Local and General.

Gisborne Times, Volume LI, Issue 5345, 4 December 1919, Page 4

Local and General.

Tlxe Eastern Extension Cable Coninany notifies that the Capetown-St. Helena cable is now- restored.

The Economic Cash Store (opposite Mr Fred. Gray’s auction mart), has just landed the latest novelty in handmade bead necklaces, hand-tinted, also a ereat variety of poker painted table \ centres.*** A Charles Napper, who was found' ' drunk in Feel Street on December 2, and had to receive medical attention, was fined Is with 2s costs, and ordered to pay medical expenses 10s fid by Mr J. S. Barton, S.M., yesterday. In the Magistrate’s Court yesterday C H. Ferris, Sanitary Inspector of tile Cook County Council (.\Jr 0. Stock) proceeded against D. itait (Mr T. A. Coleman) for failing to effect sanitary repairs to a house owned by him and occupied by a tenant. A fine of 5s with 12s Cd costs was inflicted. Yesterday Mr M. Craig, secretary to the Gisborne Boxing Association, received a reply from the Hawke's Bav Association in reference to the proposed match in Gisborne between Tommy Uren and Jimmy Flabby, for a purse of £SOO, stating chat the offer will rei ceive consideration.

• A decided cold snap occurred on Tuesday night, and continued throughout yesterday, driving showers oi rain and hail making the weather conditions very wintry. Reports of snow come from Farikanapa, f i inirot(>, Arowhana, and Motu. The liberal Quantities of rain which fell-during the day will have a very beneficial effect. The Repatriation Committee met on Tuesday, when there were present: Messrs R. M. Birrell (chairman), C. H. Ambridge, J. B. Broadhurst, G. B. Oman, and J. N. Bullard. Six applications carne before the committee, two of them being held over for further enquiry. Three applications for assistance \p buy furniture were approved, while an application for station cadet subsidy was granted. Representatives of' the executives of the New Zealand Educational Institute, Federated School Committees’ tion and Education Boards’ Association met at Wellington yesterday, and considered replies so far received to the questions jointly issued by these representative educational bodies to candicandidates replied, a great majority dates for election. Over one hundred favoring all the proposals Press Association. T

The hearing of charges against alleged participants in disturbances at Wesley Hall on October 20, owing to the visit of Dir Howard Eelliott. was concluded at Grevmouth yesterday. Three charges were dismissed. In tv. r, Vases fines of £2 and costs were hnpc.M d," and in one case a fine of Iff was imjrr-ed. Two defendants were 'in.n'Usd for trial on a charge of damage r., the hall. —Press Association. A most significant statement was mde recently' by the May oil of Indianapolis (U.SAjb a fcity of 305,000 people. Dir Jewett.Prohibition has made a vast impro-venWijA; our country workhouse has been jamSished. believe the people are rJecidefHy sajssfed. We reduce the police! force whij? o’i population has greatly increased. $ Whatever prohibition costs, the permit- will find they are easily able to Siy it.” This statement should be eenfmemr. seeing _ that it comes from a 1 public man right in the midst of a proftbition area.*** ‘ '* Mr Howard Elliott addressed a meeting at Ashburton on Tuesday night. He stated that Sir James Allen and Archbishop O’Shea had dented the truth o? the rumor to wnieh be had referr-'-' 5 Dunedin that Archbishop O’Shea had threatened to call out Roman Catholic? in the Civil Service on strike if priest; and Marist brothers were not exempted from military service at the front. Mr Elltett did not accept the denial, and challenged Sir James Allen to make nuhlic the corresDondence which passed between the Catholics and the Government on the subject of exemption of priests and Marist brothers, together with the instructions which wpre rassed to Mill"tarv Service Boards with reference to this matter. Mr Elliot: =aid that he believed the publication of +k° facts would nrcvp an nnnlea=ant surnrise to the refute of the Dominion.— Press Association.

A social evening was held in the premises of W. Good and Co., jewellers, on Monday, when the partners in the firm invited the members of the staff and those immediately interested in the firm to celebrate the signing of the deed of partnership between Messrs Alfred ,T. Cox. George S. Stockdale. E. P. Derbyshire, and Percy Jones, who will in future carry on the -oldestablished business of "W. Good and Co. The business is to retain the old name, and though Mr Cox has completely taken over the business of John H. Ormond’s motor garage, he still retains his interest in the iewellery business. Mr Stockdale will manage the sales department, in place of Mr Cox. Mr Derbyshire will have charge of the jewellerv factory, and the manufacturing and engraving department. Mr Prank Jones the watch repairing, and Mr Percy .Tones the clock repairing department.*** In their advertisement on Page I. the Gisborne Motor Co. draw the attention of the travelling public to book engagements now for the coming holiday season. Judging from the recent bookings, the company’s cars, driven by owner-drivers, will have a very active time during the season. The booking agents. W ildish, Davis and Co., will be pleased to receive enquiries from intending engagers. ’Phone. 457. Day.*** Another business establishment will be added to the growing list in Gisborne by the opening to-morrow morning of the £ s. d. Stores, in Gladstone Road, opposite Chrisp’s. The new firm will specialise in men and boy’s elothand mercery. A complete stock u j goods ha< already come to hand, and prices arefPaid to suit the pockets of all classes.***

Miss Reader. Shorthand-Typisie. 74 Lowe Strwt (Williams and Sherratt’s Buildings, upstairs). Typewriting of every description done at shortest notice. Strictly confidential. Orders by mail receive prompt and personal attention. ’Plione S. Classes in shortand typewriting An appeal is being made by the Labor Representation Committee to all sympathisers for financial assistance towards campaign. It is thought • ere a large number of electors in the country districts who are willing to assist in this direction. As the electorate is an extensive one to work, tunds are urgently needed. AM donations should be sent to the Elaborate Secretary. C. E. Bickford. DajAlif St.. t, V 'V/V will be given.*** M hiln some eliildren were plaving among the rocks on the New ‘Plymouth beach the other day, a little y , oXlr or five years old was caught by a ware and washed into rue sea, A little girl of about S years o > i , um P to the rescue, oi 'ij the water was over her shoulders, carried the bov ashore, Qer plucky action saving his life. It is argued by a leading medical authority in England that bodily ratiguo is more a matter of the brain and the spinal cord than of the muscles— that while one set of colls in the brain become tired, the muscles were not tired, and would still work efficiently, provided they were yoked to a new set of cells, ihe moral is that a variation in the monotony of a task may increase the whole output of a factory. We submit, as a : deduction troni this, that overtime at routine work is a mistake, and , that the weekly day of rest cannot be dispensed with, says the Dunedin Evening, Star. In support of this proposition we cite a Dunedin experiment. Certain hands in a Dig establishment were put on the bonus system at hard manual work, the arrangement being that they received 12s 6d per day and \ extra for increased output. ' They ed up and earned £1 per day of eight hours. Finding it “a good thing” they asked to be allowed to work twelve hours per day, and the manager consented. They put their whole energy into the work, and at the end of three months were able to earn only the £1 per day. which they previously earned in the eight hours.