Drive Against Shags.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 175, 11 August 1937, Page 4

Drive Against Shags.

Members of the Hawke's Bay Acelimati&ation Society xvill next week-end carry out a drive against shags throughout "the provinee. 'For some time the. dcprcdatibns of shags, which appear fo be incfeasing in number *in" the proyinee, have been eausing concern to the society, and the drive ha.s been organised for the prQteetion of fish. More Pfheasants. • '"Witik I4ec bfejeefr of breeding many raore pheasa,nts for liberation fhrpughout the prQvince for the next shooting season, the Hawkes Bay Acclimatisatibn Society is considering the installatio.n of clectrie ineuhators and elecfric broodcrs at the farm at Greenmeadows. If the schemo is deeided upon, siibstantiaf additions. will also have to b'e made to. the existing pous. * Ctfaning Eqreat Rqsjryq. A niunber of xxxeu are exigaged by tlie tyorks deixartnient of the Hastings Rprougli* Council cleaniqg-xip the' bofough aifQr.esfation. resery'e at Mangaroa, rhero is a good dea.1 of thihnmg tp be done, qnd. it is aiiticipated that the ui'en will be engagecl for spipe ixioxxths aiid that a'bjg puan+ify of fii'.e\voQd will be ayailabie ior 'distn.bxxtiou a'niong the uxxexnplpyud an,d those in ueed oi' assistance. /.isif q{ QireQtor of Eftfi^afiqn* Members of the prixnary school committees and the Hastings High School Board of Goverixors liave been advised by the Hawke's 11 ay Education Boar.d of the conference to be held on August 20 next with the Hireetor of Education, Mr N. T, Lambpurne, ot Wellington, regardipg the esiqblis.ipnent of aix'interuiediate school in jtfastings. The director wiil address members generally on posf-prinmry ecfucatibn, and it is hoped that as the res'ult of "this "gathering finality .will ,be reached on tlie estab.ishmehf of tlje. new school in Bastixigs. Not Afraid of Change. "We, like you, arc not afraid of change- — even of fundamentals," declareq. fhe ^qn. A, Gr. Pgilvie, K.C., i'rexximr 'of Tasmqxxia, qt a luncheon giyen to him by tlip New Zealand Gpv-* erqment. * "I api copyipc.ed that Au^" trxil'iq cpuld adopt quite q. nuuibcr of thuigs tliat fve haye seexx ip ppexmtiQn with Vqluo tc hefseif. \Yhy libt a de-" cimal sy|tom in o.ur poinagc ? ilayliglit saving? The left-hapd rute in drivifig, Which"is now fn operatiop fn most countries of the world' R The 24-lipur clock, vvhicli is now general in Europe? A'lready we have macle a* number oi changes, like the' eliminatipn of xnotor horns n'ight and day, of liomework." Smiling towards tlie Hon. P. Fr'asor; "I will give you a tip — xve haye increased our bwh salaries." Then, wlien the laughter died down; "I knevv that would he a welcoine tip. We do xiot believe in throe-year Barlianients. We lengthenpd the life of Parliament to fivo years. We altercd it, and then went to tlie country, and the couhtry endorsed our actiou." Now, I think, we are the only State in the soutlierii hemisphere thaf has a five-year Parliament.'-