LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 81, 29 December 1937, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

1 u In a Big Way. New Yorlc's reputation as the clty that does things "in a big way" ib maintained by a greeting card receivea at the Napier office of the Herald-Tri-bune this morning. The card, which simply wishes the recipient a merry Christmas and a happy New Year, measures 12J inches by 10 inches. Car On Fire. At about 2.15 this morning, the Napier Fire Brigade received a call to extinguish a fire that had broken out in a box at the back of a car which was parked on the Marine Parade. A few buckets of water were all that was necessary, and little damage, apart from the ruining of the spare tyres was done. The car is the property of a Mr. Hyde, a visitor to Napier. N.Z. Artist's Exhibition. Paintings of New Zealand, Australian and English scenes are included in an exhibition at the Johnson Gallery, Kensington, London, at which a New zealand artist, Miss Gwen W. Nelson, Havelock North, is collaborating with her cousin, Miss Doris Robertson-ReiA. Miss Nelson is showing about 40 watercolours, including three of New Zealand, "Middle Road, Hawke's Bay," "Karaka Trees" and "Plantation." Rutherford Blography. An announcement has been made tn London that an authorised life story of Lord Rutherford of Nelson is to be published by the Cambridge University Press. A request has been issued that any people who have letters written by Lord Rutherford which throw light ou his life and work should forward them as soon as possible to Professor A. Eve. 26 Willow road, Hampstead, London, with the assurance that original letters will be promptly returned, if required. Aeroplanes for Clubs. Seven Tiger Moth training aeroplanes ordered from the De Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., by the New Zealand Government for the principal clubs in the Dominion will all arrive next month. Two were shipped by the Northumberland, due at Wellington on ' January 15 and at Auckland on Janui ary 20. The remain ing five are to come 011 the Imperial Star, due at Auckland on January 27. They are all powerea with Gipsy Major I. 130 h.p. engines, and embody the improvements suggested by the world-wMe use of more than 5000 Moth aeroplanes. N.Z. Naval Ratings. The first of the New Zealand navav ratings who were sent to England for a three-year training course in the Royal Navy are to return to the Dominion1 early in 1938. Since 1934 groups of 30 have been sent every year to take this course, which enables thern to secure experience aboard warships, destroyers and submarines, according to their qualification. In recent months sevoral New Zealanders have been on British battleshins in Spanish waters, where they watched incidents in the civil wai. Several of the 30 to return to New Zealand next year are still abroad and wil leave from their stations for the Dominion without returning to England. The main group of about 20, however, will arrive in New Zealand early m March by the Rangitata. Insurance Against Weather. "Has anyone considered insuring against the weather for this match?"' asked Mr. J. Jacobs at a meeting of the Management Committee of the Canterbury Cricket Association recently when the Plunket Shield game against Otago was being discussed. "We'have discussed that time and time again, and cannot make much of it," replied Mr. W. L. King, who presided. "The insurance people seem to have a different view from ours of what is a good thing so far as insuring a cricket match is concerned. To us they seem rather greedy. What I would like to do would be to insure against the gate, but that would only be possible if we could succeed In getting Bradman over from Australia," he added. No action was taken, and the discussion lapsed.

Junior Clerk's Dismissal. According to an announcement in the Standard a decision to request the Minister of Labour, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, to iristitute a prosecution against the Auckland Harbour Board on account of its dismissal of a junior cierk, following the introduction of a higher scale of award wages has been made by the national executive of the New Zealand Federation of Labour. Reporting the proceedings of the executive. the Standard states that a letter from the Clerical Workers' Association drew attention to the board's action and to the statements made by the chairman, the Hon. T. Bloodworth, M.L.C. The council decided that the attitude adopted by the chairman should be piaced before the Auckland Trades' Council, that a letter should be sent to the board protesting against its action in dismissing the worker, and that the matter should be piaced in the hands of the Minister of Labour, asking that a prosecution should be instituted against the board.