NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20152, 23 January 1940, Page 6

NEWS OF THE DAY

Notifiable Diseases

For the week ended at noon yesterday two cases of notifiable disease, one each of diphtheria and food poisoning, were reported in the East Cape health district. There were no deaths from infectious diseases.

Centennial Services By direction of the general assembly of the church, special centennial services will be held in all Presbyterian churches of the Dominion on the second Sunday in March. The committee on church worship and architecture is, drafting an order of service which will be available, for use by ministers and home missionaries on that date.

Movement of Sheep

Big movements of sheep from both north and south are being made towards the Waikato. More than 200,000 breeding ewes are expected from Gisborne and the East Coast districts, the first of these starting on the road soon after the New Year holidays. Now the movement has commenced from North Auckland, and a number of special sheep trains are to start running this week. Larger numbers than last year are likely to be sent from North Auckland to the Waikato this season.

Young Man Fell From Car When he fell from a moving car at 4.30 p.m. on Sunday, Tom Kane, aged 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Kane, Mangapapa, received injuries that necessitated his removal to the Cook Hospital. Mr. Kane was travelling on the running board of the vehicle inspecting the radiator and was dislodged when the vehicle struck a rough section of the highway in Salisbury road. In his fall he received a gravel rash, but it was reported this morning that his condition was satisfactory. The car was driven by Mr. T. McFadyen.

Motor-cycle Rider Fined A new applicant for a motor-cycle driver’s license, Sidney Everard Byron Wood, Wellington, was fined 10s and costs 10s for failing to display “L” plates on his cycle and 10s and costs 10s for carrying a pillion rider, when the case against him was heard in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday by Messrs. W. G. Sherratt and W. E. Goffe, J.Ps. The Transport Department’s inspector, Mr. R. Metcalfe, who prosecuted, said that after he had stopped him and drawn Wood’s attention to his offences he had been caught and prosecuted by the borough traffic inspector, Mr. T. G. Nowell. Mr. Metcalfe said that the young man should not have a license at all. On a previous occasion he had been before the court for dangerous driving and had been allowed to retain his license on the condition that he used his machine only as a means of getting to and from work. That condition had still been in force when he was visiting Gisborne, and that was proof that he was disobeying the court order.