LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 5 December 1927, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

The first of the inter-club croquet competitions will be played between Kia loa and Hastings to-morrow.

The R.M.M.S. Aorangi. from Vancouver, arrived at Auckland at 7.56 o'clock yesterday.—(Press Association.)

The New Zealand Shipping Company have received advice to the effect that the Rotorua, en route from Auckland to Southampton, arrived at Panama on Ist met.

Nineteen cases, including medical and accident, wer e dealt with by the Wellington free ambulance on Saturday. this being the greatest number of calls on the service for any one day since its inception a few weeks ago.

From to-day three express trams will run daily in the AucklandWellington service.' The “Daylight Limited ’ which is the name given to the third, will run only’ during the summer months.

The Hastings Citizens’ Band gave an open-air concert in Victoria Square last night, when a large gathering assembled to enjoy the programme. A collection amounting to £5 16/5 was taken up.

Although the rivers, which had been rather dirty during the week, cleared somewhat by Saturday, only a few anglers were abroad. The oonditions affecting the sea fishing were also unsatisfactory and no boats put out.

A Wellington girl, 13 years of age, named Sylvia Torrington, has been missing from her home 21 Edinburgh Terrace, Newtown, since Tuesday evening last. The girl is sft, 2in. in height, round face with rosy cheeks, fair complexion, auburn shingled hair and perfect teeth.

Next Wednesday afternoon and evening the Principal of the Hastings High School will be “at home” to parents, who with a view to enrolling their children as pupils next year, desire information about the school. He wil] also be pleased to enrol pupils at those times.

A stream of water, which appears to be. pure soft artesian, was struck at 500 feet depth at Messrs Thompson and Lewis' premises. Tory street, Wellington, last week. The water rises 20ft. above the ground, an J it the supply is permanent, it will ho the first artesian water obtained in Wellington.

Stoats appear to be rapidly on the increase along the Rakaia riverbed (states the Christchurch Press). Besides killing a, considerable number of rabbits, they account for a good many quail, particularly at this time of the year when the bird i-ire breeding. It is said that both weasels and stoats prefer feathered game Io rabbits or hares.

It is understood that the syndicate which is promoting the project for paper pulp manufacture on the West Coast has raised a large proportion of the capital requirea for the first stage of the undertaking (says the Grev River Argus), and the next stage will be to float a company in order to erect mills, the principal one of which it is intended to locate near Greymouth.

A scuffle between two men in Courtenay Place, Wellington, i<about 6 o’clock on Saturday evening resulted in one of them. A. J. Scharny, receiving a lacerated wound at the back of his head, this being caused when he fell heavily to the ground. Scharny is a fellrnonger by occupation, and lives at 32 Patang'a Crescent. His opponent was removed by the police to the lock-up.

As the Deputy-Mayor of Hastings is temporarily indisposed, he has arranged with Cr. S. J. McKee to take his place at the meeting of the Finance Committee to-night. Cr. Johnson will probably not he able to attend the ordinary meeting of the Borough Council on Thursday evening, in which case the councillors will have to select one of their number to occupy the chair during the proceedings, and to carry on until the Deputy-Mayor feels well again.

A story of the Hon. E. W. Alison and the New Zealand poet, Tom Bracken, was told by Mr. Montague, at a recital at Hamilton last week. When “Not Understood” was first published in the newspapers, and the author was unknown. Mr Alison who, said Mr. Montague, did everything well, whether it was running a terry service, or reciting a poem, recited it nt a concert at Devonport. At the end, he received the c reat tribute of thanks from a shabby-looking individual who rose in the bn II to sav how much he, as author of the poem, had appreciated Mr. Alison’s rendering.

New pupils will be enrolled at the Napier Boys’ and Girls’ High Schools on Friday next, the 9th inst. 1 arents are requested to enrol thenchildren on this date, in order to enable the Board to complete accommodation arrangements for 1928. In the case of boarders it is essential that, early enrolment should be made, as the accommodation available lor new boarders is limited. Parents in country districts remote from a school may enrol their children as junior boarders. In the case of the Boys’ High School, the junior boys attend the Napier South public public sclu . L