LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 15, 11 October 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Napier Munlcipal Theatre. Donations to the Napier MunicipaJ Theatre fund now total £431 14/9. Early Morning Fire, The Hastings Fire Brigade received a call at 7.30 a.m. to-day to a chimney fire in the home of Mr. H. Smith, 507 Avenue road west, Hastings. Tlxe outbreak was quickly quelled and no damage resulted. Crazlng on Roads. ,(Some *settlers like to have a new road opened up so that they can graze it," said Mr. C. Lassen at to-day's meeting of the Hawke's Bay County Council, when asking if a proposed new road formatiion was essential. Paralysis Cases D'scharged. Three of the eight caSes of infantilo paralysis which repiained in tht Napier Bublic Hospital at the end of August, were discharged during September, according to the monthly report of the medical supermtendent, Dr, J, J, Foley, presented to the Hawke's Bay Hospital Board this afternoon. "Money From tho Sky." "You are always looking for money from the sky," remarked a councillor at to-day's meeting of the Hawke's Bay County Council "when a fellow councillor suggested that the engineer shouid supply an estimate of "the cost of sealing a- certain road, as requested by a school committee. Frost Damages Fruit. Damage to the blossom of stone fruit and pear trees in the Rangiora district, Canterbury, js reported as the result of late frosts. The blossom is at a stage in its growth where it is difticnlt to estimate the full extent of the damage to the crop, but there is no doubt that it will be fairly serious. Minor Napier Fire, Fire broke out on the premises of the Marino Parade Bakery at Napier at 8,30 last evening, but tlie blaze was quickly checked by the Napier Centrai Fire Brigade. No damage \va^ done. It appears that a chimney above one of the baking ovens on tlie premises allowed flames to reach the roof, whicb caught .fire. The outbreak was quickly noticed, however, and tlie brigade was able to extingujsli the flames with its first-aid equipment. Djocesan synoa. Tlie 27th Svnod of the Diocese of Waiapu has been fixed to coraroence on Thursday next. October 14, by His Lordship the Bishop of Waiapu, the Rt. Rev. Henry Wiliiams. It is anticipated tbat the session will last about a week, Wednesday, October .13, being observed as "quiet day." A Waiapu Diocesan clioir festival, under tlie auspices of tlie School of English Church Music, will be held iu St. John's Churcli, Napier, on the eveuiug of October 13. rirst Radio Message. TIiq bronze figure of Mercury whicb n*as stolen from the WireJess Meniorial at Waliroonga, Sydney, on a recent nighf was returned four days later. Tlie memorial stood in front ot a house at the corner of Cleveland and Stuart streets, where Sir Ernest Fisk received the first dii'ect wireless message from London from the late Marchese Marconj in 1918. Shortiy before dark oue evening a yonng man lcnocked on the back door of the liouse and handed a parcei to the housemaid, saying: "I hav© returned the statue/ I bought it on the bus, and did not know it was stolen." He then left. Rats OfT to Englantf. "From what 1 saw and heard it is a case of hats off to England. She is now as strong as ever, except perhaps in the Far E'ast, and there the completion of the Singapore naval base is going to strengthen her position," said Mr. John O'Sliea, city solieitor, wlio returned to Wellington yesterday after a visit to England and tho Continent, "/olunteor Defcnce System. "The volunteer system of defence traiuing will bo a.n expensive failure as it lias been in tlie past," said Colonel G. MiTchell, at the anuual reunion of the Soutli African War Veterans' As-pociation in Wellington on Saturday night. It was not the job of volunteers to defend the country, but the job of evory citizen. There shouid be a nnlversal system of training. New Zealand had a standard of living unequalled by that 'of any other nation. It was tlie duty of every able-bodied youth to take his place in the defensive - .x.. oi tuu couiicr.y, Tlicy themselves might not bo able to play an active part, but they .were the fathers of >oys who could. Development Schemes, During the past month or so a number of beavy jnotor trucks have been engaged in transporting loads of soil to and from various points of the town. These activities have an interesting association in that there are three rnajor development schemes linked up. Soil iB required for the filling-up of a por tion of the area set aside for the playground of the new Centrai School, and this has been obtained. Irom tho Civie Square. In turn, new soil for the surfacing and levelling of the Bqnare has been obtained in part from tho road formation work being carried out by tlie Hastings BorougU Council on bohaif of tlie State Housing Department ui the Hanrahan block in Willqwpark load.