LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 189, 27 August 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Shortage of Milkers. An acute shortage of labour for dairy : farms is reported by a number of dairymen in the Gisborne district. Great difficulty is being experienced on some farms in having eows milked because of the lack of assistance, but the position is likely to become more acute when harvesting time arrives. A man conneeted with the dairy industry said he could- find places for 50 young men on dairy farms if they were available. "Cost Lot of Money." "Broadcasts of the Springbok tour have cost the provincial rugby unions and suh-unions a lot of money," commented Mr McCormick, chairman of the Uentral Hawke's Bay Sub-Union, at last evening's meeting, when the question of a broadcast clashing with the date of a local fixture was discussed. "I think it is time broadcasting was done only in connection with the Tests,'' he concluded. Firemen's Demonstration. The Cpmbined Fire Brigade's Association, controlling the northern portion of the Hawke's Bay province, met in Hastings on Wednesday evening to consider arrangements for the next demonstration, Superintendent Byford presiding. It was decided to hold the fixture at. Tomoana on October 30 next, the contesting brigades to include Wairoa, Tomoana, PorC Ahuriri, Napier, Hastings and Hovelock North. Aeroplane for Court Work. The use of an aeroplane to make possible the inspection of a property on Great Barrier Island was suggested by Mr Justice Ostler when presidiug over a sitting of the Compensation Court at Auckland, Mr Elwarth, counsel l'or the claimant, had been explaining that the property was most inaccessible, and was reached by boat only once a week. "What ahout going down in an aeroplane?" asked his Honour. Mr Elwarth suggested that that would be a very expensive matter. "It would cost about £10, wouldn't it?" liis Honour responded. "If necessary that could be done." Tlie case jvas decided later in 1 the day without- an inspection. Goodwill Abroad. "I found the name 'New Zealand' au open sesame everywhere," said Mr A. B. Thompson, of the Seddon Memorial Technical College, who returned to Auckland after a year's txjur of Europo under a Carnegie fellowship. *'When tliey found that 1 came from this country, people could not do enough for me. The Germans were partieularly kind, and everyone I met treated me withj the utmost friendliness and goodwill. It was interesting to find that they had put English in the foremost place as a foreign ianguage in thoir schools instead of French. It is compulsory in many cases, and so many Germans spoke it that my way was quite easy." The Navy's Yacht, For the first time since she was given by the Mayor of Auckland, Sir Ernest Davis, to the New Zealand Divisiou of the Royai Navy last year for use as a training sliiijp for boys attaclxed to H.M.S. Phiiomel, tlie 67ft. yacht Viking has been listed in the oificial records of the Admiralty. In the lates.t issue of the Navy List there is inserted a line on the page dealing with the division to say that the ketch Viking is attached to the station. In t'uture therefore, she is oflicially to lose her former style of yacht and become a ketch, although in a semi-official publication whioh deals with tlie navies of all the nations she is described as a sail training vessel. Timaru Firms Duped. When two Timaru firms received by telephone orders in the name of a good customer, who "was leaving on a holiday" and required goods valued at £7 and £5 respectively, they despatched the parcels. The deliveries arrived at the house simultaneously (the Herald says) only to find that the person from whom the message was supposed to have como was not at home. They left the parcels, "but having some doubt in their minds, they called at the business address of the owner of the house. When told that the customer was oul of town they hurried back to the house only to find that the goods had disappeared. The person or persons responsible for the trick, which is not by any means a new one, had apparently secretly watchcl their arrival and collected the parcels without delay. Missing Lakes. In 1907 a survey party which traversed the Hohonu range on the West Coast of the South Island reported that from. the top of Mount Ruby two lakes could be seen at the foot of the eastern slope. Five meoibers of the West Coast Alpine Club spent a recent week-end searching for the lakes. Two of them were foreed to spend a night in the bush, and the party traversed country which, it is thought, has not previously been explored. But they found no trace of the lakes. The area showed distinct signs of comparatively recent earth disturbances, caused. members of the party think, by the Arthur's Pass cartkquake of 1929, and it is considered possible that the water was liberated by tlie earth tremors. The party and the West Coast club are by no means yet convinced, however, that the lakes do not exist. Further explorations will be made next summer, and it is hoped that an aerial search can also be made.