LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 141, 1 July 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Hospital Inquiry Commission. The Royal QoVnmission investigating the affairs of the Napier Public Hospital, which concluded itB sitting in Napier bn Saturday last, restimed sitiings in Wellington to-day for ihe purpbse of hearing technical evidence. Dangerous Drugs. • That veterinarians were prohibited from ordering dangerous drugs by telephone, althougb medical practitioners were permitted to do so, was a complaiiit fftade by Mr A. M. Brodie at the annual conference of the New Zealand Veterinary Conference. It was decided to ask the Health Departnient to have the restriction removed'. Court Case Explained. William Vincent Scott, who was fined in the Hastings Magistrate's Court yesterday for offences under the new motor regulations, states that he defended the chatge of having cut the corner on the wrong side of the road, and this charge was dismissed. His plea of guilty related to ihe charge of driving without proper care and consideration. pefendant also states that his car carried lights. Took fH6 Hlnt* "I hope you will applaud unstintingjly to-night, but I do hope you will applaud at the right time," remarked ihe Eev. K. Liggett iti opening the performance of the St. Matthew's Hramatic Club in Hastings last evening. "You will 1iave read the remarks about the faults of Hastings audiences in a write-up in the Herald-Tribune last night," he added, "and I trust you will take the hint from tliat.'» The audience took the hiut. Maori Population Changes. A survey of - the fluctuations of the Maori population was given by Profesaor J. Eutherford in an address at Auekl&hd on early New Zealand land pro.blems. Early estimates were inaccarate, but the Maoris at the beginniug oi' the last century could be numbered at between 80,000 and 120,000, he said. '.Ihe introduetion of firearnis and EuroXjean diseases however, addej tremendously to the death roll from the tribal wars. By 1857 the. Maori population was estimated at 58,000, or 3000 less than the EuropeanS. Since then there hu.d been a gradual increase. Demand for Juveniie Labour. "The demand for juveniie labour shows no sign of abating," stated Mr F. Martyn Reuner, principal of Rongotai College, in his monthiy repol't received at the VV ellington Colleges Board of Governors' meeting. "I have some dozen employers and hrms on my books who have asked me to recommend suitable boys for employment. For the timo siuce a year ago, I find an increase in the number of very young boys, that is, below 16 years, whu are leaving schooL Many of them are taking up positions which lead to a dea.d end, but which are attractive from the point of initial wage or salary." The roll number of the scliool was now 527, a drop of 33 siuce tlie beginning of the year. New Zealand Verdure. "One of the things that has impressed me most in New Zealand is the graenness everywhere — I mean of the grass, not the people," said the Hon. F. E. Old, Victorian Minister for Water Supply, at the Government luncheon tendered at Auckland to the Premier of Vietoria, the Hon. A. A. Dustan, and Mr% Old. "You will understand this when I say that I come from the Mallee area, which has an average rainfall of 14in., ' ' he added. "You say that your geysers 'plEty,' and it seetos to me that New Zealand" ers play too. You have a Rugby field iu every centre, and the best paddocks I have seen were golf liuks — aixl tho most populous. ' ' The Leopard's Spots. A brief incursion into uatural « history lightened the solemnities of legal argument in the iSupreme Oourt at Auckland the other day. The quotation by Mr. A. H. Johnstone, K.G., that the leopard cannot cliange his spots nor the Ethiopian his skin led Mr. Justice Beed to question whether the writer had seen all the leopards tncro were. A black one he had seen at the zoo the other day showed nc spots, he said. "As a matter of natural history, sir," replied Mr. Johnstone, "you will find that even he is spotted as the others, though it does not 'show clearly on his black coat. However I am content to drop the leopard and xely on the Ethiopian." "He will have to change his skin if he wants a happy life," commented Mr. Meredith. Use of Leisure. Dr. Kandel, of Columbia University, New York, in a very interesting talk ou education in Napier, last night, scored a very neat 'point on the use that was made of leisure. Expressing the view that the introduetion of the 40-hour week in industry might have the reverse eft'eet to what was hoped for unless the leisure time were wisely used he mentioud that a few years ago, when a certain Japanese delegation was boing shown round New York by ihe Mayor of that city, the latter ex plained the reason for returning by a ilifierent xoute from that by which they had set out was that it saved five miuuies. The leader of the delegation promptly asked: "What will you do witn that five minutes?"

Napier Eieetricai Supply. | Negotiations have been proceeding i between committees of the Napier Borough Couneil and the Hawke's Bay Eitctrical Power B.oard foi- a renewal of the agreement for the supply of electfic power to Napier, which expired yesterday. It is understcod that a renewal of the agreement has been granted. Lost Mbriey. It appeafs that some hundreds of pounds were lost in Emefson street, Napier, during September from the number of letters received by the police departnient following the publication recently of a paragraph stating that a large sum of money, found there at that time, had been handed to the jtjlice to discOver the owner. In all, 16 replies, including one each from Gore and. Bulls, have followed the inseriion of the paragraph in the local Press. t Fall From Bekm. A severe shaking, bruiseg and minor cuts, but n o broken boiies or serious injury( were sufiered by Mr Fred Andrews, a married man, as the result of falling froin a beam during the demoiition of the premises formerly occupied by Halleristein Bros. in Heretaunga street yesterday afteriiooil. Mr Andrews slipped from the beam and fell about 15 feet. He was admitted to the Hastings goldiers' Memorial Hospital and is still an inmate,, but his condition is satiafactorv.