LOCAL & GENERAL,

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 23, 20 October 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL,

No Paper on Labour Day. The Herald-Tribune will not be pubiished on (.abour Day, Monday, October 25. The Ruahine. Tke New Zealand Sliippiiig Oo. advise that the R.M.S. Ruahine, en route from London to Wellington, arrived at Suva on Tuesday morning and is expected to leave Suva on Friday for Wellington, wlxere the vessel is due ou Tuesday, October 26Seasonai Golds. Reporting on tlie attendances at tke Parkvale Sckool, tlie headmaster, Mr. W, B. Roe, reported to tke committee last evening tkat regularity of tlie attendance kad dropped sligktly during tke period under review owing to tke prpvalence of eliicken-pox and seasonai colds. New Road at Taupo. The Publie Works Department kas commenced the survoy for a road around the western side of Lalce Taupo, for wkick it is understood £2950 has been allocated. It is hoped to have tke road, which will be a boon to anglers, giving them access to desirable fisikng areas, will be available during tke coming season. Kiiling Season. Tke kiiling of oxport lambs for this season will commence skortly m Hawke's Bay. It is espected tkat Nelson's (N.Z.) Ltd., Tomoana worlcs will commence operafions. on Fridayf but the Hawke's Bay Farmers' Meat Co., Ltd., do not anticipate that tjje Whakatu works will be engagea on this work until tke begfnnmg of next montli Trucks Deraiied. Some little confusion was ea used on one of tlie siding liues at tlie Hastings Railway Station this morning as the result of two trucks being derailod during shunting activities. Fortunately Po daiuage was done to the pennanent way or the trucks as the result oi their "jumping the rails," and they were eveutually replaced.;, Exportation of Eels. j Mr. E. H. llall at a meeting of the I Soytliland Acclimatisation Society said that there was a sp.endid market 111 England and Germuny for a type of eel weighmg from £lb. to l^lb. These brought lOd a pound and could be sent home for 4d a pound. He suggested that a trial shipment of say lcwt. should be sent to Britam. The president, Mr. S. M. Macalister, indicatod that the society would provide the eels if a commercial man interested in the proposal were forthcoming. New Cirls' Hostel. An indicatioy that the erection oi the new hostel at the Napier Giris' High School may shortly be commenced, was contained in a lettcr received last evening by the Napier Sepondary Education Boaid lrom the Hon. W. E. Barnard, M.P. Referriug to an mterview witk tke Minister lor Education, the Hon. P. Fraser, Mr. Barnard reported that tke Minister' s attitude, wkile not absolutely conclusive, was debnitely hopeful, and be regarded tlie erection of tke hostel as a work of importance to tke community. Rare Caterpillar5 A large moth, a species of porina, has been. sent to the Hawke's Bay Museum by Mr. A. R. Wilkie, of Tutira. The caterpillar of this moth is frequently attacked by the cordyceps fungus, and is so ckanged into what is commonly known as the "vegetable caterpillar." This moth has a large kairy body and light coloured wings witk brown markings. Owing to the large number of caterpillars which are destroyed by the fungus, the moth is comparatively scarce. The caterpillars are subterranean, living on the rcots of grasses and other plants. When attacked by the fungus practicai ly every tissue of the insect is replaced by the myceUum and from oue eud, usually the head, the spore-beariug stalk pushes its way above ground in order to disseminate the spores of the fungus. Travel by Road and Air. The speediness of travel by meane of established services in New Zealand was brought home to Mrs, F. A. Marriott, 0^' Westport, who arrived at Hsatings last night to see ker father, Mr. H. Boshier, who is seriously ill in the Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Marriott left her home at 6 o'clock yesterday morning, travelling for four hours by car to Greymouth, wkere she connected with the aeroplane service which brought her to Nelson. From there she again left by 'plaue for Wellington, and while over Cook Strait received advjce by radio that her reque^t to have the Wellington-Napier service car delayed slightly had- been granted. On her arrival at Wellington she hastened to the service car, which had been kept waitiug only a few minutes, and arrived at Hastings at 10 o'clock Jast night. Thus, from the erstwhile isolation of the West Coast she was brought to Hastings by means of trave.l in two different service cars and two aeroplanes fn 16 koufs. Sexfng Chicks. 0 A visitor to New .Plymouth recently witk an unusual occupation was Mr, Ladaq Snzuku, Japan, who uras brought to New Zealand to assist the poultry breeding industry at Auckland, Mr. Suzuku's task is to take chicks> in boxes as they are brought from the incubator and to sex them. In a glance he can separate cocks and hens, and he sexea the iufaut birds at the rate of 7750 an liour with an efficiency of 98 per cent. And! he does thjs ycar in arid year out except .when he js travelling bctweeu Japan and New Zealard.