LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 87, 29 April 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Jeorge V. Memorial. A donation of five ^uineas is to be made by the Hawke's Bay R'ugby union to the King George V. Memorial Fund. iistonpal Essays. liiat vaiuuuie lustoncal information -tad been eoiiecleti by tlie women t> inotituces anu enieietl in fcne form oi 21 ~£>&ays in a cumpeuwun aiiaiigeu cny u-usoings Historical aociety, was menaoned at the Society s meeting last overnng Dy the itt. Kev, F. A. Bennett, -Jisnup oi Aotearua. A conixLULLee nau oeen stt up to deal with these, he &aict, ana two prizes oi two guineas anu one guinea respeetively were to be -vwarued. • ugby constitution. "The new constitution is mainly the .vork oi Mr G. A. Maddison, and it cjiects great creuit upon hnn lor the tvork he has done in tnis connection, oaid Mr J. W. Norrie in relerence to the new constitution of the New Zeaxand Rugby umoii ai the meetmg oi the exwutive oi the Hawke's Bay Uugby Union last evening. A vote oi thanks was unanimousiy passed, together with congratulations on his eiection to the co'uncil. rtlilk in SohOols The scheme to provide a daily ration of milji tor school children in the Grev distnct has broken down. There is no milk ottering. Tenders for the supp^y of 108 gallons daily closed recentiy. but none was received, either for the whole supply or for sectionai contracts Dairymen are definite in stating that it is impossible for them to supply the milk and it appears that the activities cf the Greymouth milk-in-school com mittee will necessarily be suspended at least until the spring. Taradale Roads. A petition that ceitain roads near Taradale be elassined as main highways is to be presented to the Hawke s Bay oounty Louncil. The petitioners ask bliat the council give lmmediate attention to the roads, and forwards copies bo the Hon. W. E. Barnard, M.P., and the Minister foi Public Works, the Han R. Semple. The petition reads : — We the undersigned ratepayers, urge* (a) That the Taradale, Awatoto, Riverbend and Papakura roads be recommended for classification as main highways; (b) that they be listed under the five year plan." in Praise of Crioket "Of all the games among Britishvis ohere is none to compare with cricket. it's a game of a liie-time. One of its niceties ie that it hasn't been cominercialised to the same extent as some other sports. At far as our country is concerned, there is none of that element in the game. So far as 1 can recollect dunng my long association with the game, there has been no money other than a small shilling or two spent on cricket in a commercial sense." This was how the president oi the Hawke's Bay Cricket Association, Mr H. B. Lusk, summed up the game of cricket at a sinoke concert in Napier last night, when the season's trophies were presented. Swiss As Fighters. To-day one thinks of the Swiss as a peaceful and mdustnal people and forgets the stirring miiitant past of the country. This fact was, referred to in an address to the New Plymouth itotary Club by Dr. G. F. Rich, medical superintendent of the New Plymbuth Hospital. "The Swiss have gained their peace by virtue of numerous conflicts," commented Dr. -Rich, "for the country has produced some of che most f&mous and tenacious fighters in Europe." Survival of Switzeiland's lormer place in the Holy Roman Empire, the bodyguard of the • Pope, is still a co-mpany of Swiss soldiers.

Back to a Crown Colony. Claiming that the freedom of the farmers was, being taken from them, bhe Mangatawhiri-Maramarua branch of the Auckland Farmers' Union decided on Saturday to prepare and circulate a petition to the King praying that New Zealand be made a Crown colony again (states an exchangoj^ Forty members were present, and the motion was carried on the voices without discussion. A few members refrained from voting. The president (Mr. F. L. Steel) gave every opportunity for members to express their views, but advantage was not taken of it. "There are angry men in New Zealand to-day," said Mr. J. F. Goodwin, in moving the motion. Dearer Board. Within the last 12 months board and lodging at Wellington has advanced by 5/- to 10/- a week. According to the proprietors of private liotels and boarding houses the increases are due to the added burden of costs arising from the restoration oi wage cuts, the introduetion of the shorter week for domestic staffs and th growing expense of provisioning. A subsidiary factor applying mainly to board in private houses is stated to be that the demand for accommodation is embarrassing the supply, so that in tlie scramble for rooms prospectivo boarders are prepared to pay almost to the lirnit to get a roof over their heads.

H.B's. Historic Spots. At a meeting of the council ot tiie Hastings .Historical Society iast evenmg, prior to the public meeting, a subcommittu was formed to work with the Hawke's Bay Automobile Association and the Napier 30,000 Club in signposting historic spots near the roads in Hawke's Bay. Maori Dialects. There were about eighi different dialects in the Maori language, theRt. Rev. o. A. Bennett, Bishop of Aotearoa, told an jnquirer at last evening's meeting of the Hastings Historical Society. These were not, however, as different from one anbtiit. as was the case in England, he added, and except for a few words, the tribes could understand oue another without difficulty. The grammatical coi^ti uc--tion was the same. Good Sense of Humour. The fact that one of the character lstics of the Yorkshire people is their sense of humuur, was stressed by Mr J. Malton Murray, secretary of the iorksiui'e Society of New Zealand, at a concert given by the combined Eng«ish country societies at Wanganui lorkshue people could even laugh at themselves, said Mr. Murray, as their traditional coat of arms, consisting oi a shield in the four quarters of which appear a flea, a fiy, a magpie and a eude of bacon, proved. The flea was there becaUBe it would bite anyone} che fiy because it would sup with any-o-ne; the magpie because it would talk bo anyone — and a Yorkshireman would do all these. The Bide of bacon was there because it was no good until it nad been hung— neither was a Yorkshireman 1