LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 208, 18 September 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Horses for Singapore. Before the Dutch motor-ship Maetsuycker leaves Wellington to-day she will load 21 young korses for tke Singapore Turf Club, an unusually large consignment. The Maetsuycker has specia] accommodation for about 100 horses on hex- slxelter deck. Commcnt on the Railway. "Not as bad as I had expected," was Sir Henx\y Brackenbury's comment on the New Zealand railways. Sir Henry,* the noted Englisli doctor, is .nabing u seven weeks' tour of the Dominion. "I had been led to expect something inuch worso than this," he said on tlie Wel-lington-New Plymouth express to a Taranaki News reporter, "and 1 was qqite pleasantly surprised at this, my tirst train trip in the country." Parade Douile Roadway. Tlie next move in ihe dcbated question of tlie double roadway which the Napier Borougli Council has docided to buiid along the Marine Parade to tlie seaward side of the row of Norfiolli pines at the edge of tlie present roatl, has come in the form of a petition which is being circulated throughout Napier. The petition, which is being signed by a large number of l'atepayers, protests against the action of the council in spending a large sum of inoney on the project. An Accident-Free City l "Let all motonsts set out with tlie express intention of keeping out of accidents on September 25, tlie day of tlie third Rugby Test between New Zealand and South Africa," said the presxdent of the Autoiiiobile Association (Auckland^, Mr F. G. Farrell, in an appeal to motorists. "The large Dumber of accid&nts after the second lest at Christchurch shows the need for care; the aim sliould be to mahe Auckland an accident-free city over that weekend.. Auckland can set the example." Motorist's Responsibility. A case of an unusual nature was heard before Mr E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Gisborne Magistrate's Court when Robert Keith Schultz was fined 10/- and costs for leaving a dead animal in Stanley road without burying it. Senior Sergeant Macnamara said defendant was driving a car in Gladstone road, and ran over and killed a dog. He got out of the car and placed the carcase of the dog on the back, and then took it down to the end of Stanley road, where he left it. Defendant said he did not want to leave the dead dog on the main road. Te Aroha's Salted Wit, The iirst Education Board discussiou on the rights and wrongs of smoking in scliool musb have been cchoing in Te Arohaewhen Mr T. U. WelJs, cliairman of the board, went. there last week to crown tlie queen of a school carnival. Mr Wells enjoyed a tilt at Limself enough to recount the story at a board meeting. Dudded the "archbisliop" for the purposes of the coronation, he was required to crown the queen twice, onco in the afternoon and once at night. After the evening ceremony tho queen decided to grant several favours. Mr Wells was called forward for a knightkood. He was named "Knight of the Fragrant Weed" and given a xnotto for his crest the words, "lt is better to sxnoke here than liereafter." "And in the meantime," said Mr Wells, "the band plajred 'Smoke Gets ixx Your Eyes'." New Broadcast Station. Letters have been sent to A tr H. M. Christie, M.P., and the Director ot Broadcasting, by Mr 'G. E. Fowler, sec-retary-manager of tlie Central Hawke's Bay Power Board, pressing tlie claims of Ccaitral Hawke's Bay as location for the new broadcasting stalion iu Hawke's Bay. This action was tndorsed at yesterday'e meeting of tlie l.'CWer Board in Waipukurau. The iotters stated tliat the writer had noticed from newspaper reports that officials wero rnaking tests in the Hastings distriet i'or tlie purpose of selecting a site, and tlxat they were looking for an area lree i'rom interference. Central Hawke's Bay liad such areas, Mr Fowler' e letter continued, and would be glad to liave the officials of tlie Broadcasting Board inspect them. The Power Board would be prepared to assist- them in any -way, would transport them to any part of its area, and could arrange if necessary, for the engineer to accompany thein.