LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 80, 21 April 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

9 mm m 11 Rangitiki Arrlves. The Nejv Zealand Shipping Co., Ltd., has received advice that the Rangitiki, which left Wellington on March 16, arrived at London on Mcnday morning. Further Bankruptcy Petition. The thjrd bankruptcy petition in .two days was filed with the Official Assignee, Mr G. Gr. Chisholm, at the Napier Cotirthouse yesterday afternoou, when a petition was filed by Robert George, Knight, of Hastings, builder. Labourer Fiies. A petition in bankrupt.dy was filed at the Napier Courthouse yesterday by Oscar Albert Singie, of Napier, labourer. ' A statement of bankrupt's position showed - that debts to unsecured creditors totailed £89 18/9, with assets valued at £20. A cyclist's Ingenuity. Vigofous efforts are being made by Hastings traffic authorities to deal with cyclists offending against the new traffic regulations, This, no doubt, was responsible for an amusing incident Witnessed in Heretaunga street this morning. A passing cyclist stopped beside an elderly man who was marking white "safety*' lines on ihe roadway, borrOwed the brush from the surprised man and with it painted his back inudguard. With a chbery "Thanks mate," he cycled off again, safe from the 'Tohg arm of the law." ftlilk— liikesl and DisUkes, A questiouiiaire submitted recently at a, Stratford school revealed a widespread dislike of milk among the children. A similar dislike appears to be common in English schools, for the number oi boys and girls who will not drink milk, even when it is free, is astonishing. The Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Education mentioned recently the possibility of more intensive publicity as a means of popularising the milk scheme, and also the addition of some delicate flavouring .to the milk. McLean Park Jmprovement. An attfactive brick wall, seven feet high, ' is to be erected Ulong the Morris itreet frontage of McLean Park be- • £ween the Melnorial Gates and the muaicipal pumping. station, to repiace a .'ather unsightly iron fence. The Napier Borough Council has finalised this matier, having now approved of plane submitted by Mr Fox, who won the competition inaugurated hy the Napier Amateur Athletic and Oycling Club. Residents of Hastings } Napier, and jther paTts of Hawke' s Bay know McL'ean Park well, and will be glad. to near' that this frontage to the ground is to he improved. Shooting on Ahuriri Lagddn. Arrangeiuents have been made by the Public Works Department to allow the shooting of ducks and swans on the Ahuiiri Lagoon area of 7509 acres on Saturdays attd Suiidays only, from May 1 Until june 27 (inelusive). The department decided recently to prohibit shooting there beeause of the danger of workmen being injured, but c'onsequent upon requests made to the Minister of Iptemal Affairs and to the Hawke' s Bay Acclimatisation Society by sportsmen who cannot afford to go long distances into the country to shoot, the Public Works Department agreed to allo-w week-end shooting, when no men would be engaged on ihe reclanw,tion and drainage work. Life Without Money.

"Without money, how could *a dentist get a living, except by drawing three teeth in exchange for a bag of potatoes, or a small tooth for a couple of pounds of sausages," said Mr P. L. Porter, addressing the Canterbury Economic Society yesterday. "Lii'e without money would indeed soon be reduced to its simplest and most primitiv© terms. A slave State could conceivably exist without a means of exchange, the slaves having no opportunity of exercising freedom of choice. A completely Communistio State would also have no need of money, all needs being supplied by the central authority, and each person receiving according to the dictates of those in control — again no freedom of choice. A third example would be that bf a primitive race living so close to nature that choice would be eliminated by scarcity."

Frost Damago. The effects of the disastrous frost of October last, when havoc was caused to orchards, are now being revealed in grotesque form. One orchardist showed a Herald-Tribune representative this morning two apples of the delieious vaxiety which were about half-grown in size and the surrounding foliage was withered. This was the tree's entire production for' this Season, thougjh it was making a valiant effort to produce another crop, for it came out hi blossoru about isix or seven weeks ago. However, with the season for frosts now at hand, the attempt is rather pathetic. Another grower, who specialises in winter nelis pears, showed the reporter his entire cropping of a block of 82 trees. It consists of six small and deformed specimens, none of which was marketable, even had there been quantity. In this case, at Ieast, it can be triithfully said that the frost damage was 100 per cent. « s P «