LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 140, 30 June 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Early Lambing Season. According to reports from various parts of the Auckland province the lambing season has commenced earlier than usual this year. On the ruu of Mr M. B. Kirkbride, at Mangere, more than 200 lambs-have been hoi-n during the past few weeks. Light in 'Phone Booths. At the Hastings retailers' meeting on Monday, Mr S. O. Garland drew attention to the need of a light in the telephone booths throughout the night. Mr C. Griffiths, the chairman, explained that representations had been made to the postmaster, who had promised to see what could be done. Taradale Social Glub. The usual weekly card evenmg of the Taradale boeial Club, attracted a good attendance of players. Mrs Grant, of Napier, and Mrs Cullen, Greenmeadows, tied for first and special among the ladies, Miss Clipper winning the ladies5 lucky number. Messrs W. Smith and F. Collinge respectively won the gentlemen's prizes. Trout Hatcheries. The first strippings of trout at Rotorua produced about. 230,000 eggs, which were placed in the Turangi hatchery last week, and from now onwards regular strippings will ' be carried out. It should not be long before all the hatcheries contro'iled by the Internal Aifairs Department in the Rotorua acclimatisation district are at full capacity. Until the new liatchery on the game farm property at the back of Ngongotaha mountain is erected, the present Ngongotahu hatchery will remain in use and the first eggs should be laid down there in about three weeks. Bogus Articles Revealed. Bogus articles revealed by X-rays were mentioned by Sir Carrick Robert son, president of tbe Auckland Institute and Museum, following an address under the auspices of the institute, He said that while visiting Egypt he unwillingly purchased what was claimed to be the hand of oue of Egypt' s queens, taken from a mummy-case. On bgayd a liner on which he was travelling later, however, was an inquisitive radiologist, who subjected the specimen to an X-ray examination, and showed it to be nothing more than a mouse, carefully prepared to trap the unwary, 26 Degrees of Frost. From 24 to 26 degrees of frost have been recorded at Oturehua, Central Otago, during the last four days. Early on Monday evening the secretary of the Oturehua Sports Club sfated in a telephone message that at that time the thermometer showed 20 degrees of frost. The skating area, which at present has a good surface of ice three inchfcs in tluckness, was well patronised on Sunday, and nearly 100 skaters from Alexandra abd Omakau enjoyed exhilarating sport, If the weather keeps fine the sports club proposes to hold a camival at the week-epd Poor Coronation Business. The adverse eifeots of the Coronation celebrations on business in JLondon were mentioned by Mr J. P. Jones, buyef for a Sydney firm, who is a through passenger on the Niagara, whiqh arrived at Auckland from Vancouver on Monday. During the Coronation and its accompanying festivities business was very poor," Mr Jones said, ''1 met a large number of middlemen, many of whom were prepared for increased turnovers, but all were disappointed with the returns, which fell far short of the norma! tabings at this period of the year. The Coronation appeared to loom so large in the minds of Londoners and visitors that shopping was relegated to a quite unimportant place." War Relief. A meeting of the Hastings committee of the Hawke's. Bay' War Relief Association was held on Monday. Present : Messrs W. Hart (in the chair), F. J. Hull and L. J. Mackersey. Leave of absence was granted to Messrs A. J. M. Manson and F. Perrin. Forty-one returned soldiers' cases were considered, including applications for pensions, and grants amounting to £42 0/6 and loans amounting to £42 15/-, were autkorised. A statement of payments and receipts for the inonth of June showing grants to soldiers £52 9/1, grants to dependants of soldiers £29 16/2, grants to soldiers on account of other societies £5, loans to soldiers £37 8/- and repayments received £74 15/5 was placed before the meeting and approved. One Shilling Penalty. At Auckland on Saturday R. McKean, S.M., in a reserved/aecision, fined the Auckland Gas Cqmpanv 1/for a breach of the N.orthern Industrial Piumbexs' and Gasfitters' Award. The evidence showed that in 1935, when there was no award operating, the foreman, yielding to the entreaties of the men, engaged them at £2 a week as gasfitters' labourers. They had not served an apprenticesbip and were given work that could be performed by a second year apprentice. When the award was made their wages were raised to £3 weekly, but the Labour Department contended that they were entitled to rank as journeymen gasfitters. In delivering judgment thb magistrate said: "If I am right in saying that all rnen employed on gas fitting are gasfitters and therefore employed on plumbers work as defined, these men must be paid the same rates as those who have had to serve an apprenticeship of six years.'*

