LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 111, 27 May 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Rangitane at Panama. The New Zealand Shipping Co. advises tbat its m.v. Rangitane, which left Wellington on May 6, arrived at Panama on tbe morning of May 24. Ross Shield Rugby. The Ross Shield prlmary-scbool Rugby coiupetition will be played this season at Hastings in tbe seeond-term school bolidays. It is expected tbat teams from Hastings, Napier, Wairoa, Central Hawke's Bay, Taupo, and East Coast will participate. In 1938, tbe games will be played at Wairoa. Sustenanco and Motor-Cars. "I think it should be made a criminal offence for men on gustenance to own motor-cars," remarked Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., wben such a case was. brought to his notice in the course of tbe hearing of a judgment summons at the monthly sitting of -tbe Levin Magh isbrate's Court. Advice to MQtorists. Mr F. H, Levien, S.M., of Pukekohe, referred to the danger pf Ippkiug direct at tbe lights of approaching cars. He added; ''From my expereuqe 1 would say look to the left edge of the #oad. That is the best guide as to your position on the road when passing otber cars at night. It is a safer guide than watching any centre line." "Spottlng" at Canoes. Many of the young people with whom he had come in contact had had their most serious adoleseent maladjustment outside a dance-hall, said Mi" J. H. Ledgtrwood in an address to the New Plymouth Rotary Club. He was not condemning private and temperate drinking. He was simply observing that in an increasing degree young people at dances weie led to believe by those who should know better that uo dance could be successful unless there was "spotting" before, during and after the event. Refinement of Comfort. A refinement of tireside comfort that is not as widely enjoyed- as it could be has been adopted by a farmer living not far from Christchurch (states the Star-Sun). A city visitor, shown into the farmhouse living-room, was puzzled by a pair of slippers nailed by the toes to mantelpiece. "What on earth are those for?" he asked. "You watch," replied the farmer, as he slipped off his gum-boots, subsided into a comfortable ohair pulled up to the fire, and put his feet into the slippers. "Now my feet can't slip and I can read the paper in comfort," he said. Farmers' Sons' Wages. The district inspector of factories at Wanganui has advised the provincial office of the New Zealand Farmers' Union as follows: "In reply to your letter of the 19th. inst., I have to advisa that it is necessary for a farmer to pay his- sons the wages prescribed by the Agricultural Workers' Act, 1936, unless the sons are genuine partners in the business. If the relar tlonship. of master and servant exists the Act applies, notwithstanding the blood ties. The department has, however, intimated without prejudice, that it wrll hot interfere.in family arrangements.'' New Bowling'Green. Extensive improvements by which it is hoped to form on© of tbe best bowling greens in the Dominion will be carried out by the Bluff Hill Bowling Club, Napier, if it is successful in aoquiring from the Napier Harbour' Board a seotion of land in Lighthouse road. At a cost of between £500 and £600 it is proposed to lay down a fullsize green in place of the restricted one at the site in Thompson road, with the paviUon on a rise overlooking the green and affording an admirable view of play. The farther slope is to be utilised for car-parking and a plantation, and the site, overlooking the bay and the Breakwater is ideal. Story Frpm Germany. Some oversea writers, especially Americans, have indulged themselves in aerial flights of fancy when discussing the habits and "tribal laws and customs" of New Zealanders, but the palm must gio to a German journalist, says the New Zealand Herald. A reader has received a letter from a German friend, who writes : "Last week I read an article in a Cologne paper, whioh said that car owners in Nqw Zealand are urging the Government to bring in a raeasure to remove eertain figures on the radiators of cars, which cause the superstitious native much uneasiness, and. sometimes result in their death, as they throw themselves under the cars." Names and Ocoupations. Queer names and combinations qf names have been under discussion in the Auckland Star. One correspondqnt contributes the follQwing: — "If ypu havq room for a further paragraph pn curious names, I should like to mention uames which I found in the business section of Hastings on my arrival there in 1912. The fifst sign to catqh the eyp quite near the station read "Tombs and Grubb," and it is almost incredible that this was the name of a firm of undertakers. Only a few doors away was a confectioner by the unfortunate name of 'Mouldey.' Across the road a firm of saddlers enjoyed the quper name of 'Land and Heigbway.' To complete the set were a firm pf butohers by the name of 'Little and Fairey' and a barber bearing the strangely opposite name of 'Whisker.' Althougli 1912 is a long time ago, 1 believe many of these firms are still in existence, and old Hastings resideuts will remoinber the objiers."-