NEWS OF THE DAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22818, 13 December 1948, Page 4

NEWS OF THE DAY

Damaged by Larrikin Motorists Extensive damage to the turf on the sports area at Cornwall Park was caused by the motoring “acrobatics” of some larrikin motorists who drove on to the park between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. last Saturday. Masterton Earthquake Damage

Masterton property owners are receiving questionaires on damage to building.? in the 1942 earthquakes. The Masterton Borough Council is asking owners to ascertain the approximate cost of repairs, and the nature of the financial assistance required. Clubs Admit Liquor Breach

The Cosmopolitan, Returned Services Association and Raetihi Clubs were each charged with keeping liquor for sale contrary to section 72 of the Licensing Act and were convicted by Mr. A. Coleman, S.M., in Raetihi. Each club pleaded guilty and was fined £5. The liquor seized by the police totalled 58 dozen bottles of beer, 26 bottles of wine, two of brandy and one of liquer. Killing of Rabbits

“I am prepared to stake all on the phosphorised pollard we are now using to kill rabbits, There have been several trials and there has not been one adverse report,” said the inspector of the Northern Hawke’s Bay Rabbit Board, Mr. E G, Wilhelmsen, at a meeting of the board in Napier. Two thousand tins were at present available, he said, and he advised that a further 1000 tins should be procured.

Gaoled for Improper Use of ’Phone A 34-year-old married man was sentenced to a month’s gaol by Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Wanganui Police Court when he appeared on charges of misusing the public telephone. He was Percy Edward Uings, Gonville, who pleaded guilty to charges of alleged use of indecent language over the telephone of making indecent suggestions to women over the telephone and the giving of a fictitious message over the telephone.

Double Coupons Wanted in Winter The fact that people who take their holidays over the end of the year had an advantage in the amount of petrol available to them as compared with later in the year, caused the Central Taranaki executive of the Federated farmers at Stratford to frame a suggestion designed to Drovide a more equitable distribution of holiday petrol. It was decided to ask the national oil fuel controller to provide that coupons 16, 17 and 18 be redeemable at double their face value, as is the case oin December and January, at any time up to June 30.

Psychology Helps Whatever cynics and other scoffers may say to the contrary, there is increasing proof that psychology, intelligently practised, has an important function in helping to cure various ills of complex civilisation. Such a belief is strongly held by Miss E. R. Bridges and Miss F. J. Cameron who are in charge of the Health Department's Post-Graduate Nursing School. This year 60 nurses, from 25 to 40 years or age took a basic course in psychology at Victoria University College, which began this service for the profession 20 years ago.

Bishops and Bradman An amusing example of the relative importance of religion and sport in the eves of schoolboys was given by the Pfimate of New Zealand, Archbishop West-Watson, at a reception in Christchurch. Pupils at a boys’ school in England, said the Archbishop, seized the opportunity of one of the functions for church leaders about the time of the Lambeth conference, to collect the autographs of many of the visiting churchmen. “I afterwards heard of one boy who was so heartless as to offer ‘one archbishop and three bishops for one Bradman,’ ” said the Archbishop, amidst laughter.

Foot-rot Elimination The action of a th ••“htless drover in putting a foot-sore hogget over a fence at Manutuke re infested the facial eczema field research station after it had been foot-rot “clean" for a period of 18 months. In a talk on foot-rot at a field clay at the research station at Manutuke on Saturday afternoon, the officer in charge. Mr. J. E. V. Simpson, told farmers how they could clean up their properties. After that experience he thought he had the trouble under control once more. When farmers were making a start he suggested that bad cases or old ewei could be put through the works to simolify the task. He stressed the need for a hospital paddack to treat the affected sheep.