Remuera Radios "All Well" Tte New Zealand Shipping Co. adviscs that its R.M.S Remuera, which left Wellington on June 16 for London, radios that weather conditions are'unfavoitroble and that all is well, « Rabaui Eruption. A talk on the recent Rabaui eruption will be given over the air from 1YA Auckland to-night at 7.30 by Pastor A. G. Stewart, a ploneer missionary, who is the first arrival in New Zealand since the disaster. Pastor Stewart was an eye-witness of the eruption. Triplets Leave Hawera. The three baby daughters of Mrs Tuteri Rangihaeata, Ohangai, were taken to the Wanganui Karitane Hospital yesterday by car. The triplets are all malsing good progress. May, the second, ia gaining weight more rapidly than her sisters, Ann and Violet. Evading the Regulations. "Now I will let the cat out of the bag and tell how the regulations can be evaded," said Mr C. Morgan Williams, M.P., during a debate on the onion marketing scheme with Mr H. S. S. Kyle, M.P., at Christchurch. He said that buyers would be approached .and told that if they took oniona at a fixed price they would be given potatoes, or perhaps carrots, at a lower price. There were more open wayg of doing it, but this was a more legitimate one. Motor-oycle Platoons. In recognition of members of motorcycle platoons using their machines on military work the Defence Department has decided to make an allowance of 30/- to those who attended the annual training camps. The payment is equivalent to providing free registration. This is in addition to the ordinary out-of-camp training allowance, and both amounts will be paid out shortly. Resumption at Waikaremoana? That the Government proposes to resume work on the Waikaremoana hydroolecirie scheme is indicated by the fact that the Public Works Tenders Board has cailed tenders for the erection at Tuai of eight cottages in connection wiih the scheme. The tenders are to close with the secretary of the board at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, July 20, Specif caijon& ean be seen at the Public Works Offices at Napier, Wairoa and Gisborne. Raupunga Workers1 Unlon. The aunuai meeting of the Raupunga branch of the Workers' Union uas held at the Public Works Department recreation room on June 15, when tbere was an excellent ■ attendance qf members. The annual report was unan imcusly adopted. Ihe election of a new secretary to the Medical Associacion for tbc Raupunga-Mohaka branch, owing to th^ resignation of Mr D. Reed, resulted in the election of Mr A. Te Aho. Unauthorised Tenants. An unpleasant surprise was in store for an intending tenant of a house in oue of the elosely populated streets in the westem ward of Hastings yester--day when he proceeded to make an inspection of the house. Though he had obtained the keys from the representative of the owner, he fouud upon arrival that they were not required for the doors and the majority of the winuows were open. Upon closer inspection it was apparent that during the period the house was supposed to have been vaeant it had been occupied. More than this, the unauthorised occupiers had left the place in a most un(iicafcions, generally, pointed to the iilth. In addition all tne elestrical fitcings had been removed, the use of a pair of pliers being obvious. The intidy state, bordering, in faet, upon aouse having been usea as a doss house. Mr Semple's Tribute. The Minister of Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple) invented a new type of running shoe during an address to tbe Canterbury Advertising Club. Talking about the fine achievement of young New Zealand ers in the construction of the Mohaka viaduct, on the N'apier-Gisborne raiiway line, he said that there had been no "scroungers or street-corner loafers.'' He had stopped them getting there. Had he found any he would have given them those running shoes. "I've invented a special pair for those fellows — they have spikes iuside and out," the Minister said. "Those who get them are still running. The men who put the job through were all New Zealanders, and I take off my hat to them: but I had to take my gioves off to some other birds." A Ballerina Misreported? People who met the Russian ballerina, Miss Helene Kirsova, when she was in New Zealand recently and were a little hurt over a Sydney report that she found New Zealanders dull may now set their minds more at ease, It is the country she thinks dull, not the people. Writing to a friend in New Zealand she says: "The real wording of my comment in Sydney after the New Zealand tour, which has been so misinterpreted in various p&pers, was as follows: 'The people were very nice and charming, the country beautiful but dull, that is, dull in the sense of lack of variety. ' It is my wish to convey to the New Zealand public once more my thanks for their marvellous hospitality and enthusiasm that madc my whole tour of New Zealand a delightful trip." The Sydney Morning Herald reported Miss Kirsova as follows: 'New Zealand is very lovely, and the people generally are very com--ortabJe, but so dull.' "