LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 100, 14 May 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

□onatlon Acknawledged. The Mayor of Hastings, Mr G. A. Maddison, acknowledges witb grateful tbanks a donation of £25 from the Hastings branch of Messrs J. R. Mckenzie'a Ltd. towards tbe King George V". Memprial Fund. Gold Quartz. A sample of gold quartz from a Westland mine on view in the shop of Mr Mtohell, tobacconist, Russell street, Hastings, bas attraeted tbe attention of passers-by. The sample shows a yield of £4 12/- to the ton by amalgamation. Bankruptoy Petition. The first bankruptoy petition for the month was filed witb the Official Assignee, Mr G. G. Chisholm, at tbe Napier Gourtbouse yesterday aftemoon, wben Arthur Alexander Brown, of Hastings, wioolscourer, filed a petition. Road MetaHing. Metalling of tbe Wharerangi road and tbe Bridge Pa — Washpool section of tbe Hastings — Maraekakaho road is sbortly to be done by contract for tbe Hawke's Bay County Council in preparation for .tar-sealing at the end of the year. The proposals have been approvedi by the Main Highways Board, and tenders will be shortly called. "Holed in One." A further hole in one was achieved at the Maraenui Golf Olub on Coronation Day, when E. L. Moodie drove 132 yards at the eleventh, the ball bouncmg into the hole at a sbarp angle after bitting tbe edge o-f tbe bunker, Until about a fortnight ago, this feat bad not been achieved at Maraenui for some seasons. An Aberdeen Cow. Colonel Olosey, of Levin, speaking in Hastings last night, said tbat tbere was no tbreat to mechanise farming. It was the only industry not frigbtened by meobanisation. However, tbero were reports of a new breed of cow in Aberdeen that bad no stomaeh and two udders (Laugbter). English Soocer Tour. Advice has been received by the Hawke's Bay Football Association that Napier will be included in the itinerary of the visiting English Soccer team and that the team will play the first match of its New Zealand tour at Napier on Thursday, May 27, The H.B.Poverty Bay team to meet the tourists bas not yet been announeed, English Greetings. "School children en fete. Hastings, England, sends Coronation greetings to Hastings, N©w Zealand." Such was the cable received on Wednesday by the Mayor, Mr G. A. Maddison, who mentioned at the Corpnation and Borough Jubilee last evening that he felt particularly pleased and proud to receive such a message, and had made hagte to send the following reply: "Our people and all echpol children enthusiastically qelebrating Coronation. Reciprocate your fraternal greetings." Moiise Rings Fire Alarm. A mouse which apparently lost its bearings wandered into the aut fi aerl bearings wandered into the indicator box of the automatic fire alarm at the premises of a Dunedin business firm the other evening and upset the mechanism to such an extent that the alai-m rang vigorously and the CutFire Brigade turned out. Besides putting the firemen to the irritating incoiivenience of being called to an accidental false alarm, the mouse's jaunt wag responsible for the not inconsiderable expense of a brigade call. A "Patriotio" Oos. A living example of a "patriotio" dog was abroad in Wanganui on Tuesday. A member of the staff of a prominent Wanganui auctioneering firm took tbe animal to work. The dog was small and white. Other members of the staff, plentifully supplied with red and blue raddle, got to work and made a red, white and blue animal out of him and sent him bome a fitting example of what they considered all good wbite dogs should be at such a time as tbis. Early Courting in Thames. A story is told of a young Cornish miner % no was in Thames in the goldrush aays. He was boai-ding with an old Cornishman, also a miner, and one night asked the latter for the loan of a iantern, as the town was not lit up in those times. Asked by the older man what he wanted the Iantern for, the young fellow admitted sheepishly that he was going courting. The old miner laugbted and told him tbat in his young days be never took a Iantern to go courting. "I knew that," said tbe your fellow, "as soon as I saw your missusl" Concrete Posts Factory. "It shows tbat he is taking an interest in us," commented Mr F. J. Witherow at this morning's meeting of tbe Central Hawke's Bay Electric Power Board, wben a letter was Tead from the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple, coagratulating the board upon its manufacture of concrete posts. He said be would be glad.to inspect tbis work as soon as be ctfrnld" find tbe opportunity of visiting the district. The Waipukurau Chamber of Commerce also will inspect tbe con-crete-post factory as soon as possible. Tbe board is mauufacturing these posts to take tbe place of wooclen poles imported from Australia. Of late tbere has been considerable dilfficulty in getting supplies from overseas.

Loyalty in Speech. The speecb of New Zealand is English, but tbe speecb of Australia is "Australian," aecording to Mr. J. P. Perry, a retired Yiennese banker, who arrived in Obristcburcb on bis first visit to tbe southern Dpminions. "New Zealand is, I tbink, tbe most loyal of Great Britain 's possessions, ' ' be said. "Sbe is very much more loyal tban Australia. My impression was that tbe Australians -were more self-contained — they are Australians^ first and foremost. In New Zealand' tbe people are British. Yon can tell it by tbe language. In New Zealand tbey speak pure English, bnt in Australia they speak — well, Australian." Tribute to Hon. P. Fraser. "I am not a Labonr supporter, but I wish we bad more Minister s in New Zealand like Mr. Peter Fraser," said the chairman, Mr. R. H. Nimmo, at a meeting of the Boy Employment Committee.in New Plymouth. Mr. Nimmo was a member of the deputation from the Wellington Chamber of Commerce which waited upon the Acting-piime Minister in regard to the basie wage .and its effect upon the placement of youths. "We found Mr. Fraser most reasonable," said Mr, Nimmo. "When we cited a speeific case of hardship he replied without any hedging or beating about the bush, 'We never intended that to happen. ' " Not a Burglar's Work Confronted with the spectacle of the office safe lying open on the floor, a porter on an early shift at a Soutb Canterbury railway station the other morning allowed bis imagination to run riot for a few moments before getting in loucb with tbe police. On the arrival of two detectives a diligent seareh was carried out for finger prints, and instructions were issued tbat nothing in tbe room was to be touched. Tbe inveStigations were continued, but by breakfast time tbe mystery was still nnsolved. A sbort time later a busy foreman whose men bad commenced repair work in tbe office on tbe previous day, appeared on tbe scene, Tbe surprise, and possibly disappointment, of tbe porter wben be learned tbat tbe safe was only being dismantled for repairs, were probably little consolation for tbe detectives.