LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 196, 4 September 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

A Freak Lamb. Twin lambs, one of which had four ears, eiglit legs, one eye and a mouth at the front of the head and another eye and mouth at tlie back, were born ou the property of Mr A. B. Taylor, Clydebauk, Wairoa. Mayors' Honours Board. An additional record of the eervice given the borough by its ckief citizens is to be placed in the Hastings Borough Council Chambers shortly. It is to take the form of Mayors' Honours Board, ond will set out the names of the men who have occupied the office of Mayor of Hastings and the year? in which they held office. Kindergarten Appeal. The annual street appeal in aid of the Hastings Free Kindergarten Association was made in Hastings to-dav. A number of collectors took up positions in Heretaunga street, bnt the heavy rain which either kept people indoors or else caused them to liurry through the town no doubt will be reflected in the day's takings.

A High Reputation. "New Zealand butter and lamb have a great reputation in Britain," said Rotarian K. McLeay, of Napier, in relating his experiences during a trip to England to members of the Hastings Rotary Club yesterday. "The demand for our products," he added, "is due to the high . standard of quality of the lamb and butter. Increased employment is resulting in a greater circulation of money at Home with the result^ that more of our produce is being sold ." Pictures of Hastings. So that there will be available suitable pictures and material when required for publicity purposes, the Hastings Borough Council has decided to set aside £20 in this year's supplementary estimates for the acquisition of pictures of Hastings. Quito frequently there is a call for suitable photographs of attractions in Hastings for advertisercents and propaganda, and it is considered advisable to have om hand upto date pjctures and information concerning the town and its development for this purposo, Street Name-Plates, A start is to be made this year with the erection of narue plates on the streets in the borough, and the Hastings Borough Council has decided to spend £50 in this direction this year, the money to he found from the Reserves Fund and included in the supplementary works schedule. The plates, which are similar to motor plates, but are double-faced, are really handsome looking. They are manufactured in Aus.tralia, there being nothing like them manufactured in New Zealand.

Goodwill of Men. "Peace is not founded on facts, palaces or treaties, but on the goodwill of men," said Mr F. Hall-Jones, district governor of Rotary in New Zealand, in an address to the New Plymouth Rortary Club. He told the Rotarians that this realisation was brought home strongly to him when he visited the Palace of Peace at The Hague. The palace was begun in 1905 following a gift by Oarnegie and finislied in 1913, just in time for the Great War. A Wet Saturday. Farmers- will, no doubt, be rejoicing at the continuance of heavy rain to-day, but for shopkeepers in Hastings a wet Saturdfly definitely means bad business. A large percentage of the week's shopping is done on Saturday, and on Saturday night particularly, when crowds make it a liabit to stroll round the shops. People are disinclined to ieave their homes on Saturday evening when it is wet, however, and several shopkeepers complained during the day that the weather was keeping people indoors. Islanders and the Bible. What the Bible had dune for nativet. of the Solomon Islands was shown in a vivid example given by tlie ltev. Belsliazzar Gina, native minister from .the Solomon Islands Methodist Church, when speaking at a Christchurch Rotary Club lunclieon. One of the tradcrs in days gone by had attempted to dissuade a native from reading tho Bible, saying that it was not true and should not bo read. The Solomon Islander repiied: "If this Book was not true you would liave been in our pot a long time ago. Because it is true you can live among us and have no cause to be afraid." Maunganui's Cruise. The Union Steain Sliip Company has receivad. a further wireless message from their liner "Maunganui, which is cruising in the South Sea Islands, to the effect that the vessel anchored off Vavau at 8 o'clock yesterday morning. The weather continues to be fine, and during the morning the passengers were boated to Neiafu township, thence down the liarbour for picnic lunch and bathing alongside Utungake viilage. The afternoon was spent in visiting the Swallows' Caves, whose iily-hued colouring and vast cathedral-like i'ormation grealy impressed the passengers. The vessel sailed at 5 p.m. 011 Thursday for Apia.

Star and Pianet. The pianet Mars^ >= present lies close to tlie star Antares, in the constellation of Scorpio, being uearly overhead at nightfall. Both are distinctly reddish and of similar briglitness, and their proximity gives prominence to the meaning of the star's name — the rival of Mars. The pianet and star set shortly after midnight, and about that time are more noticeable than earlier, being tlien at equal heights above the liorizon. Fine Penguin's Fate. With its feathers heavily matted with waste oil floating on the surface of the sea, a fine specimen of tlie white floppered punguln, tne species which nests around Banks Peninsula, was picked up on the beach at Sumner and immediately presented to the Canterbury Museum. The bird had died just a short time before it was picked up, and it is th© intention of Mr r. A. Falla, curator of the museum, to have it set in its present state and exhibited in the museum as an example of tlie effect of waist oil on sea birds. Mr Falla said that when the feathers became matted with oil they no longer were able to portect tlie body from tlie low temperature of the water, with the result that the bird died of cold-