LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 174, 10 August 1937, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

Infectious Diseases. Six cases of diphtheria,, two of tuberculosis and three of erysipelaa were reported from the Hawke's Bay- Wairarapa district for the week ended yesterday. Footbaliers Depart. The three Hawke's Bay All Blacks, Messrs T. lteid, D. Dalton and E. Jackson, left by car yesterday afternoon for the All Blacks' training camp at Utaki. Napier Eiectric Supply. Further negotiations are taking place between the HaAvke's Bay Eiectric Power Board and. the Napier Borough Council for the supply of bulk electricity to Napier, and the matter will once more come under discussion at the meeting of the board this afternoon. Two offers made by the council have been declined by the board, and a letter has been received stating that tlie council cannot accept the ott'er to renew the supply agreement on the same terms and making an alternative olfer. Station on Sunday Island. The intention of the Public Works Department to take a portion of ^ Sun- ■ day Island to establish an aeradio station for meteorological purposes is officially notified in the latest Gazette. The area being taken is described as section 9 of Jttaoul or Sunday Island, containing 275 acres more or iess. The notice states that the plan of the land to be taken is deposited not only at the office of the district engineer oi Public Works in Auckland, but also at tho office of the Public Works Department on Sunday Island, where it is open for inspection. / Waimarama Power Extension. An extension of the eiectric-powei reticulation of the Hawke's Bay Board beyond Craggy Kange to Waimarama has been approved, and work has been begun. In his report ro the monthly meeting of the board in Napier this atternoon, the engineer, Mr H. L. Benjamin, stated that aU the main-line poies had been distnbuted as iar as Giilies' woolshed, and that a total 01 50 poles had been erected as far as the hill overiooking the beach. ^ The township of Waimarama had been pegged and pians prepared for service connections to all cottages. Courtesy Title ot Esquire. The recent appointment of au..-...eiiaj justices of the peace means a corresponding addition to the number oi those who by tradition are entitied to the honour of having "esquire" written atter their names. Once reserved for a person undergoing an apprenticeship to knighthood, the title is now a courtesy one for the sons of peers, noblemen of foreign countries, the eldest sons of knights and bayonets, barris-ters-at-law, and soiicitors, justices oi thepeace, and mayors, while in office, hoiders of superior offices under the Orown, and persons styled as esquires in royal patents or commissions. Publicity Films Criticised. "I am in a position to say that the Government intends to consider the further production of tiJms for publicitj purposes," saia Mr. J. J.* W. Pollara, at a meeting of the exeoutive council ot the South Islands Travel Association at Dunedih. "If they enter that field without obtaining expert technieal advice they will involve the country and • themselves in a great expense to no purpose. The tilm mdustry is one which money can be lost in a very short time;. Australia lias lost thousands and England- millions of pounds. The scenic films which are sent out from New Zealand lack sunshine. They are dull, just.as many of the Tourist Department's photographs sent overseas are dull. Tliis will not attract tourists, who want sunshine.5' The King Remembered. A pleasant sidelight on King George VI. is given in a recent letter from England. The writer's brother, soon after the Coronation, attended an investitute to receive the M.V.O. and the Coronation Medal. When he stepped toward the King gave him a smile ot recognition and, to his utter surprise, greeted him with the word "Samaki." He had been attached for a time to the iioyal party when the King and Queen were hunting big game in Africa 13 years before, and "Samaki" was the nickname by which he had been known in camp. In spite of the lapse of time, King George had remembered- both the man and the narne, and after investing him gave his a cordial handshake and mentioned some of the experieuces they had shared on the trip. Examiner Who Failed. Some of the difficulties in estimating the reliability of examinations were mentioned by Mr H. C. McQueen when lecturing on educational problemg at an Auckland university extension iecture. He told the story of six professors who were given a set of history papers to mark. The first examiner, being very conscientious, wrote specimen an'swers in the way he considered the questions should have been answered. The scripts became coniused so that the professor's paper was sfent to tlie other examiners, three of whom failed him. Keference was also made during the Iecture to'this country of official fornis. If subjects were to be useful, said Mr McQueen, no child should leave schooi without several hours5 prac^ice in tlie lilling in of governmentaJ forms.