NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20493, 1 March 1941, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Explosion in Camp Burns ' which necessitated her removal to Hastings Memorial Hospital were received by Mrs. Ethel Adams, aged 43, Lower Hutt, when an explosion occurred when she was near one of the stoves in the Windsor Park motor camp, where she was spending a holiday. Wairoa, Farmer’s Success The opportunity was taken by members at a meeting of the executive of the Wairoa branch of the Farmers’ Union this week to congratulate the president, Mr. A. T. Carroll, on winning the distinction of becoming this year’s Bledisloe medallist. Mr. Carroll received the award not only for his outstanding ability as a farmer, but also for his work in advancing farming in his district among Maori and European alike.—Special. Hardwood Certification Reports of the discovery of termites in imported Australian hardwood timber have led to the adoption of a scheme of certification by the New South Wales Forestry Commission, and, according to a letter received by the Poverty Bay Electric-Power Board at its meeting yesterday, imports of such timber are not to be permitted in the future unless pest-free certification is arranged for. This scheme is in line with the arrangements made independently by the Poverty Bay board last year, when the termite menace first received publicity in New Zealand., The executive officers of the board then advised its principal suppliers of hardwood polks and cross-arm timber that it would require certification of supplies before shipment, and this arrangement has worked satisfactorily in the meantime. Its extension to the whole of Australian timbers of the hardwood varieties should go far to control the entry into New Zealand of the destructive Australian white ant.

The Bombing of Bristol “I am not going to attempt to give you a list of the old and historic buildings in Bristol which have been demolished within the last fortnight or so,” writes a professional man in that city to a Gisborne resident in a letter dated December 13. “You would not know them, and if you did the list would simply give you a certain amount of unnecessary pain. Suffice it to say that Bristol has had some nasty knocks. 1 do not think the censor will mind me saying that a number of churches and chapels, including some of the oldest in the city and the bishop’s palace, have been destroyed. This also applies to a number of other places which Bristolians regard as valuable from the sentimental point of view and apart from that there has been a considerable amount of damage to shops and warehouses and, on the last occasion, to private homes. Please do not get the idea, however, as Hitler would like you to do, that Bristol has been completely destroyed. It has not. After a show like that the citizens get up in the morning, shake the broken glass out of their hair, and then proceed about their daily jobs. Of course during the day the demolition squads go about blowing out a few more bit 3 that Hitler has missed!”