LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 47, 18 November 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Trophy for Shootist. The J. G, Parker Memorial Cup, one of the Napier and East Coast Gun Club's principal trophies, with which goes a miniature to the winner, will be fired or for the first time on Saturday next, when shootists from all parts of the provihee are expeeted tn compete. Lamb Schedule. A second reduetion in the schedule for Hawke's Bay lamb at the various works has been annouuced, and the latesfr quotation is now 9d a ]b. for first quality and 8Jd for seconds. The soason opened with quotations at 9|d and 9^d respectively and these wor» shortly afterwards l'educed by a halfpenny. Moon's Partial Eclipse. One-aixth of the moon will be eclipsed this evening for a short period. The moon will enter into the shadow of the earth a few minutes after 7,30 p.m., and the eclipse, which will reach its maximum Stage at 8,is p.m., will be visible throughout New Zealand. A small are Only of the moo.i's disc will be obsoi redj Gisborne Surf Boat. The surf boat that has been purchased from the Swansea Surf Life Saving Club, Australia, by the Wainui Surf. Life Saving Club hrrived in Gisborne yesterday and attracted a great deal of interest, The surf boat won several Australian championships while part of the equipment of the Swansea club and before leaving the Commonwealth was reconditioned by the maker. Parkvale Parents' Day. Mothers of pupils attending the Parkvale School met yesterday afternoon to discuss matters relating to Paren»s* Day, which is to be held on Deeember 2 next. Mr J. Stickland, chairman of the school committee, presided and outlined the arrangements that had been made. Those present formed a strong committee and indicated that they would hold themselves responsible for the catering arrangements during the afternoon. Fruit-brokers' Conference. A conference of representatives of fruit-brokers of Auckland, Wellington and Hastings was held in the office of C. H. Slater, Ltd., Hastings, yesterday, when Mr A. Jacobs, of Wellington, vicepresent of the North Island Fruit Brokers' AssOciation, presi.ded over an attendance of 10 delegates. Various matters of a commereial interest to those in the fruit trade were aiscussed, the proceedings being of a private nature. Not In a Bad Way. Though the operations of art dealers had opened the field of art to the charlatan, at least to a certain extent, art was by no means in. a bad way today, said Dr. E. T. Rogers, at the Opening of the Waikato Society of Arts spring exhibition iil Hamilton. Through an increased tendency on the part of artists to submit to the discipline of craftsmanship, to-day the sculptor was getting more and more of a say in the design of building and the pictorial artist in the production of mural deeorations. Australian Qonunercial Broadcasting. Shortage of programme material may have the result in shortening the koura of transmission of Australian commereial broadcasting statious in the neai future. Accordmg to advice given members of the Radio Industry Functions Club recently by Mr R. G. Lamb formerly a manager of a commereial station, the ehortage of material was being felt throughout the world. He advocated a collective move toward decreasing the houis of broadcasting ahd increasing the rates for advertising to .solve the problem. Napier 's Automatic Phones. Work on the assembling of Napier 's new automatic telephone system will comnlence iu earnest in the New Tear. There is still a considerable quantitv of the equipment to be shipped from England, but there are at present 96 cases of material in the new exchange building, and the work of sorting the parts they contain has commenced, following the arrival in Napier of Mr J. W. S. Guntrip, an installing engmeer from Wellington. Once the erection work is under- way, qualified men will be brought to Napier to assist. Meantime it is impossible to state definitely when the new system will be ready lor use. Source of Jean Batten's Courage. The courage inevitably associated with Miss Jean Batten is inherited from her mother, aceording to Mr D. J. Wesney^ president of the Automobile Aesociation (Southland). At the offleial opening of the assoeiation 's new building he reealled the days when cycling was in its infaney in Invercargill and those who motmted the vaguely terriry* ing looking machines were regarded as adventuresome spirits. "Mrs Batten was the first woman here to ride a bicycle in ' rational ' costume,,> Mr Weaney said, "and that must have taken a great deal of courage in those days. Iu my opinion, it was from her mother that Jean Batten got her courage — that courage which has carried lier through her magnificeut fliglits."