LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 277, 11 November 1930, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

A grand variety entertainment by the Napier Frivolity Minstrels will be held in the Havelock North Village Hall on Monday, Nov. 17, in aid of the Havelock North Baths funds.

It is expected that a large party of Central Hawke’s Bay Manchester Unity Oddfellows will visit Hastings to-night for the Alward Shield competition between Loyal Hastings and Loyal Napier lodges.

Electric light play (practice) will commence at St. Ixwnard’s Bowling Club on Thursday Nov. 13. weather permitting. and thereafter the green will he open every Tuesday and Thursday night.

A Monte Carlo dance will be held in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Napier, tomorrow (Wed.), with the latest music supplied by Miss B. Cooper's Paramount Orchestra. A Government bus will leave Hastings nt 7.30. returning after the dance.

A slight alteration has been made in the preliminary bouts to take nlace prior to the Kara Pnsha—Walter Logan wrestling contest in Hastings on Thursday evening. Wilson will meet Davidson, of Waipawa, not Baker, in the second amateur bout. Mr. Ike Robin will referee the big affair, and the amateur clashes will lie refereed by Mr. F. Grant. Already there has been a call for seats, so that patrons would be well advised to avail themselves of the benefits of the box office.

A jazz dance will be held in the Cosmopolitan Hall. Napier, tomorrow night, with new novelty numbers.

Registration by all males in New Zealand over the age of 20 must be made by the close of to-day in accordance with the terms of the Unemployment Act of this year.

The Hastings High School Old Pupils’ Association will hold its annual meeting at the High School to-morrow (Wednesday) at 7.30 p.m. All old pupils are cordially invited.

The H.B. Acclimatisation Society decided last night to opeu the forthcoming shooting season on May 1 and to close it on July 15, instead of July I as last year. Regarding duck shooting the maximum number of duck allowed to be shot by one person was set at 20.

“I thought as a New Zealander 1 would receive a chilly reception in Samos,” said a lady who has just returned from a visit to the mandated territory to an Oamaru man. “but contrary to my expectations I was feted everywhere I went, and some of the natives wanted to adopt me into their families.”

The Supreme Court opened at Gisborne this morning. Mr Justice Blair congratulated the district on keeping up the record of comparative freedom from crime, there being only two cases for trial. In each of these true bills were found.—Press Association.

The Union Company's recentlypurchased liner Monowai. ex Razmak, which is due in Wellington from India to-morrow, carries as wireless operator, Mr. J. W. Stannage, who was radio operator on the Southern Cross for Kingsford Smith’s trans-Atlantic flight. The Hawke’s Bay Acclimatisation Society has been informed by the Department of Internal Affairs that that department has taken over the administration of the Tourist Department, and that the rules regulating fishing are to be the same, with the exception of one rule regulating the speed of boats during fishing.

Before leaving for Tasmania Southland’s team of axemen and sawvers staged a final exhibition at Bluff last night, when the Fraser brothers lowered their own New Zealand record of 13 seconds in the 18-inch double-handed sawing to 12 4-5 seconds. G. Blanks equalled his own world’s record, 42 seconds, in the 18-inch single-handed sawing.

The monthly meeting of the Havelock North Women’s Institute will be held to-morrow afternoon in the Village Hall. After the usual business a play entitled “Double Demon” will be acted by the dramatic circle and there will be a competition “Who’s Who.’’ The annual egg collection will be taken up. Members should note that the items for November and December have been transposed on the membership card. On Thursday afternoon H.M.S. Dunedin will arrive at Napier for a week’s visit. During her stay Commodore Blake, R.N., will present Navy League prizes, and other activities will include an entertainment by Girl Guides and an amateur boxing tournament in Hastings. An endeavour will be made to allow the public and school children to see over the vessel, provided the Commodore's permission is forthcoming. A kiwi and two eggs were found recently near Waimiha. north of Ongarue. The kiwi, which was found sitting on the eggs in a log, was caught and shown to children at Waimiha school, afterwards being returned to the place where it was found. The bird, which was a fine specimen, was the first to be found near Waimiha for a considerable time. Each of the eggs weighed 13) ozs.

