NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20130, 27 December 1939, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

Popular Ohope

Houses are at a premium at Ohope Beach, and tents have been erected by the score. Though the latter form of accommodation is popular, it loses in comparison with the motor caravan, more of which are arriving every day.

Final Tin Hare Event There were six starters in the consolation tin hare race at the Patutahi Domain yesterday afternoon for dogs taking part in the Gisborne Sports Club’s Boxing Day meeting, the re--sult being as follows:—W. Webb’s Silver Paper, 1; W. Brown’s Town Major, 2; M, R. Murphy’s Social Talk, 3.

Industrial Fishing Licenses

The Bureau of Industry has declined the applications of the following Gisborne residents for industrial fishing licenses: Mr. E. A. Higham, 183 Crawford road; Mr. M. Gillespie, 90 Derby street; Mr. H. Holsen, Tamarau; Mr. A. H. Hart, Kaiti Beach; Mr. G. McNaught, 50 Awapuni road. Accountancy Passes

In addition to those names already published in the Herald, the following ex-Gisborneites gained passes in the recent accountancy examinations. Taumarunui: E. T. Gardner, mercantile law stage II and secretarial law and practice. Wellington: L. P. Gavin, book-keeping and accounts I, mercantile law stage II and law of joint stock companies; G. I. Hayes, mercantile law stage I and law of joint stock companies

Record Price For Peaches

The record price of Is 4d a pound wholesale was realised for the first of the new season's peaches, which were sold in Invercargill last week. As far as wholesale merchants can remember, the previous highest price obtained for peaches is lOd a pound. The fruit, of which there was not a great quantity, came from Clyde, Central Otago. Three boxes realised Is 4d a pound and nine boxes realised 10d.

Fined for Assaulting Girls On two charges of assaulting girls, two Maoris, Henry Pbutu, aged 21, a shepherd. and Richard Maxwell, aged 18, a farm hand, appeared recently before Messrs. F. W. Hunt and McNaught, J.Ps., in the Te Araroa Police Court and were each fined £5 on each of the charges. Detective-Ser-geant R. H. Waterson, Gisborne, who conducted the prosecution, said that at a dance at Potaka the two accused followed a 19-year-old girl from the hall and molested her. They ran away when her calls attracted the attention of other patrons. Three weeks before that she and a friend had been molested by the two accused.

Motor Camp Movements Nineteen parties of tourists pitched their tents yesterday in the motor camp at the Waikanae Beach, and there was a total of 62 camps in the ground last night. Several cars left this morning to continue their itineraries, and it was reported that parties were arriving and leaving at intervals during the day. With the sudden change in the weather many campers were feeling the cold overnight owing to the necessary limitations in their wardrobes during their tours. Many of the visiting tourists had set out on their holidays expecting seasonable weather and were totally unprepared for the present cold snap. The rain yesterday afternoon was not sufficiently intense to flood out any of the tents.