LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 28, 27 October 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Rangitane and Ruahine. The s.a. Rangitane, cn route from New Zealand, arrived at London last evening. The s.s. Ruahine arrived at Wellington at 8 a.m. to-day from London. Passengers for this district will be arriving by to-night's expresa. Success at Show, A successful Hawke'h lJay exhibitor at the annual Wellington Alsatian Shepherd Dog Club's show on Labour Day was Mrs. L. Miller's Pixie of Kilmartin, who securerl five first awards, three specials, cliallengo poiuts and o cup for the best opposite sex in show. Havvke's Bay Show. A Wanganui resident who attejided the Havvke's Bay Spring Show, said that the condition of some of the stock was disappoihting and they lacked bloom. On People's Day there was a large attendance and it was surprising to note the number of motor cars. The Wanganui man got blocked coming out and had to wait for an hour uptiJ the traffic thinned. Trentham Camp Memorial. An appeal to all returned soldiers who passed through Trentham camp is to be made by the Upper Hutt branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association, which is proceeding with a scheme to erect a memorial hall on a site at the corner of Liverpool street and Main road, Trentham. The hall is to be a memorial not only to the soldiers of the Upper Hutt part of the Hutt Valley, but to all those who trained at Trentham before serving overseas. Ring Round Fish. Fishing on the Leith recently a Dunedin angler made a surprising discovery when lxe landed a 21b. trout. Round the body was a bakelite ring into which the fish must have swum when very young. Tlie presence of tlie ring, which it had been unable to dislodge, had prevented the expansion of tlie fish's body at the point where the ring had stuck, while 011 either side of tlie band the fiesh had developed jn tho normal manner. Costs Increase. Recently the Clu'istchurch Tramway Board called tenders for the supply of new uniforms for its stafE and for the printing of a new timetable. A report placed before the board at last week's meeting showed substantial increases in costs when compared with similar expenses incurred in 1935. Tunics and trousers were 25 per cent dearer, and overcoats '32 per cent. more. The cost of printing the timetables was 15 per cent. higher. Transport Methods. "For the future deveiopment oi Melbourne, it is a great pity that the authorities are laying new electric tram iines to replace old cable tram tracks instead of developing public transport by means of trolley-buses,'1 said Mr. R. O. Duncan, of London, who arrived at Auckland by the Awatea from Sydney. All the principal cities in England and on the Continent were scrapping electric tramways and replacing them with buses, which were more mobile and allowed passengers to aliglit from the pavement instead of crossing congested traffic. Cost of Rural Tolephones. The cost of rural telephon© rentals was discussed at a recent meeting of the Soutliland provincial executive of the Farmers' Union. Mr. W, H. Ward said that tlie maintenance charge of £5 a niile a liue was exorbitant. The 1'arniers were in a most disadvantageous position compared with urban subscrjbers hecause of the high rentals and the small number of subseribers connected with rural exchanges, which caused lieavy tolL charges. It was decidcd to request a reduction in the maintenance cliargo. "The Wandering jew." Advice lias been received of tho death of Mr. Pliilip Lewis, a man who waa known through Australia and New Zealand as "the wandering Jow." Mr. Lewis was a preaclier who, during liis 280,000 miles of wandering, is said to liave worn out 100 pairs of boots aud nine Bibles which he had read through many times and from which he preached wherever he went. He passed through New Zealand last year, taking part in several missions jn Christchurch. Manawata Fruit. Prospects are bright for a good crop of apples and pears in the Manawatu district this year, though the stone fruit is not so promising. This is the opinion held by Mr. W. J. Whelan, orchard instructor of the Department of Agriculture, Palmerston North. It was impossible to forecast accurately just .vet, he said, but judging by the prolific bloom a heavy crop of tliese fruits might be expected. The flowers of stone fruit trees had been seyerely damaged by two late frosts, oue at the end of September and the other early in October, and cherries esjiecially had been affected. Though not escaping uuscathed, trees in tlie more sheltered positions showed promise of fairly good resujts. Gooseberrios liad apparently been very little affected by tlie frosts.