LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 32, 1 November 1937, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

Hastings Boys' Band. The Hastings Boys' Band, an adjunct of the Hastings Citizens' Band, is to make another public appearance on their own oh Wednesday evening when, appropriately enough, they will participate in a populax event among the juvenile element of the community. the Guy Fawkes procession. The band will be heading the procession through the town from Nelson street to tb* corner of Hastings and Queen streets. Porter injured. Head injuries and concussion were sulfered by Mr. J. Carmichael, a porter at the Hastings Railway Station on Saturday and he was admitted to the Hastings Soldiers' Memorial Hospital. Mr, Carmichael was wheeiing a barrow in the goods fshed when it went down a loading dock and Mr. Carmichael was thrown heavily against the side of a truck. His condition is reported to be satisfactory. Taupo Fishing Opens. The opening of the Taupo fishing season this morning has attracted a nurhber of Hastings and Napier anglers to the lake. Trout is reportcd to be plentifUl around Taupo and Rotorua, and, if fine weather continues, there is every possibility of excellent catches being made in Lake Taupo and the rivers in that district. Fishing at Taupo early in the season mostly takes place in the lake and near the mouths oi the streams. This. for the most part, will be the general practice in November and, later in the season, the streams will be fiushed more extensively. New Zealand in American Eyes. Two amusing examples of the attitude of Americans to New Zealand were described by Mr. A. L. Walker, of Invercargill. The first concerned an advertiscment for a certain type of furs. "These aua," the advertisement read, "came all the way from far off New Zealand, two little islands lying off the coast of Australia and covered with snow and ice for the greater part of the year." Tben there was the Aruerif can taxi driver, who, on being told that Mr. Walker came from New Zealand, aaid : "Gee, you've picked np tho fanguage quickly.'' Emp're Games Strong opposition to the propusal to hold a New Zealand trial meeting m Wellington on December 11 to ciecide the choice oi athletes to represent New Zealand at the British Empire Games in Syduey v as exprei: ed by eral members at i meoung oi the Canteibury branch of tho Amateur Athlctic Associatiop. Mr. E. M. Todd complained that if a national trial meeting were to be held in Wellington in December it wouid usurp the right place of tkq Dominion championships to be liohi in Christc'juicu in March. It waa d .eiuoj 1 o enter a protest.

"Eye on Taxation." "We are keeping a watchful eyo on taxation," said Mr. F. G. Farrell, president of the Automobxle Associarion (Auckland) at the annual meeting of the Waikato area of the association held at Hamilton. "I think 1 am correct in saying that New Zealand inotorists are the most heavily taxed in the world. It is our endeavour tc rcdut.o the present petrol tax by 4id per gallon, as we contend that the yresens laxation is unfair." Despite represcnfcati'ons, the Minister of Finance had stated that the levy will not be removed this .year, added Mr, Farrell, "We are not- going to let it rest at that," he commented A Tortoise Called Leslie. A Riccarton resident has a tortoise as a pet. Weigbing about 4lb., Leslie — the owner is not sure whether it should be called Leslie or Lesley— is a staunch vegetarian and lives on dandeh'on Jeaves, ice plant, lettuce, or, if nothing else offera, on ordinary grass. When a reporter oft'ered him a pod of new green peaa he ate the peas enthusiastidally, and when a playful effort was made to remove the peas he hissed emphatically. Smuggled originally out of Palestine, this tortoise .seems quite at home in his cherry orchard at Riccarton. He sleeps from April to September each year in a hedge, skelters in th© summer from colds winds, and basks in the sun on every possible occasion. "All the News All the Time." Newspapers in Japan issue both morning and evening editions, each different and each delivered to the same subscribers night and morning. Thus a newspaper with a circulation of a million wouid sell 2,000,000 copies daily. This information was given by a Japanese visitor to Auckland, Mr. Bunsliirow Suzuki, managing editor of the Tokio "Asahi,*' which has a subscription list of about 1,000,000 a day On the board of direetors of Asahi Newspapers, Ltd., which has a total list of subscribers in four cities of 2,500,000, Mr. Suzuki has a journalistio experience that extends far beyond Japan. As a foreign correspondent he covered the Peace Treaty conference at" Versailles, the Washington Disarmament Conference, the first International Labour Conference, als0 at Washington, »nd in the years immediately after the Great War reipresefnted his finn in many of the capitals of Europe and the United States.

