LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 188, 26 August 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Boach Cup Basketball. The Waipawa High School basketball team visited Havelock North yesterday to play Woodford House for the Eoach Cup, and was defeated after a fast and interesting game. Rangitane Arrives. Tlie New Zealand Shipping Co. advise tliat their m.v. Rangitihi , which lei't Wellington ou August 3 for London, sailed from Colon on August 21. The m.v. Rangitane arrived.at Wellington from London at 1 p.m. yesterday and Napier passengers may be expected by the express to-day. Spillane Tournament. Pex*mission to the Marist Football Club, Napier, to hold the Spillane Cup tournament for Marist football teaius throughout the North Island on McLean Park, Napier, in Easter, 193S, has been granted by the Hawlse's Bay Rugby Union. It is anticipated that about eiglit teams will take part in tlie tournament. Taranaki Tourists. The Taranaki representative Rugby team which is to play Hawke's Bay at Napier on Saturday is to arrive at rnidday to-morrow by train. Following their matcli with Hawke's Bay the team will leave Napier on Monday to continue their tour, playing Wairarapa at Carterton, and Wellington at Wellington, before returning liome. Ranfurly Shieid Challenge. Official notification froin the Soutliland Rugby Union that liad decided to dei'er all cliallenges for the Ranfurly Shieid until liext season was received last night by the- Hawke's Bay Rugby Union. It was decided to point out that, as Hawke's Bay will be touring to Southland in July of next year, they expect this match to be Shieid challenge game. World Problems. "The people of every country in the world are breaking their necks to feed and clothe the people of every country but their own," said Mr J. Roberts, representative of the New Zealand : Federation of Labour, in presenting the I workers' arguments regarding standard wages in the Arbitration Court at Auckland. "We should adopt a little of tlie Sermon on the Mount in our economic life in New Zealand," he added. Farmers' Sons as Policemen. No better endorsement of the value of farm life for good health can be givon than the figures in connection with the recruiting of men for the police force in the Waikato. Fully 75 per cent of those chosen to go into training in Welliugton were the sons of farmers. The "examinations, prior to acceptance for tlie force, are very rigid, but it is apparent tliat those who have been brought up on the land have nothing to fear from it. New Christchurch Station, With the plans for the new railway station at Christchurch nearing completion, everything will soon be in readiness for starting. tho work of enlarging and/ reconstructing the yards. Extensive purchases of land near tlie new station and yards have been made by the department. Meanwhile, the large area of land purchased earlier by the department in Mowbray street and Waltham road is rapidly reverting to bare acres. Although 17 houses have been demolished, and a further three residences will shortly disappear. Rat at a Concert. The efforts of a large rat to escape from a ledge near the front of the gallery in a city liall at Auckland while a concert was in progress caused considerable amusement and a cei'tain amount of consternation among those who were sitting nearby. So numerous were its attempts during the second half of the programme that patrons found themselves giving as much attention to the ledge as to the stage. On one occasion someone hurled an um- . brella at the intruder, but missed. The animal was still on the ledge when the concert came to an end. Football and Religion. Everyone had ambitions, and his, when he was a boy, had been to represent his country at Eugby football; but that, like every ambition when realised, had become a commonplace, said Mr. D. H. Graven, vice-captain of the Springbok Eugby team, in an address at a conimunion service at Knox JL'resbyterian Church, Christchurch. The biggest thing in life, he added, was to be a Christian. Christianity had never failed him, and football players would fmd it good to be Chrisians, for even if it did not mahe them expert players it would make them better players both on tho playing field and ofi it. Progress of Television. The rapid progress made in television in Great Britain was mentioned by Mr J. T. Jennings, a member of the Australian Parliament, when he reached Auckland on his return from the Empire Parliamentary Conference in London. He said Great Britain was ahead of the other nations in this science, and had gone so far ' as to give general television service to people in their own Uomes. The apparatus used to-day was almost entirely the result of British research, but the liigh cost was afc present limiting its popularity. However, it was anticipated that a cheap, reliablo set would be invented.