LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 89, 1 May 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Work for Surveyors. The Sufveyor-General, Wellington, is inviting applications from registered surveyors to fill vacancies in the Survey Department of the Federated Malay States and Straits Settlements. Applications have to be in by May 21. Popularising Boxing. In an endeavour to poptxlarise boxing in this district, the Hawke's Bay Boxing Association circularised professional boxers ifi New Zealand inviting them to take part in a series of bout-s during tlie now current season. Some 30 invitations were sent out and to date the association has received 17 acceptames and no refusals. Power Board Pinanoes. The Poverty Bay Electric Poivet Board expects to find a deficit Of £3500 at the close of the 1937-38 finanCial year. The revenue estimated for is £60,000 as against £63,921 for 1936-37, and bhe estimated expeliditure will consume £63,580, as against £62,864. Where the board secured a surplus of £1057 for the financial year just completed, the board expects to be £3580 behiiid at the close of 1937-38. Customs Revenue. Customs revenue eollected at the port of Napier during the past month represents an iiicrease by £5186 on the revenue for April, 1936. This April' s total was £47,436, compared with £42,250 eollected jn the coiresponding month last year. Details of the £47,436 eollected are as follow : — Nett customs, £33,030; saies tax, £4685; petrol tax, £7893; miscellaneous (including beSr duty), £1828. Hastings Street school- . A number of old and recent photographs of groups of pupils and staff of the Hastings Street School, Napier, which is celebrating its juhilee this month, are at present on view in the window of the Londontown establishment, tEmerson street, and they are Of particular interest to Old pupils of the school, especially so are the photographs deah'ng with the early staffa of the school under the control of Mr J. N. Dodds, who was headmaster from 1889 to 1915. Subufbari Bus Tickets. Though at first it was thought 'that the new suburban ticket rates introduced by the Minister of Railways last week did not concern thisi part of the DomanioU, it has now been ascertained that the subuxhan-trip ticket will be applicable to the journey from Napier to Hastings and vice versa. This ticket, which is transferable, is available for six journeys made before the end of the month followiug the month in which it is issued. The new charge of the six trips works otit at one penny less than the ordinary charge for two return journeys, and exaetly half that charge for six single trips, Fighting Funds. "The Labour.Party will have almost £10 fot evety £1 we have at the next eledtion," said the Leader of the Opposition, the Hon. A. Hamilton, ,\n a luneheon talk to Christchurch businessmen, repoi'ts the Star-Sun, He added that he had seen it stated in the newspapers that the Labour Party would have a fighting fund of £100,000 for the next election. He was inclined to believe that that was a smoke-screen, and that it would have two or three times that amount. However, money would not win an election against a party that had the good will of the respOnsible sections of the comonunity, and the National Party would do all right if it had the good will of all classes. Fruit Packers Strike. , Miention of what is believCd to be the first strike ever experienced in the fruitgrowing industry in New Zealand is made in letter received yesterday by a Hastings fruitgrower from a fellow grower at Nelson. Contending tliat one of their numbers was a non-union-ist the workers in the central packing shed at Nelson went on strike on Wednesday, but later in the day it was agcertained that the. man in question was a financial member of the Wellington union and at 4 o'clock in the afternoon the strike was called off, th© men returning to the job of finishing off the export trade. Our informant intimated that the ernployerB were contemplating taking act-ion against the men for their allegedly illegal "strike. Maori Portraits. Not the least attraction of the Wanganui Museum is the colleetion of Maori portraits of local celebrities painted principally by Gotfreld Lindauer to the order of the late Sir Walter Buller, 40 years ago- An. interesting bulletin has just been published, giving a brief biography of each of the Maoris depicted by the arti&t. The aufchor is Mr Ernest Barns, one of the Museum trustees, whose knowledge of fch© Maori race is equalled by few living pakehas. The biographies are based on. Mr Barns' personal contacts with the. Maoris and muoh of the information contained in th© bulletin is quite new. Tho Muse,nm trustees are deeply ga'ateful to Mr Barns for the splendid manner in which he has recorded for posterity this valuable information concerning the old chiefs and chieftainegs6s of other days.