LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 30 November 1927, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The New Zealand Shipping Co. nas received advice that the Rimutaka, en route from Southampton to Wellington, arrived at Colon on Saturday, sailing from Panama on Sunday.

There was a light frost last night that did some damage amongst tho tomatoes, pumpkins, beans and. to a lesser degree, among the potatoes, but generally speaking the late visitations did no widespread injury. In an endeavour to clear the rivers of e'ls the Feilding Acclimatisation Society intends to hold an eeling competition, when good trophies will be presented to the winners.

Fruitgrowers of Hawke's Bay have “a day out” once a year, and at the meeting of the Association in Hastings last evening it was reported that the annual picnic of fruitgrowers was set down for Saturday, December 17th, at the Showgrounds.

It is reported in Wanganui that Bradford intends to do its sorting ot wool at this end instead of waiting until it reaches the mills. There is also a prospect of the scouring industry being increased in New Zealand. Experts for tho sorting are to be sent out from the Old Country.

In reply to the New Zealand Hockey Association’s proposal that the rule allowing hooking of sticks be deleted, a letter has been received from the secretary of the English Association stating that he thinks this a good idea, and will bring it before the general meeting.—Press Assn.

The Havelock North Fire Brigade held its usual monthly cuchro party at the station last evening, when about 30 players spent a pleasant time. The prizes were won as follows:—Lady, Mrs. W. Meads; gentleman, Mr. J. D. Heenan; consolation prizes, Miss J. Miller and Mr. Murphy.

“I have been farming in Taranaki for over thirty years now, and I must confess that I Cannot understand my fellow farmers yet. I mention that to show how difficult it is for townspeople to understand farmers. Yet, underneath all, you will find the farmer a really good chap.”—Mr. 8. Vickers at Oakura, Taranaki, on Saturday night.

The jury at Christchurch awarded petitioner £3OO damages, when George Edmund Collect, a railway employee of Dunedin, petitioned for a divorce from Evelyn Collett, of Christchurch, and £5OO damages against his cousin, Alfred Frederick Walsh, engineer, of Christchurch. The evidence was that respondent had left the petitioner and lived in Christchurch with co-respond-ent as his wife. The judge granted the divorce, and the jury assessed the damages as stoted.

An action for a debt of £376 and 7 per cent, interest was brought before Mr. Justice Herdmail in the Supreme Court at Hamilton, by the Standard Oil Cd., of America, against Morton Dugdalo Walmsley, drainage engineer, of Hamilton, and formerly partner of the Suisun Dredging Co., San Francisco. Goods to the value of the sum claimed were sold to tho defendant in 1918, but the judge held that Walmsley ceased to be a partner in defendant’s firm in 1916, and therefore he non-suited plaintiff.

“There is nothing in the structure of the British Empire to-day,” stated Mr. Amery, at a welcome given him by tho English-speaking Union in Wellington, yesterday, “which would make it impossible for any nation, outside, even so great a nation as the United States, to come closer together without abandoning any of its status of any of its privileges. It would only gain and not lose by coming into closer contact. That is a very remarkable fact about the British Empire to-day. United as it is, it is destined to become in every way more closely united. It still has within itself a scope of freedom and individuality for its smallest and greatest members.”

At a reception given by the Navy League and Victoria League in Wellington yesterday, the Rt. Hon. L. M. Amery stressed tho importance of the Navy and the necessity for having a force to keep all routes open at all times. New Zealand, he considered, was doing its fair share in naval contributions and to tho Singapore Base. Although the Navy had been reduced in actual numbers of men and ships, it was never more efficient than to-day in every essential direction. Tho Empire, he said, had no definite form of government, no written constitution lilfe the United States, but was working uniformally on a basis of co-operation. Each helped to bind them closer together.

Members of the Toe H movement in New Zealand will be interested to learn that their “university,” which was established after the- war in the disused Krutsford gaol, has sent its first graduate to Now Zealand. This is the Rev. H. Whitby-James, who took holy orders after graduating there, and subsequently spent some time working among the miners of South Wales. He is one of the first of tho service candidates to answer what is known in Anglican circles as “the world call” for service overseas. The Rev. James enlisted through Archdeacon Harper, came out on the Athenie. He is to take charge of the Tainui parish, in the diocese of Wellington.