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Evening Star, Issue 19771, 23 January 1928, Page 6

Early on Sunday morning a fire broke out in Cave Bros.’ timber yards at Gisborne, and before it was quelled the machinery shop and-the boiler house had been destroyed, and a large number of modern saw benches, planing mills, and moulding machines practically ruined. Fortunately there was no wind, or large stacks of timber would have gone. The buildings were insured in the South British office.

An Opotiki Press Association telegram states that a fire totally destroyed an old wooden two-story dwelling, owned by Mr Ct. S. Moody, early this morning. The house was occupied by Maoris, and was on© of the oldest in the borough, being built fifty years ago. The insurance was not available. The Mayor of Gisborne has opened a relief fund in connection with the Tasman flight.—Press Association. For failing to bring unused explosives out of the State mine at the end of their shift on January 12, William Page and Antoni Bonetti were each fined 10s, with £ll 13s costs, by the magistrate (Mr Meld rum) to-day.— Greymouth Association telegram. The Arrowtown irrigation work has been closed down pending the arrival of pipes that are not due till April or later, and the Roxburgh Railway is nearing completion, so a number of men have been thrown out of work. Mr J. Horn, M.P., communicated with the Government on their behalf, and as a result the district engineer is authorised to find employment for 12 married returned soldiers from Arrowtown on the Hawkdnn scheme, and to place any other deserving married men from the Arrow scheme and Roxburgh Railway up to eighteen, making thirty in all. The Domain Board cannot continue the cleaning up of litter at the St. Clair beach. The public ought to make this their duty, and refrain from casting refuse about. This morning, after a. week’s use of the beach without a clean up, the place had an untidy appearance. The call for action is on the public, not the board.

Mr F. W. Furkerfc and other members of the Highways Board were on their way to Dunedin to-day. They were to be at Oamaru early, then call at Palmerston and Waikouaiti, and expected to reach Dunedin in the evening. A meeting of the hoard with the Otago Motor Club is arranged for tomorrow morning, and later in the day Mr Furkert and his colleagues will go south. The chief purpose of the visit, it is understood, is to try to make some financial arrangement between the board and the counties as to a progressive move for the reconstruction and maintenance on a better grade of the main roads in Otago. All these main roads need looking to. It is admitted by the board that Otago has the worst main highway in New Zealand. Owing to our hilly country and the bad state of the road, our car owners are put to much greater expense than the owners in other parts of the dominion. For the Dunedin wool sales that are to start at 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday, the 31st inst.. the original quota was fixed by the Wool Committee at Wellington at 27.000 bales. This has been increased by 1 per cent., making the total 27,2*70 bales. Every selling firm will put in to the full, and even then the assigned limit will not overtake all the wool in store.

An advertisement in this paper last wee k—" Wanted, a laborer, permanent position”—produced 140 replies by the first mail, though the applicants knew nothing about the work or the wages, the advertiser merely giving the number.

The communication by Richard Reti, the Hungarian chessmaster, to Mr Leslie D. Coombs, of Dunedin, has produced an answer by which the Otago Chess Club undertakes to comply with this chessmaster’s terms (on a parallel with his European terms) for four professional appearances in Dunedin. His living expenses here are also guaranteed. The date is yet to bo fixed.

Though the thermometer record in Dunedin yesterday was no higher than 75 or 76 degrees in the shade, the day felt one of the hottest or the season, and, contrary to custom in these parts, loungers were seeking not a lee but exposure to the light breeze that was delightfully refreshing. A lazy walk in the sandhills of the ocean beach was the perfection of physical luxury. The Rev. Mr Smyth, vicar of St. Peter’s Church, Onehuuga, on returning home after a holiday, found his house ransacked, and everything moveable that was of value stolon, including Mr and Mrs Smyth’s wedding presents, a wireless set. and a loud speaker.—Auckland Press Association telegram. Our Clyde correspondent wires;—The drought continues, and the position is becoming serious. The hot weather is bringing in the fruit rapidly, with the result that the fruit train this morning took away sixty-six tons. The quality of the fruit is generally good, while' the coloring is unusually brilliant.

To the list of those who have given their lives that other might be saved must be added the name of Mrs Gertrude Taylor. Mrs Taylor died in the Christchurch Hospital yesterday from shock and injuries to her head. The fatal injuries were received on January 10 in a gallant attempt to save a child from being run over by a tramcar in Lincoln road, Evidence at the inquest showed that Mrs Taylor was sixty-six years of age, and bad been in charge of the child, which was deaf. The coroner returned a verdict of accidental death, adding: "The nobility of Mrs Taylor’s death must, 1 feel sure, assuage the grief of her rellatives.”