LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 155, 19 July 1937, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

Ohild's Arm ln Wringer. Painful iujuries were suft'ered by a Maori child, Mariua Mako, aged 19 nionths, at Taihape, when her arm was caught in the wringer of an electrie washing machine, which was being operated by her aunt, Mrs. W. Pine. The latter immediately switched ofE the current. The child was admitted to the Taihape Hospital. Heavy HaUstorm. A heavy hadlstorm was experienced at Tokora, about thres or four miles from Hawera on Friday morning. The sound of its approaeh could be iieard a long way off, aud the grouud was covered to a depth of about an inch, while in drifts on sloping ground the hail piled up to the depth of a foot or more. The hail was of peculiar formation, being an ice cor© with an outer covering of soft sndw. Relief Work Subsidy. The acting-Minister of Labuur, the Hon. P. 0. Webb, conferred at Morrinsville on Friday with representatives of eounty counciis,, borough councils and drainage boards in the Thames Valley regarding the finding of work for unemployed. The Minister said that £5,000 was available during the next four months for the district between Thames and Matamata. There were 140 men available. Numerous roading and drainage works were brought to the notice of the Minister. Gharige in Diet. A bird lover's account of how he kept a tui jn his garden for four years was related at the annual meeting of the Wellington Horticultural Society. "This tui is famous," he said. "To induce it to stay we had to feed it, and we first gave it honey. Now, however, its diet is golden syrup. 1 don't know whether increased costs and the 40-iiour week are responsible for the cliange, but if you couid ask the tui about it he would probably say quite a lot." Wreck uncovered. Twelve years' aecumulation of sand, which completely enveloped the hull of the wreck of the Waitangi at the Patea Heads, has been washed away by heavy seas and liigh tides recently. Previously almost completely buried, the hull now stands clear and the vast quantity oi sand that covered it, together with a large area of smooth beach, has disappeared. The vessel was formerly employed in. the Patea-Wellington meat trade. A Useful Pound, The extent to which the currencies of Central Europe were depreciated in the immediate post-war years was illustrated by Mr. F. W. Doidge when addressing the Auckland brancn of the tT(#vv Zealand Education Institute. Bt? fore leaving Vienna to travel to Budapest, Mr. Doidge visited a bank for some Hungarian money and was told that all he could obtain was the equivaleut of £1. He travelled 200 miles down the Danube, spent the night at the best hotel in Budapest, spent a day sightseeing with a guide, took two , friends to a champagne lunch, returned to Vienna in a first-class sleeper, and still had some of his £1 left. Deportation Law. An apparent defeet in the deportation law was commented on by Mr. Justice Fair in the Supreme Court at Auckland, when he was sentencing a recent arrival from Australia. He expressed agreement with a recent statement by Mr. Justice Callan, that New Zealand should bear its own burdens and where a New Zealander had committed an oifence he should be sentenced in New Zealand and not given the opportunity of leaving the country. So it appeared reasonable, said Mr. Justice Fair, that each country should bear the burden of dmposing and carrying out sentence on its own nationals, but there was practically no provision in the law as it stood to enafcfle such u man to be deported to the country from which he carne. School Holidays. Pupils of tho lowei' forms of the Hastings High School broke tip for a week's holiday this morning. The school will be closed until next Monday fco enable the stalf to attend the New Education Pellowship Conference in Wellington. The senior pupils, however — those taking matriculation or degree courses — wili not be given this holiday and will sit for their term examinations during this week. On August 20 the school will break up for the . term holidays, which this year have been shortened from three weeks to two weeks because of the amount of time lost at the beginning of the year through the outbreak of infantile paralysis. Hardly Complimentary. Queer ideas of the physical appearauee of individuals of other nations seem to have been held little moro than 100 years ago, acording to -a, story related by Dr, l.v L. G. Sutherland, professor of philosophy at Canterbu^y University College, i(n an address on ' ' Tho Idea of Race. ' ' "During tlie Napoleonie Wars the Freneh were popularly bolieved in England to be something other than and less than huinan," Dr. Suther'lanu said. "At that time a perfornxing ckimpanzee, dressed for its performanee escaped from a travelling menagerie. It was arrested in a district near London and- was very nearly hanged by the country people as a Freneh spv "

King George Memoriai A donation oi' 5/9 towards tho Kiug George V. Memoriai Fund lias been received by tho Hastings Postmaster, from Pam, Jean and Jocit. Myra Soyer's Visit. Myra Soyer, the New Zealand so-v pranj) sang last year for the B.M.iS., and absolutely charmed her audienco. Singing for the Hastings Orchestral Society to-night in the Municipal Theatre, she will give a larger public. an opportunity of enjoying her delightful voice, her charming stage presenee, and her technique. As one hearer observed, "The Hastings public are jolly lucky to have such an artist at the concert. ' ' Theatre Attendances. Reference to a paragraph in Saturday night 's Herald-Tribune which' said that picture houses in Hastings were unaffected by five nights of entertaiument in the Hastings Municipal Theatre was inade this morning by Mr. E. A. Tong, manager of the Iiegent Theatre,' who said that such was not the case. At his theatre and others in the town it was very evident that the influence of the Municipal Theatre entertainments had resulted in a marked falling-off of attendances at all the picture theatre? with a corresponding deerease in the box-office receipts, he said.