Financial Adviser

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22184, 21 November 1946, Page 8

Financial Adviser

Sir Otto Niemever. financial adviser to a former Australian Government, who also visited New Zealand, had been criticised in some quarters for a suggested association with certain interests having a sinister influence on Empire finance, said Mr. Harry Barker, National 'candidate for the Gisborne seat, during a discussion at his Kaiti meeting last evening. It seemed sigmfiennt. however that the same adviser had been appointed to the board < ■ the Bank of England by the prose‘t Labour Government of Great TV’./un adherents of the relative parly of which in New Zealand had been so critical of him. Borough Traffic Offences

Proceeded against by Mr. T. G. Nowell. Gisborne Borough Council traffic inspector, Ethel May Lomas (Mr K. A. Woodward), was fined 10s and costs on a charge of driving a motor vehicle without a current warrant of fitness, by Mr. E. L. Walton. S.M.. in the Gisborne Magistrate’s Court this morning. On a second charge of double parking in Gladstone road_on October 29, the defendant was lined 5s and costs. Eunice Coggrnve also was proceeded against by the borough traffic inspectoi on a charge of parking a vehicle within 20ft. of an authorised pedcstrian_ crossing, for which she was fined .is anci costs.

Protection of Trees The possibility of evolving an economical stock-repellanl solution i l the protection of young trees J stock nibbling was further djseussed at Tuesday’s meeting of the P.B. Cc - meat Board. The matter was raised in a letter from the director o. m *‘ a " l Research Bureau. Palmerston Noith. which relayed certain recommendations from Canadian sources. The boa. recommended strongly that tlle “ for stock-repellant solutions shouldl be nrosecuted and offered lull C0 ‘ P ' lion with the chemists of the; ' Various possible methods n! tcMmg the effect of reuellants were discussed.