LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 4, 28 September 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Car Taken From Sectlon. A Ford V8 trro-door seaau, coloured dark green, large air wheels, register No. 55703, was taken last night about 8.30 o'clock from the vacant section adjoining the garage of J. E. Peach and Co., Ltd., Dickens street, Napier. Carden Competition. Entries for the best-kept residential garden competition arranged by the Hastings and Distnet Progress League closed last evening and numbered 23, Cash prizes amounting to over £20, in addition to cups, will be awarded, and the judges will make visits of inspections in November and agam early nest year. Pronunciation of Maori Names. The. necessxty of introducing into all correct pronuncxation of Maori names schools some 6ystem of teaching the is stressed in a Wanganui remit to tlxe Technical Educatioxx Association coxxferexxce in Wellington. The rernxt urgies that the Minister of Native Affairs and the four Maori members of Parliament should take the matter up with the Minxster of Education, The Touring Sprlngboks. Th« word "touring'' applied to the Sprxngbok Rugby team is correct in the very essence, for during their 00mpartatively short stay in the Domi-e nion they have travelled 3848 miles by rail, road and the sea, to say nothing of the many hundreds oovered in car excujrsions. In all they have made 14 rail journeys, an aggregate of 2404 mxles. Seven times they travelled by overland bus and covered just under 1000 miles, while the sea voyages between Wellingiton and Picton and Lyttelton and "Wellington totalled 226 miles. The One and Only. Freak postal addresses have exercised the minds of practical jokers the world over for many years, but very rarely does the Post Office fail "to g/et its man." If not the most ingenious, then certainly one of the most enterprising was a letter reqeived lrom South Africa by the utility back, G. F, Locbner. The enyelope bore a caricature of the Springbok with the sole inscription "New Zealand" below, but when it was delivered, the postal authorities had added "Springbok team, Auckland." Such is fame. Hawke's Bay In Photos. Containing a series of iine pliotographs of places of scenic intcrest iu the Hawke's Bay and East Coast districts, a booklet published by the Tourist Department has been presented to the Napier Thirty Thousand Club, Large photographs, both clear aud art- ' istic, portray scenes of tlxe couxxti'i side in the vicjnity of Hastings and Napier, views of the Napier-Taupo and NapierGisborno roads, and views of Wairoa and Gisborne. The presentation of the booklet comes as a mark of appreciation from the department for the cooperatioji of the club with officers of tne department oxi several occasioi**. Road To the Peak. The completion of the roadway up to the trig statjon at the Peak was eomrnenced yesterday, xvhen a gang of twelve men wa§ employed in layiixg the foundation of the proposed road, The work is being carried out under the supervision of the Te Mata Park Trust Board, and is part of the programme of works approved by the Gqvernment for providing avenues of work for men on sustenance and other relief work. The Employment Promotion Board has granted a subsidy of over £1,200, this bejng the estimated cost of tlxe labour to be employed, and it is anticipated that the work wfil take fully sis raonths to complete. Inter-Club Hockey. The Napier Ladies' Hockey Club team paid ja visit to Wanganui during the week-end and played a friendly ganje with the Gonville Ladies Hockey Club. Tho game was a very even one from start to fxxiishj both teams playing good hockey, The score, three all, was a correct indication of tlxe game. During the evening tlxe teams were entertaiued to a dinner and dance by the Wanganui A.ssociation, together with the Taranaki men's representative team, who were unsxxccessful in their challenge for the _Noi'deu Cup. Sunday was spent in sightseeing, after which the teams left for their respective bomes.

Boom In Scheelite. The international armaments race has had tlxe effect of causing a mild booro in an industry that is little known in the Dorainion— the production of scheelite. So valuable has scheelite become that at Glenorchy (Lake Wakatipu) and Macrae's Flafc (near Dunback, Otago), where tho mines are located, the majority of the residents are . engaged in a search for the rock, and an attempt' to secure the services of labourers fqr road or farm wprk^ is ( foredoomed to failure. In fact, go keen is the search for scheelite that goldmining companies and prospectors have been temporarijy cliverted from the search for gold iu favour of the valuable though elusive rock. With an increase in the price from £44 a ton in 1933 to well over £100 at tlie present time, scheelite miniug has become a paying proposition, and with prospects of prices soaring even higher, those engaged in tbe -induetry. have few.complaints as to the present international situation.