LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 184, 21 August 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

School Soccer. F.ourteen primary schoolboys will . leave Napier on Monday mornrng to play Wellington's primary school Soccer representatives on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. at Kelburn Para. The teaxn will return on Friday. Rotarians at Colf. Playiag for the Fletcher Cup and llotary Wlieel, Napier Rotarians defeated Hastings Rotarians on the Waiohiki golf course on Thursday by 15 games to 9. The return matcn will later be played on the Hastings links, the decision as to which club is to hold the trophies depending upon the aggregate results of the two matches. English-Speaking Chinese. The highi standard of English spoken by Chinese students in Peiping universities was comniented upon by Dr S. W. Parr when speaking at the weokly luncheon of the Auckland Rotary CJub. He said that Peiping was the eultnral centre of China and drew many tliousands of students from all parts of the country. llecause of the difierences in dialect English was used as the common language among them. Selective Breeding of Cattle. The importance of selective breeding for the purposes of butter-production was stressed by the secretary of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board, Mr T. C. Brash, in an address to the anuual ward conference of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company at Hamilton. If the average butter-fat production could be raised to 3001b a cow it would do much more for the industry than any scheme of guaran•teed prices, he said. H.M.S. Dunedin's Mascots. Aniopg the pets and mascots brought ti New Zealand by officers and men of H.M.S. Leander, are a number of cats, which formerly belonged to men on the old flagship of the New Zealand station, H.M.S. Dunedin. The new cruiser also has on board the siiver band instruments presented to the Dunedin by the Mayor and citizens of that city. it is hoped to use these for a lower-deck band, which is being formed on the Leander. t Naval Footballers. Included in the complement of the new cruiser is one English international Rugby football representative and four members of the Devonport Services Rugby team. When these players have practised with a number of New Zealand ratings on board, it is hoped the ship will be able to produce the best team on the New Zealand station, and if they are able to attend regular practice, the English players should prove welcome additions to Auckland Rugby. Emulating His Brpther. Advice has been received in Christchurch that three trainees of the Botanical Gardens, have been accepted for training at the Royal Dotanic Gardens at Kew, London. One of the trio is Mr D. Mackenzie, a younger brother of Mr J. G. C. Mackenzie, Borough Siiperintendent of Reserves at Hastings, and he will be leaving New Zealand in the early part of nest year. In the meantime the two other trainees, Messrs R. W. Balcli, who was awarded the 1936 gold medal for tlie Diploina — an award incidentally that was secured by Mr J. G. C. Mackenzie upon his return from Kew — and Noel Lothian, will depart for the Old Country. Another constable. The addition of another constable to the police force jn Hastings, making the total strengthi sufficient for the 48-hour week to fie worked, is to be made shortly. Advice has been received that Constable R. G. Allen, of Wellington has been appointecl tq the Hastings police station, but the date of his •arrival is not yet definite. After Constable AllenJ takes up his duties here there will be sixteen constables in the' uniform branch, and it will then be possible to reduce the weekly hours in Hastings from 56 to 48. Dentai Soholarships. The surn of £500 was received receutly by the council of the Otago University at its meeting from the trustees of the Dunedin Savings Bank for the purpose of proyiding travelliug scholarships for dentai students living in Dunedin. Moving that the matter shoqld be referred to the Professorial Board to repoit, the Chancellor, Mr W. J. Morrell, said that the Council was deeply iudebted to the trustees for the gift, which was additional evidenee of their interest in the university. The interest pn the money would provide a valuable means pf helping dentai students to further their studies. Hastings School Statistics, Some interesting statistics pf school population jn Hastings and the surrounding districts was provided by Mr W. L. Duun, secretary of the Hawke's Bay Education Board, at the meeting of school committeemen in Hastings last evenxng. There are 2281 pupilg attending the four primary schools and those at Havelock North and Mangateretere, 1259 being boys and 1022 girls. Oi this total 493 would be ehgible- for the proposed intermediate school, which calls for the taking away from the primary schools standards 5 and 6. The present floor space accommodation at the six primary schools is 29944 square feet, there being in all 51 ropms.