Here and There in Napier and Hastings

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 28, 3 February 1937, Page 2

Here and There in Napier and Hastings

GENERAL NEWS PARAGRAPHS. One bankruptcy was recorded in Napier district in January, compared with the same figure for January, 193 G, and none for January, 1935. The anchor of the Port Fairey, anchored in the Napier roadstead, parted on Saturday afternoon, and after fouling the anchor of the Port Bowen the vessel put out to sea and remained there until Monday morning. As the buoy-rope on the anchor was also foulecf, it is lost for the present, but it is expected that it will be recovered by dragging. “Yesterday was quite the best and busiest day we have had, ” said the Hastings borough rate clerk yesterday morning when questioned regarding the payment of the borough rates for the j now current year. Approximately I £2300 was paid in by ratepayers yesterday, bringing the total to date to about £13,000. There now remains exactly two weeks before the additional 10 per cent penalty will bo added to unpaid rates. Rev. B. R. Brierley, who has been in charge of the St. Andrew’s Parish, Port Ahuriri, for the past seven years, and who has been a member of the Social Service Committee since the earthquake, was, with Mrs. Brierley, the guest-of-honour at a morning tea tendered them by the members of the Social Service Committee and the eitiens of the town. The Mayor, Mr. C. O. Morse, presided. January was a record month for the business of the hot salt-water baths at the Napier Municipal Baths, baths being taken by 1137 people, of whom no fewer than 992 were visitors. The total number of baths for the month shows an increase of 757 over the number (G 80) for January, 1936. The revenue for tlio baths totalled £l7l 18s 4d, compared with £137 3s 4d for the corresponding poriod last year. A thresher shark over nine feet in length, and weighing 2001b5., was caught on a schnapper line and hook, with bait, by a party of Hastings fishermen off Cape Kidnappers on Sunday. This is believed to be the first thresher to be caught in Hawke’s Bay waters, and it was secured after a terrific fight. At Wairoa a fisherman caught a blue shark in his net in the Wairoa river. Tho shark measured over 12 feet in length and turned the scale at 3001bs. While mustering lambs yesterday morning for the sale at Waipukurau, Mr. T. A. Howard, a well-known farmer, of Hatuma, had tho misfortune to slip-on some concrete and break a leg. Mr. Howard had, the satisfaction, however, of selling his lambs in the store pen topping the market for Hawke’s Bay for the season at 23s 2d a head. The number of deaths and marriages in the Napier district in January, 1937, was greater than tho corresponding numbers lor January, 193 G, while thd number of births has decreased by seven on last year’s figures. Two marriages were performed by the registrar in Napier last month. Following are a summary and comparison of the vital statistics for January of 1936 and 1937: ** 19361937 Births ..«••••••• 38 31 Deaths ..•••••••• 13 21 Marriages ..•••••• 13 18 Tho raising of a loan of £4500 for the tar-sealing of George’s Drive, Napier South, was formally authorised by the Napier Borough Council on Monday night. Tho council has executed 45 debentures of £IOO each to be placed on the market as a means of raising the money, which will be repaid by revenue from a special rate of 29-400ths of a penny in the pound. Provision has also been made for a sinking fund and tho Public Trustee has been appointed commissioner. The tar-sealing of George’s Drive has been a want ever since tho 1931 earthquake, when the street suffered extensive damage. As the result of the recent industrial award, tho Hawke’s Bay Rivers Board is in the anomalous position of paying two different rates of pny to men engaged on the river-ccntrol scheme and doing exactly the same class of work. One section, who were engaged before tho new award, receive 2s 2d an hour, and those engaged since its coming into operation receive 2s 5d an hour. Tho clerk, Mr. W. J. Pallott, has pointed out that before the new award the men received Is lOd an hour for a 48-hour week. The award required that they should receive the same amount of Wages under a 40-hour week, which increased the hourly payments to 2s 2d. Advice that the Director of Housing Construction, Mr. A. Tyndall, has no power to grant an extension of time beyond January 15 in which to consider conducting a housing survey has been received by tho Napier Borough Council. This is a reply to a letter written nearly a month ago by tho council to ask for an extension of time in which to decide whether tho council would conduct the survey or leave it to the Government. The director further advised that no difficulty would arise, however, if tho map showing the survey area were not submitted on the due date. He trusted that every effort to submit the map as early as possible. A special committee of the council is to meet next Friday to go into the matter.