LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 150, 13 July 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Commission's Thanks. The thanks of the members of the RoyaJ Gommission which inquired into the adxninistration of the Napier Publio Hospital fof the board's assistance Was Oxpressed in a letter receivCd by the Hawke's Bay Hospital Board yester- ! day. infettiOus Diseases. Three Oases of infectious disCaSes^ One Case each Of scarlet fever, diphth'eria and septio abortioft— wefe feported fromi the Hawke's Bay-Waifarapa health district fbr the week ended yfesterday. For the first time sirice the outbreak of the epidemic, no cdSes of inl'antile paralysis have bOen reportecl in Hi© Wellington distfict for the week. Impfovemerits to Colf Course. The Maraenui Golf Club is making improvements to its golf course. In accordance with the latest methods of golf courSe constr'uctiofi, the new greehs afe being earried Otit in varying desighs- suggested by the club' 4 professional, Mr Aubrey Dyke, jnstead of the uSual square and circuldr Rfeiens. It is aiiticipated that When the ne'w greens are OpenOd for play these designs' wjll giVO much added intefeSt to all meiiibers and visitors to the course Smokinfe In BedrOom. A ntirse at the Napier Public Hospital was suspended from duty last month for smoking in her bedroom at the Nurses' Home. A report on the matter was made to the meeting yesterday of the Hawke's Bay ■ Hospital Board and was referred to an executive committee cotisisting of the ehairman, Mr G. Lassen, the medical superiiitendent, Dr J. J. Foley, the matrofi, Miss L. M. Croft, and the managingsecretary, Mr E. T. Bees, With power to act. Half-Farthirtgs. Reference to the digging-up of a Vietorian half-farthing in a New Plymouth garden recently has reminded Mr Percy R. Purser, of Hastings, that he has in his possession a similar boin datecl even eaflier — 1813. This coin has been in Mr PUrser's possession for a number of yeafs, havibg been brought oub from Englahd. The coin is little larger than a thrfeepenny piece but is made of cbpper. Mr Purser has a smaller coin iepresenting one-Sixteenth of a penny and two silver pennies also. Fjsh Driven Away. That there should be a three-mile limit from the New Zealand coastline within Which fishing trawlers eould not operate was advocated by Mr R. Macleod at a meeting of the council of the tSouth Ganterbury Acolimatisation Society. He said that trawlers whioh netted at the moUths of Canterbnry rivers were drivihg out from the rivers both sahnon and trout. "If the matter is not attended to," he said "we sh&ll see both the quinnat salmon and the trout disappear. Trawlers come in right to the months of the rivers and drive out the fish. It is not the fly or bait fishes men at all, bttt the trawlers." Discovery of Ambergris. A collection of ambergris found recently on a beach at Houghboy Bay, Stewart Island, is on exhibition in invercargill. Mr F. H. Traill rdcently conducted a party of Southland sportsmen to Doughboy Bay, where it was found that the river which runs through the sandhllls had changed its course and had strewn a great deal of debris on the beach. Among it was a number of pieces of ambergris, most having the appearance of having been deposited on the beach for a COnsiderable timo.- The pieces range in dOlour from dark grey to almost white. All 'have the distinetive odour of ambergris and are of fairly considefable value. Engineer In Civilisation. "Professor William Cramp has said that engineering in jts purest form is the greatest instrument Of civilisation that the world has ever seen, in the sense that it continually tendS to prOmote closer contact, a greater intimacy, attd thefefdre a more pfofouiid uaderstanding between individuals and nations," said Mr W. Bommerville, replying to the toast of ' 'Kindred Associations" at the smoke coiicert of the New Zealand AsSociation of Refrigeration in Wellington. He added that when the historian recorded his judgment of the British Empire it would be to the works of the engineer that he would point as the Supreme evidence of tlm beneficial work of tho Empire

Drastie Currency Devaiuation, A pointed illUstratioii of tiie meanixig of devaiuation of the currency as it hippened in Austria after tho war was given, not without a touck of humour, by Dr Paul Dengler during an address on Austria in Auckiand. He rel&ted how before the war a wealthy and benevolexSb aUnt had planned to give hdm a year's first-class travel about the world. For this purpose Ixe had calculafced that 8000 ktonen would be necessax'y, and she had put aside that amount for him, The trip was delayed however, and then the war came. "I never got that moaiey," Dr Dangler Said, "because the street car fare to the office where it was deposited was 16,000 kroneu. It i.« still there."

spectar Batirroont. t A special bathroom for infantile paralysis cases at th & Jfopi Public Hospital is to be constructed at a cost estimated at £157. This decision was reached by the board at its meeting yesterday. School Holidays. The schools in Hawke's Bay close on Friday afternoon for one week to enable the teaching staffa and others ihterested ih education to attend the Wellington session of the NeW Education Conference. Auckland Zoo. Six donkeys are to be insthlled at tbe Auckland Zoo for the eniertaiiimeixt of Children. It had been hoped to provide camels fcr the same purpose, btit, feariiig the introdUCtiori of stoCk diSeases, the Dcpartmenh cif Ihternal Affairs vetOed their importation. It is hoped to introduc© them at a later date. New Building. A perxnit has been issued by the Hastings Bbrottgh building departnient, for the erection of another new business premises in Hastings. The building. is to be a neW shop for J. B. Fletcher, Ltd., butcher, ih Heretaunga street. The building is- to' faaye a 30ft frontage and is eStimated to cost £1987. Grass Abnormality. An unusual phehomenoh ih the bioiogicai World is now to be seen in Levin among grasses which, aS the reSult ofthe abnormal summer seaeOh, Were rather late in seedhxg. A huhxber Of heads of cocksfOot have beeii observed in which the seeds have not left the parent plant and are iioW Spronting forth young healthy shoots of gi'ass at a height of two or three feet from the ground.