LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 85, 27 April 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Bankruptoy Meeting Lapses. A meeting of the creditors of Oscar Albert Single, called for yesterday afternoon, lapsed for want of a quorum. Borough counoil Works. Consideration of the annual reports of the various departmental heads was given by members of the Hastings Borough Council last evening when a speeial meeting was beld in committee. The council also discussed various proposed works to be carried out during th© now current financial year, and officers received instructions to prepare reports and estimates of costs of tbese proposals for consideTation when frarning the estimates for the year. Post Office Contract. The tender of W. Williamson, Christchurch, has been aecepted for tbe construction of No. 1 block of the new Chief Post Office at Christchurch- The cost of the work is about £130,000. This block of five storeys will face Hereford street. Tbe Government bas also decided to re-build tbe present Chief Post Olffice, but the construction of this building of seven storeys will not be started until No 1 block is finished. Pfcture Theatre for Lepers. The Napier Rotary Club has forwarded the sum of £27 3/- to the district governor, Rotarian Will Thomas, us the contribution of the club to an appeal launched by the Suva Rotary Club for the provision of a talkingpicture theatre at the leper station at Molokai. A letter in reply thanks the Napier club for its promptness in forwarding the amount, and the generous nature. of the contribution. Holes-in-One. For the second time this season a player on the Hastings Golf Club' 8 links at Bridge Pa has holed out in one. Jluring the Stableford bogey match last week, M. Howe holed out his tee shot at the fifth, and earlier in the season J. H. Jefferd holed out in one at the fourth. The Hastings Club has not instituted any scheme such as that brought into operation bv several other clubs for the protection of members in this regard. Consequently, these two players had the "pleasure" of paying the penalty in the good old-fashioned manner. English Bowlers' Visit. A letter was received at the last meeting of the executive of the New Zealand Bowling Association from the International Bowling Boaid of England, advising that an official team of British bowlers would arrive in New Zealand early in December of this year. It was decided to seud a cable welcomi"g the decision to send the team and requesting the necessary particulars to enable the itinorary to be drawn up. Since- the meeting a cablegram stating that the tgam will arrive in Wellington by the Arawa on December -A has been received. Estimating Rail Traffio. "The greatest care and judgmenb possible is taken by the depai'tment in estimating the rise and fall of traffic after a minute analysis of the movement of commodities for the past year has been made," stated the general manager of railways, Mr. G. H. Mackley, in a survey of rolling stock requirements. Every year a conference of the responsible officers was held, at which all the information available was taken into account and a programme of new construction decided upon that was considered to be ample for the estimated requirements of the prospective business. An Endurance Coif Match. What is believed .to be a record performance jn Christchurch, golf is that of two players at the Templeton golf course last week who carried an i8-hole match to the 72nd. green before the winner was decided. The players were B. F. Keene and L. C. Stephens, the match being the first round of the Templeton knock-out competition states the Press. After 18 hcvles of play with the match unfinished a further 18 holes were played, and with play still all squar© at the '36th green the match was .postponed until last week-end. The pervious performance was repeated and at the 71st green both men again halved. At the 72nd, however, Eeene, who was on the green in two, took three putts, and lost the match. The feat is a record endurance contest fo* the club. Seven Hours' Milking. A Central Taranaki farmer used to milking cmvs had nevertheless had enough of them one day last week. His assistant and two neighbours departed to climb over Mr Egmont and had not returned by milking timej they had, as it happened, been caught in a thick mist. The farmer set to work alone and struggled through a large herd. There .was still no sign of the missing trio, so he stepped across to the neigkbouring farm to enquire. He found the woman of the house in the shed alone, so once again he began, the task being made difficult by the fact tliat the cowg had been trained to certain bails. At about 10 p.m., after milking for seven hours, the farmer was considering the organisation of a search party when the missing climbers returned in cheerful frame of mind— just too late to do any woi'k.

King George Momona! The Mayor of Hastings, Mr G. A. Maddison3 acknowledges with grateful fharks the following further donations to ihe King George V Memorial Fund: Regent Theatre, £1 2/6; Women'^ LuneJ'eon Club, £1 1 /- A Burden. "You have a house property, havo you not?" asked a solioitor in the cross-examination of a debtor in the Napier Magistrate's Court this morning. Amid the smiles of those present the witness dolefully replied, "I've giot what you call * burden, not a property. I'm paying out all the timel" Hovj Hastings Building A start has been made with the excavation work as a preliminary to the laying of the foundations of the new Hawke's Bay Electric Power Board offices in Heretaunga street, next to the Assembly Hall and Municipal Buildings. The new offices, which are estimated to cost in the vicinity of £12,800, will be part of a two-storey building which will be linked up at the rear with the power house in Eastbourne street Palmerston Post Office. Substantial alterations and additions are to be made to the Palmerston Nortb Post Office, and according to the Po&tn.aster-Generars message, to Mr J. Hodgens, M.P., it is hoped to cail tender s for the work at an early date. The extensions will permit of considerable alterations being effected in the existing arrangements that will be much appreciated by the public and the staff. Attractive to Tuis. In discussing trees and plants which were attractive to the tui? at a meeting of the Taranaki Council of the Institute of Horticulture at New Plymouth, Mr T. Horton (curdtor of Pukekura Park) instanced an experience he had in Hawke's Bay. He said some trees of the eucalyptus Sampbelli variety had been planted round a plot of ground intended for school purposes with the object of attracting birds, and in a district wher© tuis were as rare as swallows in winter they were now to be seen in large numbers. He recounted this in the form of advice to those who were desirous of planting trees that would attraet the birds. Discove:y oi Skeleton* lntensive investigation has Been Carried oue by the Hastings police as the result of the findiug of the skeleton of a burran body near Crownthorpe early last week, and the rssults of these mquiries have satisfied the police that their first supposition that these wero the remains of William F. Wishart, of Pakowhai road, Hastings, who was reported missing in November of 1934, was correct The difficulty confronting t';e invegtigating officers is- the estabhshmaub cf definite proof of identity sufficient to satisfy the coroner, butihey are hopeful that there will be enougb cirrumstantial proof offered at tbe resumption of tbe inquest to make this possible. "Stickers" for Cars The Hastings Borough Council has received a number of pink stickers which are to be placed on the windscreens of cars that have been given warrants of fitness. Instructions from the Transport Depai'tment are that traffic inspectors should see that the stickers are placed on the right-hand bottom corner of tiie windscreen, and in addition to inscribing on the sticker the expiry date of the warrant of fitness, the registered number of the vehicle is to be noted. An interesting question which has arisen in this regard is that within the next six weeks the majority of the cars will have been re-registered for the new licensing year and consequently the numbers will have been altered-