NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21854, 26 October 1945, Page 2

NEWS OF THE DAY

Maize Planting

Maize planting operations in the district are now in full swing, practically every grower being engaged in this work now that the weather, is suitable for it. At first the weather was against the growers for the rain following the cold spell made the ground too damp for planting, but now the soil has dried off sufficently to permit planting. <■ $ Petrol For Show Stock Transport The secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society, Mr. R. McCay, Hawera, has received advice from the Minister of Agriculture that petrol will be made available for the transport of stock to A. and P. shows where reasonable alternative means are not available. Mr. McCay states that he has been further advised by departmental officers that the term “reasonable” is to be interpreted in the broader sense.—P.A. Dunedin Sentences In the Supreme Court in Dunedin Mr. Justice Kennedy yesterday sentenced to two years’ reformative detention Robert John Henry, aged 31, lorry driver, on charges of breaking and entering and assault causing bodily harm to a police constable at Gore, the latter being struck with an iron bar. John Augustine Kenneally, on a charge of assaulting his wife, causing bodily harm, was sentenced to two months' gaol with hard labour. —P.A. Y.M.C.A. Physical Groups More than 100 boys and girls, of various age groups will demonstrate .the value of physical training at the function to be held to-morrow evening to mark the close of the Y.M.C.A. gymnasium season. The programme will include calisthenics, tumbling, horse and bar work, and the higlilypopular pyramids turn; these. items will be interspersed with individual contributions by Miss Pauline Mackie and Messrs. Brian Sherriff and W. S. Taylor. Eight amateur boxing bouts will precede the physical-instruction display, which is' to be the first since the outbreak of the war. Arrangements have been made to repeat the display in Te Karaka next month.

State Subsidy for Club A promise by the Minister, of Rehabilitation, the Hon. C. F. Skinner, to assist in financing the erection of a servicemen’s building in Dargaville was reported to a meeting of the Northern Wairoa Returned Services’ Association recently. The building scheme includes the provision of a secretarial office, a lounge and rest-rooms, and two shops on the street frontage which are exDected to provide revenue for the upkeep of the building The president of tiie association, Mr. W. B. Morris, said that the estimated cost of the project was £BOOO, and that the Minister had undertaken to provide a subsidy of not more than £1 for £4 on the capital outlay.