LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 50, 22 November 1937, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

Highways Board Visit. Advice has been received in Napier that the Main Highways Board will vi'sit the district on December 3. Board inembers will arrive at Napier at 9 o'clock that morning and will remain an hour before proceeding to Taupo.

Minor Fire. The Napier Fire Brigade turned out at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday and oxtinguished a minor outbreak at 64 Munroe street starting at the back of the house, the fire spreading between the lining and the weatherboar-ds. Little damage was done. The house was owned by Mr S. Northe, of Hastings, and occupied by Mr J. Pattcrson. Aero Olubs Divide. Following negotiations the Wanganui and New Plyinouth Aero Clnbs? which compri.se the Western Federated North Island Flying Olub, have decided to • eontrol their own affairs for six . montlis, after which the position will be reviewed. The fleet and equipment will remain the property of the federation, but the planes have been divided, two being stationed at Wanganui and two at New Plymouth.

Strathmore Tourists. A party of tourists from the Strathmore passed through Napier and Hastings during the week-end on their way to Wellington. There were seven in the party and they arrived in Napier yesterday by car from Rotorua and left by the mail train this morning for Wellington. A special carriage Avas re- . served for their convenience. Fiilm of Wool Industry. Shots for inclusion in "a film dealing with the wool industry in Hawke 's Bay were taken in and around Napier at the week-end. The Napier Technical Memorial Band, playing in the Sound Shell^ will be synchronised with a pieture of the skaters on the front on Saturday. The film, though ' dealing principally with the various phases of the production and export of wool, will ineorporate a romantic interest. i Kennedy Road Extension. There is yet three months' work to be done by the Hawke 's Bay County Couneil On the new Kennedy road extension, between Napier and the Taradale district. The new road will cross the pump drain by means of a eoncrete platform bridge; and a culvert, made up of a twm set of eoncrete pipes, will carry it over. the Purimu creek. Bridge construction, formation, and metalling are expected to be finished and the road ready for traffic at the beginning of March. Minah Annoyance. The actions of a minah have caused a great deal of annoyance during the past tj^ee days to a Gisborne xesident. VVhen the bird first arrived at the house it started pecking at a window. It appeared that the bird saw its reflection in the glass and was figliting the image. For the past three days tne bird has now been pecking at the windows round the house and the fierceness of its attack may be judged by the fact th;\fc ou tho sill of one of them there are several spots of blood. Attempts have been ma.de to drive the bird' away from the windows, but it always riturns tq renew the attack.

Radio in India. Doubts of the effectiveness of broadcasting as an instrument of political and general enlightenment in India were oxpressed yesterday by the Rev. C. W. Haskell, a New Zealand rnissionary stationed at Karachi at present visiting Auckland. Mr Haskell said the Government had made a beginning with th'e ' installation . of receiving sets in villages, and with educational and informative broadcasts in various native l'anguages. HoAvever, ' from his own experience he doubted whether the selieme would have much effeet. at any xate for some time. The Indian peasant was not a good listener and cared little for sitting in a group without talking. The voice he most liked to hear was his own. On the other hand, the number of vernacular daily newspapers was astonishing. In Karachi there were more than 20, and they were widely read. Damaging Sign-poste. "Some of the damage to sign-posts in the district along tho Coast is due to the nse of shot-guns. A man with a gun firqs at the sign, and the pellets make a nice lot of neat round holes on the face of the sign. On the other side they tear out the wood, however, and that means that a new board has to be erected," stated Patrol Yates at a meeting of the A.A. (Auckland) district exeeutive at Gisborne. "Now and again, too, a bright young Maori boy who wants lo show his girl what a strong fellow he is does so by pulling a sign-post out and turning it round sa that the arms point the wrong ways," Mr Yates added. "There won't be so much of that for tho future, however. If any young chap pulls up the posts we have been putting down lately, he will be welcome to . the sign and the post, too. We are putting them in with good f eet on them ! ' ' Mr William F. Sturm, who managed the motor-speed attempts of Sir Malcolm Oampbell, Sir Hcnry Segrave, and Mr Kayo Don at Florida and Utah, has died at Indianapolis at the age of 54.