LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 18 November 1927, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Court officials had a busy time at Napier to-day when something in fbe way of a legal record was established. Three courts—Magistrate's. Supreme and Arbitration—kept the legal fraternity ou the move all day. A half-yearly summary of the running costs of the Wairarapa Power Board’s motor vehicles, which includes benzine, oil, tyres, and repairs, shows the average to be 2.53 d per mile.

The Ngapuhi which grounded on a mudbank in Manukau Harbour, was ro-fioated at four o’clock yesterday afternoon, and berthed at the Onehunga wha'rf. Bhe is undamaged.

The will of the late Mrs P. J Fryer, of Christchurch, included bequests of £2OO to the Church Missionary Society, £250 to the Church Property Trustees for various specified purposes, and £5O to the Plunket Society.

The Waikato A. and P. Association’s 36th annual show was concluded yesterday with a record attendance. The Dominion jumping competition, of £lOO, was won bv Mrs C. Merrin's Two Step. The award for the champion hunter was won by H. E. Porrit’s Ginger Mick.

From the appearance of the weather there is every prospect of the school sports in the Havelock Domain to-morrow proving a great succcess. The committee is busy erecting the necessary stalls, etc. The school children are holding a social evening in the Village Hall on Saturday night, for which' a small admission charge is to be made.

Mr Ernest Shotton. shipwright, of Hardinge road, Napier, will spend several weeks in hospital as the result of a collision on the Awatoto road yesterday evening. It appears that in overtaking a Government 'bus the motor-cyclist became, in some way, “pinched’ l between it and a car travelling in the opposite direction, impact with the car resulting. Shotton’s leg and forearm were fractured and minor cuts and bruises inflicted.

We congratulate our contemporary, the Auckland “Sun,” on its darmg enterprise in bringing its daily issue to Napier at 4 a.m., containing all its news which has been published in Auckland the previous afternoon at 2.30. In the course of its journey cf over 200 miles through the heart of the North Island each day, the paper is distributed through many isolated districts, and good service is rendered to those who five in the great silences.

What is believed to be one of the largest schnappers caught in Gisborne, weighing between 221 b and 231 b, was hooked off the breakwater th e other day (reports the Gisborne ‘’Times.”l Fish in general, however are not plentiful at the present time’ but October and November are always regarded as slack months for the local fishermen. December being a much better month when moki a»b generally plentiful.

The time fixed for application for probationary vacancies has now closed, and to-day the secretary (Mr. W. L. Dunn) informed the Hawke’s Bay Education Board that in all 70 were received for 41 positions, as compared with 90 in the previous year for 30 positions. The falling off was no doubt due to the fact that a higher standard of qualification for appointment was being now insisted upon.

A final reminder is given of the concert to be held to-night in St. Andrews’ Hall, Market street, Hastings. An excellent programme has been drawn up, some of the best vocalists and instrumentalists in Hastings taking part. The proceeds wifi be devoted to a very worthy cause namely the new Maori Girls’ College at Marton. Home-mad e sweets will bo on sale, and it only needs a crowded hall to make the effort a big success.

The orchardists In the Alexandra district had a bitter experience on Monday morning, when a sharp frost was experienced, with disastrous results to fruit trees and tomato plants. The heavy south-west gale which swept over Otago the day before died away, and it was followed by a frost. Tomatoes in thousands have been ruined and also the stone fruits. The orchardists in the Alexandra district had with good reason been looking forward to a very remunerative season, but in a little over an hour their hopes for prolific crops wore shattered.

A novel show competition was outlined at the meeting of the Education Board on Tuesday (states the Otago “Daily Times’’) when a letter was received from the Waikouaiti A. and P. Association stating that it intended to add a class to the home industry section of its show for the best lunch of a child, and it suggested that the class should be scheduled as under the auspices of the board ,and that the prizes. 20 in all .should be given by th e board. The society believed that there was room for-great improvment in the general method of preparation and packing of school lunches. The board approved of the suggestion and agreed to provide the prize money.