Cifft to St. «lohn Association, The Otago Harbour Board has made a donation of £100 to the funds of the St. Jokn Ambulance ' Association. Whales at Haumoana. A number of big whales were seen a little distance o2 the beach at Haumoana yesterday morning. They caused fishermen an anxious time and oue party was undecided whether to -haul in the nets or leave them. However the whales themsives decided the question by veering away from the trapping area. pootballers capped. Football caps wero presented to members of the Hastings High School 1st XV. at morning assembly at the school to-day. This year's team was composed almost entirely of new players, but no fewer than 14 caps were awarded. The Old oys' Football Cup for the most improved playCr has this year been awarded to H. M. Bhattky. Orphans at Hospital. The Hastings Urphans' Club couclqded its 1937 seasod with the presentation of a concert at the Hastings Memorial Hospital on Friday evening. The performers used a micropkone in the nurses' home, the concert being relayed to the patieuts through their radlo equipment. The supenntendent of the hospital, Dr. W. Reeve, at the confclusiou of the evening' s enter tainment tkanked the ciub, after which supper was served by the nurses. False Alarm. A false alarm of fire given over the teiephone was respoasible for the callmg out of tlie Hastings lrire Brigade at 9.5 p.m. last night. The informant. on the teleplione stated that a house was on hre at the corner of -Nelson street and Fitzroy avenue, but on arrival there tlie brigade iound no signs of any outbreak. "it was just another malicious false alarm, the second we have received within a short period, said a member of the brigade this morning. Swimmers Start. "Well, I broke tlie ice yesterday," was the boast made to-day by a number of people in Hastings and Napier l'or they were feelmg very pleased with themselvs at liaving nad their first sWim of the season. All the beaches wero throngeu with visitors, who made the most ot tlie sunshine and ideal conditions for bathing. Traffic generally was lieavy on all roads in the district many parties having outings at the various inland picnic spots in addition to tlie hundreds who took a "dip in the briny."

Dangerous Dogs "We get the rough element of the towns seut out to tho country, but when it comes to dogs, 1 think that they should be lei't in town," said Mr. W. G. Witte at a meeting of the North Canterbury executive of tho Farmers' Union when criticising a condition made in the Magistrate's Court in Christcliurch recently that an Alsatian dog which lia^d attacked a postman should be sent to the country. Mr. Witte said that the dog was as likely to bite anyone in the country as in thocity. Dogs ci that nature were not wanted. Transport of Racehorses. The contention that the Railways Department had not catered for thc korsetrainers of to-day was made by Mr. T. H. Langford, No. 3 Transport Licensing Authority, at a sitting at Ashburton. The danger of valuable liorses traveliing along bituinen roads to be trucked was great, and he considered that the departineut should have been awake to the need for fioats to carry the liorses from the stables to railway stations. The need had been appavent for at least five or six years, and in that period there had been a considerable increase in the number of bitumep roads. The risk of injury to liorses was increasing. Stopping the Drift. "The drift of New Zealand University graduates overseas to take up appointments has often Leen tho subject of adverse comment," remarks the annual report ot tho Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. "It is therefore encouraging to observe that the elfort to stem the drift is meeting with some success, in that the services of a number of New Zealand graduates who had migrated overseas have been secured for the department, and that, too, there are two ex-Rliodes scholara on the staff. Another pleasing l'eature is tlie increasing opportunity which is being given to women graduates to obtain scientific appointments "

Well Off By Comparison. "By the great rnass of the people in Britain, New Zealand, if known at all is regarded as oi very sinall interest. Although it may be unpleasant to a New Zeaiander to realise it, there does not appear to be any burning desire at Home to kear all about our advanced social legislation. On the otlier hand, the New Zealand working man may not realise kow well olf he is compared with the conditions under which working people exist at Home," said Mr. H. R. T. Spanjer, of Christchurch, in an interview after hjs return from England. "Many people, including working men, in England to whom I described conditions in New Zealand tound it hard to believe me," he added.