LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 124, 11 June 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

• - • ■ w.*- WffGift to Tech. Band. Mr J. Fairclough has donated to the Napier Teclmical Memorial Band -a ;fine electric heater for use in the baiidrpom, and the installation of a point Was donated bv Mr D. H. Ha.stie. The gifts are gre/bly appreciated, and the band desires to thank the donors. P.ar F,potpath. A large pjate gdass window in premises in High Street, Waipawn, occupied by M!r E. W. Hyde as a baker's shop, wa^ broken early on Wednesday morqing when a motor-car negotiating the corner mounted the -footpatli and crtLshed -through. The oeoupants of the car were unhurt. Looking For Revenu$, The Government, is to be written to by tiie Hasnngs Borough Council reaarding the nroposed erection of 26 bouses and .^slcing if it is the mtention of thQ. Government to apply for building permits and pay the necessary fees for in^pections .of the buildings by the igspeotor. Sic'xness from Whisky. An unusual test is being uiidertaken . by the Hastings borough health autliorities. It is of .a sample of wMsky. The test is being made because of reported siqkftess through the drinking of this particular bra,nd of whisky, and a- sample was sent to the Government pnalyst. As yet, no report has been. received .of the result ot the' analysis. Oheck-up on Licences. nuohority to engage additional stafF for the purpose ot making a check-up on drivers' licences .and warrants of fitness for xnotor yehicles was given the traffic inspector Mr D. Mann, by the Hastings Borough .Council last evening. The department was right on the job early this morning. E'eporta indicate that the "catehr; by the officers is a fairlv big one. Continued in Our Next. After spending close on four hours considering the vvorkmg estimates for the now current year, the Hastings Borough Councii adjourned the meeting in committee last night at midnight witiu the task still uncompleted. A further jneeting is to be held on Monday night next, when, it is anticipated, some Jtinality will be reached to enab.o the council to decide what rate ig to be struck. Cxown Solicitor Coining. The Crown Solicitor, Mr. N. A. Foden, is to be present at the Eoyal Commission dnto the administration of the Napier Public Hospital, ooxnmencing at the Supreme Court, Napier, next week. Three medieal men, i)r. J. Cairney, Dr. j. B. Boyd, and the pathololist at the Wellington Hospital, Dr. J. 1'. D. Lynch, will also be present in Napier for the dnquiry. It is >anderstood that Mr. Foden and Dr. Cairney will probably be in Napier for a fortnigkt, and the remaining doctors for one week. Army Medieal Corps. The endeavour to form a Napier unit of the New Zealand Army Medieal Corps has not yet materialised, but it seems likely that the requisite number of names will shortly be obtained. The regulafions provide that intending members should be between the ages of 18 and 32 and would be required to do 36 hours drjll a year, including week-end camps, and 36 hours drill in an annual camp, and pass tho required "medieal examinations as to fitness. A number of names were handed in at a meeting held recently, and further names have been received sinca the meeting. It is to be hoped that in the near future Napier will have a fullyequipped medieal unit of earnest men. Baths for Taradale. There seems to be some prospect of the proposed baths for Taradale soon becoming an accomplished fact. The deputation from the baths committee, comprising Messrs G. Webb (chairman), J. H. Wilkinson (secretary), F. O. Anderson and Dr Will, with whom were associated Messrs J Williamson (chairman of the Town Board) and W. G. Jarvis (town clerk), who waited on the Hon. P. C. Webb, acting-minister of Labour, in Napier a few days ago, were very sympathetically received, and althongh the interview took place in cameira it is understood that the prospects are most hopeful that substantial assistance will be forthcoming to provide labour through the department to supplement the finance being organised by tlie committee and the Town Board.