NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20142, 11 January 1940, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

Alleged Theft of Clothes A Maori labourer, Tui Smith, aged 25, Ngatapa, appeared before Mr. M. Doyle, J.P., in the Police Court this morning charged with the theft at Pehiri on December 16 of a suit of clothes valued at £4, the property of Jury Morete. On the application of Senior-Sergeant J. F. H. Macnamara, a remand was granted until Monday to permit further inquiries to be made by the police.

Injured by a Carcase An employee in the freezing chamber of the Gisborne Refrigerating Company, Limited, Arnold James Callaghan, 77 Beach road, was injured yesterday afternoon when a frozen carcase fell on him. Mr. Callaghan was taken to the Cook Hospital by the manager of the company, Mr. F. Tolerton. and was reported this morning to have shown an improvement in his condition, which is understood not to be serious.

Launch Damaged With the engine torn out and the anchor rope cut, a new launch built by Mr. A. H. D. Mayne, Napier, was found on the Waikato river, above the Hulca falls, last week-end by some fishermen, who were just in time to prevent the vessel plunging over the fall. The launch had been built by Mr. Mayne as a hobby, and had only recently been placed on Lake Taupo. It is believed that the damage to the launch was caused by the action of vandals

Through a Porthole Clambering through a porthole as the ship was drawing out from the wharf, four members of the crew of the Matson liner Mariposa, which sailed from Auckland on Monday night for San Francisco, afforded much amusement for the small group of officials on the wharf and to the many passengers on the decks. Arriving at the scene when the stern of the ship was well out from the wharf and the bows fairly close, the men obtained a foothold .and hauled themselves through a porthole.

Australian Woolgrowers Growing discontent among a majority of Australia’s 90,000 woolgrowers at the secrecy regarding terms anv conditions under which the whole of the clip surplus has been sold to Great Britain threatens to develop into more direct action unless the Prime Minister makes a clear statement of the position, says a Sydney correspondent. Growers claim that, whatever their views on the average price that has been fixed, it is their wool that is being sold, and they are entitled to know what steps have been taken for protection of the industry during and after the war.

Caught By Tide Caught by the tide at Cape Kidnappers, a fisherman on Sunday spent a most uncomfortable day in the sun waiting for the tide to ebb sufficiently for him to return to the shore. The fisherman had taken up his position on the rock when the tide was on the flood, but had been so intent on the job in hand that he had not noticed the extent to which the water had surrounded the rock on which he was seated. When he finally decided to return to his home later in the day he found that the water was too deep to wade to the shore so he remained on the rock until the tide had ebbed sufficiently for him to make the shore without resorting to swimming. Fohutukawa Flowers

The wonderful display made by the pohutukawa trees on the Coast was commented upon in Napier yesterday by the Bishop of Aotearoa, the Rt. Rev. F. A. Bennett, who has just completed a trip up the East Coast and the north. “The impression I gained from many old Maoris was that never in memory had their been a better flowering of these trees,” said His Lordship. The bishop added that he had asked an old Maori chief if there was any significance regarding this exceptional flowering, as he had never heard of such being recorded, apd he was told that in the olden days, such a prolific display was heid to foretell a bountiful harvest from both land and sea.