HAWKE'S BAY JOTTINGS

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 274, 20 December 1929, Page 6

HAWKE'S BAY JOTTINGS

Iriteresting Figures. Tlie Central Hawke's 'Bav Electric Power Board now has 120" electric ranges in its area, and 189 hot-water services. Farmlet Sold. -rtA!1 of Porangahau road, y* aipukurau, jias disposed. of his small 1'arm and residence to Mr VV. .Haiues, of Waipukurau. Modeyn Methods. 'I his season 79 pastoralists in Central Hawke's Bay are shearing their sheep with electric power, whilst 71 dairy farmers are utiiising the board's c-urrent for railking purposes. Waipawa Weather. There was a remarkable c-hange in the weather iu Waipawa yesterday. After some days of sultry weatbeV the wind sbifted to the south ainl it becante verv cold, tbe change bringing heavy tain with it. * Satisfactory Increase. The revenue earned by the C'entral Hawke's .Bay Electric Power Board in the "Waipukurau borougli ior the two two* months ending November 30. totalJed £872 18s 9d, an increase of 12.9 per eent over the same period in tbe previous year. New Club. Tbe promoters of tbe proposed Cosmopolitan Club at Waipukurau are holding a meeting to finalise tbe c-rea-tion of the club in the middle of January. It is anticipated that tlie club will be registered during the next few days. Best y/'sbes At to-day's meeting held at Waipukurau of thp Central Hawke's Bay Electric Power Board a vote of sympathy was passed to Mr E. A. Goodger, who is confined to his room for a lengthy period. Mr Goodger is the Waipukurau representative on the Power Board. Seasonai Greetings. At the monthly meeting of the Central Hawke's Bay Electric Power Board, held at Waipukurau to-day, general gratilication was expressed at the fact that Sir (ieorge Hunter, M.P., was progressing so satisfactorily and it was decided to forward to Sir George and Lady Hunter the board's season's greetings. On th# Move. Mobs of fiheep passing from Poyerty Bay and Wairoa to the works or the sale.vards in Hawke's Bay can be seen on the run from Napier to Wairoa just now. The first mob to come through this season reached Napier a few days ago, after a leisurelv run from Gisborne, there being an abundance of feed 011. the road to maintain the animals while travelling. Wairoa's Camp. Mr B. Stace, service offic-er for the Hawke's Bay Automobile Assoc-iation, visited the district earlier in the week to report 011 the Wairoa niotorists' camp. He visited the site in company witli two membei's of the camp committee of the Wairoa Borough Council , and after a thqrough examination of it, thought the site was an exeellent one and that when the suggested improvements were carried out the ground would soon become a very popular oue with motorists. He expressed the opinion that his assoc-iation would make a substantia! donation towards the cost of the improvements.

Taradale Theatre T.o-morrow. Gi-ipping indeed are inany of the great scenes shown in "Two lted Roses," the big attraction sliowing tomorrow evening. It is without dbubt one of the most entertaining apd human documents that has ever come to tlie screen. "Two. Red Roses" stais Anpy 0,udra, the famous Polish actress. Also showing, 11th chapter of "Tarzan," entitled "Tlie Tiiief in the Night," a Lloyd Hamilton coinedy, "Blazipg Away" and latest news reels. Children should note that beginning with this chapter of "Torran" the first of the prize winning animal cards will be issued. So be sure and not miss seeing "Tarzan, the Mighty" to-morrow night. Waipukurau Theatre. Norma Talmadge in "The Dove," a First United Artists' picture, whieh will be the attraction at the Waipukurau Theatre to-piorrow night, is based on Willard Mack's • stage play whieh ran for a year 011 Broadway. "The Dove" is a colonrful, quick action tale of Costa Rica. Miss Talmadge is supported by Noaji Beery and Gilberd Rolancl. Roland West, the director, believes the story is even more suited to the film, and that in "The Dove" Miss Talmadge achieves a new height in a class quite different from her pKor characterisations. In "Horsen)en pf the Plains." whieh will be the second attraction, Tom Mix is seen in a' gripping story. Action tliat stirg the iiloocl, love scenes that ..tonch the heasrt, together with awe-inspiring scenery, go far towards making "Borsemen of the Plains" a picture well worth seeing. Seats may be reservecl by ringing 'phone 294S.

Waipawa Th^atrp To-piorrow. A stirling trail of love and hate in the searing sands of Noythevn Africa is depicted in the IJniversal Jewell prcduction "A Man's Past," whieh is showing to-morrow evening. This picture stars tlie celebrated Eur»peari actor, C'ourad Veidt, last seen in "The Man Wbn Laughs." Conrad Veidt is one of tlie greatest surgeons of his time thrown into the dungeons of tlie grpy prison of France, St. Noir, for killing a .liopelessly incurable patient. The clank «of chains, the maddening tread of the- convict, No. 19867. onc-e a fanmd surgeon has saved the prison governor's lii'e. Greater love hath no man than this— that he may lay down his life for a friend, and 110 greater love has heen portravect 011 the screen than that of T)r. La Roche, wjio assnined the name and caveer of his surgeon friend when that friend lost his eyesight. A great pictnre nnusual in theme and packed with breathless suspense. Also showing the romantie story of Npw York's nreat waterways. "The Oirl on the Bnrge." slarring Sallv O'Neill and .rean Hersholt. tlie 12tli. chapter of "Tarzan" and latest news reels. Pnecial Cliristmas week atiractions will be screened on Cliristmas Eve and Boxing Night. The picture H^ted for Cliristmas Eve is "Man, Woman apd, Wife" aptl feritureg Nninifin Kerry, Pauline StarVe. IMarian Nixon and Orawford Kent. Hsing the bnttle front and the underworld of New York ,as a background the film narrates a tremendnus romance. Showing on Boxing Night is the famous Drury Lane melorlraipa "Thp Wl)»n." A "-••eat rnce flii-ania stari'ing Dorothy ^facknill, Ralph Forhes ;|nd Anna Q. Nilssou. "Tlie Whip" ran for years on London and New York stages.