sustenance Money. "1 think there should be some power for a magistrate, when circumstances such as these come before birn, to maxe an order1 or recommendation that sus. tenance moneys be paid to his wife," observed Mr Wy vern Wilson, S.M., in tbe Magistrate's Court at Auckland, when a prohibition order against her husband was sought by a tniddle-aged woman. She stated that, although her husband was receiving sustenance, he got drunk every day. "We have men on sustenance coming before us for excessxve drinking or for gambling who are wasting money that is given them by the country, ^ the Magistrate said in grantingj the order. "A Dangerous Fallacy.'> The statement that the belief heid in some quarters that children conld not escape infectious diseases was a dangierous fallacy was made by Mr W. M. Arxnour, eenior inspector of the Health Department in Auckland, in addressing a session of the Dominion conference of the Now Zealand branch of the Boyal Sanitary Institute. Mr Armour said the sooner the publit got rid of such ' ideas the better it would be for the future of the race. One had known foolish parents deliberately pJacing a .heaithy child in contact with an infectious case, giving as a reason that the sick child had but a xnild attack, and the sooner the h®althy child was iufected and recovered the better. Mr Armour added that there was no guarautee that a child infected by a mild caso would develop only a rnild infection, or that the child would be immune during its Hfetimc from fux-ther attacks. Every year that a child was ' free from an infectious diaease improved its chances of escaping altogether.

First-Aid Outfits. The first-aid outfits at present on the Napier-Taupo and Napier-Wairoa higbways have been augmented and from reports received are giving valuable service. This was especially emphasised in the case of a recent serious accident in the vicinity af Tarawera, when the first-aid outfit at Tarawera was of invaluable assistance. This oomment js contained in the annual report of the Napier Sub-Centx:e of the New Zealand Red Cross Society. Haphazard Cycllsts. "I stood in your Square to-day for iully half an bour watching motorists dodge cyclists, and I recalled Melbourne to mind, where the boot i» distinctly on the other foot/ was the comment of a Yictorian visitor, Mr F. G. B. Winslow, in Christchurch recently. "In Melbourne," he said, "one sees comparativeiy few cyclists on the xnain streets, as they are frigbtened of the motorists. 1 was astounded with the way the cyclists of Christchurch break every known traffie rule and the infinite pains exercised by obviou3ly scared motorists to avoid colliding with them. Aa a result of my observations this morning, nothing would pereuade me to drive a motor-car througk the busy sections of Christchurch."

White Pine Busn A visit to the Tongoio White Pine Bush Reserve was made by a number of persons interested in scenic preservation yesterday, and one of the party informed a Herald-Tribune representative this mormng that the regeueration xn this area was making excellent progress. "I was through the bush when the goats had free range there," he said, "and it is diifficult now to realise that it is the same area. The young ve^etation is coming away splendidly, and it will not be lopg befor this area will be all, if not more than, wag claimed it would be if protected from the ravages of th© goats " Cat Takes Walk. Cats, according te Kipling, are reputed to "walk by themselves." However, one Hastings resideut has a cat which. takes great pleasure in going for its nigihtly constitutional with its owner, and, on practically every occa- ; sion on which this householder leave® : home in the evening, he finds the cat accompanying him. At fiiet the cat was sternly ordered to return home, but now, after experiencing several setbaoks in this way, the cat has developed wisdoroi, and waits, until it® owner has progressed a block or more from home before it joius him. Although the cat enjoys the walk, it does not relish entering a strange houae or building. however. It. waits outside until its owner reappears, and then walks home onc© more, well satisfied with its'stroll This cat does not otbexrwise stir far from home.