NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22618, 22 April 1948, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Hospital Blood Donors At a recent meeting of the Gisborne Junior Chamber of Commerce it was decided to submit to the Cook Hospital Board the names of all members of the chamber willing to become blood donors. A suggestion is also to be made to the board that a chest X-ray of all people in the district should be taken once every year. i Found on Licensed Premises. Found on the Roseland Hotel premises at Makaraka at 11.30 a m. on Sunday. December 21. 1947. Tu Raroa was fined £1 and costs 15s when he was charged in the Gisborne Magistrate’s Court yesterday with having been ■ on licensed premises out of hours. The i fine was imposed by Mr. E. L. Walton, j S.M. Senior-Sergeant G. S. Norris conducted the case for the police. Parking in Vehicle Entrance For parking his car in front of a vehicular entrance in Peel street on | March 25 David Andrew Hewlett was i fined 10s and costs 10s by Mr. E. L. ! Walton, S.M., in the Gisborne Masis- ; trate’s Court yesterday. The dej Cendant was represented by Mr. M. ] R. Maude, who entered a plea of guilty. ! The charge was brought by the bori ou gh traffic inspector. Mr. T. G. Nowell : who said that two vehicles wanting to • drive . into the alleyway were unable ' to do so. j Problem Solved ! The sight of a Chinese boy of per- | haps two years of age “parked” in a j large packing case on the footpath 1 outside his parents’ fruit shop in ! Christchurch attracted the amused interest of passers-by. The box, well r.prV'cd with sacking, was big enough ' to let the child move about, but too high for him to climb out. Far from being annoyed by his confinement, the lad seemed to enjoy the interest he attracted. Freak Apple A Hastings orchardist, doing the round of his trees, was amazed to see what at first glance appeared to be a fig growing among a perfectly normal crop of Delicious apples. He peered more closely at the phenomenon and found that it was just another apple although the freak shape gave it the appearance of a green fig. The grower took the freak to a Herald-Tribune reporter, who gazed at jt, devoured it and then pronounced it tasteless. Liquor Near Dance Hall. Four Waikohu residents were each fined £3 and costs by Mr. E. L. Walton S.M., in the Gisborne Magistrate’s Court yesterday. They were each charged with having liquor in the vicinity of a public dance hall at Te Karaka on the night of March 29. Maurice Spence appeared and pleaded guilty, and Richard Francis Graham was represented by Mr. K. Gillanders Scott ancl pleaded guilty. The other two defendants, who did not appear, were Archibald Freebairn and Basil Baty.

Royal Show in 1950 The Royal Show will be held in Christchurch in 1950, during the centenary celebrations, if a remit to be sent to the annual conference of the Royal Agricultural Society from Canterbury is supported. “The show is due to be held here in 1948, but it should be possible to have the date postponed,” said the secretary of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association, Mr. M. E. Lyons, at a meeting of the management committee of the association. N.Z. Recommended The opinion that some British emigrants left England with altogether too rosy a picture of what they were going to was expressed in Christchurch by Mr. W. M. Clayston, London. He said that too many thought they would get “money for old rope.” However, some •Dominion Governments possibly painted too rosy a picture themselves of the conditions in their country. “Personally, I would recommend any Englishman to come out to New Zealand. It is so much like Home, particularly Christchurch.” Chain Letter Nuisance “The luck of London has been sent to you. It has been sent round the world four times, and was started by the Army officers,” states the latest example of the chain-letter nuisance to reach a member of the Gisborne Herald staff. “The one that breaks the chain will have bad luck. Please copy this letter and see what happens four days after you receive it. Send this copy and four more to people you wish good luck. Do not send any money and do not keep this copy. II must leave you 24 hours after you receive it. Gracie Allen received 5000 dollars after receiving it; Alcorvita won 5000 dollars, but lost it because ha broke the chain.”

Money to Burn To be awakened from sleep in the middle of the storm which raged in Invercargill by a telephone call is bad enough. To be awakened and told bad news is worse. A city business man had this experience. A member of his staff telephoned him to say that by mistake £6 in notes had been taken from the cash, register, bundled among some paper and thrown in the fife. The amount was not enough to disturb slumber, but a sleepless night might have followed had he known, as he found next day, that the employee, conservative in her estimate, had parcelled up a mere £24 and consigned the lot to the flames, that, for warmth, matched the owner's comments. Failure to Stop at Crossing Failure to stop his vehicle at a pedestrian crossing under the control of school-boy patrols and yield tha right of way cost Gilbert James Rogerj £3 and costs 10s when charged befora Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Gisborne Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Tha charge arose out of the defendant proceeding in his truck across the pedes, trian crossing at the intersection oi Gladstone road and Derby street on October 6, 1947. The crossing was under the control of two patrols, who stated in evidence that they had their poles raised to allow six children to cross the street. The defendant’s truck passed in front of the children while they were on the crossing. One of thesa children also gave evidence. The prosecution was conducted by the borough traffic inspector, Mr. T. G- Nowell. Sixth on N.Z. Roster The Gisborne Returned Services! Association advanced one place in tha roster of New Zealand R.S.A. affiliations. on the strength of its membership of 3019 as at March 31 last. Auckland headed the roster with 14,574 financial members, and others ahead of Gisborna were Christchurch' with 13,654, Wellington with 10,854. Dunedin with 9633 and Invercargill with 4845. Time wai when the Gisborne strength gave thil district fourth of fifth place year aftei year, and there was one year in whicS it claimed third place on the roster The general increase in interest from about 1932 onwards enabled othei branches to usurp the higher positions however, as they began to exert theii full strength, and among the provincial centres Invercargill has, definitely asserted leadership. National membership now stands at 121,599. Airmail Stickers A large percentage of the air-mail letters posted in New Zealand do not carry the blue air-mail stickers provided by all post offiices. This causes considerable loss of time in sorting the letters and may result in theii missing a mail. The Post Office is planning a campaign to encourage th< use of the stickers. The writing oi “air mail” across an envelope doei not always help, because the wordi can easily be obliterated by postmarks Correspondents should also mark tin route they wanted a letter to tak< when posting mail to the United State: of America. Letters should be marked “via Pan American” or “via B.C.P.A.’ Failure to mark letters in this waj was also resulting in the loss of timi i—and the possible loss of ain connec- | tions —because they had to be sorted in the post office to determine tin route by which they should be sent