LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 10 December 1927, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

All unemployed relief works in Wellington will be wound up by Christinas.

The St. Luke’s Sunday School scholars held a social evening in >;be Village Hall. Havelock North, last evening, when the time was spent in dancing and games.

A sixpence bearing the date of 1817 —llO years ago—and the head ot George 111. came to light in the fares collected on the New Plymouth tramways on Fridav (states the Herald), ft was in better preservation than many coins of a century later.

It is estimated that 50 or more girls are at present seeking employment in Wanganui (says the Herald). If a similar state of affairs exists in other cities in New Zealand then there is no need for young women immigrants for some considerable time.

“If putting a road through means sacrificing the bush, let us do without the road,” said Mr. W. H Field M.P., and member of the Tongariro National Park Board, speaking at a meeting in Auckland it which it was suggested to seek revenue for roadmaking by the sale of forest timber.

A large crowd of children attending St. Matthew’s Sunday School in Hastings left by train this morning for the Tomoana Showgrounds, where they enjoyed themselves throughout a beautifully fine day playing games, running races and holding high picnic carnival.

Th- first opportunity was given yesterday of enrolling pupils for 1928 for the two Napier High Schools. Two other days have been set aside for this just before the term opening next year. At the boys’ school 44 new pupils presented themselves, i ve being boarders, while 40 new scholars enrolled at the girls’ school.

A discussion on amateurism and professionalism occupied some time at the annual conference of delegates to the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association at Christchurch last evening but no motion was carried, il being left to the New Zealand Council and the various centres io take what steps are necessary (Press Association.)

For some time past the Hastings rubbish dump in Joll road has been locked up at 5 p.m., which makes it awkward for people in business to deposit grass or other vegetable matter there at this time of the vear. Or, S. J. McKee raised the onestion at the last meeting of the Borough Council, and it his been decided to leave th p gates open everv Wednesday evening, between the Fours of 7 and 2

Mr. J. A Millar chairman of the Hawke’s Bay Rivers Board, has written to the Mayor of Napier thanking him for the offer of the Borough Council Chambers for the use ot the committee of engineers investigating river control. Mr. Miller states that the offer, with others also received, will be placed before the committee, but he thinks that something more in the nature of a private room will be preferable.

At the Hastings Assembly Hall yesterday afternoon Mr, Percy T. Davies, the well-known" elocutionist, gave a very enjoyable programme. His audience consisted, for the most pate, of High School pupils, but a fair number of adults were also present. The programme was of a varied nature, and al] the items wore very well rendered by Mr Davies, who has a voice of fine quality and a strong sense of the dramatic.

A new fishing bank was recently discovered in Cook Strait, about halfway between Maua Island and Tory Channel. It is a comparative shallow, two miles by one, and so crowded with liapuka that catches have glutted the market am] reduced prices to a n extent that did not pay the fishermen, who refused to fish any longer and laid their launches up for several days.