LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 60, 3 December 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Comwell Oup Oontest. Eleven entries have been Teceived for this season's Cornwell Cup contest, the Z-class yachting championship of New Zealand, including one from Suva in the naine of the Suva Yachting Club. The entry simply stated the desire of the club to challenge, and gave no explanation of how and when boat and crew were to reaeh New Zealand. The Watson twins won the trophy for Plimmerton last season, and this season's contest will therefore be sailed on Plimmerton waters. Oricket Endowment. Cricket clubs are giving good support to the Otago association's endowment scheme. The association aimed at a collection of £3000 and there is every prospect of raising £1500 from players and a similar amount from ground inembers in three years, The sum will be placed in endowment and with the interest the amount will be used, in addition to ordinary revenue, to do more for players and the game generally. NarroW Escape. A workman engaged in extending a pipeline • on a section of the railway works near Kopuawhara had a narrow escape from death when a length of piping whieh he was carrying came in contact with a live electric cable. Fortunately the cable was not one of the high tension group, but the discharge of its 230 volt load rendered the workman uneonseious for a time. He was given first-aid treatment and to-day was reported to be recovering from the effects of the shock. Otaki Health Camp. The Otaki Health Camp is at present accommodating 100 boys. These boys were admittOd to the camp on Wednesday, November 24, and will be In residence until January 4, 1938. They are fiom the following districts; Hawke 's Bay 20, Taranaki 20, Manawatu lQ% Wairarapa 10, Wellington 40. The reason of this camp for boys only is' that for some months past there ha® been a much greater number of boys than girls awaiting admission aud it «vas decided by the Health Camp.Executive that this would be the best method to cope with the applicattons. Damagcs Assessment. . 1 Replying to a question «from Mr. Justice Northeroft, counsel for a plaintiff who asked for ^,3,0lo damages for breach of contract in the Christchurch Supreme Court on Tuesday, admitted that the assessment of the amount of damages c.laimed was largely a matter of guessworlc. " The evidence of one of the witnesses who was heard on commission in Scotland rather reminds me of the ingenuous admission I heard from a plaintiff who claimed ^500 damages for being knoclced over by a motor-car," remarked his Honour. "When asked why he asked for that sum, or how he computed it, the plaintiff confessed that that was the amount of a mortgage on his I'ouse that he would like to pay off. * Hyde Park Oratory. A Sunday afternoon in Hyde Park is a revelation to students of human nature, according to. the Rev. A. C, Watson, who remarked in an address to the Christchurch Rotary Club -that he had learned a great deal about the Englis.i chara'ter during his visits there. Inflammatory banners calling on certain people to unite to destroy all constituted authority were peacefully carried about, and orators appealing for the overthrow of Parliament and the Monarehy were treated by the police with good-humoured tolerance. To one Taucous Cockney exhortation, "Down with the police 1" a nearby policeman had replied with composure: "That's right, mate." Mr. Watson observed that certain tacit rules of the game governed hecklers, and he was surprised to" find a Communist speaker making an impassioned defence of the Puke of Windsor.

School Tennis. To encourage junior tennis in thif district, the Hastings Tennis Club nas organised a schools tournament for tomorrow, commencing at 9.30 o'clock in the morning. All the Hastings schools have been invited to send representatives and the club has been advised that the High School and all primary schoola in Hastings and Havelock North will be in attendance. Boys and girls ' championships, singles and doubles, will be played, as well as singles for boys and girls undet the ago of 15 years. The club is hopeful that the tournament will be an annual flxture and it is expected that a similar tournament will be arrauged in Napier, and that eventually the wipners in both tournaments will take part in an intertown competition. Burnt by Slide. A very painful experience whieh resulted in his being sent" to hospital befel a small boy in the children Is playing area at Kilda beach, Dunedin. Taken to the beach by his mother to enjoy the Hue day, he climbed on top of one of the amusement devices preparatory to a slide down the chute, but found himself unable to move owing to the intense heat of the iron platform to whieh his flesh actually adhered, causing him to cry out in pain. Carried down as speedily as pos'sible, he was found to be badly burnt, the injuries being so seriQu.s a3 to cause hia admifctance to a hospital, whare he will probably have to remain for q, number ' of weeks. It was found tliah the iron had been heated to a high temperature by the strong sun, and the marks where the boy's feet had stuck could be plainly seen.

First Jamaican Oranges. The first Jamaican oranges, of the season arrived in Auckland this afternoon, a shipment of 8,000 cases coming ' by the Port Hobart, whieh loaded the fruit at Kingston, Jamaica, on her voyage from New fork. With the lifting of the embargo on Australian oranges, the shortage of supplies should not be as great as in previoua years. Native Pigeons. A leading authority on native birds in North Auckland, Mr. Frank Holman, of Whangarei, states that native pigeons are more plentiful in the western hills, overlooking Whangarei, than they have been for 30 years. For many years native pigeons have been scarce on the mainland, but receutly there has been a marked increase. Last Tuesday mofning Mr. Holman saw a native pigeon batliing in a stream near Kvsft Lane, a thing whio he had not seen for the past 40 years. Maori Chisel Found. Whilo working on the side of the main Palm Beach road, hear Ostend, a Waiheke resident, Mf. C. S. Butler, unearthed a heavy Maori chisel about 5ft. below the surface of the ground. The chisel is about 7in, long, 3in. wide and 2in. thick, and the blade end is smoothly finished, with a sharp edge. Nearby, another workman, Mr. B. Morris, found a small piece of tattooing material, whieh is very sharp. Both relics were discovered within a few hundred yards of the place where a number of Maori skeletons were discovered several months ago. Scout Display. . An ©xhibition of some' of the acti vities indulged in by Boy Scouts wheu outdoors is to be provided the people of Hastings to-morrow afternoon and evening. The Sconts intend to give a display in the vacant section adjacent to the Bank of New South Wales, in Heretaunga etreet. In the afternoon there will be a display of camp lifeand bridge building, while in the evening there will be a camp fire and a commuhity sing. It is hoped that the public will interest itself in the efforta of the boys and alford the Scout movement the encouragement and help that it justly deserves. Naval Exercises. Aft'er three days in the Hauraki Gulf carrying out exercises with all units of the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy, the cruiser Leander returncd to the Devonport Naval Base yesterday afternoon. The Leander will enter Calliope Dock on Monday for sixmonthly cleaning and painting. The escort vessel Leithi retumed yesterday morning with the batt]e>practice target and she was followed in the afternoon by the escort vessel Wellington. The naval minesweeper Wakakura returned to the base on Wednesday. Exercige programmes of the- two escort vessels are scheduled to conclude next Tuesday, and the flagship, the cruiser Achilles, is expected. to return from the gulf on Wednesday. Wegt School- Fete, Patents ' Day at the Hastings Wes* School is somewhat difierent to that conducted in most other schools in that it is in the nature of a garde'n 'fete, with the customary aetivitiee befitting such an oecasion. Yesterday 's functioa was uite the most successful of its kind held at the school and the proceeds, whieh amounted to approximately £40, will be devoted to effecting further im> provements to school facilities and ground improvements. During the afternoon competitions were conducted and the winners were as f ollow Lamb, Mr L; A. Henderson; cakes, Mr N. Botherway and Mrs A, Breuer; rose bowl, Miss Black; and cushion, Mr C» Wiggins.