LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 44, 15 November 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The Rotorua.* The New Zealand Shipping Compauy advise that the s.s. Rotorua, en route from London .to New Zealand, tsailed from Panama on We.dnesday. November 10. Noisy Gattle-Stops. The nois© made by the cattle-stops at the main entrance to the Memorial Hospital, Hastings, has been causing some disturbance to patients in tho wards and they have been tightened up in order to prevent the rattle when cars pass over them.. Will the Summer Be Dry? If the reasoning of the Maori that profuse blooming of the cabbage tree forecasts a dry summer is sound then a season of drought may be antieipated. All the cabbage trees in New Plymouth are heavily laden with blossom and some of the larger ones are pictures of great beauty. Law of Property. "The law of property has iallen into disrepute, ' ; said Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., when members of the Auckland Law Society gathered to bid him farewell on his retirement. Mr Wilson said that a contract nsed to be sacred, but now there was a feeling that, if a thing could not be done, there was no need to do it. Spiint-maker Sought. The Hawke's Bay Hospital Board has written to the Health Department . asking for any information they may have as to the possibility of obtaining the services of a trained man for tho making of splints, also as to whether any other boards have a splint-making department, and to generally advise as to the best method of having repairs 4one to splints. More New Buildings. The revival of building operations noted in Eastipgs last month continnes to be recorded and the indications point to the present month again producing £10,000 worth. of new buildings. So fa> this month permits have been issuecl ±'or about £6510 of new building work, and included in this figure is the cost of three new dwellings and a set of two iiats. Vegetabje Market Improves. Rain last week has now relieved the shortage that was being experienced by Hast^rigs vegeiable retailers ln several iincs of root crops. Carrots, turnips, and pasnips, m puj ticular wero beeoming scarce, bul it was siated this morniug that thv rain ha,- hiought on the new season 's growth very well, improving tho position ccu^de^ibly. Although cabbages and cauliflowers are not plentiful, the demand for these vegetables has slackened in the past few weeks. Green peas are now eoming in well, and by. next week there will be a plentiful supply. Magistrate's Memories. Days in Auckland 43 yet»0 ago, «nen lawyers wore moustaches and conveyancers favoured beards, were recalled by Mr Wyvern Wilsont S.M., when members of the Law Society gathered to bid him farewell. Mr Wilson said that when he began his legal career tea-drinking was almost unknown, and , at the conclusion of any conveyancing matters, it was usual for the head clerk to treat .the parties to a drink. The large sh/utters which shielded the front of the ishops in those days ha.d disappeared with the beards, no doubt because of the 6 o'clock closing .days. Oil ln Taranaki. Believiug he had fouud oil deposits of develppmental value in the Aria district, Taranaki, Mr T. M. Armstrong, an old miner and prospector who claims extensive experience m America and New1 Zealand, .is trudging to Wellington to see .the Minister of Mines, the Hon. P. C. Webb. He is armed with voluminous correspondence that passed between him and the Prime Minister and Mr Webb, with a samplo of oil impregnated with water taken from a 24ft. seepage, and with a determination not to divjulge the exact location of the find till he has some assurance of perkinal benelit. Cheap Bug for Winter. An euterprising Christchurch citizen decided last March that someone else should provide him with a riig for the winter. Oue night that month members of a city household returned home after spending the evening elsewhere, and discovered that a rug on a balony bed had been stolen. The police wore informed but with no developments, and it was not until last week that more was heard of the missing rug. A member of the family heard a commotion on the balcony, and thinking it was a stray cat, went to investigate; and there was the rug, returned after winter had ended. lnventive New Zealanders. "During my stay in England I was invited to the offieers ' mess at Millbank," said Dr. Alan Tennant, medical officer in charge of the New Zealand Coronation contingent, addressing the Wellington ^Botary Club. "While there I got into conversation with an officer, who said, 'My job is to look into the inventions which are sent into the Army Office, and I have found that the most practical suggestions and those. of most use to us come from t New Zealand. ' I thought this was something to. be proud of," said Dr. Tennant.

Australia's Cheap Fruit. Describing his visits to the orange groves in South Australia, Mr J. O. Boniface, of Palmerston North, said that it was possible to buy for a shilling almost as many oranges as a person. could carry; "I was amazed," hc said at the cheapness of fruit in Austra.lia compared with New Zealand. independent for Raglan. An indepeudent candidate is to contest the Baglah seat at the next general eleetion in opposition to the Hon. W. Lee Martin, Minister of Agriculture. Mr A. J. Gallichan, of Frankton, has announced his intention of standing. While he is opposed to the policy of the Labour Party, he states that he is not entirely in sympathy with the views of the National Party. Cars Collide. No-one was injured when two cars collided on the main road soatli of Hastings this morning, but both vehicles were extensively damaged, having to be brought into Hastings by breakdown vans. The vehicles, one driven by Mr Peter Jerieevieh, of Hastings, and the other by Mr O. T. Murphy, of Palmerston North, were being driven in opposite directions when they collided side on. Travels of a Thiet. Bapid dissipation of his ill-gotten gains and fast travelling about the North Island were features of the story told about Dudley Holdsworth Smith, engineer, aged 25 years, when he appeared before Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., at New Plymouth. After coliecting his own wages, £8 2/6 from the Pihama dairy factory on November 2 and stealing £8 13/4 from a fellow employee on November 3, he hurried to New Plymouth apid visited H.M.3. Leander that afternoon before flying to Auckland and leaving the following night for the south in the Limited express. On November 8 he was arrested nt Wellington with lOd. in his pocket. Pleading guilty, Smith was remanded for sentence.