LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 162, 27 July 1937, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

Iphlld Severs Fingers. While playing with an axo yestexv fiay, Wiliiam, the threeryearrqld son pf Mr and Mr§ Nuttall, of Alberfc street, Hastings, cut off two fingers of his lefi hand, He was adxnitted to the Hastings Soldiers' Memorial Hospital. HospitaJ Visjting Hours. The visiting hours at the Napier Public Hospital have been somewhafc altered, and on and after Sunday nest, Augyst 1, they will be as follow:— Sundays, 2 to 4 p.m,; Tuesdays, 3 to 4 p.m,; Wednesdays, 7 to 7.30 p.m.; Thurgdays, 3 to/ 4 P.m.J Fridayg, 7 to 7.30 pfm,; Saturdays, 3 to 4 p,m. Qrs?it for Shelter-Shed. A grant to .enable elielteivshed accominodation, to be provided for the children attending the Napier Central Schpol has been approved by the Minis* ter of Education, the Hon. P. Frjfeer, according to a communication repeived by the Hon, W. E. Barnard, M P-, yesterday. Pelayed by Cale. The New Zealand Shipping Cp. has received a radip message from its B.M.v. Eangitata, which left Londoa on June 24, to tho effect that she now expects to arrive at Wellington at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, July 28. Owing to a gale this is the earliest the vessel may be expected. War Relief. A meeting of the Hastings coinmittee of the Hawke'p Ijjay War Eelief Association was held on Monday. Present: Messrs. W. Hart (in the chair), F. J. Hull and L, J. Mackersey. Leave of absence was granted to Mr. F. Perriu. Forty-nine returned soldiers' cages were considered, and agsistance was granted in various ways, including grants, amounting to £54 7/6. Poisons Regulations. Eegulations >7616 gazetted recently under the Poisons Act which are intended to bring home to users of poisonous preparations thq necessity for care. The Health Departpient haa is, sued a statement defining poisons and the dutiep of those purchasing them. Additional safeguards are provided and the regulations generally are strieter. "Not All Blaoka." "I think it is wrong to call^all New Zealand teams All Blacks," said Mr N. A. McKenzie to the Napier Kotary Club yesterday in mcntioning the fact that the 1905 team were the All Blacks — the only All Blacks. "The name was given to the team by the English Press,'' he continued, "as a eompliment to a fine body of men." Postponed Rugby Games. " Consideratioii of the recent postpone-' ment of senior-grad© matches in Hastings was given at the weekly meeting of the Hastings Rugby Football Sub-Union last evening." After a brief cliscussion following the report of the delegates to the last meeting of the Hawke's Bay Unioxx, it wa-s decided to ask the fixtures committees of both towns to meet this evening to discuss the question further and epdeavour to arrange a satisfactory agreemeht. Accident to Motor Bus. The motor-bus conveying the Manawatu Rugby footballers tq Napier on Friday crashed into a power-poie oi the Norsewood hill, fortunately without injuring any of the players or the driver. Experiencing difficiilty in descending the hill, the driver apparently put the engine into a lower gear to ease the strain on the brakes, but the omnibus crashed into a power pole, which was the only obstacle to prevent a drop of about 30 feet, One side pf the bus was considerably damqged. Gannet Attacks Kahawai. A Kahakai 2ft. 6in. in lengfbh was the victim of an unuSual attack by a gaunet at Putilu Bayi Waiheke. A fisherman noticed the gannet rising and cjiviiig repeatedly into tlie water, whicli was each time considerably clisturbed by what appeared to be the threshing of a fish near the surface. An investig(ation was made by the fisherman, who discovered the large kahawai partially stunned ^y the gannet's onslaugjit He had no difiiculty in capturing the fish and throwing it into his boat. The kahawai's head showed considerable evidence of the gannet's attack. For the fisherman! it was a very useful catch for it supplied bait for 120 hooks. New Zealand Beats Scotland. A rather humorous aspect of the tour of Great Brftain by the 1905 New Zealand Rugby team was mentioned by Mr. N. A. McKenzie in an address to the Napier Eotary CJub yesterday. Some difficulty had. been experieneed in regard to the finance for the tour, and Scotland refused to give the Engliph Rugby Union any guaranteo for the match witli the tourists, offering instead tho whole of the gate proceods to the New Zealand side. The All Blacks, making football history, ,won match after match, until by the timo they reached * Scotland they were f amous. "They attracted a £5000 gate," said Mr. McKenzie, "and Scotland has never quite forgiven New Zealand, for in addition to that the eide gave Scotland a hiding."