LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 58, 1 December 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Onfly One Bankruptcy. Only one bankruptcy eccurred in Napier during the month of November. There were uone at all in October. Rangitane and Rotorua. The New Zealand Shipping Company adviso that the Eangitane, which left London on November 11, arrived at Colon on November 26 and sailed from Panama on November 26. The Eotorua, which left London on October 23, is expected to arrive at Auckland at 10 a.m. on Saturday, December 4.

Woman Trespasses at Eaoes. "I can hardly believe in the light of your past record as a bookmaker that you simply visited the course because of your love of the raees," said Mr C. E. Orr-Walker, S.M., in the Police Oourt at Auckland, in imposing a iine of £7 10/- on Gladys Florenee Mackrell, who was charged with unlawful trespass at the Avondale racea on October 18. A Hint for the Hospital. Leading aquariums contend that goldfish are soothing to the nerves. They stimulate interest and vitality, and take the watcher's mind off his troubles. Following this information, many leading deutists and specialiats are installing aquariums in their waiting rooms. The Paddington Children 's Hospital, England, has an aquarium in the middle of the surgical ward to take the children 's minds off their ills.

State Farms. Speaking on the land settlement question, in his address at Dannevirke, Mr. W. J.- Broadfoot, M.P. for Waimarino, 8aid.that the National Party considered that New Zealand was best served by making available the family type of farm. The Government, however, did not believe in the small farmer. It .thought he was a thing of the past, and its tendency was to create State farms and thousands of farm workers dependent on the State itself. Tax Proportions. "We find to-day," said Mr, W. J. Broadfoot, M.P. for Waimarino, speaking at Dannevirke, "the percentage of taxation to national income is 15.9 per cent. in Australia, 18 per cent. in tbe United Kingdom,, 13/1 per cent. in Canada, 13 per cent. in tbe United States, but 24 per cent. in New Zealand. Thus the people of this country havo the privilego and doubtful pleasure of working three months in every year to pay their quota of taxation."

Tourist Facilities Praised. Eecent criticisms of the New Zealand Go.vernment Tourist Bureau were stated by an AuBtralian visitor, Mr T. W. Mitchell, who was a through passenger on the Aorangi, to be "definitely unfair and untrue. " He had made seven trips to the Dominion, he said, and never once had cause for complaint as to ineffieiency, but found the staff of the bureau helpful. friendly and per* sonally interested in visitors, for whom they appeared to do their utmost to ensure complete enjoyment of holiday tours. "Salvaging" Fish. Fish, it would seem, would be the last things on earth to be affected by drought, but that is not the case in Canterbury, with its snow-fed streams and rivers. Eecently a prolonged spell of warm, dry weather threatened thousands of fish in Canterbury streams with extinetion. During October the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society found it necessary to salvage 9036 fish, while during November the total was increased to 19,746. Parally&is Cures. Eemarkable cures effected at the Thames Hospital of patients suffering* from infantile paralysis were referred to by Mr W. Danby. deputy-cbairman of the Thames Hospital Board. He said that of 26 sufferers admitted_, 16 had been discharged as completely cured. Of the remaining ten, two ijvere to be sent home shortly also completely welj, while the balance were doing so well that the hospital would probably be able to claim 100 per cent. of cures. Mr Danby expressed the opinion that this achieveipent would he a record ior the Dominion. Annular SoJar Eclipse. The eclipse of tbe sun, which will occur to-morrow, will be of the annular type, similar to that witnessed in New Zealand last December. The moon, being at the most remote portion of its orbit, will not be suffLciently large to cover the whole of the solar disc. The eclipse track will begin at Bunrise near the coast of Japan, and. crossing tlie northern Pacific Ocean, will end at sunset near the coast of California, only a few small islands lying directly in the shadow of the annulus. No portion of the eclipse will be seen in. New- Zealand. Nudisfc Camps Condemned. , ' 1 To-day, there are organisations all ovcr the world which arqjleliborately out to destroy scouting," said Mr S. Johnston, Nelson, at the annual meeting of the Dominion Couneil of the Boy Scouts ' Association of New Zealand, at Wellington. "We have nudist camps which aro crowded and which are teaching absolute immorality in opposition to scouting," he continued. "The scout movement is not getting the genuine support and backing that it deserves. There must be something wrong that we are not getting it, and wo should oxamine ourselviis to see where we are wantimi."