LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 149, 12 July 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Not Recogpiscd Yet. "We are not reeoguisiligi them at tiie present moment/, said Mr F. B. Logan, chairman of the Hawke'a Bay Couuty Couneil, tliis morning, when the Hawke's Bay General Labourers' Union wrote asking for a list of the council's empleye.es. The letter was merely "reeeived." New PlymaMth Harbour. Advice h.as beeu received by the New Plymouth Harbour Board of the Local Government Loans Board' s approval ot the p'rpposal to raise £150, OfK) for an extensjoji to the breakwater. This sup is part of the £600, 000 loan sanctioned hy the ratepayers when the last big harbour works were carpied out, ouly £250,000 keing raised then. Qoqay Bible in Court. The Douay (ltoman Catholic) Bihle was us.ed in the Magistrafe's .Court, Wellington, last week, for the swearing of a witness at the request of Mr P. Yerschaifelt, in his eapacity as counsel. He said lie had made representations to the Department of Justice for the supply to the Court of a Douay Bible, without resirlt. The one used was produced hy Mr Ferschaffelt. The Isle of Capri. A sinai! bush-clad island near the head of Wairau Moana, a lake connected. with Lake Waikaremoana by what is known as the Straits of Manaia, has been named the Isle of Capri. The christening ceremony was performed by members of a party which visited thje scene with the Minister of Raiiways, the Hon. D, G. Sullivan, in honour of the Minister' s ahility as a singer. The party included Mr L. J.#Schmitt, head of fhe Tourist Department, and Mr G. H. Mackley, general manager of raiiways. Parent Education. An effort is to be made at some sessions of the New Zealand Education Fellowship Conference in New Zealand to interest the general public in what is known as "parent education." This does not mean the re-education of parents to help their children with home lessons. The aim is to bring them into contact with modern educational theory and practice and help them to co-operate in the home with the efforts of the teacher in school. The parent education movement has made great progress in the United States for over a, decade^ but has scarcely gained a footing in New Zealand. lExplosion fn Kitchen. Two persons were injnred and a kitchen was wrecked when an explosiou occurred at the home of Mrs Hateh, in Revell street, Hokitika, on Wednesday morning. Mrs Creagh and her* son Gerard were sitting in front of the stoye. Mrs Creagh was preparing breakfast when, without warning, a terrifie explosion occurred. The stove was blown to pieces, a portion of the 9ven door was hurled through the doorway into an adjoining room, and the walls of the kitclien were plastered with fragments of the stove. Kitchen cooking utensils, a kettle of boiling water, and a P°t of porridge were blown to pieces and the contents blown over Mrs Creagh and her son. Ancicnt Buried hoss. Fourteen feet below the surfaee in Durhfbm street, Christchurch, two wellpreserved logs — oue of manuka and oue presumed to be rimu — were found by inen excavating for a new stormwater drain. These logs, which were found m river silt, have been examined by experts and are considered to be about 1GOO years old. The logs were from 12 to 14 inches through, and lay acrosa the drain, so that the workmen had to chop a seetion out of eacb, leaving the resb in position. Parts of them have been dressed by Mr Oharles W. Barrell, who is a collector of speeimens of New Zealand woods, The manuka retains its normal hardness, weight and colour, but the piece whjch is presumed to be rimu is very dark in colour, being almost black. Another opinion is that this may be black pine with its natural colour changed through being underground so long. Ants in his Pants. The cable story of a Hungarian farmer who had bees in his trousers reminded a well-known Wanganui resident of a similar experience a year or bo ago when he was on a holiday in New Southi Wales. He was travelling in » railway carriage with his wife when ants crawled up a leg p£ his trousers. He immeditely sought the assistance of the guard, who took him to an empty coxnpartment where lie would be uuinterrupted iu his efforts to dislodge the unwelcome ants. He took off the trousers just as the Hungarian farmer did, and commenced to shake them out °f the window, when g passing train whisked them away^ The Wanganui man. was full of consternation until the guard appeareed on the sqene at the next station and borrowed a pair of overalls from the engine-driver, Adorned iu blue pants, the Wanganui mau made his way back to the carriage, where his good wife was anxiously awaiting liim, having considered he was long overdue and wondering in the meantime what sort of a battle he was putting up against the ants.