NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21607, 9 January 1945, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY

Tremendous Pasture GrowthThere has been a tremendous pasture’ growth on all that central WaiI rarapa country about' Masterton, and a good deal of haymaking is under Way, also many promising crops of oats, wheat and peas and white clover Islands are to be observed. Main Trunk Line Again Open After having been blocked for 51 hours because of the derailment of the Wellington-Auckland train three and a-half miles north of Raurimu early on . Saturday morning, the Main Trunk line was open again to through traffic as from 5 o’clock yesterday morning.—P.A. Body On Beach The body of a man was found on a small beach at the back of a house in Argyle street, Herne Bay, Auckland, on Saturday morning. The man was Mr. Norman Wilfred Neilson, aged about 59, of 100 Symonds street. It is believed that death was due to drowning and that the body was washed up from the harbour. Waikaiiae Bathers Over 700 people paid for admission to the Waikanae beach bathing sheds at the week-end, there being 206 on Saturday and 512 on Sunday. The greatest number to.pay for the use c£ the bathing pavilion in one day so far this season,: 759, was on the last •lay of the Christmas - holidays. At present there are about 140 campers at the beach. Diary of 1840 Voyage A' valuable addition to the manuscript collection of the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington is the journal kept by Edward Marsh Williams on the voyage he made round the New Zealand coast in H.M.S. Herald in 1840 when signatures were collected for the Treaty of Waitangi. It has been presented to the library by a member of the Williams family. E. M. Williams, a son of Archdeacon Henry Williams, pioneer Anglican missionary at the Bay of Islands, was a noted authority on the Maori language.

More Girls “Man-powered” Women from Southland and other parts of New Zealand will shortly be directed to take up positions at the mental hospital at Seacliff, in Wellington hospitals and in northern munition works, according to Mr. A. J. Peterson, district man-power officer for Southland. He said that there was a desperate position at Seacliff. There had also been a further call for girls for northern munition works, and 30 more girls were required for Wellington hospitals, which were in need of oualified voluntary aids. A start would be made this week in the direction of girls from Southland.

Holiday Traffic Deaths Five lives were lost throughout New Zealand by holiday motor accidents. bringing the December total for this type of fatality to 11. The highway death roll for the whole of 1944 was 139. as against 145 for 1943 and 167 for 1942. The Commissioner of Transport, ill making these figures known, stated that traffic generally during tlxe holidays was very orderly, and inspectors reported comparatively little speeding or dangerous driving. There was a marked absence of the usual Christinas rush to get on to the highways, and in general motorists observed the need to conserve petrol and tyres, and travel in reasonably leisurely fashion.

Labour Daily Newspaper The decision of the Labour movement to commence publishing a daily newspaper during ihe coming ' year was announced by Mr. F. Percy, secretary of the Otago Labour Representation Committee, in a statement made in Dunedin last night. During the past few months much detail work had been accomplished in promoting the project, Mr. Percy said. A visit was paid to Dunedin recently by representatives of the paper committee, who had addressed an enthusiastic meeting in support of the paper fund. As a result of that meeting. which was l-epresentative of all sections of the Labour movement, a campaign committee was appointed. Mr. Percy added that considerable additional financial support ali’cady hacl been guaranteed—P.A,