LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 153, 16 July 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Thrown from Mounf. During the hunt meetmg at Takapau oja. Wednesday afternoon, Miss Aileen Hobson, daughter of Mr and Mrs H. Hobson, of Hatuma, was thrown from her horse when the mount lost its footing. Miss Hobson suffered severe head injuries necessitating several stitches, and was later taken to hospital. Her condition is satisfactory. Rotary Offioers. The Hastings Rotary Club embarked upon a new year to-day, when the new season's oflicers took over controi. They arq as follow : — i'resident, Mr A. J. C. itunciman; vice-president, Mr A. J. Grant; secretary, Mr G. E. G. Rogers ; treasurer, Mr R, D. Brown; directors, Messrs S. Ashcroft, C. Ciark, J. J. HUI and D. Wattersj sergeant-at-arms, Mr A. F. ltedgrave; mauguration officer, Mr W. A. Whitlock; ruusical director, Dr D. A. Bathgate. Value of Good Filma* "There is nothmg more important than gooti hlms aua, if the producers put out bad- ones, j.t is our own lault ior not lusistmg on soinething better," said Mr G. T. jttanJiin, statt lnspector aua representative oi the itughsh Boaru of Education, in an address at the New Education Fellowship conlerence at Auckland. "1 look for a film in which reasonabiy human characters act jn a reasonable 'way, and in which sentimentahty does not diip, drip, drip hke water on a stone." i he Changing Soeno. Some oi the trees, incluchng a large ivy-covered cabbage tree, .which for many years have heiped co give a sylvau aspect to the corner ot King street and St. Aubyn street, Hastings, have been wiped out by the march oi progress. The north-eastern section at this corner has been cleared preparatory to the erection of a place of business. Large, lealy veterans still stand on the sputhern corner sections, but they jvill 8oou be ioneiy outposte within the frontiera of the business area^ Saie of Huge Bullock. Estimated to weigh about ioUOlb., and stanaing about levei with the top oi the cattie stalls, a huge white Shortliutir builock was sold lor i;i7 at the westfield stock yards on Wednesday. ihe beast was six years old, and had an adequate record. in, Auckland provmcial show rmgs. It was an attractiveiy nnished animai, raised by Messrs Pile Brothers, of Opotiki. Several large steers were sold last September lor similar prices, which were then reported to be the highest for over three years. buyers also ahowed interest in the sale of a Hereiord heifer, weighing about iOOOlbs., but as it was too fat for butchers' requirements it realised only £7. Demands of Unemployed. It is uuusuai fpr Eabour Ministers to have noisy meeting, but when the acimg-Muwster oi; Lauour, the Hon. C. Webb, addressed a large gathering of the unemployed in the Auckland iowu Hall concert chamber on Wednesday afternoon there was a fair amount oi uoisy interjections which caused the chairman, the Hon. F. ,E. Lark, M.L.G., to call for order on several occasions. During the meeting one ot the speakers urged the unemployed to organise m one union with the object oi aifiliatiug with the Fedcration of Labour, and the statement was made that the unemployed would support the Government but they wanted it to carry out its election promises. Another statement was that the men would support the Government but they desired a higher standard oi living in keepmg with the new basis estabhshed oy the Arbitration Court. A "Poverty Bay" Egg. A umque egg was produced a few days ago by a nen of the Rhode Island Red strain at Mr S. B. Davies1 farm, Waeren^a-a-hika, which, by ironical chance, is sltuated in the Poverty Bay proviuce. The outer shell contained a complete yolk, which, when blown out, revealed another egg, complete with shell, inside the large inaha shell. The mner egg was about the norma! size. The outer egg was 3 l-8in long and 2J iuches wide. Round the girth it measured 7jin, while measured round the outsid© from end to end the distance was 9in. The weight was o^ozs, compared with a weight of 2oz for the ordinary market egg. . Double-yolked eggs, even three-yolked eggs, have been | reported in the past, but this is the hrst occasion on which local residents have heard of a complete egg being encased in another. -