An eight-year-old lad at Opunake is the proud possessor of an autographed letter from Kingsford Smith. The lad has always taken a veiy keen interest in the doings of the noted aviator, whom he has idolised. On’behalf of the boy his father, Mr. H. Parkes, wrote to Kingsford Smith and under date of October 30th. from Chaltis House, Martin Place, Sydney, has received a happy note of acknowledgment bearing the aviator’s signature. “The State will keep going and borrow money so that the unemployed may be employed; that is the principle isn’t it?” said Mr. Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court at Auckland. Reference had just been made to the State pushing ahead with a tramway connecting th# McDonald mine to the railway station at Glen Afton. “The unfortunate taxpayet is not taken into account,'’ was His Honour's comment.

Tn reference to a message from Wellington in connection with the Millerton Colliery (See page 8), it was learned in Westport that although the mine worked five days the week before last, and four days last week, there will be only two days’ work this week. Throughout the lean time at Millerton there have been occasions when four or five days’ work has been obtained on end, followed by a fortnight’s slack time. As far as normal work in the future is concerned, this is most uncertain and the real position will be little better, if any. than it has been during the past few months.—Press Assn,

The popular Catholic “500” card tournament and dance held in the Oddfellows’ Hall, Hastings, last evening was a wonderful success, the dance hall and card room being crowded. A dainty supper was served after the cards and all enjoyed a very pleasant evening. The following are the winners of the card tournament:—Ladies, Mrs. Clark 1, Mrs. Kenny 2, Mrs. Burfield, mystery; gentlemen Mr. E. Laredo 1, Mr. Farrellj 2 Mr. F. Laredo, mystery. The points prizes were won by Mrs. Watt and Miss O. Williamson (tie), Mr. Joe Hannah and Mr. F. Laredo (tie). Fancy dresses were won by: Ladies, Miss M. Watt; gentlemen, Mr. Len Sheckelford.

Mr. Ivan Kight, of Dannevirke, flying ZK ACA (three-seater cabin Desouter monoplane inverted Gipsy III engine) arrived at the Hastings aerodrome at 3.45 p.m. yesterday. Flight-Lieut. White accompanied Mr. Kight from Dannevirke to Hastings. The machine is owned by the Dominion Air Lines Ltd. and is the first of their machines to arrive. It will be hangared and operated from Longlands aerodrome in the meantime, and until the Dominion Air Lines Ltd. have got properly established. Mr. Kight returned to Dannevirke by service car later in the evening after seeing the machine properly housed.

A petition in bankruptcy has been filed in Napier by Donald Miller Ritchie, of Oamaru.

The Marama, from Wellington, arrived in Sydney at 7 o’clock this morning.

The parents and friends of Parkvale Schoo) children are invited to attend the official opening of the school baths to-morrow (Wednesday) at 2 p.m.

A strong and healthy calf was born on Saturday to one of the female bison at Auckland Zoological Park. It is believed that this is the first time one of the species has been born in the Dominion.

The hon. secretary (Mr. R. M. Chadwick) of the Napier Hospital Radio Fund Committee, advises that the funds have now practically been subscribed, and it is hoped to have the plant installed before Christmas.

About 8 o’clock last night a car driven by Mr. William Prujean, mail contractor, of Waipukurau, somersaulted over a bank at Otane. Mr. Prujean was driving from Hastings to Waipawa when, it is reported, he took his eyes from the wheel for a second to glance at his watch. Next moment the car was over the bank. Fortunately the driver escaped injury but the car was badly damaged.

An old offender, William Cecil Rhodes, aged 51 years, with 39 previous convictions, was sentenced at Hamilton to-day to three months’ hard labour for the theft of £2 10/from a till in a restaurant at Frankton. The accused pleaded that he was “up against it’’ and had just undergone a serious operation.— Press Association.

To-morrow a large deputation consisting of the chairman of dairy companies making standardised cheese will wait on the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. A. J. Murdoch, in Wellington to present to him the case for continuance of the manufacture of the standardised article. The companies represented manufacture approximately 40,000 tons of cheese—about half the total quantity made in the Dominion.—(Press Association.)

in the Magistrate’s Court at Rotorua this morning Mr. S. L. Paterson S.M. fined Mathew J. Black, James C. Devereaux and Alexander Hayes £25 each, and Benjamin J. Grace £2O, for supplying liquor to Maori girls. The Magistrate said that there was not a redeeming feature in the case. The two girls involved were practically children. If he could he would have sent the accused to prison. He fixed the default at three months, two months and six weeks’ imprisonment respectively. — Press Association.