LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 2, 25 September 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Summer-TIm®. Summor-time cnmmences to-morrow (Sunday) at 2 a.m., when all docks must be advanoed half an hour. Plunket society sale. Although the quantity of matefial offered for sale was not as great as usual a profit of n early £22 resulted from 'the jumble sale held in the Oddfellows' Hall, Hastings, this morning in aid of the Hastings Plunket Society. So great was the rush to buy that all stocks were depleted in less than an hour. Mexnbers of the committee of the Plunket Society acted as stall-liolders. Nationai Insurance. Nationai health insurance and superannuatioii proposals wero discussed on Tuesday at a conference in Wellington at wliich Sir Henry Brackenbury, vxcepresident of the British Medical Association, and Dr T. D. M. Stout, president of the New Zealand branch of the Association, met .the Minister of Health, the Hon. P. Fraser, the Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, and members of the nationai superannuation and health committees set up by the Goverument. Crayfishers Stop Work. A representative meeting of fishermen of Karitane, 'near- Dunedin, resolved last night to stop crayfishing in the meantime, because of the marketing conditions. Otherwise, it was stated, tlie fishermen would be forced to take advantage of tbe resources of the Government for their inaintenance. The meeting expressed disapproval of the low prices ruling for fish, and fishing has been suspended in the meantime. A deiegate wag appointed to go to Wellington to interview the Marine Department. Tim McCarthy Memorial. The Napier Labour Day Sports Committee has given an order to Messrs. Miine and Beal, of Hastings, for the construction of an electric publie address system which will be used at future Labour Day sports gatherings. This system js to be regarded aS a memorial to the late Mr. Tim McGarthy who, as secretary, was responsible for making the annual sports at Clive one of the most successful of its kmd ih the Dominion. There will be an official opening of the set at the sports on Labour Day. Two New Companies. T'he registration at Napier- of two new companies js gazetted. Westshore Service Station, Ltd., a private company with a capital of £675 in £1 shares, of wlidcli E. W. Shirley, of Westshore, liokls 674 and H. Shirley, of Westshore, 1, will take o'ver as a going cQiicexn tlie motor and geueral-store business now know as Shirleys, Westshore. Slieep and cattle-farming will be carried on by Olrig, Ltd., a private company with a capital of £43,500 in £1 sliares. Tlie suoscrioers are C. E. , W. Smith. (Hastings) £4'3,200, E. T. F. Smith (Hastings) £100, A. H. D. Mayne (Napier) £50, J. C. Runciman (Napier) £50, and I. C. Dinwiddie £100. When Days "Draw Out". "The days are drawing out." This phrase frequently oecurs in couversations at present, but to many men it has real meaning. It means that when office work is over liome must be hastily ' sought and the spring so'es of grass on lawns attacked with movers. It means, too, that gardens which have been practlicaljy uumolested «for some months must undergo weeding and tlie other processes! — known only to the home gar- . dener — necessary to equip them for spring and spring flowers. And from 4.30 p.m. on most days of the week the' cheerful clatter of lawn mowers can b^ heard froin many homes. Mountains of tlio Moon. The little-known success in the scientific world of a master at Wellington College was recounted at a luncheon of Canterbury members of the Wellington College Old Boys' Association by Frofessor F. W. G. White, professor in physics at Canterbury . Upiversity College. The master was Mr A. 15. Gifford, who was physics master when Professor White was at Wellington College, and who, members were reminded, had formed a theory, While he was teaching, on the formation of mountains on tlio moon. Professor Wlu'tc had helped him in his investigations, and had made a model of a typical lunar mountain. Now, he said, Mr Gifford's findings and theory liad been, as, it were, discovered by prominent physicists in Britain al'ter. many years in oblivion, and wero being aceepted tliere jvith enthusiasm. Air Trips Pdpular. The popularity of air travel as a fast and safe meanB of transport lias been well demonstrated by pilots of the Hawke's Bay and East Coasb Aero Club during the past two -days. Yesterday the club's new Hornet Moth, -piloted by a club luember, llew to Masterton at 1.45 p.m. and returned at 5.30 o'clock. The club's Mo+L Major, piloted by Pilofc M. W. Bateman, made a call to Gisborne jn the late afternoon and returned at 5.30 o'clock this morning. Before eight o'clock this morning the club'a three planes all left for Auckland carrying passengers for the Rugby test. The monostjar also left tlie aerodrome this- morning for Auckland, and this machine and those of the club are all expected bafck in Hastings to-morrow morning.