LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 118, 4 June 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Radio Petition A reply from the actiug-Minister in Charge of Broadcasting, the Hon. F. Jones, received by those responsible for the petition recently circularised in Hawke's Bay regarding the retention of the B.class radio stations, states that the Minister has noted the terms of the petition and it will receive careful consideration. Returns from Soccer Match. The gate receipts for the EnglandHawke's Bay Soccer match totalled a little over £160, or about £40 more than the guarantee to the New Zealand council. The Hawke's Bay Football Association will receive one-ninth of the net amount taken over and above the guarantee. Frec Trip, Advice has been received by the Mayor of Hastings, Mr G. A. Maddison, that Newman Bros. (N.I.), Ltd.'s motor service will be pleased to grant a return trip from Hastings to Wellington to Mrs J. C. Anderson, the mother of the "Coronation Day" triplets, when she is contemplating taking a holiday visit to Wellington, 8on of a Head-Hunter. "My grandfather was a head-hunter, my people cannibals. If you ask, 'What is the use of foreign missions?' I think the answer is standing before your eyes in me and my brothers yonder," declared the Rev. Belshazzer Gina, speaking at the Piffc Street Methodist Church, Auckland. Mr Gina was accompanied by four of his countrymen from Fjji, who are pasBing through Auckland on their way to take up mission work in North Australia. Mr Gina himself is a missionary to the Solomons, and speaks six languages, four Solomon Island dialects, English and Fijian. Outlook for Flax industrv. "A new process for the preparing of flax will shortly revolutionise this industry, Ruring tlxe past 12 months 1 have seen 80 or more ixxventions in this connection, and I arn confident that the oue I refer to is going to save the flax industry," declared Mr C. L. Hunter, M.P., for Manawatu, when addressing the annual meeting of the Foxton Chamber of Commerce. Mr Hunter said there were big prospects, and when the impetus' became operative he was confideait 1000 people would be seen ,wor,king in the flax industry in Foxton. He hoped to see large numbers of boys and men employed there in the near future. The flax textile factory at present eraploys chiefly female labour. Demand for Dairy Cows, Last summer, which remains a memory for most folk as jnst about the "worst ever" from a townsman's point of viow, was a notable season for the dairy farmer. Waikato dairy farmeirs generaljy have expresspd the oplnion 'that the season just closed was the best in their experience, probably as the resuljb of the continued experience. probably as the result of the continued mild weather which accompanied the frequent rain. Despite a turnover to sheep farming by a number of Waikato farmers whoso interesb had been formerly in dairying, the butter and cheese output has been increased, and the demand for cows of good milking strains is greater than for many years. This was indicated at a Waiuku clearing sale on Monday, when 50 grade Jersey cows averaged £10, and prices ranged to £15, the highest for a long period.