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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 70, 24 April 1929, Page 6

To-morrow being Anzac Day, the Daily Telegraph will not be published. Street works expenditure in Wellington for tbe last financial year amounted to £91,067 9s 2d. Tlie scavenging and watering of strcets cost £16,4t)l 7s ld. ft A modern and old-tiine dance will be lield in the ( 'osmopolitan Hall tomglit by special request, instead _ cf; tbe usual old-time dance. The Dixi© Band will supply the music. The Taradale Women' s Institute advortises Monday next as the opening night of their 500 tournament, to be belcl in tlie Taradale Town Hall, Future dates are afso announced. Tlie fact that, tliough there were unemployed farm hands on the registor of tlie committee. 110 applications h:id heen receivecl from farmers for labourers for over a fortnight, was commented 011 at the meeting of the Napier Unemployment Committee yesterday. The annual ball of the Taradale and Distriet Returned Soldiers' Association, which will be held in the Taradale Town Hall 011 Wednesday, May 8, is aiready attracting attention. ' Among the dances lield in the distriet there are lione more pleasurable than. this one, ancl dancers from Napier and Hastings, as well as from all parts of t "no suburbs, will no doubt be present. The question of whether tlie Dannevirke A. and P. Society should retain tlie Tuexday aud Wednesday for tlieir sliow days, as instituted last year, was considered at a m_eeting of the committee ancl it was decided to bring tlie matter forwaYd for the next meeting, the president being ahsent from the special meeting. ~ It was pointed out tlie alteration of the dates had heen very greatlv appreciated by both. Feilding aiul Pahiatua societies. A special meeting of the committee of tlie Dannevirke A. and P. Assoeiation reecived a suggestion tliat the oval he preparecl for use as a sports ground, Mr H. S. Osgood further suggesting that a einder track be laid down so as to permib of motor-cycle racing. The proposals, liowever, were held over ro be considered at tlie annual meeting. Jn support of this decision it was pointed out that it was too late now for plougliing and relaying tlie oval ancl that the preparation of a cinder track was too costly to be undertaken in the present financial circnmstances. A suggestion that the society consider an otfer from a syndicate was deferred. The iMinister of Defence (Hon. T. M. Wiliord) stated 011 Saturday that he had received an application from Invercargill for the participation of Goyernmeiit aeroplanes during May Ifair Week at Invercargill, commenciug on Wednesday, May 15, immediately after Uie Winter Show. The request is that two or three aeroplanes should be allowed to take part, so as to make an attractive display of aeroplane work. Mr Wilford said iie had replied that if the weather permitted two aeroplanes w ould be provided. Mr Wilford has . accepted an invitation to he present, if possible, at tbe fiying carnivai to be held at Hastings on April 27. He will probably visit Napier at the some time. The name of a ncw tugboat which rau her trials 011 Auckland liarbour on Tuesday, prior to sailing for Napier, is Kuri, which in the native tongue means "dog," a most suitable choice, seeing that the liew vessel is to he engagecl in towing lighters out to big vessels loading at Napier. Jn other words, the Kuri will round up tlie mutton. Tlie Kuri is a full Diesel eraft, with a length of 45ft. and a beani of 11ft. and drauglit of 5£t. She is equipped with Fairbanks IMorse engines developing 97 li.p., wliicli should give her a fair speed. The Kuri was built by Messrs W. G. Lowe and Sons, of Auckland, for tlie Richardson Stcamsliip Co. Tlie Kuri is the first full Diesel eraft built at Auckland. An explanation of the position it is taking up in regard to the relief of unemploymcht was given by the Hawke's Bay Countv Couneil in a. letter to 'the Napier Unemployment Committee yesterday. The letter said that the couneil in its four northem ridings employed 62 men over ancl above tlie ordinary staff. Jn the remaining seven ridings additional men were also working, aud it was eontended hy the couneil that it could not he said that it was not finding employment. Many lai-ge contracts had heen let during the presentj. financial year in whicli many men had heen engagecl. Tlie couneil had clrawn on its reserve fund during the past twelve months to the oxtent of £12.000 and the expenditure during the year ended Marcli 01, 1929, had heen £118,000, of which it was reasonahle to as.sume that £70,000 had heen spent in workmen's wages. The rouncil proposed undertaking work during the year in whieh wages would amount probably to £75,000. Tlie Hawke's Bay Farmers' Coc.perative Association bas lieen instructed bv Mr S. A. Colos, who has sold his pfoperty, to hold a cleariiig sale 011 his farm, Onga Onga, of the whole of his dairy hord, horses and plant, on Eriday, /ilay 3, at 12 noon.* A sciontist says that the earth is revolving faster. This is not surprising, considering the number of women wbo have reduced tlieir weigbt to rush to tbe poll to voto Hannah's for boots.* Tlie average man is in his shoes 14 hon rs or more per day — that's 5000 hours of happiness per year for the man who wears Thorp's shoes. Great sale. Football boots. great value. 12s 6d.* Race wear with a "wnrmy" dis-tincti-veness.. Model coat frocks are so mucli in demand just now, and tliey have that smartly_ tailored cut that counts. A11 exceptional range of two and three piece jumper suits in styles that are so uncommon will be found of the usual interest. These newest goods have been oponecl only a few days and are really "clifferent." Mathewson's, Ltd * "Tliere's nothing like the races to put a man on his feet," explained the punter who couldn't alford a, car home, "but my boots are from Thorp's; it will be a pleasure to walk." Men's shoes, black and tan, sale prices, 18s Gd.* Try our delieious sponges, both jam and creams, jams at 6d, creams at 9d. The Trocadero, Napier.* A good steady turnover for cash enables us to sell at the prices we do. This week-end we offer _a line of highgrade ready-to-wear suits well worth £7 10s for £5 5s. These. are guaran- . teed all wool and will give years of service. Fargher and Co., corner of Bryant's Buildings, Napier.* All Gold pears are still going out at ls 4d a tin, at Bryants.* It is a fact that experts are unable to distinguish the differenc >. between Mrs Olcls permanent and Marcel waving and a naturallv wavy bead. Give Mrs Olcls a trial and you will be convinced. Telepbone 2996, Maison Treselle, Hastings street, Napier.*