LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 143, 5 July 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Theatre for Otaki. The Otaki Borough Council has received notification that a £7000 loan is available for a municipal theatre. Tenders will be called at an early date. Rangitihi at wellington. The New Zealand Shipping Co. advises its m v. Rangitiki arrived at Wellington from London at 1.30 p.m. on Saturday. Passengers for Napier will be arriving by to-day's express, Half a Far thing. A most unusual coin, a Victorian half-fartliing, was dug up by Mr H. Gunn, "of Hine street, New Plymouth, m his garden recently. A little larger than a three-peuny piece, but of cop•per, the coin is dated 1843 and has the head of Queen Victoria on one side. Native Land Development. A visit to Porangahau was made during the week-end by the Minister for Lands, the Hon. F. Langstone, who diseussed native land development matters with Maori farmers in the daetrict. The Minister expects to return to Wellington on Tuesday. Rail-Car's Journey. The rail-car Arai-te-Uru 'made the trip from Napier to Wairoa yesterday afternoon, and will return with the Minister for Railways, the Hon. D. G. SulMvan, and. the offieial party this afternoon. The car will arrive in Napier shortly after 4 p.m. to-day, and will proceed after a short stop to Hastings. When the Minister 's business in Hastings is completed, he will leave by the rail-car once more for Wellington, probably at 8 a.m, on Wednesday. Te Kooti Trouble Recalled. In the obituary notiee of Mr. Tut:» Wake Rameka it was made to appear that his father had been a supporter of Te Kooti. It was his mother, however, Mrs. Pirihira Teara Rameka (who died lasf May at the age of 113 years), who was a etaunch supporter of the rebels. Her husband, Mr. R. Tutaki pointed out this morning, was always a loyalist and fought for the Government forces. He died at Omahu and was not killed in battle. He captured Mrs. Rameka during the Te Kooti- trouble and took her for his wife. \ N.Z.'s Isoiation. "There is a feeling of isoiation in New Zealand, and this has led to selfcriticism, which, if carried too far, might engender despondency, " sid Dr. I. L. Kandel, of Columbia University, New York, during his address to members of the Hastings and Napier branches of the New Zealand Education al Institute.1 "The solution of the problems, roused by that fepling of isoiation, can be solved only by New Zealand because of the particular traditions and culture of the Domiuion," he added. Influence of a Novel, When mentioning the \ rn.es School of Mines in his address at the ceremony at the new chief post office, states the Thames Star, Mr. J. Thorn, M-P., said that a member of the original committee of the school was the grandfather of the young man John Br-odie, New Plymouth, who wrote the ,book "The Little Country," to which he had drawn the Minister 's attention as part of his argument for the new post office. "That book, one of tfce best works of fiction on.New Zealand, is based on Thames and contains some references to the old post office. The Minister read the book and now you have the new post office," added Mr. Thorn.Education Research. Mr. N. E, McKenzie, B.A., P.R.G.JS,, a member of the ( Carnegie Council on Education Research, was met on Saturday by members of the Central Hawke's Bay branch of the Teachers' Institute. Mr. McKeuzie has been colleeting data on the subject of sehools inspection in New Zealand, and this will be pubiished in book form by the Oxford University Press, England, and also in New Zealand His meeting on Saturday, presided over by Mr. V. Parsons, was the last. For two hours he discussed matters with. the teachers, who accorded him a vote of thanks on the motion of Mr. T, Taylor (Takapau), seconded by Mr. E. Adams (Waipawa). Currency Control* A long remit from Auckland on currency control js to be submitted at the aunual conference of the New Zealand Farmers' Union in Wellington this month, The text of the remit is as follows: — "That the New Zealand Farmers' (Jnion should closely scrutinise the use of powers taken in the Reservo Bank Amendment Act, and exert its influence to ensure that new eredit shall be put into circulation only through channels which. will put purchasing power into the hands 'of tbe New Zealand consumer, without having to be charged into the costs of the producer. We affirm our belief that expansiou of our money supply under the orthodox debt system can only produce the usual asceiiding spiral of costs and prices so detrimental to producer and worker, and that in a monetary policy directed towards olosing the gap between purchasing power and prices lieg the only possibility of a standard of living consonant with our present and potential production "