LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 183, 20 August 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

"BacMy Hurt," "Vou were pretty badly liurt1;; sug gested eounsel in tlie Supreme Gourt at New Plymouth during the hearing of a claim for damages for injuries received in a motor collision. Yes,,, replied the witaess, a woman. "I pat my handa to my head, I gaw a lot of blood and I thought I waa dead." duly Wool Saies, Wool oifered for salo in New Eealand last moath, aecordiag to a report prepared by Megara, Dalgety aad Co7 Ltd,, Chriatchurch, totalled 13,16Q balos, of which 12,512 baiea were sold. Ia July, 1936, qnly §955 balea wero ofered aad 2947 aold, Shipmeats duriag July ag* gregated 26,929 baies, compared with 20,381 ia the corrfispoa.diag jaoath. of last year, Asparagus for Export. Chiiled asparagus may figure shortly as a profitable item on New Zealand's export bill. Mr T. H, McCooaibs, M,P„ in an addregs at Christchurch, said that experimental shipmenta had been remarkably successful. New Zealand could command practically the whole English market for a certain period of the year, and the product could be shipped there for a good return and would arrive in very good condition. New Zealand Trees Crow Well, "In Portugal I have been New Zealand trees and shrubs growing better than aaywhere else," remarked Mr. O. M, Smith during a forestry lecture'at Wellington. He pointed out that Portugal 'a latitude corresponded very closely with that of New Zealand. The Portuguese, he added, Iargely grew exotics, and for the past hundred years or so had been planting eucalyptus extensively. A Dangerous Mlxture. While waiting in Cathedral Square, Christchurch, for a tram recently a maa was startled when his trousers aad ovqrcoat caught on fire. He hurriedly pulled out a box of wooden matohes, but it was found that the matches had uot ignited. Iuquiries revealed that the mau had bought a bag of potash tablets to relieve his eore throat. Some of these had come out of the bag aud had come in contact with the side of the matchbox which is coated with a compound of sulphui and saltpetre. This, in conjunction with the potash, had formed gun-pow- , der, which apparently caught alight. e Liberals and Conservatives. A somewhat paradoxical differentation of Liberals and CouserVatives was given by Mr W. T. G. Airey, lccturer in history at Auckland University cot lfcge, in an address at Hamilton, in which he deait with the Liberal anu Conservative approachea to the prablom of peace. 1 'Tbo Liberal," he - said, "tends to love humanity without loviug human beiugs, the Conservative has tho capacity for loving liuman beings but ia sceptical o£ humanity in general." M others Know Best, At a recent meeting of an Auckland suburban Plunket society a recentlypublished report on the low birth rate in New Zealand was mentioned. It was stated that there were only 16 births per thousand women. Cries of "disgraceful" greeted the report, and thereupon it was decided to take a census oi the families of the few mothera present. One lady with a beaming face headed the list with six, while three others proudly claimed five each, one admitted four, and tlie less fortunate ones reluctantly admitted only having one or two. Cleaners' Wages. In comphance with the expresseu wishes of the Minister of Education, thu Hon. P. Fraser, the Hawke's Bay Education Board has advised school committees throughout ita province that in future schooi cleaners, or caretakers are to bo paid fortnightiy. In the past it has been customary for the jioard to make quarterly granta i'or this purpo&e to committees, who made their uwn arrangements as to tiie paymeut of wages. In souio instanees ihe wages were paid fortnightiy, others were monthly and a number were quarterly. Under the new arrangement, however, the board's grant is to be made availablc on the titth day of every month and committees are expected to mahe the pay-^ut bi-monthly. New Rolling Stock. A very heavy and sustained demand had been made upon the department's available rolling stock during the present year, said the Minister of Railways, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, in an interview at Christchurch. One hundred new waggons of the L-a type had already been placed in service in the South Island, and, providing the necessary material from England came to hand on the due date, some 70Q additional waggons of the same type would be constructed and placed in service on tho Bouth Island lines during the present and coming years. In addition, 2(i new live^tock waggons had recently been placed in service, and the building progrmme for 1937-38 also made provision for the construction pf 19a additional waggons i'or the conveyanee of sheep uud cattlo over South Island lines.

sctiool's Namc Chansea. Ihe Clive Grange scliool will in future bo known as the Haumoana school. An application regarcUng this was agreet} to thig morning by the Hawke's Bay Education iloard, To Play Gisborne, The Hastings High gchool's llugby first fifteen left for Gisborne this morning where the team will play agamst the Gisborne High Hchool's first fifteen, The team, which is traveliing with its coaeh, Mr. E. S, Graven, will return to Hastings on fsunday, School Libraries. The sum of £5000 is being provided this year for school and class libraries m public schools. The Hawke's Ba> Education Board was mformed this morning by th© Education Departmeut that its sliare of the grant would be £367, A letter of tlianks ia to be sent to the Departmeut. Schools Break Up, Primary schools in Hastings and also the Hastings High School broke up this afternobn for the term holidays. In the caso.of the High School the vacation this year has been - reduced from the usual three weeks to a fortnight to compensate fer the amount of school time lost at the beginning of the present year through the epidemic of infantile paraly6is. Crawfisn or Crayfish? Colonel W. J. C. Stephan, a former mayor oi Cape Town, who is touring with the Springboks and is concerned in a yery large crawfish-canning coneern operatin© in St, Helena Bay and Paternoster Bay, South AffTca, said that in that district they called those fish crawfish, and not crayfish. Dictionaries spelled the word in both ways. Mr Stephan ad.ded that in the season the factories mentioned dealt with as many as §0,000 fisb a. day, Southland Depart. "It has been a wonderful time for ns all and we have enjoyed qvery minute of our stay here. Jn fact it is quite A break to have to leave you all,'1 said Mr W. A. B, OUver, one of the jointmanagers of the Southland touring Rugby team, at the Hastings railway station this morning when the team left for Masterton. Tliere was a big erowd of enthusiasts present to Bee tlie tourists depart and cheers wero exchangcd as tlie tr.ain moved away from the pJatform.

Long Mail Train, With two speciaily reserved carriages, one for the Southland touring Rugby team bound for Masterton, and the other for Madame Mercer's junior choir of Napier going to Wellington, the south-bound mail train this morning was an unusually long one. Every carriage was well filled, there being a large number of people traveliing. The Hastings railway station platform presented a particularly busy aspect, for at one end there was a farewell to the footballers and at the other tlie sixty or so children in the choir had their fair share of patronage and flung plenty of streamers about.