LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 141, 2 July 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Third Wairarapa Match. The third Rugby match of the season between Hawke's Bay and Wairarapa will be played on July 17 at Carterton. The matchi was agreed to by the meetiaig of the Hawke's Bay Rugby Union in Napier on Wednesday night. Exoitange of Matches. The first of a series of exchange matches among the lower grade teams in the Hastings and Napier Rugby competitions will take place on Saturday. Four Napier fourtk-grade teams will travel to Hastings to play Hastings fourth-grade teams. Player Cautiooed. A Technical O.B. junior player, R. Park, appeared before the Hawke's Union last evening after he had been ordered, off the field in the match with Pirates in Napier on Saturday. After the facts of the case had been heard he was cautioned by the union. Leave Nature Alone. "In Wales we have some grand and wonderful scenery," the Rev. F. Hart told the New Plymouth Rotary Club, "but it is being spoiled by the action of certain public bodies who think that they can improve nature. I am pleased to see that your mountain and its bush have been left untouched, and I sincerely hope that it will remain so.'' Tact Needed. One of the 57 applicauts for a position as a messenger in the Federal House of Representatives (Canberra) did not get the job because he laid too much stress upon one of his qualifications— he had been for 11 years an attendant at a mental institution. It his application, he stated that he was "admirably suited" for work as a Parliamentaxy messenger because of his experience at Gladesville Mental Asylum, Sydney. Tact is one of the attributes required of the Parliamentary mqssenger, and this application was rejected on these grounds. Doctors' Parking Privilege. Doctors' privileges in parking cars in | town were discussed in the Magds1 trate's Court, Gisborne, before Mr EL ] L. Walton, S.M., when a charge of j parking to the obstruction of traffic brought against Dr. John W. Williams } was dismdssed under 6ection 92 of the before. Members of the Mount Egmont who had ignored a request to report to the inspector, saying "it was a lot of nonsense," stSted that doctors were authorised to park almost anywhere in the borough. He admitted parking at a corner. The Magistrate stated he would dismiss the case though. the offence had been proved, but said: "The understanding between the council and the medical profession would not justify blocking a main road."

Looking Like a Constabie. "Well, have a good look at me, and see if you think I am a constabie." This remark was made to a suburban shopkeeper by a constabie and was recalled in evidence in a case in which the shopkeeper. was charged with trading on a Sunday (says the Christchurch Star-Sun). The constabie explained that he had entered tho shop and had asked for a packet of cigarettes. The shopkeeper promptly asked him if he was an inspector from the Labour Department, and, still not assured with an answer in the negative, asked whether the purchaser was at constabie. The answer was the reply quoted above. Apparently satisfied, the shopkeeper supplied the cigarettes. "You were not in uniform, of course?" asked the Magistrate, amid laughter. The Farmer a Business Man. "The farmer has often been eriticised for being no business man, and a great many people have said that that is the root of all his problems, but 1 want. to tell you that the farmer is the best business man in New Zealand to-day," said Colnoel S. J. E. Closey, in the course of an address on eompensating priees to the Temuka branch of the Farmers' Union. Colonel Closey said his reason for the assertion was that the New Zealand farmer shipped his produce 13,000 miles to the market. There he sold on the open market in competition with the rest of the world, and not infrequently he commanded top price for his goods. The business meb of the Dominion had to seek in many cases a 65 per cent tariff cover before they could sell their goods in New Zealand, in competition with articles shipped all those 13,000 miles to the country. Bowiers in N.Z Eight bowling clubs were affildated to the New Zealand Bowling Associalion through bowling centres during the past year, the annuai report of the association states. There are now 22 centres, comprising 307 clubs with a total membership of 17,294, affiliated to the centre. This represents an increase of 002 bowlers during the year. The Auckland Centre has the largest membership, there being 2878 bowlers in Auckland, 513 in North Auckland, and 1506 in South Auckland. The Wellington Centre has 1729 members, Taraualti 1121, Manawatu 717, Wairarapa 294, Wanganui 823, and Hawke's Bay 575. The largest centre in the South Island is Christchurch, with 1657 members, and Dunedin comes next with 1532. There are 11 centres, 215 clubs, and 11,097 bowlers an the North Island, and 11 centres, 152 clubs, and 6197 bowlers in the South Island.

It's the Taste that Counts. "The palatability of the mutton we cat is just as important as the palatability of rye. The people who buy our mutton are not concerned with its conformation but how it eat.s," remarked Mr J. E. Hewitt, the well-known breeder, of- Mangamaire, when discussing the qualities of mutton. Reservation Revoked The reservation of portion oi a scesic resorve at Puketapu is revoked by a proclamation in the Gazette. The area concerned is section 24, block IV., of the Puketapu Survey Distriet, an area of one acre*20 porches. The reservation has been revoked under the Scenery Preservation Act, 1910, the land being no longer suitable for scenic purposes because of the absence of bush or scenic value on it. Woman's Collapse. MrS. Halford Clements, of Hastings, whose death foilowing a collapse occuxred on Wednesday night, had been in Hastings only six weeks, having come up from Dunedin with her husband for the benefit of her health. Mrs. Clements was stated yesterday to have been separated from her husband, but it should be made clear that she was merely living oli her own untdl he was able to get a suitable house for both of them. Mrs. Clements had been in ill-health for a considerable time.