LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 81, 22 April 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

No Baiance Sheet "Tag". The Hawke's Bay Education Boarti has returned th© balan.ee sheet of the past year of the Parkvale School C°mmittee without a "tag". The chairman of the committee, Mr J. Stickland stated this moming that it is a number of years now since there has been a "tag" attached to the baiance sheet. Meeting Postponed, The usual weekly meeting of the management committe© of the Hawke's Bay Rugby Union, which was to have been held last evening, was postponed bwing to the fact that three members of the imion, Messrs J. W. Norrie (chairman), Mr N. A. McKenzie (sole selector), and Mr G. A. Maddison, wer© away at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Rug'by Union. Orchestral Society. With a membership of 54, coneiderably larger than has been the case for a number of years, the Hastings Orchestral Society commenced the 1937 season last evening with the first practice under the new leadership of Mr Cedric White. The society has been fortunajfeo this year in being able to hav© the us© of the Weslyan Sunday Schoolroom for practises, and with the increased membership and keen enthusiasm that has already been displayed, the prospects of a highly succossful year are particularly bright. Loss on Tramways. Despite increases of almost a quarter of a millioa in the numiber of passengers carried, arid of more than £10,000 in its gross earnings, the Christchurch Tramway Board's deficit for the last finaneial year increased by £4646, bringing' it to £20,258- Net earnings were down by £476 and expenses increased by £11,137. Another Aeroplane for Taranaki. The Western Federated Flying Club has purchased the metal moth, ZK — AGS, from the Southland Aero Club. Mr A. Salter, ground engineer to the Western Federated Club, visited Invercargill reeently to inspect the machin© ind advise the club regarding its p?>rchase. Be flew the machine back, arriving at the New Pjymouth airport on Saturday. Liberty of the Press, '^Don't be misled by figfures in the newspapers," said Or. Silverston© during the course of an address at Maori Hill on the Dunedin City Council's proposal to raise a loan of £100,000 on street improvements. "The figures, uniess they are official, are puhlished for the pufpose of misleading you, but 1 hope that some day the papers will not have the liberty of fooling the people that they have to-day." A Defaced Memorial. . The state of the Maori monument at Kaiapohia was deplored by Mr Te Ari Pitama at a welcome to members of the Canterbury Travel Club at Tuahiwi pa. This monument had been erected by the Maoris of the South Island, Mr Pitama said, and ever since its unveiling it had been written and ecratched upon. "What would you people of Christchurch do if we, tjie Maoris of Tuahiwi, went into town and scratched our names on the Bridge of Remembrance?" he asked. Heavy Rugby Programme. Hawke's Bay Rugby representatives are in for an exceptionally busy time this season as the result of the annual Uegotiation for represeutativ© ma-tehes. Altogether the Bay will have 15 games this season, all but six being at homo. Wairarapa will be met three times, and provided nothing tuiforeseen happens, Otago will be met twice, the second occasion being for .th© Ranfurly Shield. This gam©, if it eventuates, will windup the represoutative programme in so far as Hawke's Bay is concerned. Three South Island teams will be calling on this provinc© during th© year, and the Bay play every major association in th© North Island. Control of Frost. A correspondent writes: "On reading your article on frost damage in last night'g papei'. I was reminded of an article which appeared in the Scientifio American many years ago, describiug a system of overcoming the frost damage in Florida. A square iron tank (without top) was mounted on wheels half filled with water then filled to the top with hay. A furnace was fitted below the tank, which burnt crude pitch, of which they had an abundance. On the water reaching boiling point the tank gave off vapour and was driven up and down the orchard and ereated a fog, thereby lowering the temperature. Any fuel, of course, would do." Large Kiwi Seen. A particularly large kiwi measuring six and a-half inches from the eye to the tip of its beak was seen by a New Plymouth party out pig hunting at the back of Matau last week. The bird's burrow, oomprised «f passages, was eigbt or 10 feet square and was large enough to allow a full-grown dog belouging to th© party to dive in and j chase the kiwi out into the open. Here it was rescued by one of the party and the dogje called off. It was then put back into its burrow unharmed. None of the party had seen a kiwi which equalled the bird for size.

Frost Protection, Every effort iB being mad© to protect the chrysanthemums now coming into bloom at the Napier Borough nurseries at Nelson Park from frost and to preserve the blooms so as to provide a good display for the Coronation eelebrations. A lengtli of over 160 feet is evei;y evening covered with . scrim and at night the beds are enveloped in a, tent-like structure, which it is hoped will be the means of keeping off the frost. The blooms are promising to be very fine. Two New Busesi Two uew buses are shortly to be used in the Hastings-Napier, road motor service, on© of them axriving next week, and th© other following when construction in the workshops at Wellington has been completed. Built in the Government workshops, the buses will be equipped with Leyland engines, and will -have a seating capacity of '33, exclusive of the dxiver. They are of the latest design adopted by the Railway Department for the road motor services throughout the Dominion. Another Sub-Union. Rugby football north of Napier will in future be under the immediate control of a new sub-union, to be known as the Kotemaori Rugby Sub-Union. Under its jurisdiction are four teams : Publie Works, Waikari, Kotemaori and Kiwi. Arrangements for this new body's existence were finalised last Monday, when Mr E. A. Young and the secretary cf the Hawke's ay Rugby Union, Mr W. Anderson, paid a visit to Waikari. -A seven-a-side tournament at Waikari next Saturday will mark the official beginhing of the new sub-union' s existence. Mr. Semple's Philosophy. "There should be no poor in New Zealand, and there should be no men living on thousands of pounds they have never earned," said the Minister of Public Works (Mr. R.- Semple) in an address to workmen at Claverley, on the South Island Main Trunk. Mr. Semple asserted that if the Labour Government was in power long enough ihe man who was a parasite, living on other people and not on the rewards of his own toil, would be "as extinct as the dodo." He had nothing but contempt for the man who sat on the top of a soealled society and thrived on the toil of others. » Shortage of Honey. Owing to the unfavourahle weather during the December-February period, which is the main part of the honey season, the supply this year is about half of that which is usually on the market, and prices are showing an increasingly firming tendency. The dem'and for honey is not yet at its greatest, as the commodity is most popular. during th© later winter months when jami supplies are becoming exhausted, and it is expected that by July and August the shortage will be acute, As the other honey-producing countries have also experienced poor seasons, there is no prospect of the position being relieved by imported supplies. His Anoestral Acres. An amusing story is related about a M.aori employed by the Rotorua Borough Council to patrol a publie reserve in an endeavour to stamp out vandalism. The Maori worked with satisfactory results for som© time but later, in order to fill in time and also to make a few extra shillings, he began to ckarge visitors to the reserve a guiding fee. He huilt up a good business, but mere guidance became monotonous after a period, so instead he waited at the entrance to the reserve and informed all Pakeha visitors that th© area was at on© tim© th© property of his great-great-grandfather and now his. Only Maoris were permitted to use it, biit for a small charge h© would allow, as a very special favour, Europeans to see th© "wonderful thermal regions on my property." Inquiries made at the borough offices disclosed th© Maori' s profitable pastim© and he now has all day and every day to devote to the thinking out of ways and means to "turn idl© hours into profit."