LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 31, 30 October 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Commerce In Ccnference, The annual conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce will be held at Timaru at the beginning of next month, when there will be delegates present from all parts of the Dominion. The business paper will cover a wide range of subjects. Employment Levy. In this issue appears an lntimation from the Commissioner of Taxop that an instalment of the registration levy becomes due on November 1, and that on the sa'me date there also falis due the third instalment of the employment charge on income other than salary or wages derived during the year ended March '31, 1937. Payment may be tendered at any Money-Order Office. Gardening competition, Judges for the best-kept garden competition, to be conducted by the Hastings and District Progress League this year, are to be appointed next week and they are expected to make their hrst tour of the entered garden s dur ing the cotning month. It was reported at the committee meeting of the league last evening that there were 24 entries for the competition. Learn-to-Swim Week. Wbile giving support to tho national "Learn-to-Swim Week'^it was pointed out at the annual meeting of the Hawke's Bay branch of the lloyal LifeSaving Society that both Napier swimming clubs had several learn-to-swim nights during tlie season, and were domg more to teach children to swun than was being dono in man^ other places, so that guch a, week was really not so much required in Napier. Tho proposal, however, reccived the. s^ ciety's whole-hearted support. Motor coiilsion Cases. "These delaya in criminal prosecutions in connection with motor-car accidents are most unsatisfactory to the police," commented. Sergeant J. Henry, when a solicitor applied to the Hawera Oourt for the adjournment of a case in which there was a prospect that a parallei civil action might arise. The longer the delay the more damaging was the effect on the poljce case, said Sergeant Henry, and Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., stipulated that counsel must bo ready to proceed within a inonth. Wrong House. With "one over the eight" and a determinaflon to get tj> bed under his own power; a Waipukurau man climbed stealthily mto a window of ^ home in Bussell street, Waipukurau, on Tuesday night. Unfortunately for the bibu-. lous one, he had selected jbhe wrong place and two ladies in the house were highly alarmed. The police arrived to find the man still there with the result that he appeared before Mr. E. J. Turner, J.P., in the Waipukurau Police Court and was convicted and discharged on a, count of drunkenness, Knowing the Distriot. . The opinion that yearly vjsits and tours of the district should be made along the lines adopted for the recent tour of the orchards organised by the Hastings £pnd District Progress League in conjunction with the Hawke's Bay Jb'ruitgrowers' Association, was voiced by Mr. A. I. Rainbow at the meeting of the committee of the league Jast evening. It was. decided to write to the association expressing its thanks for the hospitality extended to the visiting repre^entatives of local organisations and express the hope that an endeavour would be made to have siinilar tours arranged each year in tho future. Entertalnlng Visitors. The staging of concerts and othei functions in Windsor Park during the peak holiday period was discussed at the committee meeting of the Hastings and District Progress League last evening. A sub-committee has been appoint. cd to investigate the proposal with 'a view to furthering the idea. The proposal is to arrange some functions and concerts, e&pecially for Christmas week, when there will be a big influx of visitors .to Hastings and hundreds oi people will be camping, or visiting Windsor park. The co-operation of the Hastings Citizens' Band and also oi the Maoris is to be sought and it is hoped that by the next meeting of the committee it will be possible to report something definite arranged. Tltrills In Mediterranean. One of the big thrilla cxperienced by passengers on board the Morton Bay en route to Australia from England or its last voyage was described by a pa &■ senger, Mr. Harold E. Loach,a iormei Hastings resident, who is visiting his old home-town for the first time sincs before the war. He said this mornin« that, as the vessel neared Gibraltar; two Spanish Government armed trawlers approached the Moreton Bay, one on each side and they came on at fuli speed until about 250 yards off, when they swerved aside. The only shooting that was done, however, was by photographers. Later in the journey passengers saw several patrolliug submarines in the Mediterranean Sea anc an occasional French or Britisli warship. Then at Port Said there was an Italian troqpship wlilch, it was assurued, was making a belated return fron! Abyssinia.